January 15, 2025 • 30 mins
Michael Dietz joins OMG to talk about playing Kelly's almost boyfriend, Medical Resident Dr. Greg!
Find out who also auditioned to play Kelly Taylor's doctor, and what Michael said in Aaron Spelling's office that landed him the gig that same day! Plus, find out the random connection between Michael's soap opera career and Kelly's manager Mr. Showbiz!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's nine O G Engine with Jenny Garth and Tory
spelling there Hi, Oh my gosh, this is wild.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, I'm a little grayer than last time. We probably
saw each other.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
A silver fuck I've seen you.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You have. I don't say this was I that was
like five, six, seven years ago. I don't know. I
can't remember. I think I was. Yeah, I think I
was great, great, pretty gray.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It looks so good on you.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh, thank you, thank you. So it's like you.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Weren't an actor, like I came in and took a
meeting with you producing.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
The roles were reversed. It was awesome, it was great.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Michael Dets. You still look the same you do. You
look exactly the same, but you have a great wing on.
It's weird.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's kind of yeah, a little older. God, I mean,
what are we talking.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Like thirty twenty thirty years it's twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You were in season six.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, so that was yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, you were a doctor or not a you were
a resident.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I was a I was like a med student, med
student something.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, they like kept mentioning that, right, Yeah, don't you.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Think it's a little unethical for a med student to
hit on one of his patients.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I think, so, yeah, I'm going to go with yes.
And you were in for cocaine, weren't you.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Right, I'm a great catch.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
At that point, you're like, oh, I think they're like,
we got to throw it in. He's not a doctor,
so maybe this storyline is okay. Yeah, exactly, he's in training.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It was crazy because I may have mentioned this back
in the day, but like, really quick, I was at
Penn State my second year, watching nine to two and
on a black and white TV in my dorm room.
Never it acted, and uh, and I watched it. It
was almost coming up on and I was like, first
of all, I had a crush on a little crush
on Jenny when I was watching it, and I was like,
(02:06):
Beverly Hills. I had never been to California, and I
was like, it looks like a great place to live,
and these guys look like they're having fun doing this show.
And I called my mom, and long story short, she
got me crush. She's like, what are you doing? I
knew one guy in Newport Beach I ended up staying
for the summer Meta manager. It was Lee Daniels, who
now directs Lee Daniels The Butler, and he was like
(02:27):
my first manager stayed. My stepfather at the time was like,
you can always go back to school. You may as
well give it a shot. And like four three four
years later, I was standing with you. I remember on
the scene we were about to have a kissing scene,
and I think it was when Tar, her name was
the character Tar was watching like from the window, and
I just remember like thinking, I literally stepped through the television.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Set and now I was in color. Oh my god,
you never told me that.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, that was that true story. It's a really like
one of the reasons I drove to California. I'm currently
on the East Coast through the holidays, but the reason
I drove to LA was that show partly and then
ended up just staying and then ended up being on
that show. Was just so bizarre. Still one of those
stories I tell because it still gives me goosebumps that
I can't believe that that actually happened.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That I just got goosebumps too. That's like a like
a dream come true. You like, should we say you're welcome.
I think we didn't have much to do with it.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
That was just like weird, No, but it was.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It was I hadn't saw you and had a little crush.
Maybe he never done it, that's.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Right, so right, I never.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I never.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, I never got creepy crush vibes from you.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
So that at that point, Yeah, that was years and years,
but yeah, the true true story. And then from there,
I think there was a couple of things I did
before and then I remember you guys, we had seen
Blockbuster that dates it, doesn't it a Blockbuster on Wilshire,
and I remember toy You and Jenny were like everybody
that's done the show goes on to like work or
(03:57):
do soaps, and you were naming like all these people.
And then sure enough I ended up, you know, doing
soaps for six years I think after that show or
seven years.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So it all kind of just what was your like,
your acting experience prior to doing the show.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I think I did. I want to say, I did
a bay Watch where Pamela Anderson saves me from the
ocean from a gator.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Long story and there's a gator in the ocean.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah again, long story came out of a sewer sewer
drain and Hasselhoff picks me up and puts me in
the truck and.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Was this a dream sequence some other one of your dreams?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It was real?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It was real, and oh my god.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So yeah, he puts me in the back of this truck.
