“Most people didn’t even know we were dating until we got married.”
Things can get pretty heated on the soap set – on and off the screen. With such great chemistry, it’s no wonder many co-stars take their relationships from the present to real life. Through the years soaps like Basic Hospital It is The youngest and the stressed were on the air, several actors ended up truly falling in love. Luckily, all of their relationships have had a lot less drama than their characters!
Read on to find out which cleaning soap stars are married…
1. Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are perhaps the most famous soap opera couple, having met on the set of All my children. When they started dating, they kept things secret because they were afraid of what the executives would say. No one knew they were dating until after they ran away. Some co-stars didn’t even find out until Kelly got pregnant with her first child.
“We didn’t need people to consider us unprofessional. We were very skilled, so most people didn’t even know we were dating until we were married for about six months to a year,” Kelly shared.
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2. Invoice Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes
Invoice Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes met as co-stars in Days of our lives again in 1970. Looking back on their first encounter on the NBC lot, Susan says Bill took her breath away. They fell in love on and off screen. The couple married four years later and were married for almost 50 years, remaining together until Bill’s passing in early 2024.
“(Head writer) Invoice Bell brought us together for a scene and he loved what was between the two of us so much that he discarded my story and discarded (Susan’s) story and he made a long, long, long big arc. story for Doug and Julie and it was the best,” Invoice told soap opera Opera Digest. “We had the most effective story. Completely fabulous story. Every person in the country watched Bill and Susan fall in love and Doug and Julie fall in love at the same time.
3. Susan Walters and Linden Ashby
Again in 1985, Susan Walters and Linden Ashby met on the set of Loving. The couple had their first date in October and a few months later they were engaged. In April 1986, the couple married – saying their vows on a free weekend amid a busy production schedule.
“We got engaged in January and got married in mid-April. So it was very fast. The truth is that we started dating in October and got married six months after our first date. Years later, I said to my mother, ‘You never said anything about the fact that I was marrying this person after knowing him less than six months and I was only 22 years old. ”Susan instructed the soap opera Opera Digest.
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4. Vincent Van Patten and Eileen Davidson
Eileen Davidson and her husband Vincent Van Patten met on the set of The youngest and the stressed. They were both married at the time, so their relationship didn’t turn romantic right away. The couple has since insisted that there was no infidelity at issue before their divorce, but after the issues were finalized, their relationship quickly changed. They got married in 2003 and soon after welcomed their first child.
“We met in Y&R. I wanted to get pregnant immediately because I was 41, which was the main problem. And actually, if you’ve ever heard of people who are supposedly together, it’s just us,” Eileen told Nearer.
5. Kassie Wesley and James DePaiva
Kassie Wesley and James DePaiva could have fallen in love on the set of A life to stay But they met briefly before Kassie joined the cast. A few years before her audition, she was performing at a bar with one of James’ co-stars. After she finished, James came to visit to accompany her – which she didn’t take seriously. So after they gathered in OLTL, there was a spark between them. Although they admittedly teased each other a lot, Kassie says things felt right with James.
“When we started working together, I was thinking, ‘Oh my God.’ I felt like I’d known him forever, I mean he just felt so familiar with me,” Kassie shared on The Locher Room podcast.
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6. Crystal Chappell and Michael Sabatino
Crystal Chappell and her husband Michael Sabatino met after appearing on Days of our lives at the beginning of the nineties. Looking back, Michael says he watched Crystal during her first few days on set and immediately wanted to know who she was.
“The whole set, Crystal was working with Peter (Reckell) and I was like, ‘Who is this?’ I would love to satisfy this individual. — Well, that’s who you’ll be working with. I was very lucky,” Michael said on The Locher Room podcast.
The couple married in 1997 and have since welcomed two children.
7. Maura West and Scott DeFreitas
Maura West and Scott DeFreitas were at the beginning of their careers after they met on the set of As the world turns. The two became friends while working together, but things turned romantic in 1998. Scott was also able to pinpoint the exact date, October 16, when they fell in love while dancing together at a business event. He proposed on the Yankee Stadium scoreboard and the couple married in 2000, shortly before welcoming their first child.
“We had been good friends for a while, so it wasn’t love at first sight, but when it hit us, it hit us hard,” Maura told The Chicago Tribune.
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8. Michael Saucedo and Rebecca Herbst
When Rebecca Herbst first auditioned for Basic Hospital, she did not intend to make long-term cleaning soap. When casting director Mark Teschner told her they were going to write a detail for her, she happily agreed because it changed the course of her life. She met her husband Michael Saucedo and they have since welcomed three children.
“I don’t even know how to put my feelings about this into words! I don’t know exactly how to express the gratitude and love I have for G.H. and come out again and say, ‘If I hadn’t taken this job, I probably wouldn’t have met Michael.’ I can’t even think about my life without him or my children, so I’m sure I made the best choice! It worked for me! She instructed the soap opera Opera Digest.
9. Cindy Fisher and Doug Davidson
Cindy Fisher and Doug Davidson reportedly met after they both starred in a Polaroid commercial together. They then reunited on the set of The youngest and the stressed the place where they fell in love. Doug proposed one Christmas Eve and they got married in 1984. Since then, they have welcomed two children.
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10. Jon Lindstrom and Cady McClain
Jon Lindstrom and Cady McClain were appearing on As the world turns after they met and fell in love. While Jon says it “didn’t hurt” that his characters were also falling in love, he explained that the couple actually fell in love during the drive to the set.
“ATWT filmed on a set in Brooklyn, and Cady and I lived in Manhattan,” he told Soaps In Depth. “We finished our scenes and were executed at the same time, so we often ended up making the hour-long training trip back to Manhattan together and got to know each other that way. We became excellent friends before everything happened.
The couple ended up getting married in 2014.
11. Melissa Fumero and David Fumero
Melissa Fumero met her husband David Fumero on the set of A life to stay however, she actually had a crush on him for years. When she was still a teenager, she saw him in Mariah Carey’s “Honey” music video and was “obsessed,” but had no idea who he was. In the meantime, David had seen Melissa at OLTL and I thought she was stunning.
When David ended up joining the cast, Melissa already had a boyfriend. After they broke up, David tried to make a transfer. Melissa admits that she was hesitant at first because her co-stars warned her that he was a “participant,” but she eventually gave him an opportunity. They started dating and, two months into their relationship, she discovered that David was the mannequin from the “Honey” video.
“As time passed and I began to have specific conversations with him, I began to think that he was nothing like how people described him to me… That was a very precious lesson for me: to not take gossip into account generalized about someone I didn’t actually know. Here’s the moral of our story: After 15 years together and two beautiful boys, I was positively right about David. Oh yeah; I was right,” Melissa told Puraphy.
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