Who's worse than Adam Carolla? DANNY BONNADUCE!

[EstimatedProphet]

I sat through that crap interview last night, and what little respect I had for him disappeared when he bragged about being a Repug and bombing Iraq. His glib "bomb 'em" line really ticked me off. No damn thought whatsoever, just we can get away with bombing them, so let's do it because they're not Americans anyway.

[WeRQ4U]

1. Have you watched the "Breaking Bonnaduce" show on VH1?

That guy belongs in one of two places.........Jail or a Mental Hospital. He takes steroids, drinks like a fish, has anger management issues....etc. He's unstable at best.

[Shell Beau]

3. I've seen it! He is CRAZY!!! And I mean

C-R-A-Z-Y! His wife is hanging on by a string. If I were her, I'd been gone LONG ago.

[WeRQ4U]

4. Did you see the "Hey Doc, wanna see a trick?"

He took a coffee mug and broke it over his own head. It HAD to hurt.

[Debi]

9. How 'bout when his wife said she wanted a divorce

So he slit his wrists right in front of her...that convinced her to stay.

She should have drove him to the hospital and dropped him off and moved out before he could get home!

[WeRQ4U]

14. You would think so.

But he's one scary dude.

[Debi]

Out of respect for herself and love of her children

She should get far far away from him until he can get straightened out (and if he can't she needs to move on!)

[Shell Beau]

11. Or when she was with friends at the hotel with some strippers there.

That man went right off the deep end.

[WeRQ4U]

16. Two Words

Court Intervention

[Shell Beau]

21. I thought you were going to say...

See ya! Which is what I would've said to him.

[Debi]

27. *snicker* n/t

[Debi]

18. When earlier in the night some chic was holding on to his penis

while sitting on his lap in a bar.

I couldn't believe him standing on the sidewalk, "my wife has to ask my permission to have strippers in her room". That would not sit well w/me.

[Shell Beau]

23. Me either. Please. It just shows how insecure he

is and how afraid he is of losing her. He is dependant on everything. Alcohol, steroids, her, etc.

[Debi]

28. Yeah, afraid of who he'd be if he became a nobody

(like the rest of us)

He has to learn how to love himself before he can get anyone else to love him (I know that sounds stupid, but attempting to force someone to love you ain't gonna get you very far).

[Shell Beau]

50. No, you are completely right.

[Debi]

7. I feel so sorry for her

He just plays her like a video game and she falls for his manipulations all the time.

[Shell Beau]

10. I know and she seems like a nice normal woman.

And to me, she is really pretty. I think she is scared if she leaves, he will most certainly die. And the kids, you know! When he explained that his cuts on his wrists were from a broken window! :eyes:

[Debi]

13. It'd be a tough call

But don't the kids have the right to some kind of normalcy?

Do you stay in a marriage because the other person threats to kill themselves if you leave - and raise your kids in that kind of atmosphere? Or do you get the hell out of there so the kids can see what a family based on love and respect for each other looks like?

[Shell Beau]

19. Not me! I'd be gone. But she is partly used to this I am guessing.

He has always been a loose cannon. I think she feels trapped and doesn't know how to get out.

[Debi]

30. Probably doesn't know what it's like to be normal

w/out chaos all around.

My ex kept me so out of whack w/reality that I didn't know what to do after he moved out. Sleeping a whole night w/out fighting, not wondering when he was going to get home or if he would accuse me of screwing around so he could pretend to get mad just so he could go get drunk w/his friend (and then cheat on me).

When I fould out there was a whole world of calm out there w/out him. Ahhhhhhh :)

[Left Is Write]

36. When I left my messed-up, alcoholic ex...

(my oldest daughter's father), I experienced a calm and peace I hadn't had for years. I had to struggle financially, but the emotional peace and quiet for both my daughter and me was invaluable.

[Debi]

39. Yep!

And it took some time to heal (and to trust) and some hit and misses along the way.

Now I'm married to a man that I can challenge (if need be) without fear for my safety and can trust to be faithful and not make accusations w/out asking for information first.

Oh My God, I married a grown up! :bounce:

[Left Is Write]

40. I did too, thank goodness!

And my husband - the grown up - is 19 years younger than my ex! Who knew? :)

[Debi]

29. Remember the beginning of the show when he said he can be

an example of what not to be to his kids. I can teach them that gambling is bad, I can teach them that lying is bad.

