Scott Baio announced he’s leaving Hollywood and California behind.

[quote]The homelessness is out of control and he blames liberals and is done with it.

That and he can live off whatever he makes from the sale in a state like Idaho...

Into further obscurity

Idaho has beautiful parts.

Hollywood left him behind a long time ago!

These guys always come back - they're just grifting. Now he can go on 500 right wing podcasts to rant all the same tired talking points about this shit. He is irrelevant and broke.

Or running for office in an area he knows he can win. Look at that picture.

Florida welcomes him!

Horrible person. Buh-bye.

However will Californians and Hollywood deal with the loss?

[quote]Scott Baio announced he’s leaving Hollywood and California behind

Who?

The woman next to him is pretty in an android/stepford wife way. Is it Nicole Kidman?

I'm surprised he still has any money left. He married such a disgusting woman

He's right about the homeless situation in Los Angeles. I've never seen anything like it.

R13 San Francisco also has it bad.

The homelessness in NY and Vegas is terrible too

Visit Portland

Who cares, Scott. Move your rock to Idaho and then crawl back under it. Buy-bye.

San Francisco is absolutely terrifying. I haven’t been to Vegas, LA in two years so I don’t know how they compare. Family just got back from Portland and they were horrified.

Crying as I type.

Later, Chachi.

[quote]The woman next to him is pretty in an android/stepford wife way. Is it Nicole Kidman?

It must be a Charles In Charge” reunion because that’s Willie Aames on the far right, and the woman is Josie Davis who played Sarah on the show.

Look all the way to the right in OP’s pic. Is that Josh Brolin in a red wig and glasses playing some kind of bizarre “granny”part? Freaky….

A bit OT but when a tiny starter home is at least 500K, homelessness increasing is pretty much guaranteed. I don’t know the answer, and I’ll bet Scott Baio knows even less. This has been going on since the economic crisis of 2008 finished.

[quote]Look all the way to the right in OP’s pic. Is that Josh Brolin in a red wig and glasses playing some kind of bizarre “granny”part? Freaky….

See R21. It’s a bald Willie Aames. The “red wig” is just an odd shadow.

The city of Portland gives out free tents to homeless.

All cities are seeing a homelessness problem but it’s really bad in certain ones. I heard Portland is bad now too. Vegas strip is getting scary

I just saw a listing for a 1 bedroom condo in NYC for $225K. It's in Queens, but only 5 minutes from the subway. All these people that can't afford $500K starter homes can just move to Queens, because we have plenty of apartments available at reasonable prices.

R27 lmao no.

Who?

[quote][R27] lmao no.

Fine. Then don't ever complain about homelessness ever again, when real, affordable solutions are available.

[quote]San Francisco is absolutely terrifying.

SHRIEK!!!

$225k for a tiny one bedroom isn’t a great deal. People have been conditioned to think that’s a good deal when it isn’t. I’m looking it up now and A. It’s very few apartments at that price and B. They’re TINY.

And what does a $225k apartment have to do with homelessness? You think a homeless person can afford that? Most working people can’t.

Even $250,000 is difficult for the average person. 10% down means $25,000. Who has that in savings, a few years after college?

Oh, that's too bad.

He'll truly be missed.

How will Hollywood recover?

Leaving California is grifting? How does that work, exactly

[quote] The homelessness is out of control and he blames liberals and is done with it.

That’s code for “It’s not my responsibility to help those in need. I’m sick of looking at them. Not that kind of Christian. I’m outta here.”

Portland has activists running around town setting up empty tents for the homeless to move into. Multnomah County has given out 20,000 free tents for our newly arrived mentally-Ill drug-addled zombies in the past few years. There's a new tent agglomeration metastasizing on my street this week, a huge pile of trash and stolen bike parts clumped up around it.

Exactly, r37.

It's over, I no longer love Chachi.

Joni is dead.

Bye Bitch!

He's right. Every city with homeless, financial, and crime problems are run by Liberals. NYC mayor Eric Adams complains migrants are being sent to cities run by blacks. So sad, too bad, Eric. Blame Sanctuary cities, created by Democrats.

I think it's sad that he actually thinks anybody gives a shit.

Run by blacks? R43 where did he say this?

2031...Scott introduces himself to the Christofascist group to become their leader. He says he was a tv star.

Noboby believes him.

[quote]Joni

Oh, dear.

Drive-by troll post, r43?

Oh FFS R43, most cities are run by liberals. Further, there's several reasons why the homeless problem is highly skewed to the West Coast: the weather, generous (comparatively) benefits, and red states across the nation buy one-way bus tickets as their solution.

But nice conflation of sanctuary cities with homelessness. You deserve the Frank Luntz award for most disingenuous comment of the day!

