In early May of 2022, former child star and current radio personality Danny Bonaduce announced
to the world that he was going to be taking a break from his Seattle radio show as a result
of a mystery illness.
While some might imagine that the former Partridge Family member was simply being coy by refusing
to address this mystery illness by name, it seems that Danny truly has no idea what the
condition is that he has become afflicted with.
Join Facts Verse as Danny Bonaduce vanishes to battle an unknown illness.
Danny Bonaduce’s Shocking Announcement Just recently, former child star Danny Bonaduce
made a shocking announcement to fans via his official Twitter account.
For the past several decades, Danny has made a name for himself as a radio personality
in Seattle.
In the announcement, Danny revealed that he’s going to be taking a break from his radio-hosting
duties for an undisclosed period of time.
The reason for this break is a mystery illness that Danny claims to be trying his best to
get diagnosed.
The name of Danny’s radio show is The Danny Bonaduce & Sarah Show, and it airs on 102.5
KZOK FM in Seattle.
Danny made the announcement that he was going to be taking a leave from the show in early
May of 2022, and fans were heartbroken!
Thankfully, the show’s titular cohost will remain on the air and take over main hosting
duties while Danny works to get his medical problems sorted out.
Danny’s cohost on the radio program is Sarah, who has hitherto refused to reveal her last
name to the public.
Although Danny’s announcement via his official Twitter account seemed optimistic and made
it clear that his medical leave was only intended to be temporary, it has troubled many fans
that the former child star doesn’t seem to be sure exactly what he is suffering from.
Fans initially suspected that Danny might have been lying about his illness being undiagnosed
as a way to get out of delivering bad news to his fans.
Some suspected that the star had become aware that he was suffering from a fatal disease,
such as cancer, and was either keeping the illness from his fans or was in denial about
the severity of the illness himself.
However, according to Danny’s sister, whatever condition it is that is plaguing her brother
truly remains a mystery to them both.
Danny Needs a Diagnosis…
Pronto!
It seems that the main reason for Danny taking his medical leave is to simply try and track
down a doctor that can give him a diagnosis for whatever problem has started ailing him.
The announcement that the former child star made via his social media came complete with
a picture of him using a cane, with Danny joking that he had now joined the ranks of
such cane-wielding icons as Willy Wonka and Charlie Chaplin.
However, it remains unclear why Danny needs a cane, or if there’s any chance of him
ever not needing one.
According to Danny Bonaduce, he’s going to be back on the air soon.
However, if the star doesn’t even know what he’s suffering from, it seems that he may
be being a little bit too optimistic about his future.
The former child star thankfully seems to have a good deal of support coming his way
from his sister, whose name is Celia Bonaduce.
Following Danny’s announcement via his Twitter account, Celia Bonaduce posted another picture
of a cane-wielding Danny on her own Facebook page.
This post came complete with a heartfelt message giving public support to her brother, and
Danny subsequently shared the message to his Twitter.
Danny Bonaduce is now 62 years old, and the former child star has been through a whole
lot since his days on The Partridge Family.
A great deal of support has come the radio-show host’s way via fans, with Danny having a
fairly big base of fans in the town of Seattle.
These fans are anxious for Danny to get back on the air, and the former child star claims
that he’s just as anxious to get back on the air himself.
In the meantime, Danny is taking it easy.
According to his sister, Danny enjoys hearing positive messages from his fans and gets a
great amount of solace from them, though not as much as he gets from Dairy Queen!
It seems that Celia is keeping her brother stocked up on Dairy Queen ice cream cones
as he fights to find a diagnosis for whatever ails him.
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This Isn’t the First Time Danny’s Had Trouble
While news of Danny Bonaduce taking leave from his radio program as a result of this
new mystery illness was certainly upsetting to the former child star’s many fans, there
were also likely plenty of people who were surprised to learn that he was still alive
and kicking in the first place!
Danny has been through a lot in the years since his days on The Partridge Family turned
him into one of the biggest child stars in the world.
Though The Partridge Family made Danny famous, it didn’t make him rich or happy.
In fact, Danny’s time on the series was miserable, and he has very little to show
for it today besides a lifetime of mental problems!
