seventh Heaven actor Jeremy London involves the protection of Stephen Collins in Hollywood Demons, an Investigation Discovery sequence premiering Monday that guarantees to “give attention to totally different scandals and tragedies” in Tinseltown.
The primary episode of the six-episode sequence focuses on Collins, who admitted again in 2014 that he sexually assaulted three underaged women however was by no means charged. London, who performed a minister on the drama that aired on the WB and CW from 1996 to 2007, spoke to ID about his reminiscences working with the actor.
“What I seen about Stephen Collins working with younger women and extras is that I by no means seen a rattling factor about Stephen Collins working with younger women and extras,” mentioned London. “He by no means crossed any strains of any type.”
London joined seventh Heaven for the seventh and eighth seasons to play Chandler Hampton, a younger minister who briefly fills in for Collins’ Reverend Eric Camden.
“Stephen Collins was most definitely America’s dad,” London says within the ID episode. “I imply I wished him to be my dad. I nonetheless need him to be my dad … no matter, one thing occurred, I don’t know what occurred. You’re messing with someone I really like and care about, and to see anyone messing with him, it nonetheless makes my blood boil.”
Final yr, seventh Heaven stars Beverley Mitchell, David Gallagher and Mackenzie Rosman launched a rewatch podcast Catching Up with the Camdens. They prefaced the pilot episode with a disclaimer about their TV dad.
“Earlier than we get into this episode, we wish you to know that we see all your feedback and we all know how excited you all are for the rewatch, in order that’s precisely what we’re going to do,” mentioned Mitchell. “However earlier than we get into that we do suppose it’s essential that we are saying one thing about Stephen Collins.”
In October of 2014, TMZ posted an audio recording that gave the impression to be Collins confessing to sexual conduct with a number of minors. That December, he admitted in a press release to Folks that he sexually assaulted three underaged women.
Subsequent episodes of Hollywood Demons give attention to former little one actors Brian Bonsall (Household Ties) and Dee Jay Daniels (The Hughleys), the Mighty Morphin Energy Rangers, The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills’s Taylor Armstrong, the Von Erich wrestling dynasty, and celeb stalkers.
Hollywood Demons will air weekly starting March 24 from 9-11pm ET/PT on ID and might be obtainable to stream on Max.
