Scott Baio!
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At 45, Scott finds himself in the midst of a mid-life crisis wondering why hes still single and unable to settle down even with his current girlfriend Renee, a woman he loves and who is perfect in his eyes. Its time for Scott to confront his commitment phobias or settle into the life of a bachelor who is forever searching for the perfect unobtainable woman.
With nowhere else to turn, Scott has decided to fully surrender the next eight weeks of his life for some exhaustive introspection with the highly-regarded life-coach, Dr. Alison Arnold, otherwise known as Doc Ali. Doc Ali will guide him on a grueling, soul-searching mission; forcing him to confront a laundry list of old flames in order to hopefully get to the heart of his lonely heart condition. To get to the core of his problem, Scott will be forced to revisit ex-girlfriends, take a vow of celibacy and take a break from his current girlfriend Renee while he goes on his soul-searching journey.
In each episode, Scott will have to confront another chapter from his semi-sordid past by actually reconnecting with some of his most substantial and combustible flames in order to get the bottom of his bad-boy behavior. With the help of his long-time pals, Scott will sift through the wreckage of his past and endure an assortment of life-altering activities (including abstinence) in order to finally earn the chance at actually maintaining a meaningful, stable, healthy relationship. After 8 weeks of self-discovery, Scott must make a decision: will he commit to marrying Renee or to being a life-long bachelor? Viewers will witness Scott Baios soul-searching journey first hand as he tries to figure out why Scott Baio is 45 And Single.
"Scott Baio is 45... And Single" is created by Eric Bischoff and Jason Hervey of Bischoff Hervey Entertainment who serve as executive producers along with Scott Baio. Executive producers for 3 Ball Productions are JD Roth, Todd A. Nelson and Adam Greener. Jeff Olde, Claire McCabe and Michael Hirschorn oversee the series for VH1. http://www.scottbaio.com
Scott Vincent James Baio (born September 22, 1961) is an American actor, best known for the roles of Chachi Arcola on Happy Days and its spinoff Joanie Loves Chachi, and Charles on Charles in Charge. He is the cousin of actor Jimmy Baio.
Scott Baio Early life
Baio was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Mario Baio (May 8, 1934 December 2, 2001) and Rose Baio (January 1937). He has one older brother and sister: Steven Baio (who is also an actor) and Stephanie Baio, who are twins. His cousins include Jimmy Baio and Joey Baio (who are also actors).Scott Baio Career
In 1976, he played the title character Bugsy Malone in a cult film kiddie musical directed by Alan Parker that also co-starred Jodie Foster. They were reunited again in the 1980 teen girl drama Foxes helmed by Adrian Lyne. When he was 16 years old, Baio landed his most famous role as Fonzie's tough little cousin, Charles 'Chachi' Arcola, on the popular television show Happy Days. For his charismatic juvenile performance in the series, he received his first Young Artists Award as Best Young Comedian in Television or Motion Pictures, during the Third Annual Youth in Film Awards. In 1982, he starred in a spin-off of Happy Days entitled Joanie Loves Chachi, which lasted only one season (Baio would return to Happy Days for its final season).That same year, he appeared opposite future Charles in Charge co-star Willie Aames in the film Zapped!, the story of a high school student who accidentally obtains telekinesis and uses it to "zap" things, including the clothing off of attractive females. This very popular adolescent fantasy movie was recently cited by Entertainment Weekly magazine as one of the Five Essentials among the raunchy teen sex comedies from the decade of the 1980s. (The other four were Private School, Private Resort, Class and Fast Times At Ridgemont High.)
Baio made his first album for RCA in 1982. The eponymous album featured such songs as "What Was in That Kiss," "How Do You Talk to Girls," and "Wanted for Love." He recorded a second album, The Boys Are Out Tonight, for RCA in 1983. The album featured songs such as "Some Girls," "She's Trouble,"and "Fingerprints".