Yeah, except when Daddy does it...

[Shell Beau]

51. He sets the most awful example.

He is a control freak too. And it shows with the camera men and producers, etc. When he refused to give them his keys when he was drunk and he even said that he shouldn't be driving.

[Debi]

53. Was that last week's show? I haven't seen it, just the previews

Who the F**K put him in charge of production? Like when his wife refused to answer her phone he made the cameraman call the other cameraman and hand his phone to her. SHE TOOK THE PHONE AND AFTER THE CALL SHUT IT OFF!! Great move! It's like he found one more way to keep tabs on her while he's out getting drunk and catting around!

[Shell Beau]

60. I think it was last week's show. And that is when it was

decided that he would go into rehab. He got a tattoo of the first date of his sobriety even though he didn't know when it would be. He guessed he'd go into rehab drunk as a skunk, so it would be the next day. :wtf: And that is what he got tattooed. Which it was May ? 2005.
I don't remember the date.

[Debi]

62. Holy Schamoley

What a moran!

What the heck, might as well get drunk since I'm not going to drink anymore cuz I have my sobriety date tattooed on my arm...Like he won't go have a drink to celebrate his sobriety when he gets out. (then what, change the date on the tattoo?)

Recovery isn't a one trip deal, it's a life-time commitment that includes becoming honest about WHO you are and WHAT you are feeling. AND it's a personal journey. Not one that's done for publicity and approval of others.

Man. He needs to be kicked to the curb, the sooner the better. Once he's REALLY crashed he can start to rebuild his life. There are no half-steps to recovery.

[Shell Beau]

64. You are right! He needs to hit rock bottom.

You'd think that he already has. It would've been rock bottom for me long ago. But this guy is the exception.

[Debi]

67. It's like he's enjoying the ride

I guess negative attention is better than none :eyes: (gosh, I've been using that smilie too much in this thread)

[Shell Beau]

71. It should be the Boduce eyes rolling smilie thread.

If I saw him, I'd roll my eyes at him!! Just like this :eyes:

[Debi]

73. Let us all join in

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[Debi]

6. Fucking emotionally manipulative bastard

I know reality TV isn't real, but the game-playing aired on that show makes me want to :puke:

He deserves to be locked up and his poor wife and kids need to move on and away from him (so she can be happy and whole and his kids don't learn how to be controlling psychos like him)!

UGH! x(

[WeRQ4U]

12. Didn't they get married the night of their first BLIND date?

I think it was a publicity stunt for his radio show. They've been married ever since.

At least one of the kids will be messed up anyway.........he named the poor guy Count Dante Bonnaduce. :eyes:

[Shell Beau]

17. Yeah, they got married on their first date. But

have been married for a long time. I think she is scared to leave him for what he might do. She probably feels trapped. Scared, you know?

[WeRQ4U]

20. I'm sure she does.

But my wife loves me too. But if I ever did anything that would adversely effect my child, she wouldn't think twice about kicking my ass or leaving me. That kid gets a different kind of love.

[Shell Beau]

24. Me either. I'd be gone in a heartbeat.

But it is so easy to say what you would do. I mean he slit his wrists in front of her. She is scared. The kids are who I really feel bad for.

[WeRQ4U]

43. So true n/t

[EstimatedProphet]

8. Yeah, which is why I had so little respect in the first place

The Prophetess is addicted to that show. I hate "reality" shows...

[Debi]

22. It's like fricken crack cocaine

I can't seem to NOT watch it and yet I sit there and yell at the TV (or my poor husband) about what a piece of shit that man is.

[Shell Beau]

26. It is! So bad but so good!

You can't believe what you seeing.

[WeRQ4U]

45. That's so true.

It's awful to WANT to watch someone complete implode, but.....he's getting paid to do it. I might as well watch. It's intriguing to say the least.

[TheProphetess]

41. It's a train wreck

It's very difficult to look away. Plus, I'm interested in what the therapist is going to try to do to help these two - I would NOT want his job!

[Debi]

57. Was wondering when you'd make it over here...heard you watched

the show! :crazy:

We're terrible!

