Danny DeVito attends the Disney 2022 Upfront presentation at Basketball City Pier 36 on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in New York. Actor Danny DeVito visited his old Monmouth County stomping grounds Monday.
DeVito, 78, was in town to donate $500,000 to the Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, the hospital where he was born in back in 1944, when it was known as Fitkin Memorial Hospital, as Jessica Barberia of Belmar was on her daily run when she noticed DeVito walking out of Jersey Mike’s in Belmar — DeVito is now the face of Jersey Mike’s, appearing in several commercials.Barberia told NJ Advance Media she approached the actor and greeted him with a nervous hello. Devito then followed with a handshake and asked if she wanted a picture.
“He was so nice and so friendly,” said Barberia. “While it was only a brief interaction, you could tell he was not bothered by me stopping him, he genuinely wanted to take the picture.”— and is acclaimed for his roles in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Batman Returns” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” among many others.Please subscribe now and support the local journalism YOU rely on and trust.