When we last pondered the prospect of Tony Danza — star of TV’s Who’s The Boss and man for whom we just made the Philebrity dot only as big as it needed to be — the tenor of the discussion leaned towards: Really? See, what brings Tony to Philly is the prospect of an A&E reality show in which he teaches high school kids in the Philadelphia school district. Many of you pointed out what was wrong with that. For one, we have no reason to believe that Tony can speak English. For two, what of the real teachers out there that are available and weren’t on Taxi? No matter. Mayor Nutter has waved all of those concerns aside, given Tony permission to teach in the School District of Philadelphia (he’s in new teacher training as we speak) and it would seem that the show has been green-lit. (On the plus side, the School District will get $3,500 for each episode shot.) What’s more, it would seem that Tony will be walking among us, if he isn’t already. Sources tell us that Danza is the newest tenant in the Piazza At Schmidt’s in Northern Liberties, site of Philebrity’s 4th of July Party and that other unpleasantness. So polish up your Tweet-thumbs, folks: It’s only a matter of time before you’re standing at the urinal next to Tony in The Swift Half. Remember what we said about that dot.

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 13th, 2009 at 10:46 am.