TCA: By George, it’s the ‘Family Foreman’

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While promoting their upcoming TV Land reality series “Family Foreman,” premiering July 16, George Foreman and two of his sons discussed the name thing.

The 59-year-old boxer named all of his five sons George.

“I didn’t like it because he’d read all of my love letters I’d get in the mail,” said one. “He’d say ‘What? It says ‘To George Foreman.’ He was all up in my business when I was little.”

George Foreman, the original, said the one name makes it easier for him. “When you’ve been hit on the head (as many times as I have) how many names do you expect me to know?”

The show will follow the family in Houston, where he preaches three times a week. “For over 31 years now, I’ve been a preacher. I moonlight as a grill salesman to feed all these kids.”

--Denise Martin

Photo: George Forman with a namesake grill, courtesy SDE, Inc.