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Fox News
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Ted Danson admits he's 'nauseatingly in love' with wife Mary Steenburgen as couple reunites on screen
Ted Danson and wife Mary Steenburgen are "nauseatingly in love" after nearly 30 years of marriage. During SiriusXM's "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" podcast, Danson – who hosts the show with Woody Harrelson – told guest Brett Goldstein that he will be working with his wife, actress Mary Steenburgen, in season two of "Man On The Inside." He also explained that starring alongside each other in the show has made them fall in love again. "Oh, it's just magical. We're falling in love. The story evolves, but I'm just head-over-heels in love with her and to sit there on camera and look into your wife's eyes…. And we're nauseatingly in love in private life and to just disappear into her eyes in front of a camera is pretty astounding," Danson said. Goldstein asked Danson how working alongside his wife has been, and the actor replied, "Oh, it's delicious." Goldstein was full of questions and told Danson, "I am freaked out by the idea of couples who act together. How does it work? And how do you leave your house? You go to work together, in the car? And then what happens? Did you act together before you got together?" Danson explained that he met his wife on the set of a movie, but he learned quickly he had to check his ego "at the door." "I realized part of my job is to host my wife. I was here last year. I am this 'Man on the Inside.' And if she doesn't have a wonderful time, I'm an a--hole. And that's on me. And that's just my attitude," Danson said. Danson and Steenburgen first met in 1983 and married in 1995. They each have two children from previous marriages. In January, Steenburgen admitted that she thought Danson was a bit of a ladies' man before she met him – similar to the character he played on "Cheers" from 1982 to 1993. "I admired him so much as an actor, but I didn't personally know him, and I had this stupid idea that he was, like, maybe kind of a slick guy," she told People at the time. However, she soon realized "how wrong" she was. "Slick guys don't say, 'gosh-a-rooni,' after making love. I'd like to apologize to my granddaughters," she jokingly added. She added that there's a reason Danson is "treasured" by everyone he works with. "He's just so loving and takes such joy in acting that all of us who are hard at work away from our families for long hours get to work on a set that is dictated by his kindness," she said. She continued, "I also fell in love with the sort of father that he is and with his beloved daughters... Ted loves them with all his heart and yet had space in there to love my Lilly and Charlie so perfectly as well. It's pretty thrilling to go through life with Ted Danson." The couple's best quality time is very early in the morning, according to Danson. "The most fun is the early mornings," Danson told People of their 4:30 togetherness time. "Coffee in bed, playing Wordle, Connections, and Spelling Bee, talking and laughing and sharing. To both of us, it's like heaven on Earth." He added, "Even if she's working in a different time zone, we will wake up in time to be able to play our games and have coffee over the phone."
Perth Now
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Ted Danson had 'full on anxiety attack' during 'scariest' TV role ever
Ted Danson had a "full on anxiety attack" over his first television job. The 77-year-old actor started his career on soaps with roles in 'Somerset' and 'The Doctors' in 1975, but he has described the soap world as the "scariest" job he's had to date. He told Deadline video series 'The Actor's Side': "It was the scariest job I ever had, ever. "My first day [on 'Somerset'], this was at NBC, I was hired to be the man about town, always seducing women, all this stuff. "My first day, the night before, I had my - aged 24 in New York - nervous breakdown, no, but anxiety attack. Full on anxiety attack. "I called this wise friend, going, 'I'm not, I just can't'. He went, 'Don't do that, don't cut your nose off - take a Valium, and get up and go'. "Took a Valium to discover me and Valium don't do well. I got up, and even as soon as I woke up, I was [in] sheets of Broadway news sweats." Ted was meant to be in character opposite an experienced actress and making her character "nervous by coming onto her", but instead got quickly recast as "the town sleaze". The 'Man On The Inside' actor revealed the reason for his anxiety attack was double booking himself for two soaps "on the same day". Recalling his time on 'The Doctors', he said: "Also terrible. The reason why I was having an anxiety attack was I got hired by both shows on the same day and I said yes to both, and then they got furious. "'Somerset' won, but I had to do 'The Doctors'. That day I was supposed to be reassuring this poor couple whose child had cancel - I was supposed to be the wise reassuring young doctor. "Back then, they didn't have teleprompters, they had cue cards... I had the safety of knowing at least the cue cards was there... "He dropped one, and it wafted onto the set, onto my lap, but they were above my lap so they kept shooting. I was a terrible soap opera actor!" By 1982, Ted landed his breakthrough role as Sam Malone in iconic sitcom 'Cheers', and continued to star on television in the likes of 'Becker', 'Curb Your Enthusiasm', 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' and new Netflix hit 'A Man On The Inside', which is currently filming its second season. He said of its popularity: "If something you do hits a chord and it hits a chord on Netflix, it's a very powerful moment because it happens instantaneously, all over the world."
