Dee Snider To Take On New Role: Twisted Father

Twisted Sister’s blonde-mopped frontman Dee Snider will become the third hard rocker with an outsized persona to take on a second life as a televised family man this fall, when A&E; premieres Growing Up Twisted. The show will follow Snider, his wife, and his four offspring — who, surprise, are all trying to “make it in entertainment” — as they have adventures around their Stony Brook, N.Y., home and the general New York metropolitan area. (Anyone want to have a pool on when Mark Metcalf is brought in to whip everyone into shape? I say episode two.) Snider promises that the show will have “a lot more reality” than its brethren, although as someone who stumbled into a taping of Gene Simmons Family Jewels while in New Orleans last fall I’m just going to say that scale is probably really, really relative. But if you’d like to test the veracity of Snider’s claim and are near Atlantic City tomorrow night, the cameras will be rolling when Dee takes the stage at the Hilton as a part of a hard-rock variety hour “I Wanna Rock Live.” (Lita Ford shares the bill, as do two other frontmen whose bands were featured on this list!)