Before Melissa Peterman was a cashier on Working Class, she was a hooker in Fargo. She looks the same now as she did when she was 24 on in that 1996 movie. Ya, you betcha, ya.
Tonight’s hysterical episode of Baby Daddy on ABC Family at 8:30p is all about Ben going out on his first date since baby Emma came into his life. A few weeks ago I spoke to the cast and we talked about love, some talked about their character’s feelings while the others talked about their real life ones.
Chelsea Kane who plays Riley had this to say about who the audience could root for, “Right now it is still up in the air and literally in every episode everyone is constantly missing each other. Right as Riley starts to give up on Ben, Ben starts to kind of look at Riley a little bit. Right at Danny starts to give up on Riley, he starts to notice her a little differently. Everyone keeps missing each other, so you never know who they will root for just yet.” She then added, “It’s hard, I as character and even as a woman reading the scripts change all the time.” So who would she choose if this was real life? She replied by saying, “It is so hard because both boys, this answer is so cliche, they are so different and so great on their own. I think in life, Chelsea would chose Danny because I think that Ben has the love of his life with his daughter. I think his time and affection should be put into his little girl.”
So what did the man who Kane thinks Riley would choose have to say about it? Here is what Derek Theler who plays Danny told me, “It’s a big love triangle. The funny thing is that Ben is pretty oblivious to everything and she talks to me she likes him while on other side I am in love with her. I think Riley is the right guy for Riley. That’s what I think. We’ll see what happens.” He then went on to tease a lot of stuff will be coming out in the open in the next few episodes, so we better keep watching to find out.
Now there is a third person in the mix and I had to know if he ever had a Riley in his life, as in a girl who is a friend who wants something more. Jean-Luc Bilodeau aka Ben laughed as he told this story, “Sort of in high school, I had a friend who was a girl…It turned into that a couple years later, she started to like me and it was kind of weird, a little awkward. It didn’t go much further than that. Yeah, it’s just a weird situation.” As weird as that situation was I had to find out if any of exes had dropped a baby on his doorstep; and he said nope.
Now there are two other characters on the show who are not part of the love triangle and they gave me some spoiler information about what is coming up for their love lives.
Tucker played by Tahj Mowry revealed this, “At the beginning of the season Tucker has a girlfriend that basically owns him and he is very whipped, but there may come a time when Tucker is a little free man again. So he may go a little crazy trying to pick up women, which is hilarious. Tucker think, actually he has some game going on. He’s very classy in his vests and skinny ties. Tucker has some free man syndrome there and he ready to go on the prowl.” Purrfect.
And what about the sexiest person on the show? Melissa Peterman revealed the TV grandma will be getting some. She shared that Bonnie “is single, ready to mingle. Wants to date. Maybe I date inappropriately sometimes, like maybe my son’s hockey coach.” I can’t wait for that episode because you know will be laughing so hard you will pee in your pants.
But before we get to that episode, we still have tonight’s show to get through. Here is a little spoiler, a big part of it is about Danny’s hockey jersey that he wears during every game and he has never washed it. So when I asked Derek if he had any superstitions, his answer was something I never expected. He said, “When I was in high school I had a jersey for my basketball team and I never washed it either and it was just like it. It was disgusting and destroyed. I don’t know what I was thinking. It was the worst idea ever. It wasn’t really that lucky, my team did really well. I didn’t wash it for a long time, and one of my teammates wound up shredding it and I was pretty upset about it.” He then added that even though he had a smelly shirt back in the day, he really isn’t that superstitious.
Baby Daddy is the best comedy of the summer, so start watching tonight because we need to laugh in the summer too.
ABC Family gives birth to a new sitcom tonight at 8:30p and you are going to goo goo ga ga for Baby Daddy.
Life is normal for Ben (Jean-Luc Bilodeau), but a knock on his door will change everything. A one night stand leads to him getting a little present on his doorstep over 9 months later. That’s right he is now the proud pop of a beautiful baby girl that he didn’t know he had. Not only didn’t know about her, he also doesn’t know anything about how to be a dad and neither do any of his roommates. His hockey player brother Danny (Derek Theler) just got traded to their hometown and has moved in his with his little bro. He is trying to adjust to his new team and being an uncle, but he also doesn’t know what to do with his niece. Tucker (Tahj Mowry) is Ben’s BFF and it is his place. The only thing he know about his female roomie is she is good to attract girls. On that note the boys gets lucky that Riley (Chelsea Kane), Ben’s childhood BFF and next door neighbor, helps them out with the little girl. Her nurturing skills are no secret, but her crush on Ben is. And what she doesn’t know is that Danny has a crush on her. There the one person that none of them want to know about their secret baby is Ben and Danny’s mom Bonnie (Melissa Peterman) and she just found out she is grandmother. Together they make an unusual new type of family, and you know what it works perfectly. So tune in for this darling comedy that equal parts funny, sweet and enjoyable. Largely because the chemistry with this cast is some of the best on TV.
