Rita Wilson’s reuqests for Tom Hanks
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Rita Wilson reflected on only learning her dad had had another family before he moved to the United States after he died in 2009: “I wish I could have talked to him about that.”
Darius Rucker sits in for Bob Harris as he takes a short break, and his guest this week is singer, songwriter, actress and producer Rita Wilson, celebrating the release of her new album "Sound Of A Woman",
Rita Wilson was surprised to learn that her late father, Allan Wilson, had a second life away from her family. “I did this English show, Who Do You Think You Are?, and usually in those genealogy shows,
Wilson’s father “never said anything,” she recalled, about the wife and child he lost in Bulgaria after WWII
The Brady Bunch aired from 1969 to 1974. Wilson, meanwhile, made guest appearances on shows including M*A*S*H, Three's Company and Bosom Buddies (which starred her future husband Tom Hanks ). In 1985, she co-starred with Hanks and John Candy in Volunteers; they married three years later.