[TheProphetess]

70. I just yelled at EP for starting rumors about me!

Don't let him fool you, he watches it too (like watching a train wreck). It is tough to turn away, but I can quit at any time! :)

[Debi]

72. Yes, we can all quit any time we want, pass the cranberry juice n/t

[WeRQ4U]

46. The newer episode trailors show that he's having some trouble at rehab...

Go figure. He probably agrees to things like that for two reasons:

1. It makes for good drama
2. It gets his wife to agree to stay with him for a couple more days.

[Debi]

58. Yep, using it to manipulate and sell ad space

But won't commit to change - God forbid.

[youthere]

79. In other words...

your classic Republican.LOL.

[DS1]

2. Bonnaduce is at least pitiable

Carolla, on the other hand, just sucks more than anything that ever sucked before

[bicentennial_baby]

5. he's the suckiest suck that ever sucked

you know it! :bounce:

[EstimatedProphet]

48. Carolla is as funny as reading the 1924 US income tax regulations

Sometimes I'd like to laugh, and I try, and I just can't.

[Cathyclysmic]

15. Agreed...

I try to give every person with mental illness or a substance abuse problem some slack while they get their crap together...Danny is just a beyond help mess.

[EstimatedProphet]

47. Quite

Belligerent little twit.

[AlCzervik]

25. That has got to be one of the worst things on TV ever.

I don't feel bad at all for him or his wife, they're doing this for money. I feel bad for their kids.

[Debi]

31. She did an interview

where she said that she agreed to do the show because she thought that being back on TV would make him happy.

Don't know that things went as planned.

She actually seems to be getting wise to his bullshit!

[Lavender Brown]

32. Ugh

I know a lot of child actors had a hard time growing up, but I'm so sick of hearing this guy attribute his problems to the Partridge Family. Get help and get over yourself.

[Shakespeare]

33. Nope, it's not that--he's been diagnosed as SERIOUSLY bipolar.

I used to listen to his morning radio show when I lived in LA--for a brief time, he agreed to take lithium, and was a much different (and better) person. IIRC, he stopped taking it because he hated the way it made him feel. Too bad for his family. :-(

[Lavender Brown]

34. That's sad... and the real reason for his behavior

but he is totally fixated on that part of his past. I imagine his illness has made it hard for him to move on from the difficulties in his career.

[Debi]

35. I'm sure drinking to excess and taking steriods makes him feel much

better than meds for his mental health :eyes:

If he were taking his meds and acting like a human being he wouldn't get any press...and what fun is a life w/out a bunch of cameras around? :shrug:

[Left Is Write]

38. I'm no psychiatrist, but if I had to guess...

I'd say that my ex is bipolar also. He has the classic manic highs where he is king of the world and depressive lows (during which he is often suicidal). He seemed to be self-medicating with lots and lots of alcohol, and was feeding my daughter the same bullshit about his future riches and grandiose plans that he had been feeding me twenty years earlier.

He completed a rehab program earlier this year (his sixth since I met him in 1985, and there had been at least two before then) and is currently in a dry cycle. I don't hold out much hope that he can stay sober on his own or even with the help of AA.

[Beware the Beast Man]

37. "Breaking Bonaduce" is the greatest trainwreck I have ever seen.

One thing's for certain: when I have kids, NONE of them get into show business until they're 18.

[EstimatedProphet]

42. Good rule

Let them grow up before they go that route, if they're so inclined. How many people have had their lives ruined at a young age by stage parents?

[Pacifist Patriot]

56. Amen to that!

[Blue-Jay]

66. I think it's the most compelling show on TV right now.

I can't stop watching it. That man is batshit crazy.

[Debi]

76. I was waiting for the 'batshit crazy ' term to be used here

Thanks for juming in :hi:

Obligatory eyesroll for this thread :eyes:

[TK421]

44. At the risk of getting this locked (and if that happens, I apologize)

I understand that he has a small penis...'nuff said

[Debi]

49. PLEASE tell us how you came by THAT information n/t

[Shell Beau]

52. Really? How would one know that?

:crazy: and :scared:

[TK421]

55. READ on

:-)

[TK421]

54. I recall hearing ABOUT it from SOME article about SOMEONE

associated with him (was kept as a running joke)But seriously, that was out of pure spite SINCE I can't STAND him

[Debi]

59. You just want to be on your own reality TV show

"I read somewhere that someone said that someone else had a small penis"

That'll be the title of your show and you can just dish bullshit all night....Oh, wait, they already have that over at FAUX :rofl:

:hi: sorry to pick on you.

