In the future that includes adding more producer credits to his résumé. BET’s “Vindicated” is one feather under his cap but more are on the way. He sold a show to Fox that never got done but is confident that he will sell others that will be made.
One role you won’t find Chestnut in is messy personal drama. In the age of social media and FBI-esque bloggers, Chestnut, save for some reported financial hiccups, has remained pretty clean. Not an easy feat for a man who literally has women fawning over him and men ready to play instant BFFs to catch the overflow. He attributes this to being raised right as well as “just not getting caught up into the whole Hollywood of it all. A lot of times people come to Hollywood for three weeks and they have like a new best friend and my thing is I’ve always kept my old friends around,” he explains.
That doesn’t mean the father of two — a boy and girl — is without his own bad habits. Like most men, he is guilty of loving sports way too much. He’s so invested that he spends his Jan. 1 birthday glued in front of the TV to catch all of the games. It’s not just that one day, either. “I love watching football more than any other sport. I sit at home on Sundays and just watch football all day,” he informs.
So far his love of sports isn’t hereditary as far as his son is concerned. “Yes I have coached my son,” he says, with a hint of irony in his voice. “I’m the coach and I used to tell him to go in the game and he didn’t want to go in the game. Most parents have a problem with the coach putting their son in too much. I had a problem with me not being able to put my son in enough,” he smiles. These days, things are looking up as Chestnut reports that “now he’s really developing into a huge sports fan.”
