Tony Shalhoub deliberately kept his family out of the Hollywood spotlight despite his decades-long acting career.

“My dad is beloved,” the “Monk” star’s daughter Josie told Page Six in a recent exclusive interview. “But growing up in Los Angeles, celebrities are a dime a dozen, and my dad is very private and very intentionally wanted to stay out of the tabloids.”

Josie added that the “Wings” alum “didn’t want PR,” and “just wanted to have his work-life balance, and I think he did a really great job of that.”

Shalhoub, 73, married actress Brooke Adams, 77, in 1992.

Adams had already adopted Josie before the couple tied the knot, and Shalhoub later adopted her as well. The pair went on to adopt another daughter, Sophie, two years later.

Shalhoub and Josie have now teamed up to write “We Thought They’d Never Leave,” a memoir chronicling their family’s annual summer reunions in Wisconsin.

The “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” star is the ninth of 10 children born to Helen and Joe Shalhoub, who emigrated from a village outside Beirut in 1920.

The actor admitted that the sprawling family gatherings, which can include more than 50 relatives, aren’t always drama-free.

“I wouldn’t say it’s easy. I would also say, and we say it in the book, it’s not a vacation either,” he said. “It is something else. It’s effortful. But you know, kind of rewarding.”

Josie echoed her father’s sentiments, describing the reunions as “more of a convention, less of a vacation.”

“The whole point of the reunion is to try our best to set differences aside; it’s not always possible, but it’s important for us to try,” she explained.

However, Josie made it clear that readers shouldn’t expect any juicy Hollywood secrets from the father-daughter duo’s book.

“Memoirs also have kind of this connotation that they’re salacious, they’re tell-alls, they’re deeply excavating,” she said. “So it just carries a certain kind of expectation.”

“And this is, well, first of all, there’s nothing to tell. My dad is squeaky clean. There’s no skeletons in his closet!” she added.

The book also features some of the Shalhoub family’s favorite recipes, including stuffed grape leaves, which the actor encouraged readers to try.

“You might wonder why they’ve been missing it their whole lives,” he said of the Lebanese dish, which he described as “filled with spices and meat … tomatoes, rice.”

“They’re served hot and they are absolutely a lifelong tradition,” he added.

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