Growing Pains star Jeremy Miller made a rare TV appearance on Tuesday.
Appearing on Tuesday’s edition of the Channel Seven morning show, the former child actor, who played rowdy teenager Ben Seaver on the 80s show, looked very different from his time on the sitcom .
Where once Jeremy had sandy blonde hair styled in a mullet and no facial hair, he now sports a neater salt-and-pepper hairstyle and a trimmed goatee.
Jeremy, now 47, told hosts Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies that unlike many child stars, he didn’t have any Hollywood “horror stories.”
“Our set was incredible. We had a great time, you know, I had a family of 200 people. The cast, the crew, everyone was looking out for you. It was really special,” the actor said.
Growing Pains star Jeremy Miller made a rare TV appearance on Tuesday. Photographed with Leonardo DiCaprio
Where once Jeremy had sandy blond hair styled in a mullet and no facial hair, he now sports a neater salt-and-pepper hairstyle and a trimmed goatee.
“But you know, there were a lot of advantages, and I always said that any advantages far outweighed the disadvantages that came with it,” he added.
Miller also mentioned his disappointment that Warner Bros. didn’t take up his proposal to reboot the beloved series.
He claimed that the entertainment studio had its own ideas for a “reimagining” of the series that would most likely recast the series, while Jeremy thought using the original cast was the way to go.
Jeremy told hosts Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies that unlike many child stars, he didn’t have any Hollywood “horror stories”: “Our set was amazing. We had a lot of fun, you know, I ‘had a family of 200 people, the cast, the crew, everyone looked out for you. It was really special.’
Growing Pains – which ran for seven seasons – followed the trials and tribulations of the Seaver family.
The sitcom starred the late Alan Thicke as father and psychiatrist Dr. Jason Roland Seaver, alongside Joanna Kerns as his wife Margaret Seaver.
Kirk Cameron, Tracey Gold and Ashley Johnson joined Miller as other family children Mike, Carol and Chrissy.
Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio joined the series in its final season as homeless teenager Luke Brower in 1991, while icon Brad Pitt played small roles on the series in 1987 and 1989 – before their global rise to fame.
In 2019, DiCaprio and Pitt memorably discussed their time on the show during a chat to promote Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
Pitt said, “But we started on the same TV show” and DiCaprio replied, “I mean, we were talking decades ago.”
Growing Pains – which ran for seven seasons – followed the trials and tribulations of the Seaver family. Pictured left to right: Kirk Cameron, Tracey Gold and Jeremy Miller on Growing Pains
Growing Pains was nominated for a series of Emmys during its long run on ABC.
In 2000, the cast reunited for The Growing Pains Movie, followed by Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers in 2004.
Growing Pains previously spawned a spinoff series, Just the Ten of Us, which featured Coach Graham Lubbock, Mike and Carol’s gym teacher, moving to California with his large family to teach at an all-boys Catholic school after being fired from Thomas Dewey. High school.
The series ran for three seasons from 1988 to 1990.
Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio joined the series in its final season as homeless teenager Luke Brower in 1991. Pictured with Miller
Icon Brad played small roles on the series in 1987 and 1989 – pictured as rock singer Jonathan Keith with Miller