And that was I think my first first thing. And
then right as I found out, I got and I
think I got the call to test for Guiding Light,
like I think it was within like I think it
was pretty close. And then Guiding Light was like my
first year on on soaps.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
But I remember being in your your dad's office toy,
and I was just I was so nervous. I walked in.
It was down to the final callbacks, I guess, and
I look and there's David Chokichi sitting them like, oh god,
like what, I like, what am I doing here? Like
all these people. There's like about four or five guys,
And I just remember recognizing David and and went in
and your dad was there, and I was just like,
(05:21):
oh my god, I can't believe I'm in I'm in
the office here, and and uh and I did the audition.
I just remember the Steelers were playing in the Super
Bowl like that that following Sunday or something, and your
dad was like I knew I was a Steeler fan.
I was talking about it and he's like, you want
to place a ben And I just remember saying, you
mean my dollar to year like millions? And uh. And
that was like the last last thing I said. And
(05:43):
I ended up leaving the office and got a call
I want to say later that day, or like a
couple of day later or two days later that I
that I booked it, and I was so excited.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I mean, back then, David Chokichi is still mad at you.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Wait, but did you know that your role was going
to be key?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I think that's a really good question. I honestly, I
don't know how much they gave us. I can't remember
like if it was a you know, just two pages,
or if there was any context.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
To what one of those fake scenes reads, you know,
what's going on.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And especially then, it was probably pretty under wraps. I
would imagine with the story, you know that the popularity
and the storylines and stuff. So I don't know, but
I just remember getting the call and I was like,
oh my god, I can't I can't believe that that
this is happening. So and I remember the first day Tory,
I just remember you walked by. I was in the
dress room. I just gotten like acclimated, I got sent
(06:37):
and I just remember you coming in. You were the
sweet as you were like him. So I'm like, yeah,
I know who you are, and you're so kind and
sweet and made me feel so at home. And I
always remember that that was like my first, you know,
first impression, my first experience being like on set.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
And and then well we all got to hang out.
Like I never had scenes with you, but like we
all went out and we're friends in real life.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And during that time, yeah, and I remember, yeah, you
lived on I think Wilshire, someplace on Wilshire, yeah, yeah,
And I remember we ran into each other a lot.
And then Jenny, I think I ran The last time
I ran into you was like in a Ralph's, like
fifteen years ago, the one on Ventura by the across
from the old Maxwell Maxwell's Drugs, Maxwell Drugs, whatever that
(07:21):
one is. And I think that was the last time.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Oh my god, Why don't I remember that because it
was like it was literally like I, oh my god,
and then like it was like two minutes was it Ralph's? Okay?
So we were groceries?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Ralph you were, Yeah, you were shopping, and it had
to be maybe it could be twenty well maybe twenty
years ago, because I'm trying to think, Yeah, it might
have been fifteen.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And did we say hello to one another?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
We did? We did? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And did I reckon? Did I know who?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You realize? Really are?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You probably remember people?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We chatted? And then I think that was it. It
might have been the only time I saw you after
Oh my god, anything since the show. But and then
you know, I know Randy's on it, but then you know,
obviously Randy's son, Colton became my son on Poor Charles
on My Soap, which was.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So You've got to work with Colti.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I did. Now he's so growing up, it's so weird.
But I loved it. It was It was a great
It was great. I saw some of the scenes, like
a couple of years ago, I pulled out a VCR
tape and and there were some scenes of me and him.
Was so sweet, he was so little.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I just realized, you and mister Showbiz have the same hair,
exact same hair.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I've seen it recently in some of the posts.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
But do you wear tank talks because he wears going
really well.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I'm not. I'm not. I'm not doing it. I'm not
doing the cutoffs with the tank tops yet. But Randy,
maybe you got a you know, he can show me
some style.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Oh he will.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
But you're still iconically known in the soap world in
a good way. I'm obsessed with soap operas like Live
for Them. Do people ever recognize you from now two?
And oh?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Though, I mean it was only four episodes.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
And I made mistake or not mistake, I guess, however
you look at it, going down to Tijuana Rosa Rito
maybe spring break with some friends and it was like wow,
one of them while they were still airing, and so
definitely it's like the one time I remember it was
like wait then we'd be sitting at the bar and
I kid you not, there'd be like a preview coming
up and you'd see it flash. Wait after that, I
(09:40):
think for a bit, and soaps very rarely now long ago.
