Brady Bunch” housekeeper Alice Nelson was someone everybody in the family could confide in, and in real life, Ann B. Davis – who played the beloved character – kept a career-threatening secret for one of her co-stars!
Davis knew that Robert Reed – TV dad Mike Brady on the popular ’70s sitcom – was gay, but kept that explosive information to herself until after his shocking death from AIDS in 1992, sources say.
“Ann became deeply religious in her last decades, but she was quite open-minded back in the ’70s and helped hide one of the TV industry’s biggest secrets,” an insider said about the late actress, who passed away at age 88 on June 1.
“The show was a huge hit, and Robert Reed was widely regarded as ‘America’s dad.’ But back then nobody knew he was gay.