Ohmigod, Joanie really did love Chachi. Or at least she made love to him, according to actor Scott Baio's autobiography, "BaioWatch: How I Dated and Loved Hollywood's Most Beautiful Women and Ended Up Alone." Baio is reportedly pitching the book to a range of publishers.
Apparently, 1997 rumors of his demise were premature.
"I didn't know what to do," Baio told Canada.com. "I didn't know what to say after we got naked. So for the first five minutes, maybe less -– hell, it might have been the first 20 seconds –- I’m doing it and thinking, man, this is really uncomfortable. Instead of being inside Erin, I was humping a corduroy sofa!"
Baio, 45 -- who appeared in TV's "Happy Days," "Joanie Loves Chachi" and "Charles in Charge," among others -- also reportedly talks about his relationships with other Hollywood women in the book, including Pamela Anderson, Brooke Shields, Nicolette Sheridan, Heather Locklear, Erika Eleniak and Nicole Eggert. He also said that Liza Minelli asked him to donate his sperm so she could have a baby.
Cousin Fonzie would be so proud.
He told Canada.com that Anderson's breast augmentation surgery effectively ended their relationship.
"At that moment I knew our relationship would soon begin to crumble. Pamela had finally gone Hollywood -- or whatever it is that happens when a woman becomes a hot celebrity."
Perhaps most explosive is his anecdote about meeting Beverly D'Angelo. Baio claimed he told her that her overbite was sexy and he said she replied, "I don’t have an overbite, dear. I have a c**ksucker’s mouth."
Man, he must have been all over Laverne DeFazio!
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