FIRST, Amber Turd and NOW Chachi!!!

OH, THE HU-MANATEE!!!

First the writers strike and now this. Hollywood is having a rough week

Get thy ass to Florida

In fllyovdrstan, $225k gets you a house with a backyard, and neighbors who probably have savings accounts. And you can probably walk to businesses that aren’t just nail salons and liquor stores. Everyone’s fat though so DLers will fit right in.

Flyoverstan*

Upper class areas of “flyover” states usually don’t have many fat people.

Hollywood is losing top names in its talent pool - yesterday it was Amber Heard, today its Scott Baio. Who will announce next ? Rumer Willis ? Todd Bridges ?

This is worst than the writer's strike !

R47 you beat me to it in correcting R40 and R41 but you forgot to add "you fat whores!"

Joanie is DEAD. Sorry for breaking the news to you this way.

Antonio Sabato Jr. also left Hollywood/California in 2020 I believe.

[quote]Upper class areas of “flyover” states usually don’t have many fat people.

🙄

This a plus for California.

But the homeless issue is out of control. They still don’t have any plan to remedy the situation.

the average HOUSEHOLD doesn't even have 500 dollars in savings between everyone, let alone the average person having 25k to put down on a condo. affordable solutions my ass. the haves in this country are utterly delusional.

R61 you are right. I know someone who makes great money and lives in a nice apartment in Manhattan and eats out every fucking meal and only at nice places that cost $$$. She won’t do an average place. Has to be nice where she is being served. She speaks of people who can’t afford her lifestyle as lazy and pathetic. Someone once mentioned something to her about the pizza place she likes is too expensive and she went on a rant about how they need to work harder etc. it’s not her fault they don’t work hard enough to afford the things she does. It rubbed me the wrong way because many of these people who can’t afford her lifestyle work very hard to get by. My mother is a teacher who busts her ass and deals with awful children and their awful parents all year long but can’t afford that lifestyle. That doesn’t mean she isn’t a hard worker etc.

r48 ...

NY Post, r63? Quel surprise.

I keep waiting for his old VH1 reality show to come bite him in the ass. He was so openly horrible. Racist, homophobic, sexist, abusive and gross. But i guess I was the only one who saw it

I think he’s so far-off the radar that no one cares r65. If he ever becomes relevant again in a mainstream platform then people may actually look into things. Gen Z loves finding things. 🙄

Wait, Scott Baio is still alive??

R61 Can we retire the word 'delusional' from our vocabulary ? 'Delusional' and 'Deluded' no longer have any meaning since they are so overused the past few years - just like the word 'Amazing'. If something is not described as 'amazing' then it's described as 'delusional'. Neither word carries any weight any more in 2023.

Awesome, r68.

It's no wonder Nicole Eggert and Alex Polinsky didn't join Scott and Co. on that float or whatever they're on in the OP pic. They've both publicly taken Scott to task for his abusive, predatory and homophobic behavior on the set of Charles in Charge.

I'm sad for what Scott Baio became, but when I was a wee gayling dear God was he hot. His cover shot on Dynamite Magazine stirred feelings in me that I did not understand.

Charles in Charge was in the late 80s into early 90s. Everything and everyone was homophobic

He signed his own death warrant at the RNC

R62, is she a family member? Even people with money wouldn’t waste it on crap like that. She sounds incredibly tacky and transparent. A miserable shallow cunt.

R74 she’s not family. Not a friend so much either as much as a mutual through others. She is very shallow, but i wouldn’t say is wasting money because she works “hard” and makes a lot so her money spent makes no difference to her.

There are a lot of people out there with that mentality, sadly.

How WILL California cope?

Somehow we will, r76...

R65 I watched his reality show. Cured any last bit of old Chachi/Charles crush I had left in me from my childhood. He is repellent.

Has anyone seen my upper lip?

R62, I wish there were more people in the world like you.

In regard to Flyoverstan, that's my home, and it's certainly cheaper than NYC and other big cities, but you're still looking at 1100 a month for a studio or 1BR, which for most working people means roommates, who of course bring their own horrors. For middle-class people, especially singles, it's a high enough % of after-tax income to be pretty stressful. I'm talking no car, delayed health care, and home haircuts. (Okay. That last one isn't a big deal....)

In short, it's just tough everywhere. So little affordable housing; so many SCUMBAGS like Baio who refuse to see what the real problem is.

R80 there was a girl on TikTok crying because it’s expensive everywhere. She lives in a small town in TX that has nothing, you have to travel to get to the closest Walmart etc. and they raised her rent for a 1BR to $1600. She didn’t know what she’s gonna do. She kept emphasizing she lives in the middle of NOTHING, like 2 hours outside of San Antonio and they were hiking rents even there.

