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- Little Home on the Prairie alum Patrick Labyorteaux recalled how followers as soon as swarmed his youthful brother Matthew at a Renaissance truthful
- Patrick recalled the “nightmare” expertise on The Patrick LabyorSheaux, and the way he needed to save Matthew from the gang of younger followers
- Matthew had performed Albert Quinn Ingalls on the NBC Western drama from 1976 to 1983
Matthew Labyorteaux endured fairly a memorable fan expertise throughout his Little Home on the Prairie days.
On a current episode of The Patrick LabyorSheaux, Matthew’s older brother and host Patrick Labyorteaux appeared again on the duo’s time as teen celebrities starring on the hit TV present within the Seventies and early ’80s. Matthew and Patrick grew to become family names for his or her portrayals of Albert Ingalls and Andrew “Andy” Garvey, respectively.
They recounted a time once they visited a Renaissance truthful being held on the Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills, Calif., alongside actor Al Eisenmann.
Admittedly, Al wasn’t an enormous fan of Patrick’s little brother tagging alongside on their outing and commenced referring to him as his Little Home on the Prairie character, Albert, to poke little jabs.
After they obtained to the grounds, Patrick recalled operating in the direction of “The Kissing Bridge,” which concerned boys standing on the bridge in hopes of getting a kiss from a lady. Patrick stated that since Matthew was youthful, he wasn’t all for attempting to snag a smooch like he and Al have been, and as a substitute Matthew left to get a large turkey leg.
“We see ladies across the corners of the Kissing Bridge, kinda checking us out,” Patrick defined. “[But] nothing is going on, and I see my brother together with his turkey leg. That is not horny, ladies do not like guys consuming turkey legs.”
Patrick continued, “We head throughout, and I see this terrified look on Al’s face. He factors behind me and he goes, ‘Albert down! Albert down!’ I flip round and my brother, in the course of the Kissing Bridge, is surrounded by ladies eager to kiss [the boy who plays] Albert [Ingalls]. He is nonetheless attempting to carry the turkey leg and he is getting kissed by all these ladies.”
Although he would have cherished to change locations, Patrick stated “it was a nightmare” for Matthew.
“Al’s going, ‘Albert down! Albert down!’ and we run in there like a army squad getting him out to security,” Patrick says of rescuing his brother Matthew. “No man left behind, and no turkey leg left behind!”
Patrick says he was targeted on getting Matthew off the bridge, whereas Al, however, was attempting his finest to sneak some kisses in the course of the frenzy.
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“But it surely was a really traumatic expertise for my brother that he needed to work out all by himself, consuming a turkey leg, as a result of Al and I have been off to the opposite a part of the Renaissance truthful,” Patrick concluded.
Little Home on the Prairie is streaming on Peacock.
