Personal Life
Despite being a daily presence on American television, Anderson lived in relative anonymity in Southern California. "But that's all right," he said. "If I'm out in public and I feel like being recognized, I just raise my voice and say... 'The Love Boat.'"
He had nine children in total. Five children with his first wife, Marguerite Hemmer Anderson. He ended his "Ghoulardi" show, divorced his first wife and left Cleveland; three of their children relocated to live with him in Studio City, California, the other two, the youngest of the five, stayed behind in Rhode Island with their mother.
He married actress Edwina Gough soon after she arrived in California, a few weeks after Ernie. They had three girls, and one son, film director Paul Thomas Anderson, but divorced in the mid-1990s. Ernie then married Bonnie Skolnick who survived him for a very short time.
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