R71 Did you tell your priest, minister, rabbi, youth minister, YMCA cam counselor, gym teacher or any hunky elder about the feelings he stirred up in you ?

If you think Portland and San Francisco are scary then you need to get out more. There are TONS of places in the US (including places in the red states) that are way more violent

Has anyone been in downtown Austin lately? Huge, aggressive homeless problem.

I’ll alert the mailman to forward all the script offers from Spielberg and Scorsese.

R43, the red states are poorer and have more crime than the blue states. Take care of your own problems, hon. Maybe focus on those loose gun laws and the brain drain that's happening because doctors don't want to live in anti-choice states like Idaho

r64 If the same word-for-word story were The New York Times, you'd demand a Noble prize for the reporter. The Post didn't "make up" his comments. His statement was seen on every New York television during his press conference

He’s probably heading to the southern fried racist Christian networks. Podcasts etc.

Is he also done with being a TWO BIT actor

I'm sure there are plenty people in California who'll be happy to see the back of him.

R90 I agree - he always had a cute ass.

R68 No

[quote]If the same word-for-word story were The New York Times, you'd demand a Noble prize for the reporter.

Oh bless your heart, r87.

Here’s the thing: the affluent and middle class hate the homelessness problem.

Those same people fight affordable housing construction. NIMBY. And when they gentrify neighborhoods that were once working class, they’re creating more unhoused people.

I’m sure everyone will be so sad to see him go

R95.

People looking for housing don't "gentrify" a neighborhood, the general economy, greater population, market forces and maybe landlords do that.

By the way, neighborhoods don't belong to people just because they're poor, or once lived there. Everyone wants to live in the nicest, safest place they can afford, and just because you used to live here decades ago for less, it doesn't mean it's yours or that anyone needs to ask your permission to live there now!

Writers on strike, and now on top of this Hollywood will become bereft of this in-demand giant of an acting talent too? You're a cruel man, Scott.

I thought he lives in Calabasas?

No homeless there. At least not in all the gated communities.

100!

This is what conservatives love to do. They brag about having to leave because an area is changing. “Yay, I get to live in Idaho now. That’ll own the libs!”

I cant imagine the residual checks a month any more than USD $30.00........

Blah blah blah. He’ll be back.

[quote]Leaving California is grifting? How does that work, exactly

I think the poster above was saying that Baio will probably get a new right-wing gig complaining about California, Hollywood, liberals, the woke mob, etc.

How generous of him! Maybe they can move a homeless person into his Hyde City studio apartment.

That he can't afford.

On his Charles in charge residuals.

Truth be known, he's probably leaving because he can't afford LA anymore. I hope he has a lot of equity in his home there. If he's moving to Idaho he'll be in good company with all the racists who've fled there from LA. It's well known that Idaho is where all the racist cops from LA retire to.

R93, is that the only thing your pea brain can come up with?

He doesn't need to be anywhere near Hollywood. It's not like he has a career there.

Who?

"I'm leaving Hollywood!" "You're still alive?"

Maybe he can move into Erin Moran's old trailer park.

I think he had a smart uncle who helped him invest in real estate back when he actually made money.

California weeps.

Don't let the door hit ya.

A well-off husband and husband I know moved to Florida from New York because high taxes, Now they have to put up with DeSantis. From frying pan into the fire.

[quote]the affluent and middle class hate the homelessness problem...Those same people fight affordable housing construction. NIMBY.

I saw a story a couple of days ago about a woman and her husband who got new remote jobs in Silicon Valley, sold their home and moved to Las Vegas. The wife was upset because the new job ended their remote-only policy and informed her that she had to be in the office 3 days a week, so she was flying back and forth. She then mentioned that the people who bought their house were suing them because they didn't disclose that a homeless shelter was being built next door and the value of the home declined by $200,000 the moment the shelter was announced. She didn't mention whether they knew the shelter project was in the works, but you have to wonder due to the timing of the sale/move and announcement; it's one of those things to which neighbors would be keenly attuned. Should the new owners suck it up? Or should the previous owners be forced to refund some of the purchase price?

Scott, nooooooo!

If people like this can stop coming here...

Is Chachi homeless? Does he do anything to help the situation...donate, volunteer at a soup kitchen, etc?

Don't let the door hit ya, babe.

I understand him. Southern California can be hellishly expensive when you're chronically underemployed.

Maybe move out of America while you're at it Scott. No one wants you here, unless it's Trump and DeSantis.

He's a gindaloon from Brooklyn. Isn't he supposed to be moving to FL?

He’s selling his house.