In the 1980s, Danny Pintauro was a star on one of the biggest shows on television, the ABC sitcom Who’s the Boss?. After eight seasons on the show, the young actor took a 10-year break from acting and lived out his childhood dream.
During an October 2026 appearance on the Tamron Hall Show, Pintauro, 50, explained his decision to leave Hollywood following the end of Who’s the Boss?.
“I disappeared, and I worked as everything,” he shared, “I was a vet technician, which was like a lifelong dream. … What was so amazing about that time is I got to literally be just nobody and figure out what it meant to walk into somewhere and not have everyone know who I was. I could finally just say, ‘Who is this person?’ Rather than, ‘Who was I created to be?’”
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Pintauro was just eight years old when he landed the role as Jonathan Bower on Who’s The Boss?, which also starred Tony Danza, Judith Light, Katherine Helmond and Alyssa Milano. After the hit comedy series ended in 1992, Pintauro left Los Angeles and didn’t take on another credited acting role until appearing in The Still Life in 2006.
The former child actor told the Austin American-Statesman that he did a variety of jobs or “gigs” over the years but that the vet tech job in Austin, Texas was especially rewarding.
“As a very young kid, this is literally what I wanted to do when I grew up,” he said in 2019. “Even though I was on TV, every summer I would work at this vet office near my house in LA and clean kennels or whatever they would let me do. I loved it.”
Pintauro added that he didn’t like “the business” of being an actor. “I always used to say when you sit in a windowsill and you think about your life, and you think about everything you love to do, it wasn’t acting for me,” he explained. “Especially for me being a gay child celebrity, it just wasn’t worth it.”
Pintauro had a change of tune about acting after he watched an episode of Star Trek” Discovery that featured a married gay couple.
“We’ve come a long way since I last tried to be an actor, and it just sort of clicked that I finally felt ready to try again,” he told Yahoo Entertainment in April.
The actor revealed that he quit his job as a vet tech and moved back to L.A. with his husband Wil Tabares.
View this post on InstagramToday, Pintauro juggles multiple gigs while auditioning for acting roles. He told Hall he makes mini “book nooks” that he autographs and sells, and he also teaches acting to kids.
In addition, in April, Pintauro shared an Instagram post that showed him hard at work as an Amazon Flex driver.
“The entertainment business has been soooo slow, so I’ve been doing what a lot of people do — figuring it out, showing up, and taking the work that’s there while I keep building the work I really want. 38 packages today: Pintauro captioned the photo. “There’s no shame in staying in motion.”
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