[TK421]

61. You're not picking on me, sweet-ums...my show would be ripped

off the air in a heartbeat.:7

[Debi]

63. Well, you do have to wear clothes (unless your last name is Hatch)

and You do have to sleep with the one you came with (unless you're on temptation island) and you can't get stinking drunk (unless you're on real world) and no fighting (unless you're on breaking bonnaduce) and ....Well, you'd have to do alot to get kicked off TV nowadays!

[TK421]

65. LOL! No need to go further than not being able to drink!

:toast:

[Debi]

68. You can only drink if you use steroids as well and go into rages

and jump into strangers cars and threaten to sue the producer of your show. This will be in your contract. (Oh, and you have to beg your wife to have sex with you and BE SHOT DOWN ON NATIONAL TELEVISION because she has to go pick up the dogs)!

[TK421]

69. Are you single?

:7

[Debi]

74. No, but that's even better! I'll turn you down (tragic I know)

and then my husband will come after you with a shotgun! THAT will make for great television :rofl:

Obligatory eyesroll here :eyes:

[TK421]

75. You do know I was kidding...that movie would suck anyway

[Debi]

77. just cuz it's been done a brazillion time before

Okay, we'll have my husband go after me w/the shot gun and you can just go all the neighbor ladies for sex instead!


Obligatory eyesroll for this thread :eyes:

[TK421]

78. Watch it with the brazillion jokes! They WILL lock this

[bliss_eternal]

80. I did not know he was a repuke...

I do know, that his marriage was not a stunt for the radio show. He didn't have a show back then.

He was drunk--went on a blind date, he married her to have sex with her (she's Christian, refused to have sex w/out marriage:eyes:). So he called a officiant from the phonebook and married her.

When they woke up the next day, he didn't even remember them getting married.

I have a problem with the fact that they essentially married on a dare basis, and have basically hung onto a relationship, based on a drunken bad date and the desire to have sex.

:wtf:

Seriously, can you REALLY maintain a relationship on that? Why would anyone want to?

I feel sorry for her--but at the same time, she stays with him and says it's because she loves him. Does she love him or being Mrs. Bonaduce and some of the perks that go along with that? (Nice house, posh salons, etc., etc.):shrug: Not sure, but it's worth considering...

I only ask because she said early in the show, "if he were drinking, I would bail." He started drinking and she was still there.

I'm not blaming her. Just saying at this point--they are both sick.

[terrya]

81. His one claim to fame was "The Partridge Family"

And he was one of the no-talent ones. What does that tell you?

Hell, at least Susan Dey had that gig on "LA Law" after she left the show.

Danny Bonaduce is one of those "I have no discernable talent, but I should be famous anyway" kind of "celebrities"

[tjdee]

82. At least he illicits *some* reaction. Adam Corolla is like watching paint

dry.

Just sitting talking to Danny might piss me off, but Adam is like the creepy guy who tries to pick you up in a bar with lame jokes and has nothing else to say. Lame joke... he laughs....silence. Repeat.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

[bliss_eternal]

83. That's funny! LOL!

To be honest, I haven't watched Corolla's show--so I don't know much about him or what the show's like. I know that I found his presence annoying during the run of his 'The Man Show.' Didn't watch that--but he was on EVERYTHING promoting the show at that time, and I found him pretty dry and annoying on other's shows.

Didn't even bother with his show after those brief encounters.

Is he supposed to be a comedian? :shrug:

[Deja Q]

84. He was Danny Partridge AND caught shoplifting; what do you expect?

Freepie wants everything for nothing! And you thought Walmart's low-low prices were good enough! :D

[bliss_eternal]

85. That sums up his whole attitude..

He is absolutely merciless with his wife.

Again, she's not entirely innocent (should follow through on taking the kids and leaving when he acts out), but the way they've shown him to behave behind her back--whoa...