<P> Steve Schirripa portrays Leo Boykewich, Ben's widowed father . He owns the local butcher shop, and is known as "The Sausage King". Leo is one of the first people to suspect Amy's pregnancy due to her huge appetite and nausea . He even supported Ben's decision to marrying Amy since he met Ben's mother when they were in high school . He's usually portrayed as the voice of reason for many of the characters on the shows . Such as when he tells Ben off for believing that he can support Amy's baby with his money . He gives Ben and Ricky jobs at the butcher shop as a way to help support Amy . In the second season, Leo begins to date a woman named Betty, who is the prostitute Tom had once hired . We later learn from Betty that she was very upfront about her profession the first day she introduced herself to Leo, because she was afraid of embarrassing him . He later proposes to Betty, but she explains that she may still be married to her ex . He promises to hunt down her husband, who turns out to be dead, and they get married in an elaborate ceremony . Leo takes Ricky under his wing by allowing him to live in the upstairs apartment . He is upset when Ben and Adrian discover they are having a baby, and tries to caution Ben from marrying Adrian just because she is pregnant . Ben is insistent, however, so Leo purchases a condo for the newlyweds . When Ben is ambivalent about being married, Leo sternly tells him that he made the choice, and he now has to make the best of it . When the baby is stillborn, Leo tearfully breaks the news to Ben and Adrian's friends at the hospital, and then later supports Ben's decision to get a divorce . In Season 4, Leo questions whether or not he wants to be married to Betty anymore when he suspects that his longtime assistant, Camille, is in love with him . Even so, Leo decides to stick with the marriage because he believes that is the right thing to do . Betty later decides that she wants a divorce and Leo agrees to it . He later sends Camille flowers and a bracelet and invites her out to dinner . While talking in the car on the way to dinner Camille kisses Leo, and the two are later seen together at graduation . They get married in the fifth season, and decide to adopt a young girl who was the under - aged prostitute that Jack helped . </P> <P> The following is a list of characters that are, or at one time were, a recurring guest on the series . </P> <P> Anne Ramsay portrays Nora Underwood, Ricky's biological mother . For the majority of the first season, she is a distant character in Ricky's past . She has been to jail a few times due to drug possession and Ricky often felt bitter towards her because she failed to protect him from his father's abuse . But in Season 3, episode 7, she comes back into his life, to spend time with her son before she gets put back in jail . Ruben Enriquez (Adrian's father), as a DA helps Ricky get his mother out of jail, as he is willing to try and forgive her . Later on in the season, the two begin to repair the relationship, however, she was unsure about telling him she has a girlfriend, but she later does, and is gratified when Ricky seems pleased for her . The relationship doesn't last, though, and after a night of binge drinking (with the purported intent of convincing Ben that he shouldn't drink) she moves out of Margaret and Shakur's home and moves in with George Juergens, who initially tries to make a play for her, but remains pals when he discovers that she is a lesbian . She is very proud of Ricky's accomplishments in spite of his shaky childhood . </P> <P> Allen Evangelista portrays Henry' Hank' Miller, has been Ben's friend since the third grade . He is now dating Alison' Alice' Valko (who is portrayed by Amy Rider), who has also become a friend of Ben's and some of the girls in school . Alice is very smart and knows a lot of factual information, while Henry is a bit more social . They have and discuss sex quite often, but fairly maturely . In the first episode, Alice pointed out Amy to Ben . In season 4 Henry breaks up with Alice and the two try "shared custody" of Ben, which is awkward and doesn't work out . In the 13th episode of Season 4, Alice walks into a bedroom after a graduation party to find Henry in bed with Adrian . Angrily, she tells Ben what she found, and Ben tells Henry he is no longer welcome in his home . After Ben finds out that he can no longer date Dylan, a sad conversation with Alice turns into sex . Henry thinks that there is something going on that he doesn't know about and pressures Alice to tell him . Ben doesn't know that Alice told Henry, and is mad at him for kissing Dylan . </P>

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