Many child stars have a couple of good years and then things go bad when they get older.
This wasn’t the case for Danny Bonaduce.
In Danny’s case, things started out bad and only got worse.
Danny’s time on The Partridge Family was never fun, and he was forced into acting at
the behest of his abusive father.
Shirley Jones, who played Danny’s on-screen mother on the series, noticed the markings
on young Danny’s body one day during filming.
However, there was little that the actress could do to make Danny’s living situation
any better.
As a way of coping with the abuse that was being inflicted on him at home, young Danny
turned to substance abuse during the filming of the classic series.
Danny Bonaduce began using illicit substances as a means to alleviate the stress of both
his unwanted fame and the abuse that he was receiving at home from his father during the
filming of The Partridge Family.
The young star was never comfortable with the popularity that he received as a result
of his appearance on the show, and he was subsequently never quite comfortable in his
own skin.
As a result of Danny starting up substance abuse during The Partridge Family’s filming,
he was a full-blown addict by the time the series was over.
The Partridge Family came to an end in 1974, and Danny found himself with nowhere to go.
Danny Hit Rock Bottom After The Partridge Family
By the time The Partridge Family came to an end, Danny’s relationship with his father
was destroyed.
Danny was also broke as a result of the meager sums that he had received during his days
on the series, despite the fact that it was a huge commercial hit.
According to Danny, he only made $400 per episode.
Like many child stars, Danny found himself having an incredibly hard time getting work
after his time on the show came to an end.
His substance-abuse issues only exacerbated these problems.
Before long, Danny had hit rock bottom and was a homeless drug addict.
Despite the immense amount of struggling that Danny did in the years following his time
on The Partridge Family, the former child star was eventually able to turn things around
and make a name for himself in a medium that wasn’t television.
By the 1990s, Danny Bonaduce had become a radio star in the city of Seattle, and things
were looking up for the controversial figure!
Sadly, though, the start of Danny’s radio days wouldn’t put an end to his controversy.
As Danny set about making a name for himself on the radio, he continued having many of
the same problems that had plagued him since the end of his days on The Partridge Family.
It seems that Danny’s new career wasn’t enough to inspire him to give up his substance
addiction, and it continued to plague him into the 1990s and beyond.
It’s only in the past decade that Danny truly seems to have put most of his demons
behind him.
Now, it seems that his new medical problems are making it hard to enjoy this freedom.
Danny’s Second Marriage Lasted Nearly Two Decades
Danny Bonaduce had a short-lived marriage during the 1980s, but the wife that most people
associate with the former child star is arguably Gretchen Hillmer, whom he was married to from
1990 to 2007.
The two starred together on the 2006 reality television series Breaking Bonaduce, which
showed the pair attempting to put an end to Danny’s aberrant substance-abuse issues
once and for all.
While the show may or may not have helped much with Danny’s addiction, it certainly
didn’t help with the pair’s marriage!
Danny and Gretchen had two kids during their marriage, and those kids are named Dante and
Isabella.
It seems that substance abuse was an issue for Danny throughout the majority of his nearly
two-decade-long marriage to Gretchen, though it also seems that the former child star has
finally managed to put these issues behind him since their divorce.
Some of the many controversial moments from Danny and Gretchen’s marriage include a
1991 incident where Danny was busted for soliciting sexual favors from a transsexual prostitute,
as well as an incident during the mid-2000s when the radio host apparently assaulted a
Survivor cast member.
Both Fans and Danny Himself Remain Blindly Optimistic!
Danny is now married to his third wife, whose name is Amy Railsback.
Fans are hoping that the former child star can find out what’s wrong with him soon
so that he can be back on the air as soon as possible.
In the meantime, Sarah will be around to host The Danny Bonaduce & Sarah Show.
Though fans thought that Danny Bonaduce was being coy when he announced that he was going
to be taking a leave from his radio show as a result of a mystery illness, it seems that
whatever condition the former child star has become afflicted with is truly a mystery to
both himself and his doctors!
Now it’s time to hear from you: did you know that Danny Bonaduce only made $400 for
each episode of The Partridge Family and that the former child star recently announced that
he was going to be taking a leave from his Seattle radio show to combat a mystery illness?
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