Alan Thicke's Face All Pucked Up
Alan Thicke took one for the team yesterday.
Giving a whole new meaning to "face-off," the Canadian-born TV actor lost five teeth when an errant puck slammed into his chiseled mug while he was on the ice in Burbank playing hockey.
Surgeons had to sew Thicke's face back together with 30 stitches.
Best known for playing sage sitcom father Jason Seaver on Growing Pains, the 56-year-old was training for an upcoming celebrity charity game to benefit New York City police and fire departments.
Thicke, who also plays on the NHL Celebrity All-Star Team, was playing alongside teammate Michael Vartan (Alias) on Wednesday when the puck hit, and he admits he wasn't wearing proper headgear.
"I should know better," he says, "especially since I lecture kids all the time about hockey safety and equipment."
No word on who hit the fateful shot that mangled Thicke's puss, but given the damage it's unlikely he'll be shooting any Growing Pains reunions any time soon--or anything else for that matter.
"I won't be playing any leading men roles in the next couple of months," Thicke cracked.
He reprised the role of papa Seaver in a successful ABC Growing Pains reunion movie three years ago--though the show's most successful alum, Leonardo DiCaprio, was (go figure) a no-show.
Thicke is currently recuperating at his Santa Barbara home and "trying to stay calm, cool and collected and as painless as possible," says spokesman Jerry Digney.
While Thicke's not camera-ready, the injuries won't stop him from kicking off a national tour to "publicize several new books," according to his rep, including a revised edition of his first literary effort, How Men Have Babies: The Pregnant Father's Survival Guide, originally published in 1999--right around the time his second wife, Miss World Gina Tolleson, filed for divorce.






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