Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Where are they now? Willie Aames Edition
Willie Aames
(According to Wikipedia)
is an actor best known for the roles of Buddy Lembeck on Charles in Charge, the film Zapped!, Tommy Bradford on Eight is Enough and the voice of Hank on the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons. He also hosted a game show The Krypton Factor from 1990-91.
WHERE IS HE NOW?
From 1995 to 2004, he starred in a video series and annual touring performances as the Christian superhero Bibleman, although he has since retired from the role.
In 2005, he appeared on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club 2, where he lost 19 pounds. Aames is one of the more notorious contestants to appear on the show, after a huge blow-up with the trainer, Drill Instructor Harvey Walden IV. Aames gained weight at several of the show's weigh ins, but still managed to lose 10.2% of his body weight. Since appearing on the show, Aames has found a passion for hunting, and has his own hunting program on TV. Aames started Fit Club at 187 lbs, and finished the show at 168 lbs, but, subsequently gained back all of the weight climbing to 191 lbs. Aames appeared on Celebrity Fit Club 6: Boot Camp, where he lost 26 lbs for a total of 165 lbs. He won the individual prize.
Aames struggled with drugs and alcohol for over twenty years.[1] He became a born–again Christian about three months before he married his second wife, Maylo McCaslin, and purchased a house in Bolivar, Missouri.
Aames resides in Olathe, Kansas, with second wife Maylo McCaslin.
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