Here’s What “Bobby Brady” of The Brady Bunch Is Up To These Days

If you enjoy watching YouTube videos about what your favorite actors are up to these days, then this might just be your lucky day. If you love The Brady Bunch, Inside Edition recently caught up with a few child stars from decades ago, that includes Mike Lookinland who played “Bobby” on The Brady Bunch.

Even though we haven’t seen much of him lately, it turns out that Mike has been through quite a lot in the years after his time on the show.

Mike, as previously reported by People, had a difficult time after the show ended. Gladly, he overcame his troubles and ended up marrying his high school girlfriend. He now has two sons. Mike is now 60 years old and is doing very well.

During the Q&A with Mike Lookinland with DeseretNews back in 2019, he shared that contrary to popular belief, his favorite Bobby Brady moment on “The Brady Bunch” isn’t the classic scene where Bobby tosses his good suit in a washing machine along with a full box of detergent and ends up getting lost in a neck-high sea of soap suds.

But he said that he gets a good laugh thinking about it. He joked, “Either they didn’t print instructions on the boxes back then or Bobby didn’t know how to read.”

Instead, he said that he most enjoyed the rare moments when he got to leave “The Brady Bunch” set. He said, “The times when we got to do something different for once, instead of just putting on our jeans and T-shirts, and stand on your mark and say your lines,” Lookinland told the Deseret News. “It’s very expensive to gear up and get off the lot and go on location somewhere, and very expensive and the Brady budget, those were two things that did not go together. So we almost never left the set.”

He also spoke with the Deseret News about the show’s impact, the life of a child star, and leaving Hollywood behind.

When asked about the challenges that he had to face after the show ended, he shared, “I can say in retrospect that my move to Utah at the age of 17, having just graduated from high school, was an attempt to run away and get away, because, in 1978, Utah wasn’t as established as it is now. It wasn’t on the map like it is now.”

He added, “It turned out to work in my favor, but I wouldn’t have told you that at that time. I wanted to get out of L.A., get away from agents and managers and Hollywood, and just be a kid in the mountains. I went to the University of Utah and met my wife while we were both attending the U., and put down roots and haven’t even thought about going anywhere else.”

He further explained, “That’s how much we like it here. And now there’s a lot of people that understand the quality of life and the cost of living (here). Even during the worst part of the recession in 2009, Utah really didn’t suffer all that much. My business certainly didn’t. And I think one of the reasons is because it’s a good place run well by good people.”

Mike Lookinland left Hollywood to pursue a career in countertop construction. He now owns and runs a company called “Just Add Water” in Midvale, Utah. During his interview once with Oprah, he shared that the job was perfect for him. He also said that even at the young age of eight, he knew that nothing in the entertainment industry is real.