{"id":416320,"date":"2026-01-16T06:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416320\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T06:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:46:08","slug":"daniel-stern-fired-from-abc-pilot-after-soliciting-prostitution-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416320\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Stern Fired From ABC Pilot After Soliciting Prostitution Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Daniel Stern<\/a> is no longer part of ABC<\/a>\u2018s comedy pilot Do You Want Kids?, starring Rachel Bloom and Rory Scovel, Deadline has learned. The network and producing studio from 20th Television will be recasting the series-regular role to which the Home Alone alum was signed for in December<\/a>, I hear.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe dismissal comes days after Stern on Monday was charged with a single misdemeanor charge of engaging or agreeing to engage in prostitution. He initially had been cited by Ventura County (CA) sheriff\u2019s deputies on December 10 for allegedly soliciting a prostitute at a Camarillo hotel. His case was scheduled to be heard Tuesday in Ventura County court; the arraignment has been continued and will now take place February 6, TMZ reported. If convicted, Stern could face up to six months in jail and up to a $1,000 fine.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe single-camera Do You Want Kids? is about a married couple, Rosie (Bloom) and Alex Zilbalodis (Scovel), who in one universe have a baby and in the other do not, and the many ways that huge decision alters their lives.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe role Stern was to play and is now being recast is Freddy, the gruff patriarch of the Zilbalodis family.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrent O\u2019Donnell is directing the pilot, which Bloom co-wrote with her husband, film and TV writer Dan Gregor. The trio are executive producing with Steven Levitan and Danielle Stokdyk of 20th TV-based Levitan Productions and Jeff Morton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Stern is no longer part of ABC\u2018s comedy pilot Do You Want Kids?, starring Rachel Bloom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2655,64,63,447,182451,44907,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-416320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-daniel-stern","13":"tag-do-you-want-kids","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}