Growing Pains Ben Seaver a Chef

This past weekend the Today Show interviewed the cast of Growing Pains.  While Kirk Cameron found God and procreated, Tracey Gold created her own family and fought public battles with anorexia and DUIs, what was going on with little brother, Ben?

Jeremy Miller, the actor who portrayed Ben Seaver was able to find something more than acting that made him happy, the culinary arts.  The Today Show neglected to have any sort of real indepth interview with any of the cast members and I wasn’t able to find a personal website, but I did discover Former Child Star Central where in 2007 he was living in China.

It seems that the Chinese LOVE Growing Pains.  He is attempting to develop a few projects in Asia including a couple of movies, one incorporating a Dance School and a Chef…still can’t seem to wrap my brain around that one.  He is also trying to come up with a show kind of like East Meets West, in reverse.  Sharing American/Western Cooking Techniques to the Chinese.

Here he is in a 2006 interview on Larry King Live:

MILLER: I’m still acting a little bit, working in China a lot right now.

KING: As?

MILLER: As a chef and an actor.

KING: What?

MILLER: Doing a couple movies out there. I’m kind of combining the two. My two passions in life are cooking and acting. I went to culinary school for a while and have started my own catering company and we’re working on doing a cooking show out in China, trying to do kind of a reverse Martin Yem (ph) thing where I’m going out there and teaching western techniques and American style food to the Chinese people.

KING: Why China?

MILLER: “Growing Pains” has a large popularity out there and weird enough I have a very — a large, large following out there, bigger than I ever could have expected anywhere else. They absolutely adored the show. We were one of only two shows that was on during the ’80s in China. It was the only two American shows that were allowed.

KING: (INAUDIBLE).

MILLER: Yes, that were allowed to be in and people just adored us.

KING: You’d come on like the chefs that come on here on the food channel?

MILLER: That’s what we’re developing right now. It’s not on yet but that’s what we’re developing.

KING: You don’t speak — do you speak Chinese? MILLER: No, very little. I’m picking up common phrases and…

KING: So how do they follow your recipes?

MILLER: We have translators as well as one of my assistants speaks fluent Mandarin and he kind of translates what we’re doing as well.

KING: Are you going to live there for a while?

MILLER: We’re thinking about it, thinking of going out there.

KING: Are you married?

MILLER: I’m engaged.