Reply #7: Danny Bonaduce is a morning talk show guy here in Philly.

[vixengrl]

This takes talent. You have to connect with a diverse audience that frowns on inauthenticity, and roots for "wannabees" to fail. He ain't no wannabee--he is a Philly-based Celebrutard. We want to see him box someone twice his size. His fans like his confidence and his boast that he's done it all, just like his hundreds of callers like his "Life Coach" routine--he really has made most of the mistakes it's possible to make.

In his own weird way, Bonaduce has proven that he has talent by shunning (or f*cking up) the path he could have taken, and finding his own. He's a reality show refugee in search of his own reality. He's self-deprecating, and also self-aggrandizing. He's fascinating, personable, flawed, and actually, pretty funny. I don't think he could either sing or play an instrument. He probably realizes every day his stardom has something to do with being too ginger to *not* use. He just looked right and had a certain maturity as a child actor to play a part, and there he was. Too weird. He seems to know that. And almost "plays" himself for an audience that likes train wreck humanity, and loves the tales of survivors.

That's a living.