The 48-year-old now wants to show that he's a devoted family man - and it's all because of his wife.
The star of the Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo movies is now the face of Rob - his new eponymous TV sitcom about a white American man who has to contend with the many cultural differences, various family dynamics and disapproving in-laws after marrying a Mexican-American.
"To be honest, the show is my wife's idea," Rob told The New Paper in an exclusive.
It's loosely based on his real-life romance and marriage to Mexican television producer Patricia Azarcoya Schneider, whom he married in April last year.
"I was also getting tired of being away from home months at a time making movie," he offered.
The titular character he plays on the show has a whirlwind romance with Maggie (Claudia Bassols), a young, beautiful and smart Hispanic woman.
They elope to Las Vegas and tie the knot and then have to face the reality of breaking the news to Maggie's over-protective and judgmental parents.
While Rob didn't face such objections in real life, how he won the hand of his wife does sound like a movie script.
"I met her in Mexico City on a TV show called War Of The Jokes," he recalled fondly.
"She's very nice, very lovely, has a nice laugh, a beautiful smile, and she's a really smart girl.
"I invited her for dinner, but she refused. After about two and a half weeks of begging every day, she finally agreed and flew in with her mother to Los Angeles," said the actor with a chuckle. "So it was a nice date with me and her and her mum!
"We went out for about two years and we married last year."
Rob praised his wife as being a "very strong woman", much like his own mother, whom he calls his "pillar of strength".
"That's why I do whatever they tell me," he said with a laugh.
Rob is born to a Filipino-American mother, and credits his success to his "Asian upbringing".
"As you get older, you realise the most important thing in your life is your family, not how you've made it in Hollywood." (The New Paper)
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