Rob Reiner showed a lot of cheek as a teenager — by grabbing the butt of Mary Tyler Moore!
Actor and director Rob, best known as “Meathead” on the legendary sitcom “All in the Family,” admits he groped America’s then-sweetheart on the set of “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”
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“I was 14 years old and she was like 25, I guess,” Rob recalls. “The hormones were going, and I just went and grabbed.”
His father Carl Reiner, who created the hit 1960s sitcom, didn’t exactly blast young Rob for sexual harassment.
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“My father called me into his office, and he said, ‘Did you grab Mary Tyler Moore by the ass?’
And I said, ‘Uh, yeah,’ ” revealed Rob.
“And he said, with a big smile on his face, ‘Don’t do that anymore.’”