“Only for your protection,” the TV veteran said.
Zoe Winkler, 44, almost did reality TV in its early days.
“Do you remember when I was in the running to beThe Bachelorette?”
Zoe Winkler and dad Henry Winkler photographed in 2022.Stefanie Keenan/Getty
she asked her dad on Wednesday’s episode of her podcast,What in the Winkler?!
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“Oh, my goodness, and we put a stop to that,” he answered.
“But only your protection.”
“There wasn’t even that much reality TV out.
It was justThe Real World,” Zoe said.
“And me, Kim, and Sarah Howard were asked to be on a show calledQuarter-Life Crisis.”
Since Zoe had just finished college, she was living at home at the time.
The producer encountered the senior Winkler, who still remembered exactly what he said.
“I said, ‘It is so lovely that you’re here.
I can suggest some really good restaurants.
My daughter is not doing your show.'”
She was “born to do that,” the elder Winkler said.
Reality TV “was so not the right thing for you to do in your life.
It would have just perverted your trajectory.
I really believe that.”
She was surprised when the producer later walked into her classroom, because she was teaching his child.
