CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT - FOREVER A BRADY!

HOW EMBRACING HIS PAST HAS LED THE FORMER BRADY BUNCH STAR TO A BUSY AND JOYFUL PRESENT

More than 50 years after he and a group of five fellow child actors and three showbiz vets somehow formed a family, Christopher Knight can’t escape his past as Peter Brady on The Brady Bunch – and that’s just fine with him. “The show was entertainment, but it transcended its initial purpose,” he says. “As often as somebody was watching us because we paralleled their lives, somebody was watching us because they were an only child, and we became their brothers and sisters. I fully respect and enjoy that. It’s an honour.”

After decades in other jobs both on-screen and off – including spending 20 years in the tech world and headlining a successful furniture company – Knight, 64, is back on TV alongside four former castmates – Barry Williams (who played Greg Brady), Mike Lookinland (Bobby), Susan Olsen (Cindy) and Robbie Rist (cousin Oliver) — in People Presents: Blending Christmas, which also stars Haylie Duff and Aaron O’Connell. “It didn’t feel like work,” Knight says of the film, which was shot in Simi Valley, California, not far from Hermosa Beach, where he lives with his wife of five years, former Ms Fitness USA Cara Kokenes, 46. “I say yes to projects that we’re all in because every time we get together, it’s like no time has passed. We’re like a family who live in different states and get together around the holidays.”