James Van Der Beek’s youngsters won’t ever know and love Dawson Leery.
The actor, 47, appeared on “The View” Wednesday and revealed that he refuses to let his six youngsters — Olivia, 14, Joshua, 12, Annabel, 10, Emilia, 8, Gwen, 6, and Jeremiah, 3 — watch “Dawson’s Creek.”
“I do not,” he mentioned. “It’s a great show, I love the show, I think other kids can watch it. I don’t think my kids need to watch their dad pretend to go through puberty. That’s my stance on it.”
Van Der Beek, who shares his youngsters with spouse Kimberly, 42, was additionally requested why he thinks the teenager drama collection remains to be in style immediately.
“It was a very well-intentioned show, people really trying to do the right thing and speaking incredibly eloquently about how they were trying to do the right thing,” he mentioned. “I think that seed of good intentions comes through.”
“Dawson’s Creek” aired from 1998 to 2003 on The WB.
The collection launched the careers of Van Der Beek and his co-stars Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson and Michelle Williams.
Busy Phillips, Mary-Margaret Humes, John Wesley Shipp, Mary Beth Peil, Nina Repeta, Kerr Smith and Meredith Monroe additionally starred within the present.
In 2018, the “Dawson’s Creek” solid reunited to seem on the quilt of Leisure Weekly.
“I think we’ve all sort of seen each other over the years, but not everybody all together,” Holmes, 45, mentioned within the interview with the outlet, including, “And never for long enough.”
On “The View,” Van Der Beek additionally opened up about his current colorectal most cancers prognosis.
“It was a shock,” Van Der Beek advised the hosts of the ABC daytime present. “I was in really great cardiovascular shape. I was eating what I thought was healthy, thought I was taking really good care of myself and then, yeah, I got the colonoscopy.”
“He [the doctor] said it is cancer and I think I went into shock,” Van Der Beek added.
The “Varsity Blues” star introduced that he’s battling stage 3 colorectal most cancers originally of November.
The father of six mentioned he acquired his prognosis after noticing a change in bowel habits after which getting a colonoscopy.
Whereas showing on “Good Morning America” on Wednesday, Van Der Beek spoke about how his spouse of 14 years has supported him throughout his well being battle.
“She’s been amazing,” he shared about Kimberly. “She’s really taught me what unconditional love is.”
Van Der Beek additionally mentioned “the beautiful blessing” of his most cancers battle “has been seeing how many people in my life have shown up.”
