What happens when two single parents live together but aren’t dating? TV magic.
Who’s The Boss was an instant hit in the eighties and early nineties.
Tony Danza played Tony Micelli, a down-on-his luck single dad who accepts a job as a live-in housekeeper with well-off single mum, Angela Bower.
At the time, the idea of a male housekeeper was comedy heaven. How hilarious! A man, cooking and cleaning for a successful woman. How progressive of them. How ‘modern’ of producers to attempt such a storyline.
It was daring at the time, and it was also TV magic.
Tony Danza was, and to me still is, incredibly attractive. A handsome, Italian man cleaning my house? Yes please.
He and Angela spend eight years dancing around the obvious truth – that they are incredibly attracted to each other, live together like a real family but resist the urge to take the leap for eight, long season.
THAT’S what kept us tuning in.
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