{"id":385689,"date":"2026-04-07T03:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/385689\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T03:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:15:12","slug":"brady-bunch-star-mike-lookinland-admits-he-was-off-the-rails-in-his-20s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/385689\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Brady Bunch&#8217; star Mike Lookinland admits he was &#8216;off the rails&#8217; in his 20s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;Brady Bunch&#8221; star Mike Lookinland admitted his behavior was &#8220;fully off the rails&#8221; after finding mega stardom with &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/entertainment\/genres\/sitcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Brady Bunch<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Lookinland and Christopher Knight opened up about their experience as young adults in the Hollywood industry after starring as Bobby and Peter Brady in the 1970s sitcom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How come you guys didn&#8217;t end up as a mugshot?&#8221; Jaybeau Jones asked during an episode of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-real-brady-bros\/id1603671235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Real Brady Bros.<\/a>&#8221; &#8220;&#8230;There&#8217;s no one&#8217;s ever said a bad thing about any of &#8216;The Brady Bunch&#8217; kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe because we didn&#8217;t wanna disappoint Florence and Bob,&#8221; Knight responded. &#8220;I mean, that was the beginning of it. It&#8217;s like there&#8217;s certain people that you just don&#8217;t wanna disappoint. I think that was stronger with me with those two than it was my own parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/jodie-sweetin-blacked-out-candace-cameron-bures-wedding-age-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8216;FULL HOUSE&#8217; STAR JODIE SWEETIN BLACKED OUT AT CANDACE CAMERON BURE&#8217;S WEDDING AT AGE 14<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Christopher-Knight-Mike-Lookinland-Brady-Bunch.jpeg\" alt=\"Christopher Knight and Mike Lookinland film a scene in &quot;The Brady Bunch.&quot;\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Christopher Knight and Mike Lookinland in &#8220;The Brady Bunch.&#8221; (CBS via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Florence Henderson and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/brady-bunch-dad-robert-reed-real-p-working-young-john-travolta-casting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Robert Reed<\/a> starred in &#8220;The Brady Bunch&#8221; as Carol and Mike, portraying parental figures for Lookinland and Knight.<\/p>\n<p>Lookinland admitted he struggled more in his 20s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I lived my childhood in my 20s because I couldn&#8217;t when I was a child,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;And in my 20s, I had a car and money and freedom&#8230; I was fully off the rails.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He later added: &#8220;I&#8217;m just thankful that not every man, woman and child had a high-def camera in their pocket when I was 25, like they do now, because it would have ruined my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Knight said he had heard &#8220;stories&#8221; about what Lookinland had gotten up to back then. &#8220;Some of that was under the radar,&#8221; Lookinland responded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What happens in Salt Lake City stays in Salt Lake City,&#8221; Knight joked.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/brady-bunch-child-stars-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Barry Williams and Maureen McCormick smiling in a Brady Bunch kids portrait\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Brady Bunch&#8221; premiered in 1969. (Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters?cmpid=fnfirstnl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During a previous episode of &#8220;The Real Brady Bros.,&#8221; Lookinland and Knight&#8217;s co-star Susan Olsen revealed she &#8220;almost died&#8221; while filming the first episode of &#8220;The Brady Bunch&#8221; as Cindy Brady. While rewatching the pilot episode with her co-stars, Olsen revealed it was the last time there was a close-up shot of Cindy because &#8220;I got injured.&#8221; Her co-stars couldn&#8217;t hide their shock at the news as she continued, &#8220;Yeah, I almost died.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the Culver lot, they were shooting something \u2014 I would assume, in the girl&#8217;s bedroom \u2014 and I was getting body makeup on my legs,&#8221; Olsen said. &#8220;I was standing on a makeup chair and something from the catwalk, where they keep all the lights and everything, fell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/brady-bunch-stairs.jpg\" alt=\"The Brady Bunch cast posing on stairs in a group photo\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Brady Bunch&#8221; starred Susan Olsen, Mike Lookinland, Eve Plumb, Christopher Knight, Maureen McCormick, Barry Williams, Ann B. Davis, Florence Henderson and Robert Reed. (CBS\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LIKE WHAT YOU\u2019RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It hit the makeup man first, [bounced] off the body makeup woman, and hit me in the face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can tell, if you look at the [wedding] ceremony, and you see the three girls on one side, if you were to zoom in really tight, you can see my face is quite swollen,&#8221; Olsen explained. &#8220;I look different. You can even see it in some of the early publicity shots. You can tell my face is a little swollen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/brady-bunch-wedding.jpg\" alt=\"Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland, Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Maureen McCormick, Eve Plumb, and Susan Olsen posing together at a wedding scene\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland, Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Maureen McCormick, Eve Plumb and Susan Olsen pose in a group portrait at a wedding scene from the 1969 pilot episode of the television series &#8220;The Brady Bunch.&#8221; (Silver Screen Collection\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/brady-bunch-actors-admit-co-star-hookups-first-kisses-fake-weddings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;The Brady Bunch&#8221; aired<\/a> from 1969 to 1974. 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