During his Happy Days run, Baio also became known as the star of after school specials such as The Boy Who Drank Too Much and Stoned, which earned him a second Young Artists Award as Best Young Actor in a Television Special. He also received two Emmy Award nominations, for Stoned in 1981 and for All The Kids Do It in 1985.
In 1984, after Happy Days ended, Baio starred as a male nanny on Charles in Charge, a show that remained on the air until 1990.
Since the end of Charles in Charge, Baio has appeared in various short-lived sitcoms, including Baby Talk (1991) and Rewind, which was picked up by the FOX network in 1998 but was canceled before any episodes aired. Between 1992 and 1995, he played Dr.
Jack Stewart in Diagnosis: Murder. He also became a television director, working on a variety of programs, and worked for Thirty Second Films, a production firm specializing in TV commercials.
Baio also starred in the independent films:
Very Mean Men directed by Tony Vitale was a gangster comedy involving a mob war between two syndicate families. The ensemble cast included Matthew Modine, Martin Landau, Ben Gazzara, Burt Young, Charles Durning and Louis Fletcher. Scott enacted the pivotal role of impetuous crime scion, Paulie Minnetti, who instigates the crime feud by refusing to tip a waitress. Baio garnered this laudatory quote from Variety: "a career-reviving turn by Scott Baio with hair dyed blonde and sporting a white goatee." Baio also served as a co-producer (with his older brother Steven).
Face To Face (a.k.a. Italian Ties) helmed by Ellie Kanner was a bittersweet comic drama about three young men (Scott Baio,
Thomas Calabro and Carlo Imperato) who kidnap their fathers (Dean Stockwell, Alex Rocco and Joe Viterelli) for a weekend of genuine male bonding. It won the Audience Prize for Best Comedy at the Marco Island Film Festival, the Silver Screen Accolade in the Reno Film Festival and the 10 Degrees Hotter Best Feature Award during the Valley Film Festival. Scott co-wrote the screenplay with Jeffrey Gurian.
The Bread, My Sweet (a.k.a. A Wedding For Bella) directed by Melissa Martin and produced by Adrienne Wehr was a gentle romance about love, family and delicious cooking among the Italian-American community in Pittsburgh. Baio starred as Dominic Pyzola, a hard-edged corporate raider in the daytime and a kind-hearted local baker at night. This independent picture collected multiple top accolades from the Santa Monica, Stony Brook, Marco Island, Houston Worldfest and Iowa Hardacre film festivals. Scott himself earned three Best Actor prizes in the Atlantic City Film Festival, the Kansas City Halfway To Hollywood Film Festival and the San Diego Film Festival.
Baio also had a recurring role on Arrested Development for the FOX sitcom's third season in autumn 2005, playing the Bluth family's new lawyer, Bob Loblaw (so named because it sounds like "bah blah blah" when spoken, similar to his Happy Days catchphrase of "wah wah wah"). He took over the role of legal counselor from his former Happy Days co-star Henry Winkler (Fonzie). Baio appeared in four memorable episodes of the cult show before it ended: "Forget Me Now," "Notapusy," "Mr. F," and "Making A Stand."
Scott Baio Personal life
Baio is of Italian-American descent. Scott Baio attended Xaverian High School for a short period of time, and later graduated from North Hollywood High School.Unlike many of his fellow actors in Hollywood, Baio is a very conservative Republican. He was a member of Young Americans for Freedom. He was one of the famous guests in attendance at President Ronald Reagan's state Funeral. The New York Daily News published Michelle Caruso's article "A Goodbye as the Sun Sets in the West" (dated June 12, 2004), which mentioned Baio, who had been seated near former UK Prime Minister and Baroness Margaret Thatcher: "Scott Baio, who played Chachi on the hit sitcom Happy Days, said: President Reagan made me feel proud to be an American. Today, I feel sadness."
