{"id":67628,"date":"2025-07-11T03:45:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T03:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=67628"},"modified":"2025-07-11T03:47:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T03:47:34","slug":"mason-reese-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=67628","title":{"rendered":"Mason Reese today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I can\u2019t be the only one who remembers with the \u2018Borgasmord Kid\u2019? In the 1970s, he left an everlasting impression in numerous television commercials with his red hair and freckles!<\/p>\n

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Today, Mason Reese is all grown up, and I must say that I was both surprised and glad when I saw how this former star looks in 2022!<\/p>\n

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Please join us along the avenue of memories as will take a closer look at Mason Reese\u2019s journey, and how his life played out after all those successful commercials \u2026<\/p>\n

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Mason Reese came into the world in 1965; one could say he was born with acting in blood. His father, William \u201dBill\u201d Reese, worked as a theater set designer and marketing service director.<\/p>\n

Mason\u2019s mother was the famous actress\u00a0Sonia Darrin, perhaps best known for starring alongside Humphrey Bogart in the iconic\u00a0The Big Sleep<\/em>\u00a0(1946).<\/p>\n

Given his parents\u2019 background, it\u2019s perhaps not so strange that Mason ended up in front of the film camera early on in life. As a young boy, he grew up in New York City and went to school in Manhattan. He attended the Saint Michael\u2019s Montessori School, housed in St. Michael\u2019s Episcopal Church on Upper West Side.<\/p>\n

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At the age of 4, Mason started appearing in TV commercials. One of his first gigs was for a detergent company called Ivory Snow, where Mason was selected from a group of 600 other auditioning tots.<\/p>\n

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\u201dThey wanted a kid who looked like he was just diapers and who was old enough to speak intelligently and \u2013 tra-la-la \u2013 that was me,\u201d Mason told The Sacramento Bee in 1978.<\/p>\n

The advertising campaign was very successful, and Mason became known in Philadelphia and New Jersey as the \u201cthe Ivory Snow Boy.\u201d He was also praised at the CLIO award for his appearances in the commercials.<\/p>\n

\u201dMason can\u2019t do every kind of commercial. He\u2019s not a plastic person, or a pure, white Protestant boy. There are people who think he\u2019s gorgeous, and some who think he\u2019s homely. But he\u2019s a very sensual and tactile child \u2013 he loves to touch and kiss \u2013 and he puts out good vibrations,\u201d Mason\u2019s father Bill told The Boston Globe in 1973.<\/p>\n

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According to Mason himself, there were some slow years between 1970 and 1973 regarding commercial gigs. But at the end of 1973, a canned ham brand reached out, one that would change the young boy\u2019s life forever.<\/p>\n

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When Underwood Deviled Ham made him the cover boy for their famous \u201cBorgasmord\u201d campaign, Mason became famous throughout the U.S. Mason was once asked how many times he needed to practice to say \u201dborgasmord.\u201d in the right way. According to The Boston Globe, the little boy with the red hair and special voice just smiled and explained: \u201cI didn\u2019t. I got it right the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some claimed that Mason created the word himself, but there remain many different theories and explanations as to how \u201dborgasmord\u201d was invented. In an interview with\u00a0Chris Yandek,\u00a0Mason decided to set things straight:<\/p>\n

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\u201cObviously we all know the real word is, you know, smorgasbord. We all know that. And I remember that the guy who was the director, who was working with the ad agent, his name was Andy Doyle. It was Andy\u2019s job to kind of wrangle me, you know, and get me to do what they needed right.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I did not want to mispronounce the word smorgasbord because I knew the word and I wanted America to know that I was a smart kid and I knew what the real word was. So, but Andy was determined that I was going to mispronounce it. One way hook or by crook he was gonna get me to do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo he took a yellow pad of paper and he wrote down 20 or 30 different words that sounded like smorgasbord. And I read threw them and I looked at the word borgasmord and I said, \u2018I like this one.\u2019 And Andy looked at me in this infinite wisdom and said, \u2018Mason, you are not gonna believe this.\u2019 I said, \u2018What\u2019s that?\u2019 He said, \u2018Borgasmord is smorgasbord in Swedish.\u2019 Which it\u2019s not. It\u2019s a total lie.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I looked up at him and because I felt smarter than I really was, that\u2019s the word we went with. So it really was not me, it wasn\u2019t my imagination, it wasn\u2019t my brilliance that came up with that. It really was this guy Andy Doyle who was a director working for the ad agency,\u201d Mason said.<\/p>\n

