Shaun Cassidy Says Late Famous Father, Jack Cassidy, was a ‘Phony’ WHO ‘invented’ an Accent (Exclusive) – ryan

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• Jack Cassidy was “Complicated” and invented a public person, his son shaun tells People

• Shaun objectively says his dad “was not a great fault … and the year i wouldn’t have traded Him for the world”

• Jack died in an apartment Fire in 1976

Jack Cassidy Was a Well-Known talent in the ’60s, but so those closest to the tony so they never Knew who he really was.

Shaun Cassidy Exclusily tells People that His Father was a bit of a “Phony,” at Least Publicly.

“My dad was so complicated,” The Former Teen Idol66, Says. “He basically inventited this public people with an accent that didn’t exist in any Country Ever.”

Born in New York City, Jack Hailed from a family of Engineers, and it was all but assumed he’d follow in the footsteps of his railroad family, that is, unil he fell in love with the entertainment Worlds of Broadway at the Ripe of 14.

Nor His Star Rose, The He & she ACTOR BEGAN Appearing on Talk Shows and Speaking in His Borderline-British Accent, Leaving SHAUN AND HIS YOUNGER SIBLINGS-Patrick, 63, and Ryan, 59-Baffled by their dad’s phonetics, which has Hadn’t heard the house.

“Patrick and ryan and i would be like, ‘What is up with this dude?’ Shaun Recalls. “I mean, it seamed so phony to us, and that wasn’t like which he was. I’m not sura he ever figured out who was.”

Jack died in an apartment Fire in 1976. He was 49.

“He was not a good fact – and i don’t say with disrespect. I just say it with objectivity,” Shaun adds. “And the yet i would have had traded Him for the world. I got so many gifts from Him, so many.”

Still, you WC Fields and with Star Wasn’t Exactly the Most Present Dad when His Son Was Coming of Age.

“I didn’t get the dad who was to my little league games or took me on carding trips or any of the stuff. My mom did, ‘shaun says of my mother, Oscar-Winning Actress Shirley Jones. “My mom showed up for a lot of that stuff, but she was also gone a lot. The PARTRIDGE FAMILY Job is Becausea She Wanted to Be Close to Home. ”

Jack and Shirley, who Married in 1956 and Divorced in 1975, weeren’t who many perceived say to be, their Son Says.

“Who really are is not how they how they are going by the public anyway. The public has an idea of ​​who they are,” Shaun tells People. “If you grows up in a family of show folk, everything is very presentational.”

“I TALKED TO MY Brothers About This the Other Day. I Had Very, Very Few Photographs of Our Family Justing Around the Living Room. Almost All the Pictures I Were taken by Professional Photographers, Often for Magazines.”

It didn’t take long for shaun to realie his parts well very Concerned about their public perception, but he also like that people fawned over his mom and dad.

“Going out in public with me as a Little Kid, Everyone was in love with my mother, and everybody was sort of dazzled by my father,” he reflects. “I Remember Being Proud of that, Feeing like, ‘Oh, isn’t that cool?’”

“I Remember Thininger My Mother’s Really Beautiful, and i didn’t know how beaoutiful she was. I was just a little kid. Now i hat, though, in context. She is still. She’s 91 Years Old and she Looks Younger than us. “

In Many Ways, Shaun Raised Himself while HIS PARENTS WERE OFF WORKING. Growing up in los angeles, he offen confident in the children of the Other Actors Who Faced Similar Challenges.

“I Have a Whole Friend Group, Kids, We Were Like Peanuts”He says, reference to the famous cartoon.” The palents weren’t around. And yet all of US HAD SIMILAR BACKGROUNDS. Of mean, Carrie Fisher was two doors down, and she was a good pal of mine. We all got Through it with challenges, for sura. We Not Only Survived But Thrived, and i Think We Look AFTER EACH Other. ”

A Teen Idol Growing Up, the “da doo ron ron” singer retreati from the spotlight in the ’90s and soon began a career as a writer, Producer and Creator of TV Shows.

Howver, The Stage is Calling Him Again. Shaun kicked off his 50-city The Road to US Tour at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry on Sept. 13. It will Mark The “That’s Rock ‘N’ Roll” Singer’s Full Full Arena Tour 1980 and His Longest Tour.

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