https://ew.com/daniel-stern-departs-abc-comedy-pilot-amid-prostitution-charge-11886702
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Daniel Stern
sheetsadam1 — 2 months ago(January 19, 2026 12:28 AM)
https://ew.com/daniel-stern-departs-abc-comedy-pilot-amid-prostitution-charge-11886702
Daniel Stern won't be on ABC's new comedy pilot Do You Want Kids? after all.
The actor's role will be recast, after he was officially charged Monday with one misdemeanor count of soliciting prostitution, Entertainment Weekly has learned.
Deadline was the first to report the news.
Prosecutors in Ventura County, Calif., allege that the incident occurred on Dec. 10 at a hotel in the city of Camarillo. Stern's arraignment is now scheduled for Feb. 6, according to TMZ.
The planned TV series is a single-camera comedy about a couple whose lives audiences see both in a world in which they have a baby and another in which they don't, Deadline reports.
The show will star Rachel Bloom and comedian Rory Scovel as the central couple, Bloom's Rosie and Scovel's Alex Zilbalodis. Stern had been set to play the head of the family.
EW has reached out to reps for the actor.
While Stern, 68, has worked as an actor in multiple types of projects since the '70s, his last few have been on TV.
He was part of the cast in the fourth season of Apple TV's For All Mankind, which wrapped up in 2024. Stern also appeared on 10 episodes of Aidy Bryant's Hulu comedy Shrill, which aired for three seasons, from 2019 to 2021.
Earlier in his career, Stern provided the narration for the original version of The Wonder Years.
His most famous work has perhaps been in holiday favorites Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, in which he played the would-be burglar Marv to Macaulay Culkin's precocious foil, Kevin. He also appeared in the Billy Crystal comedy City Slickers and its sequel, City Slickers 2: The Legend of Curly's Gold, and in Barry Levinson's 1982 dramedy Diner.
But he's really preferred not to leave his Ventura County farm in recent years, he said in a December interview with PEOPLE. It's the reason he didn't attend events to mark the 35th anniversary Home Alone, he said.
"I don't leave my farm," Stern said. "It's no offense to the movie…. A phone call, Zoom call, I'm in. But… I'm a bit of a homebody."
Draft Barron Trump -
-- wot -- — 2 months ago(January 19, 2026 12:50 AM)
Meanwhile, Trump rapes brainwashed kids and gets to run the most powerful nation on earth….TWICE
I dunno, paying a consenting adult for sex at age 70 seems like a normal thing that nobody would overly judge him for but **** it lets fire him. -
AnthonySoxxx — 2 months ago(January 22, 2026 05:01 AM)
Yeah, I'm surprised this is something you'd get fired for in Hollywood these days. There have been more prominent incidences of celebrities involved in prostitution like Hugh Grant, Eddie Murphy, and others, and they were able to redeem their careers after without any public backlash. ABC is overreacting, but they are known to do that.