The iconic TV commercial opened many doors for the talented Mason, and once again he landed the CLIO award for Best Male Performance in a Commercial Television. For most of us who watched TV in the \u201970s, Mason is still the \u2018Borgasmord Kid\u2019 \u2013 but he also did some memorable commercials for\u00a0Post\u00a0Raisin Bran, and Dunkin\u2019 Donuts\u2019 Dunkin\u2019 Munchkins-brand donut holes.<\/p>\n

With his star status and the money that began to pour into his bank account, life became a challenging landscape for Mason and his parents to navigate. The positive thing was the Mason seemed to love acting \u2013\u00a0he was just doing his hobby.<\/p>\n

\u201dIf we found this acting was affecting his life negatively and he was becoming just a smart-ass kid, we\u2019d stop it. Our concern is for him not to lose the values we feel are important. It\u2019s difficult, too, because as his parents we get caught up in it,\u201d Mason\u2019s father told The Boston Globe.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Orlando Sentinel, then-13-year-old Mason explained his take on his celebrity status and all that came with it.<\/p>\n

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\u201dI loved it, actually. I\u2019d walk down the street and people would go, \u2018Hey borgasmord\u2019. They didn\u2019t know my name then, but they do now. At first, I hated to sign autographs, there were always all these people standing over me, but now I really seem to be able to handle it better\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

Looking at old interviews with Mason, I must say I see a surprisingly mature and humble young man. He was recognized on the street, he won awards, and people loved his television commercials. Still, he kept his feet on the ground. Just read what Mason had to say to those who thought he was a megastar:<\/p>\n

\u201dWhat? Who? I\u2019m not a superstar. No \u2014 Sammy Davis, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, those guys, they\u2019re big. Not me. I\u2019m just someone who\u2019s trying to do his little part in TV \u2013 I make this sound like a tragic soap opera. So far, I\u2019ve been very successful, but I\u2019m not a superstar,\u201d he told The Orlando Sentinel in 1978.<\/p>\n

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At the peak of his career, Mason was a frequent guest on\u00a0The Mike Douglas Show<\/em>. It turns out, Mason almost had his own show. On the fourth of July, 1977, ABC aired a pilot in which Mason played the lead role, but ABC chose not to continue with it for several different reasons. After that, Mason had meetings with legendary television executive and producer Fred Silverman \u2013 but was never offered a script that suited him and what he wanted to do.<\/p>\n

\u201dWe\u2019ve had many parts sent to us that were really terrible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Then, as Mason moved into his teens, the job offers slowly began to decline.<\/p>\n

After retiring from acting, Mason opted for a completely different profession. He became a restaurant entrepreneur, opening establishments in New York City.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say that Mason was never seen again on screen, mind. No, he actually made a series of short comebacks. In 1990, he starred as himself in the short film\u00a0Whatever Happened to Mason Reese<\/em>. Then, in 2017, he made a web TV series with legendary actresses including\u00a0Alison Arngrim\u00a0and\u00a0Dawn Wells. The series, called\u00a0Life Interrupted<\/em>, was Mason\u2019s first acting project in 31 years.<\/p>\n

The sitcom is about Mason Bells, a New Yorker who lives in a studio apartment over the bar he owns with his ex-wife, who is now married to another woman. A total of six episodes were released on Youtube.<\/p>\n

Today, All of Mason\u2019s restaurants are closed and he has retired from the industry. According to\u00a0Wikipedia, Mason still lives in New York, and the former actor is 56 years old!<\/p>\n

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According to\u00a0Celebrity Net Worth, the former actor has a net worth of $1 million.\u00a0Not much is known about his private life and relationships, but in 2018 one of his relationships received much attention. At that time, Mason Reese was dating an Instagram model with 174k followers.<\/p>\n

Now Mason, who stands only 4ft 10in tall, seems to be living a good and healthy life \u2013 unlike many other former young stars.<\/p>\n

\u201dI just want people to know that ultimately I am a pretty normal guy, you know, not living a normal life necessarily, but you know, I\u2019m definitely kind of the normal guy. Yeah. I think that\u2019s it. \u2026 I\u2019m proud of what I\u2019ve done. You know, I\u2019m proud of what I\u2019ve accomplished and I certainly hope to make my mark again,\u201d he told\u00a0Chris Yandek\u00a0in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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