{"id":910373,"date":"2026-11-08T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/910373\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T17:02:12","slug":"tony-shalhoubs-daughter-reveals-why-monk-star-avoided-hollywood-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/910373\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Shalhoub’s daughter reveals why ‘Monk’ star avoided Hollywood spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Shalhoub deliberately kept his family out of the Hollywood spotlight despite his decades-long acting career.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad is beloved,\u201d the \u201cMonk\u201d star\u2019s daughter Josie told Page Six in a recent exclusive interview. \u201cBut growing up in Los Angeles, celebrities are a dime a dozen, and my dad is very private and very intentionally wanted to stay out of the tabloids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Josie added that the \u201cWings\u201d alum \u201cdidn\u2019t want PR,\u201d and \u201cjust wanted to have his work-life balance, and I think he did a really great job of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tony Shalhoub spoke to Page Six about his book, \u201cWe Thought They\u2019d Never Leave.\u201d Page Six<\/p>\n

It\u2019s co-written by Shalhoub\u2019s daughter, Josie. Page Six<\/p>\n

Shalhoub, 73, married actress Brooke Adams, 77<\/a>, in 1992.<\/p>\n

Adams had already adopted Josie before the couple tied the knot, and Shalhoub later adopted her as well. The pair went on to adopt another daughter, Sophie, two years later.<\/p>\n

Shalhoub and Josie have now teamed up to write \u201cWe Thought They\u2019d Never Leave,\u201d<\/a> a memoir chronicling their family\u2019s annual summer reunions in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

The \u201cMarvelous Mrs. Maisel\u201d star<\/a> is the ninth of 10 children born to Helen and Joe Shalhoub, who emigrated from a village outside Beirut in 1920.<\/p>\n

The book recounts the Shalhoub annual family reunion. Getty Images for CNN\/WBD<\/p>\n

The \u201cMonk\u201d star is one of ten children. \u00c2\u00a9USA Networks\/Courtesy Everett Collectio \/ Everett Collection<\/p>\n

The actor admitted that the sprawling family gatherings, which can include more than 50 relatives, aren\u2019t always drama-free.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s easy. I would also say, and we say it in the book, it\u2019s not a vacation either,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is something else. It\u2019s effortful. But you know, kind of rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Josie echoed her father\u2019s sentiments, describing the reunions as \u201cmore of a convention, less of a vacation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole point of the reunion is to try our best to set differences aside; it\u2019s not always possible, but it\u2019s important for us to try,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

However, Josie made it clear that readers shouldn\u2019t expect any juicy Hollywood secrets from the father-daughter duo\u2019s book.<\/p>\n

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The actor played a chef in \u201cBig Night.\u201d \u00c2\u00a9Samuel Goldwyn Films\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

The book is on shelves now. Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n

\u201cMemoirs also have kind of this connotation that they\u2019re salacious, they\u2019re tell-alls, they\u2019re deeply excavating,\u201d she said. \u201cSo it just carries a certain kind of expectation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd this is, well, first of all, there\u2019s nothing to tell. My dad is squeaky clean. There\u2019s no skeletons in his closet!\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The book also features some of the Shalhoub family\u2019s favorite recipes, including stuffed grape leaves, which the actor encouraged readers to try.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou might wonder why they\u2019ve been missing it their whole lives,\u201d he said of the Lebanese dish, which he described as \u201cfilled with spices and meat \u2026 tomatoes, rice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re served hot and they are absolutely a lifelong tradition,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Shalhoub deliberately kept his family out of the Hollywood spotlight despite his decades-long acting career. \u201cMy dad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,7568,23485,91,88,186,85572,92],"class_list":["post-910373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-children","tag-celebrity-memoirs","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-tony-shalhoub","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}