“Melrose Place” stars Andrew Shue and Courtney Thorne-Smith recalled how they navigated their on-screen kissing scenes within the iconic ’90s present after their real-life breakup.
The 56-year-old actor and the 58-year-old’s characters had an on-and-off romance all through a number of seasons of the FOX prime time cleaning soap opera. Shue and Thorne-Smith began relationship in actual life shortly after they started filming the primary season of the sequence in 1992, however later broke up.
Throughout a Monday look on the “Nonetheless The Place” podcast, Shue and Thorne-Smith mirrored on how they continued to play characters who have been in a relationship after their cut up.
“It was shockingly not bizarre,” Thorne-Smith stated.
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“We dealt with it properly,” Shue stated. “I bear in mind there was a bit bit — a bit little bit of time the place it was powerful.”
After the 2 parted methods in real-life, Thorne-Smith recalled that she had a dialog with Shue to ascertain boundaries for his or her characters’ love scenes.
“Do you bear in mind me having to speak with you as a result of the characters have been nonetheless relationship and also you and I weren’t relationship?” the “Ally McBeal” alum stated. “So we would been damaged up for 2 months after which we needed to kiss. You bear in mind me saying, ‘OK, now we’re professionals, no tongue, you understand?'”
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“As a result of we have been relationship earlier than we have been relationship on the present, then we have been relationship on the present after we broke up in actual life,” Thorne-Smith continued. “However you and I segued into friendship rather well. I do not bear in mind a number of stress.”
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Shue agreed along with his former co-star and defined that the 2 supported one another after they all of the sudden skyrocketed to fame after “Melrose Place” grew to become one of many highest-rated reveals on FOX.
“Yeah, our relationship, we helped carry one another by way of a really intense time,” Shue stated. “The present obtained a number of consideration. I do know you had already been pretty well-known, however we have been coping with a number of, we’ll name it Fox movie star craziness.”
“And I bear in mind simply feeling secure understanding we have been collectively guiding one another by way of it,” “The Rainmaker” star added.
Shue was married to floral designer Jennifer Hageney, with whom he shares three sons, from 1994 to 2008. In 2010, the actor married “Good Morning America” co-anchor Amy Robach. The previous couple separated in August 2022 after Robach reportedly had been having an affair together with her “GMA” co-anchor T.J. Holmes.
Shue and Robach’s divorce was finalized in March 2023. Holmes and his spouse Marilee Fiebeg additionally reportedly separated in August 2022, and so they finalized their divorce in October 2023.
Robach and Holmes went public with their romance in November 2022. Shue and Fiebig leaned on one another following their respective splits, and so they began relationship in December 2023.
In the meantime, Thorne-Smith married geneticist Andrew Conrad in 2000, however they cut up a 12 months later. The actress and writer Roger Fishman, who share a son Jacob, 16, tied the knot in January 2007.