Baio is also famous for dating several very popular actresses over the years. Among them, his Joanie Loves Chachi co-star Erin Moran, Baywatch actresses Pamela Anderson, Erika Eleniak and Nicole Eggert (the latter co-starring with Baio on Charles In Charge prior to Baywatch); Natalie Raitano, Nicolette Sheridan, Brooke Shields, Denise Richards, Julie McCullough, and Heather Locklear. Baio twice was engaged to Anderson, but it was called off both times. His success with women led to his induction into The Man Show Hall of Fame on July 21, 1999.
He wrote a book (in collaboration with Keith and Kent Zimmerman) entitled BaioWatch: How I Dated and Loved Hollywood's Most Beautiful Women and Ended Up Alone. Scott blows the lid off his relationships and sexual exploits as well as the loss of his virginity to Erin Moran (which he says in his new show), who played his girlfriend Joanie on Happy Days and its spinoff. Now in final form, said memoirs are currently being shopped around for a publisher.
Scott is currently starring in a VH1 celebrity reality series or "celebreality" show entitled Scott Baio Is 45...and Single.
Scott Baio Cultural references
More obscurely, Baio has become a recurring character in the online comic strip Goats.In the first South Park episode, Cartman said he had a dream where Baio gave him pinkeye.
In the movie Orgazmo, created by and starring the creators of South Park, the character of Sancho says, "Are you Sancho? No, you are not. Neither is Scott Baio Sancho. Frank Gifford is not Sancho. But I... ."
Two of Baio's TV roles were mentioned in the song "Hey Ladies" by the Beastie Boys.
Scott was also mentioned in the episode of Family Guy called "Fore, Father", when Peter says, "They call this the magic hour.
The day's not quite gone, but the night's not quite here and somewhere, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love."
In a May 2007 episode of Family Guy, Lois says to Peter "Hey, Peter, you all set to go see Zapped tonight? I figured Scott Baio would be androgenous enough that we could both fantasize about him and no one would be gay."
There is a reference to Baio in an episode of the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear. Greg and Jimmy go clubbing, and they hear that Baio is inside the club performing magic tricks.
There is also a reference in a song "You Gonna Eat Alla That?" by the band Here Come the Mummies: "Hey oh, hey oh...got your meat and two potatoes, hey oh, hey oh white and creamy like Scott Baio."
There is also a reference in a song "Waiting to Die" by Mickey Avalon: "For twenty you get Chachi, but forty gets you Fonzie."
In the online game Kingdom of Loathing, there is an item called the Talisman of Baio. This item is obtained by fighting "The
Baiowulf," a monster with the appearance of Baio as a werewolf.
In the movie Cursed the character of Baio's assistant is named Joanie.
There's a local Grindcore band in Denver named the Scott Baio Army.
On the Late Night with Conan O'Brien talk show, Conan O'Brien frequently references Baio as a nostalgic but now presumably obscure celebrity. (For example, on a bit about SAT analogies- "Model T:Impossible to find a part::Scott Baio:Impossible to get a part.") He often follows such a reference with an a cappella rendition of the first lines of the theme song to Charles in
Charge. On a skit called Celebrity Survey, where they make up things and say celebrities said that in a questionaire, one of them was "what would you say if you were eating dinner out and a fan came up to talk to you." Conan said, "Scott Baio wrote,
"Hi, I'm NOT Scott Baio."
In an episode of the third season of NCIS (episode 6) Scott Baio is mentioned as making an appearance in a nearby mall.
In the 1980's, comedian Bobcat Goldthwait would open many of his stand-up concerts by shouting "Scott Baio is the Anti-Christ!"
In the 1998 teen flick Can't Hardly Wait, Ethan Embry feels unrequited love for Jennifer Love Hewitt and later obtains some needed romantic advice from Jenna Elfman who remembers her own intense crush on Scott Baio and recalls seeing him up-close at a grand supermarket opening.
On The Edwin J. Hill Social Club, the character of George seems to have a romantic obsession with Scott Baio, and in one episode Baio (played in voice-over) dispensed wisdom to him and then stole his girlfriend.
