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[Blind Gossip] This actor and actress played a married couple on a famous TV show more than twenty years ago. They were not married to each other in real life.

Very few people know that they had an affair while they were working together. Nowadays they make up fake romances to get more attention, but back then, it was all very hush hush. The affair started in the second season and went on for several years. They were very passionate about each other. Everyone on the set knew, but the audience had no idea. Quite scandalous.

It’s a classic show with a humorous bent. You have certainly seen on cable even if you were too young to watch it when it originally aired.

Not Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez, who were married in real life as well as on their TV show.

Similar: Actress Threatens To Disclose Affair

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  4. Robert Wagner

    Stefanie Powers

    Hart to Hart

    I loved that show when I was a child. I thought it was so glamourous. They had great chemistry on screen. They would have made a great couple in real life.

    • Yes, I think you got it… I watch Hart to Hart now on the Hallmark channel & love it..Robert Wagner is so dreamy & they really have a lot of chemistry. As I watch the show I always think they really act married or in love, if not they are great great actors imo..

    • I agree. Their chemistry was great and so believable. He was so handsome back in the day.

    • Yep Hart to Hart came to mind for me too. Used to watch it when I was a kid. I thought Robert Wagner was so handsome lol. ?

    • She does have red hair like Lucille in the pic but if it is them, then a year into their affair, both of their partners tragically died 2 weeks apart. I watched Hart to Hart and it was, at times, funny but would you consider it to have a “humorous bent”? If so, then I think you’ve nailed it.

    • Robert Wagner’s been married to Jill St. John for quite a while. I, too, love the idea of Stefanie and Bob, but doubt it happened and is still happening.

      Going with Peg & Al.

  7. Uncle Jesse and Aunt Becky. I always figured they got together at some point, so no surprise.

    • Helen Hunt, not Bonnie.

      I always thought Helen and Paul Reiser had great chemistry on Mad About You.

  12. Ed O’Neill and Katey Sagal from Married with Children. Clue being the word “married” and Lucy’s red hair.
    That would have been awesome

    • I like your use of the clues…hmm…..how about hart to hart stephanie powrs had reddish hair….in the opening the butler would say “when they got “married” it was murder…..and their name hart…in the opening for I love lucy there was that big heart….

      could work for either show

  14. For some reason, “Mad About You” with Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser jumped into my mind. I always thought they were incredibly cute together.

  16. I would guess either Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser on Mad About You or Katey Sagal and Ed O’Neill on Married With Children.

  23. Actor: Tim Allen, the guy from Home Improvement
    Actress: Patricia Richardson

    No. Tim Allen was supposedly a jerk back then.

    • I think this is it. In fact, I vaguely remember reading something to that effect back in the day.

  28. Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser
    Or Roseanne Barr and John Goodman
    Or Ray Romano and Patricia Heaton
    Or Tim Allen and Patricia Richardson
    Or Martin Lawrence and Tisha Campbell

  29. Hmmm, trying to think of “classic” TV shows
    Happy Days – Tom Bosley and Marian Ross?

    I’ll be interested to hear responses for this one…

  31. The only married TV couple from the late 1990’s that I can think of i Mad about you- so helen hunt and that paul riser guy? yawn… Maybe its Al and Peg Bundy? that would be way more fun.

  32. Barr & Goodman from Rosanne?

    Meredith & Mr. Gross from Family Ties?

    Robert & Stephanie from Hart To Hart?

    Judith Light & Tony Danza?

    Alan Thicke & Joanna Kerns?

  35. This is an interesting one. I’m drawing a blank, though. Home Improvement or Full House (Stamos and Lori Loughlin)?

  37. Wild guess, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore? And if it’s them, I definitely wish they had been a couple.

  38. John Stamos and Lori Loughlin in Full House.
    She joined in the second season, and the word “bent” is a nod to the Full House theme song.

  48. Mad About You? = Passionate about Each Other
    Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser
    The only thing that is iffy is this series did not do well in syndication.

  50. It’s probably something boring like Boy Meets World, but I’m going with Married with Children. Or Fraiser.