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Ted Danson<\/a> could not believe women found him attractive during his early days on “Cheers.”<\/p>\n

During a recent episode of his podcast, “Where Everybody Knows Your Name<\/a>,” the 78-year-old actor interviewed “Parent Trap” star, Lisa Ann Walter, and had a surprising answer when she asked him “what happened when you figured out what a hottie you were.”<\/p>\n

“I won’t go back too far because it’s not necessary, but I was the guy who literally I would be, the woman would be standing opposite me naked and I’d be going ‘What?’ I’d look over my shoulder and be like, ‘You mean me?'” he said. “Literally, it took me until the second year of \u2018Cheers\u2019 when I decided, ‘You know what? Keep your mouth shut, Ted.'”<\/p>\n

The actor said that whenever he wasn’t on set and “somebody would say something” about his sex symbol status, he would start to protest, and before catching himself, noting, “I’d have to swallow it.”<\/p>\n

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He went on to say that when anyone would compliment him and tell him “you’re so sexy and so funny,” he attributed it to the show’s decision to hire “very sexy looking women to look at Sam Malone and go, ‘Wow, he’s sexy.'”<\/p>\n

“I got that mantle and I finally learned to keep my mouth shut,” he said.<\/p>\n

Walter later assured Danson that while he may not have been feeling it, “you were selling it,” and it wasn’t just about “the women they put around you.”<\/p>\n

Danson starred as Sam Malone<\/a> on “Cheers” for over 12 years, from 1982 to 1993, a role which earned him two Emmy Awards for lead actor in a comedy.<\/p>\n

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“Cheers” came to an end after 11 seasons when Danson decided to leave the show<\/a> in order to pursue other opportunities, with executives deciding to end the show upon his departure.<\/p>\n

“I was changing for the better and working really hard at that, so I thought, \u2018Might as well jump completely off the cliff,'” Danson shared about his decision to leave the show in an August 2025 episode of the podcast. “And [there was] a little bit of \u2026 \u2018If I don\u2019t leave now, I may not know if I could do anything else, and I want to see if I can do any other stuff.'”<\/p>\n

Following his time on the show, Danson appeared in films such as “Pontiac Moon” and “Saving Private Ryan,” and successful television shows such as, “Becker,” “Damages,” Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”<\/p>\n

Most recently, he introduced himself to a younger audience playing a demon named Michael, in “The Good Place,” a role which earned him three Emmy Award nominations.<\/p>\n

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“I love when 12-year-olds and their parents come up and tell me how much they love watching ‘The Good Place,’<\/i>” Danson told Vanity Fair<\/a> in June 2019. “I\u2019m just really grateful that I got to be part of a show that I think actually, in a wonderful, silly, happy, uplifting way, means something.”<\/p>\n

Danson is currently starring in Netflix’s “Man on the Inside,”<\/a> playing a retired professor who finds a new career as a spy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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