Danny Pintauro, best known for playing Jonathan Bower on the 1980s sitcom Who's the Boss?, has revealed he works as an Amazon delivery driver to supplement his income. The 50-year-old actor told Entertainment Tonight that the instability of acting led him to take on side jobs, including delivering packages for the online retailer.
Pintauro said he was surprised when an Instagram photo of him in his Amazon delivery car went viral. 'The reason that people are so fascinated is because they don’t understand that we’re just as poor as the rest of you. Unless you’re in the top one percent of actors,' he explained.
In addition to Amazon, Pintauro runs a booth at a fair in Long Beach, California, selling handmade book nooks under his shop Wandering Book Nook. He has sold over 155 since November 2024 and now works for Amazon only once a week. He noted that when Amazon acquired streaming rights to Who's the Boss? last year, he received just $4,000 in residuals.
'I definitely make more money working for Amazon than I do selling the show to Amazon,' he said. Pintauro also described challenges of the delivery job, such as finding correct entrances to apartment buildings, and said mistakes can lead to fewer shifts.
Speaking to Fox News Digital, he pushed back against assumptions that child stars are set for life. Residuals from the 1980s are minimal, he said, with payments as low as five to six cents per episode for season one. 'People always assume that if they recognize you, you must be financially set for life, and that’s just not how it works,' he added.
