In his 2023 memoir Being Henry…The Fonz and Beyond, Winkler shared a story of a fellow cast member who started to let fame go to his head. Winkler described the co-star as “a kid who joined the cast during the late seasons of the show.”
Winkler revealed that the actor started to get “kind of popular” and that it was great for the show. But when the new TV star started to get fan mail—and brag about it—that wasn’t as great.
“He kept doing it anyway, and I'm not saying it was because of that, but it wasn't long before his character got written out of Happy Days,” Winkler noted.
“One guy came on as a guest star, and then he was brought back a few times, and he would mention his fan mail, and I said, ‘You don't want to talk to me about fan mail, I get 50,000 letters a week,'" Winkler shared. "And I said, ‘We don't talk about that on the set. We are all here as one.’ And he kept doing it, and he was an a--back.”
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While Winkler didn't mention the actor by name, the recurring character of Eugene Belvin was played byDenis Mandel in seasons 8 and 9 of Happy Days. Mandel appeared in 10 episodes of the ABCsitcom as the nerdy but handsome Jefferson High School student from 1980 to 1982 before seemingly stepping away from acting in the early ‘90s.
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“He was later replaced with Chachi (Scott Baio), who also received a ton of fan mail, but didn’t brag about it,” one fan noted.
“Scott was not like that,” Winkler wrote in Being Henry. “He was cute, young girls loved him—he could even sing!— and he got very popular right away. He got lots of fan mail, which he did not brag about. He didn't brag because he didn't have to.”
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