- Christine Taylor and David Lascher during the 1990s sitcom’s filming has now been revealed
- Taylor claimed that Lascher’s wife, Jill London, urged them to discuss.
- Nickelodeon’s Hey Dude had its premiere in July 1989 and ran until August 1991.
Christine Taylor and David Lascher during the 1990s sitcom’s filming have now been revealed after more than 30 years in the making.
On Monday’s mini-episode of the Hey Dude. The ’90s Called! Podcast, the couple discussed their prior relationship, finally coming clean after years of denial.
“You were my first real love and it was full of teen angst and all you can imagine,” Lascher, 50, said. “We get asked this all the time, and we’re like, ‘No, nobody dated.'”
Added Taylor, 51: “My second boyfriend was you. You were my second boyfriend even though I had had my high school sweetheart… At that time, we were not the owners. We should just own it now, in my opinion.”
Taylor claimed that Lascher’s wife, Jill London, urged them to discuss their high school relationship before they went on the show.
“We talked about this last night. Jill was like, ‘You should talk about this, you should talk about the fact that you dated while you were shooting the show,’ which we’ve never talked about before,” Taylor explained.
“I was afraid to even ask you if you wanted to talk about it, but we are both happily married and we are adults,” Lascher said after that. Taylor wed actor Ben Stiller in 2000, but Lascher has been wed to London since 1999.
In retrospect, Lascher recalled that they first connected over “humor and laughing” when co-starring on the Nickelodeon program.
“We would just make fun of everything and everyone in a lighthearted way. We just laughed for two years straight,” he recalled.
Lascher recalled that the actors received a daily allowance, and he used his savings to buy Taylor ruby necklaces in recognition of her birthstone. I was in love with you, he exclaimed.
“We were head over heels for each other,” Taylor added. “It was total infatuation for sure… he was my first love and I was so infatuated with you, and loved you so much.”
Taylor claimed that although they were “very close” and had a “wonderful” time together, they finally split up.
“I think it was the fact that we were working together and living together in this hotel, we were with each other 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and that’s not how young love thrives,” she said. “You need space to be your own person.”
They did, however, attempt to make it work several times. “I remember we kept trying to find our way back to each other,” Taylor recalled.
Even though they never got back together, Taylor acknowledged that it “was not fun” to work with him again. She added that she accepted full responsibility for the breakup.
“I was terrible,” Taylor recalled. “I was so non-confrontational. I probably had no idea how to talk or deal with it. How great is it we can unpack it now?”
According to Lascher, who clarified that there were never any resentments, “Everyone has that first love that wrecks them, at some point, even though it wasn’t deliberate.”
Lascher and Taylor decided that although their romance may have ended, their friendship has endured.
“You and I had a friendship that was above and beyond anything else,” he said. “I think the friendship was more important, looking back on it, right? We had such great times together that whatever went on outside of that was less important.”
Nickelodeon’s Hey Dude had its premiere in July 1989 and ran until August 1991. The show focused on a group of young ranch employees in Tucson, Arizona. The event also featured David Brisbin, Kelly Brown, Debra Kalman, Joe Torres, Geoffrey Coy, Jonathan Galkin, and Josh Tygiel in addition to Lascher and Taylor.
Hey dude, it’s the 90s! Premieres on I Heart Radio on January 9 with its first full episode.
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