The King of Queens: Meet By-Product


07:20 am - 07:45 am, Tuesday, August 18 on Channel 4 (4)

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Meet By-Product
Season 2, Episode 17

Carrie reminisces about meeting Doug, recalling how she was originally paired off with Richie, while he was with her friend Lynn. Donny Osmond guest stars, with Kevin James and Leah Remini


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Cast & Crew

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Kevin James (Actor) .. Doug Heffernan
Leah Remini (Actor) .. Carrie Heffernan
Donny Osmond (Actor) .. Himself
Kara Zediker (Actor) .. Lynn
Larry Romano (Actor) .. Richie Iannucci

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Kevin James (Actor) .. Doug Heffernan
Born: April 26, 1965 in New York
Best Known For: The King of Queens and a string of Hollywood comedies.
Early-life: Born Kevin George Knipfing in New York on April 26, 1965, Kevin is of German ancestry. He has a sister, Leslie, and a brother, comedian Gary Valentine. He attended Cortland University where he played on the American football team while majoring in sports management. He gave up his studies before graduating and returned home. He joined a community theatre and then attended his brother's improv comedy group.
Career: James began doing stand-up and it was on the comedy circuit that he met comedian and actor Ray Romano. He made guest appearances on Ray's sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond, and this led to the development of his own sitcom, The King of Queens, which ran from 1998 to 2007. James made his big-screen debut in 2005 romantic comedy Hitch, alongside Will Smith. Since then he has appeared in a number of comedy films, including I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007), Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009), Grown Ups (2010), Zookeeper (2011), Here Comes the Boom (2012) and Grown Ups 2 (2013).
Quote: 'There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.'
Trivia: James is a big sports fan and supports the New York Knicks, New York Jets and the New York Mets.
Leah Remini (Actor) .. Carrie Heffernan
Born: June 15, 1970 in Brooklyn
Best Known For: The King of Queens.
Early-life: Leah Marie Remini was born in Brooklyn on June 15, 1970 to Vicki and George. She has an older sister, Nicole. Leah moved to Los Angeles at the age of 13 with her mother to pursue an acting career. She made her TV debut in a 1989 edition of sitcom Head of the Class. A character she played on the sitcom Who's the Boss? also transferred to the short-lived spin-off series Living Dolls.
Career: Remini's big break came in 1998 when she was cast alongside Kevin James and Jerry Stiller in long-running sitcom The King of Queens. It ran for nine seasons until 2007. Since it ended, she has had recurring roles on In the Motherhood, Family Tools and The Exes. Away from acting, she was a co-host on daytime talk show The Talk and was a participant in season 17 of Dancing with the Stars. In 2014, she began starring with her husband Angelo Pagan in the reality series Leah Remini: It's All Relative.
Quote: 'I don't mind things being messy but I mind them being dirty. I just can't relax in a dirty environment.'
Trivia: For more than 30 years, Remini was a member of the Church of Scientology. She left in 2013.
Donny Osmond (Actor) .. Himself
Born: December 09, 1957 in Ogden, Utah
Best Known For: A string of 1970s chart hits.
Early-life: Born Donald Clark Osmond on December 9, 1957, in Ogden, Utah, one of Olive and George Osmond's nine children. He was thrust into the public eye at an early age as part of singing clan The Osmonds, making his TV debut the day after his sixth birthday on The Andy Williams Show. Siblings Alan, Jay, Merrill, Jimmy, Wayne and Marie would go on to be some of the biggest musical stars of the 1970s.
Career: In 1972, TV show The Osmonds helped make him a huge star in Britain. The family band enjoyed a string of chart hits, including Crazy Horses, while Donny also had a solo smash with Puppy Love. A lean patch came in the early 1980s, but he made a comeback in 1991 with stage hit Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He returned to TV in 1998 with sister Marie, co-hosting the daytime talk show Donny and Marie, which ran for two series. Since then he has sung on Disney hit Mulan, hosted US TV quiz Pyramid and its UK equivalent The Pyramid Game and returned to the recording studio. He teamed up again with his sister Marie in December 2010 for a production called Donny & Marie - A Broadway Christmas. He continues to appear on stage and screen.
Quote: 'To survive in this business you have to stick your neck out.'
Trivia: In 2009, he won the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars alongside professional dancer Kym Johnson.
Kara Zediker (Actor) .. Lynn
Larry Romano (Actor) .. Richie Iannucci

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