30 years later, what happened to Tracy Gold, a teenager What’s New, Doctor?

After more than 30 years, what’s new, Doctor? (Growing Pains in VO)., An overview of the fortunes and career of Tracy Gold, who played Carol Seaver.

Tracy Gold started her career at the age of four by appearing in a Pepsi commercial. After a few appearances on the small screen, she auditioned for the role of little Carol Seaver on the sitcom What’s New, Doctor?. Unfortunately, she is not selected and it is Elizabeth Ward who takes it.

But the public response to this first episode was so bad that it was not aired, and Tracy Gold was called back to replace Elizabeth Ward, whose scenes were filmed. We see Ward again in the police station scene, in the background. What’s more, his sequences are included in the bonuses of the American DVD release.

Gold joins a main cast of Alan Thicke, Joanna Kearns, Jeremy Miller, Ashley Johnson and Kirk Cameron, 53, who joined an evangelical Christian organization after the series. Leonardo DiCaprio will appear in episode 24 of season 7 as Luke Brower, a somewhat “wild” teenager.

what’s up doc became a major television success, airing from 1985 to 1992 on ABC. In France, it aired on Antenne 2 from 1987 and was then broadcast. During the production, teenager Tracy Gold struggles with anorexia. In his autobiography Room to Grow: An Appetite for LifeHe confided that in early 1992, he was taken to the hospital because his thinness worried those around him and the team of the series.

Under medical supervision, he is absent from the final season 6 episodes (S07E15, 16 then 18, 19, 20 and 21). However, he returned in the final three, albeit still very weakened.

The streak ends and Tracy Gold has time to finish her recovery. When she returned to the screens, it was in a TV movie in which she starred, La Détresse invisible (1994), in which she played an anorexia victim struggling to survive. In the late 1990s, he starred in many television films.

Back to “What’s going on, Doctor?”

On November 5, 2000, she reprized the role of Carol Seaver in What’s New, Doctor? – A movie, a TV movie that combines What’s New, Doctor? and its sequel, Growing Pains: Return of the Seas (2004). TV movies then follow each other with a less sustained pace and more forgettable themes.

Aside from a few appearances on reality TV shows (she won the 24th season of America’s Worst Chef in 2022), Tracy Gold hasn’t appeared in a fictional film since 2016. She is a mother of four and continues to raise awareness. The issue of anorexia and eating disorders in general.