{"id":1003380,"date":"2026-08-16T00:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1003380\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T00:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:11:17","slug":"ron-howards-love-seat-donation-to-burbank-scalds-during-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1003380\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Howard’s love seat donation to Burbank scalds during summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

An award-winning Hollywood director<\/a>\u2018s gift to a Los Angeles-area park apparently has one fatal flaw that park officials overlooked: under sunny California weather, it can literally burn you.<\/p>\n

Last year, Ron Howard and his wife donated <\/a>a Victorian-style love seat statue to Johnny Carson Park in Burbank. The \u201ckissing chair\u201d consists of two seats facing the opposite direction melded together and is worth $88,440, according to the city.<\/p>\n

Ron Howard and his wife Cheryl donated a bronze \u201ckissing chair\u201d to a Los Angeles-area park where they used to date, celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. X\/@nickcarrscouts<\/p>\n

However, a local resident shared on social media<\/a> Friday that he couldn\u2019t actually sit in those chairs \u2014unless he wanted to suffer burn scars.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the seats, made of bronze, have no shade anywhere in sight.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone made the really, really poor decision to situate the chair in nonstop direct sunlight, and the bronze doesn\u2019t just get hot. It becomes literally scalding,\u201d wrote Nick Carr, a Los Angeles-based movie location scout.<\/p>\n

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He said even under 80-degree weather, he couldn\u2019t put a hand on the statue for more than a second.<\/p>\n

Behind the seats is a warning sign that cautions, in bold black letters, \u201cSurface may be hot.\u201d<\/p>\n

A warning sign that the chairs may be too hot. X\/@nickcarrscouts<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s now a pretty common occurrence to see visitors ignore the sign and plunk into the chair, only to scream and leap off in pain,\u201d Carr claimed.<\/p>\n

Carr in his post pleaded for the city of Burbank to address the scalding, noting the purpose of the chairs were for couples to use.<\/p>\n

Howard donated the chairs as an expression of his love for his wife Cheryl. The director<\/a>, now in his seventies, met her in high school, and the young couple \u201chung out and dated and necked\u201d at the park, he said.<\/p>\n

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Director Ron Howard and his wife Cheryl Howard attend the Oscars Vanity Fair Party in Beverly Hills, California, on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cI got the idea of an old-fashioned sort of love seat where couples could sit and talk and smooch a little bit,\u201d he told People Magazine on celebrating 50 years of marriage.<\/p>\n

Howard has four children with his wife. Since they met, the director has had an illustrious career, directing flims like \u201cA Beautiful Mind\u201d and \u201cApollo 13.\u201d His brother is the actor Clint Howard and his daugther Bryce Dallas Howard has also appeared in films.<\/p>\n

When the seats are not hot, it appears couples are using Howard\u2019s gift.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy brother drove by not long ago, snapped a picture with his iPhone. It was a couple kissing in the kissing chair. He said, \u2018Hey, it\u2019s working,\u2019\u201d the director said, according to Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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