{"id":43501,"date":"2026-04-07T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=43501"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:00:08","slug":"brady-bunch-star-mike-lookinland-says-he-went-fully-off-the-rails-in-his-20s-after-growing-up-on-hit-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=43501","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Brady Bunch&#8217; star Mike Lookinland says he went &#8216;fully off the rails&#8217; in his 20s after growing up on hit show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cBrady Bunch\u201d star Mike Lookinland admitted his behavior was \u201cfully off the rails\u201d after finding mega stardom with \u201cThe Brady Bunch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lookinland and Christopher Knight opened up about their experience as young adults in the Hollywood industry after starring as Bobby and Peter Brady in the 1970s sitcom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow come you guys didn\u2019t end up as a mugshot?\u201d Jaybeau Jones asked during an episode of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-real-brady-bros\/id1603671235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Real Brady Bros.<\/a>\u201d \u201c\u2026There\u2019s no one\u2019s ever said a bad thing about any of \u2018The Brady Bunch\u2019 kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe because we didn\u2019t wanna disappoint Florence and Bob,\u201d Knight responded. \u201cI mean, that was the beginning of it. It\u2019s like there\u2019s certain people that you just don\u2019t wanna disappoint. I think that was stronger with me with those two than it was my own parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Florence Henderson and\u00a0Robert Reed\u00a0starred in \u201cThe Brady Bunch\u201d as Carol and Mike, portraying parental figures for Lookinland and Knight.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Mike Lookinland played Bobby Brady in the hit classic TV show from 1969 to 1974.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lookinland admitted he struggled more in his 20s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI lived my childhood in my 20s because I couldn\u2019t when I was a child,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd in my 20s, I had a car and money and freedom\u2026 I was fully off the rails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He later added: \u201cI\u2019m just thankful that not every man, woman and child had a high-def camera in their pocket when I was 25, like they do now, because it would have ruined my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Knight said he had heard \u201cstories\u201d about what Lookinland had gotten up to back then. \u201cSome of that was under the radar,\u201d Lookinland responded.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Pictured, top row: Robert Reed; second row: Maureen McCormick, Barry Williams; third row: Geri Reischl (Eve Plumb\u2019s replacement), Florence Henderson, Christopher Knight; bottom row: Susan Olsen, Mike Lookinland. <span class=\"credit\">Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat happens in Salt Lake City stays in Salt Lake City,\u201d Knight joked.<\/p>\n<p>During a previous episode of \u201cThe Real Brady Bros.,\u201d Lookinland and Knight\u2019s co-star Susan Olsen revealed she \u201calmost died\u201d while filming the first episode of \u201cThe Brady Bunch\u201d as Cindy Brady. While rewatching the pilot episode with her co-stars, Olsen revealed it was the last time there was a close-up shot of Cindy because \u201cI got injured.\u201d Her co-stars couldn\u2019t hide their shock at the news as she continued, \u201cYeah, I almost died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the Culver lot, they were shooting something \u2014 I would assume, in the girl\u2019s bedroom \u2014 and I was getting body makeup on my legs,\u201d Olsen said. \u201cI was standing on a makeup chair and something from the catwalk, where they keep all the lights and everything, fell.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>(L-R) Christopher Knight, Eve Plumb, Barry Williams, Maureen McCormick, and Mike Lookinland stand in the audience for a tribute to \u201cThe Brady Bunch\u201d at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. <span class=\"credit\">Mark Terrill\/Invision\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt hit the makeup man first, [bounced] off the body makeup woman, and hit me in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can tell, if you look at the [wedding] ceremony, and you see the three girls on one side, if you were to zoom in really tight, you can see my face is quite swollen,\u201d Olsen explained. \u201cI look different. You can even see it in some of the early publicity shots. You can tell my face is a little swollen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Brady Bunch\u201d aired\u00a0from 1969 to 1974. The show featured a blended family of three boys and three girls from previous marriages.<\/p>\n<p>The sitcom followed the family\u2019s life, showcasing adventures and more.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/07\/entertainment\/brady-bunch-star-mike-lookinland-says-he-went-fully-off-the-rails-in-his-20s-after-growing-up-on-hit-show\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBrady Bunch\u201d star Mike Lookinland admitted his behavior was \u201cfully off the rails\u201d after finding mega stardom with \u201cThe Brady Bunch.\u201d Lookinland and Christopher Knight opened&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}