How many children do Gretchen Bonaduce and Danny have together?”
By his own account, Danny Bonaduce grew up in a dysfunctional family, with physical and emotional abuse from his father. He achieved early fame at the age of ten in the television series The Partridge Family, starring as Danny Partridge. Bonaduce’s wisecracking Danny was a constant bane of the family’s manager, played by Dave Madden. Bonaduce has said that he owes a lot to Madden, who took him into his home during his family’s domestic strife. He also had a close relationship with co-star Shirley Jones. However, following the end of the series, Bonaduce’s late teens and twenties saw drug abuse and a period of homelessness. In 1985, Bonaduce married real estate agent Setsuko Hattori. They divorced in 1988. On November 4, 1990, Bonaduce met his second wife, Gretchen Hillmer, on a blind date and the two were married the same day. The actor has credited Gretchen with building up his diminished self-image, which had been assailed by both chemical abuse and an arrest for assaulting a male tr
Gretchen Bonaduce is in the news as she was declared the winner of the Fox Reality Channel’s “Gimme My Reality Show”. She will start filming “Reinventing Bonaduce” in early 2009. Meanwhile, her divorce from Danny Bonaduce is now final. The two were married for 18 years. Danny has been ordered to pay Gretchen $16,000 a month for spousal and child support. Together they had two children, and will have joint custody of them. Gretchen Bonaduce Biography As a biography, Gretchen Hillmer Bonaduce was born on September 24, 1965 in Waukegan, Illinois, so her age is 43. She lived in Phoenix booking psychics on various radio stations in the Valley of the Sun and it was there that she met her future husband, Danny Bonaduce. A blind date with him led to them marrying seven hours later. Gretchen and Danny have two children – 14-year-old Isabella and 10-year-old Dante. Their family appeared on VH1’s Breaking Bonaduce, where the show followed Danny in his quest to stay sober. Music has always been on
