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Child Stars’ Shocking Grown-Up Lives! Danny Bonaduce, Angela Cartwright, More Whose Hollywood Dreams Fizzled
Whatever happened to those adorable child stars of old-time TV? Closer takes a look at how life turned out for the thespians; see photos then and now.
The retired radio host, 64, eventually beat his drug demons — but needed surgery last year for hydrocephalus, a buildup of fluid around the brain. No one who watched Jay, 72, playing the mischievous Dennis the Menace in the 1960s TV series would have guessed one day he’d be a corrections officer in Florida’s juvenile justice system! Adorable little Kym was only 7 when she stole hearts as Gretl, the youngest von Trapp kid, in The Sound of Music — but she quit acting in 1981 when she began to get “casting couch” vibes from industry creeps.
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