Ted Danson Shares His Movie star Doppelganger, and It is Tony Danzatheinsiderinsight

Ted Danson has a barely shocking celeb doppelganger: Tony Danza.

The Cheers star, 76, revealed on the Thursday, Nov. 21, episode of the Jennifer Hudson Present that he was usually mistaken for Danza, 73, within the Nineteen Eighties.

“We don’t look something alike,” Danson advised Hudson, 43, whereas utilizing his palms to additionally present their top distinction. The confusion was seemingly all within the similarity of their names, he added.

“The primary time it occurred to me, I used to be in New York, and a bunch of constructor staff, I stroll by they usually go, ‘Hey, Tony.’ And I don’t go searching as a result of my title’s Ted,” he mentioned. “And so they go, ‘Tony! Tony Danza! What are you, too good for us now?’ ”

Danson joked that he nonetheless ignored them to get some warmth on Danza. He additionally shared that he as soon as signed an autograph with Danza’s title. “Folks, fame, no matter,” he concluded as Hudson laughed.

The combo-up was most likely partly as a result of Danson and Danza each turned sitcom stars across the identical time. Danson started showing as Sam on Cheers in 1982, whereas Danza’s Taxi started in 1978. His second main sequence, Who’s the Boss, premiered in 1984.

Danson stars within the new Netflix sequence A Man on the Inside, by which he performs a retired particular person turned newbie non-public investigator who goes undercover in a retirement group. Talking to PEOPLE earlier this month, the actor mentioned he’s simply as comfortable working now as he was many years in the past.

“I really feel the identical pleasure I did in my late 20s once I drove by way of the studio gate,” he mentioned. Seeing his fellow actors and the crew and safety guards “makes me very comfortable, which is why I believe I work quite a bit,” the two-time Emmy winner defined.

“I am undecided how good I’m; it would not matter. It makes me so comfortable to be doing this,“ he added. In recent times, Danson has additionally starred within the sequence The Good Place and Mr. Mayor. 

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He added that his age is an asset when engaged on new initiatives. “Certainly one of my joys, and I have been capable of do it in life a number of instances, is to make use of my age and what I am going by way of in life and discover that,” he mentioned. “What’s it prefer to be 76 and be humorous, making an attempt to be humorous? What does that really feel like? Oh my God, my biggest pleasure is to be humorous presumably in each potential method I can.”