‘Baywatch’ Actor David Charvet Talks Leaving Hollywood To Build Houses: ‘I Wanted To Be There For My Children’
etcanada.comStardom wasn’t David Charvet’s cup of tea. In a new interview with Page Six, the former actor and pop star, who played Matt Brody in the TV series “Baywatch”, opens up about leaving Hollywood for a career in residential construction. READ MORE: Carmen Electra Says She’d Be ‘Down’ For A ‘Baywatch’ Reboot The 49-year-old explains that he “reinvented” himself in order to be the “father I wanted to be.” “That means that you put your kids to bed every night and you wake up (when they wake up).” Charvet continues, “Before I had my first child I was travelling for five years in 42 countries doing concerts for my music.
There’s no way I could do that again. I had to find a different meaning to my life.” After “Baywatch”, the French-born actor also starred in “Melrose Place” but the opportunities that came afterward didn’t appeal to him. “I didn’t want to go and take a TV show that was in Canada, I didn’t want to travel to Europe to do my music,” he says. “I wanted to stay home and I wanted to be a good dad.
I wanted to be there for my children every single day.” Charvet says he found his calling building houses while working on his own home in Malibu in 2006.
He was unhappy with a contractor’s work and so, took over the project himself. “We finished the house, and every time that we invited people over… they were like, ‘My God, this house is so beautiful.
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