There are many secrets about Ted Danson that the public doesn't know.
5 Things You Don't Know About Ted Danson — From Working After Age 70 to His Passion About Saving the Planet
1. Ted Danson's Parents Bought Their First TV When He Starred on 'Cheers'
"My mother didn’t like [televisions],” he shared. “They put kind of this beautiful tapestry over the front of it, so when you walked in their house, you didn’t see a TV, you saw this beautiful tapestry with a candle on top, and they would take it off and watch Cheers."
2. He Is Passionate About Preserving Our Oceans
Danson is a champion of the charity Oceana. “Our focus is fishing, overfishing, making sure that the fisheries of the world are healthy,” he said. “Because if done right, you could feed a billion people a fish meal every day.”
3. He Got Marriage Right the Third Time
"Mary Steenburgen is, you know, literally heaven-sent,” he said of his actress wife. “We are so blessed. To love somebody and to be loved is just one of those heaven-on-earth miracles, you know? And that came with Mary."
4. Ted Danson's New Show, 'A Man on the Inside,' Is About Embracing Life
"This is your life. You get to live right up until you don’t live,” Danson, who plays a retired professor who goes undercover at a nursing home on A Man on the Inside, said. “It’s your life. It’s such a gift. Explore it and be excited about it. Yes, it hurts. Yes, it’s sad. Yes, there’s grief. Yes, there’s all of that. But embrace it."
5. He Still Wants to Work
“I can’t imagine retiring,” Danson, 76, said. “I really enjoy what I’m doing. I’m sure there’ll be a time when I should gracefully bow out, but that ain’t now.”