Judith Light Says She and Tony Danza Still Text 'to This Day,' 34 Years After “Who's The Boss?”
Judith Light Says She and Tony Danza Still Text 'to This Day,' 34 Years After “Who's The Boss?”
Virginia ChamleeFri, June 19, 2026 at 8:36 PM UTC
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Judith Light says her bond with Tony Danza grew stronger throughout their time on Who's the Boss?
The 1980s sitcom told the story of a single dad working as a live-in housekeeper
It aired for eight seasons and centered around a single dad and former pro baseball player (Danza) who takes a job as a live-in housekeeper for a powerful ad executive (Light)
Judith Light is sharing details of her continued closeness with Tony Danza, 34 years after their hit sitcom, Who's the Boss? went off the air.
Speaking on a recent episode of Really Famous with Kara Mayer Robinson, 77-year-old Light said of her relationship with Danza, 75: "You know how when like people who talk about long-running series, and they say at the end they like couldn't wait to get away from everybody? That wasn't so for us."
"Our dynamic — we loved each other more at the end than we did in the beginning," Light added. "Our relationship was better at the end than it was in the beginning. I mean, we really worked on it. We developed it. We communicated with each other."
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Angela (Judith Light) and Tony (Tony Danza) in Who's The Boss?Credit: Craig Sjodin/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty
She continued: "It was a really strong bond. And we still text each other to this day."
Light added that she recently texted her longtime friend happy birthday wishes.
The 1980s domestic comedy helped put fairly progressive content — for its time — into prime time, as it was centered around a single dad and former pro baseball player (Danza) who takes a job as a live-in housekeeper for a powerful ad executive (Light).
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Lasting 196 episodes across eight seasons, the show was a 10-time Emmy nominee (winning once for lighting).
In June 2022, Deadline reported that a Who's the Boss? sequel was in development at Amazon Freevee and would pick up 30 years after the original's 1992 finale.
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However, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed in October 2024 that plans for the sequel would not move forward.
Speaking on the podcast, Light acknowledged "they have tried" to develop a sequel but added: "it did not really go anywhere."
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