I mean, the last show that I did well, I
think I can say this because I saw it online.
I'm not going to say anything else. But I did
a very short stint recently, the first time in twenty
years in front of camera, and that respect on on days.
(10:04):
But I'm not saying anything else because I'm not supposed
to say it. But I did see it online, so
they I think talked about it. I saw my name
like a couple days ago, so anyway, but it been
it's twenty we're talking about twenty years since I did
Port Charles, Finish Port Charles, and then I did Bold
and Beautiful was the last one, and my daughter was born,
(10:26):
so that was twenty one. Yeah, it was twenty one
years ago since I did I'd left a soap opera, which.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Is crazy, but no one forgets soap operas.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
No one ages on soap operas.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
No one does. And you know, I've done I hosting,
I did a couple of things, and then you know,
as you know, I got into producing fully, like twenty
three years ago. I kind of right when Bold and
Beautiful was over and just realized how much I loved it.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
How did that happen?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Like?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
What was the reality? TV? Unscripted was kind of starting,
and I remember thinking, God, you know, I should I
should pitch some ideas and come up with some ideas
that I have for different shows and things like that,
and so basically started kind of putting my own stuff
together and pitching and and then through that a friend
(11:15):
of mine that worked on Big Brother and was one
of my favorite shows. My friend Sean was like, you know,
you'd be great like creating games and doing competition shows
for for like these type of shows, and I was
like great. He got me an interview at Big Brother.
My resume was like course, guys like you produce TV.
I'm like no, But I went in and I knew
(11:36):
the show well enough that I pitched like all these games.
And he called like a week later, and I remember
him saying, you know, I've got people with like resumes
like this, but you're you know, the meeting was so great.
And so I came on as a producer on Big
Brother and then have been kind of working since. Yeah,
and I just love everything from Apprentice to Minute to
(11:58):
Win It to a Big Brother to Food Network shows too,
I mean pretty much everything.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
And you did House Civilains? Correct?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Did How Civillains last?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
First season?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah? First season? And then Generation Gap I did that
same year with Kelly Rippa and uh. And then I
do a lot of you know, developing stuff for for
networks as well in production companies. And then my wife
and I started pitching a lot of our own stuff
as well, and so we currently have seven projects in
(12:30):
various stages of development with you know, we've so I've
sold option shows like Fox and Sony, and we currently
have one with Reese Witherspoon's company, He'll of Sunshine, And
so we we found we really enjoy that and kind
of doing our own thing and pitching our own stuff.
So it's been it's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And yeah, like.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Literally we're so we're you know, it's funny because we're
now Our daughter's twenty two, she's in her final year
at Duke and we only have the one and we
were empty nesting. So when she went, she was very
supportive too. She's like, I'm excited to see what you
guys are gonna do when I go, you know, go
off to college. And so I kind of feel like
it's that moment back in you know, college, watching something
(13:16):
on TV that it's kind of the next chapter. And
so I keep joking like I feel like a lot
of ways we just got to La. It's like what
are we going to do now? And you know, there's
so many opportunities, as everybody knows. The last couple of years,
I think in entertainment in general, especially unscripted and but
but yeah, we've we've enjoyed it, and we're currently we
(13:36):
did a couple of months on the East Coast now
through the holidays. My wife is here with her mom,
who's not not doing great, and so we're spend some
time here. My mom's up in Pittsburgh. We've kind of
been bouncing all around the East Coast the last last
couple of months and hopefully back in La soon.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Are you laying in bed at night and you're just like, wait,
I have this idea and then you just like, is
it the pileon?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah? Absolutely, Sometimes it pops in. I have to write
it down immediately or I forget it, and yeah, And
a lot of times it's been like around somebody or
a talent, right we base it on and then and
other times, yeah, it's just format. So I'm kind of
the majority of the stuff is kind of the competition
game formats that I've done a lot of, you know,
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and it's obviously very competitive. It's not just as easy
as going out the first thing I sold years ago.
You were asking how I got into it, like write
around right before Big Brother I started, I actually sold
a scripted show to NBC and we were in. The
script was written the weekend that it was going to
be decided to go into series. A lot of people
got let go at NBC and the Project Fill apartment.
(14:44):
There was like a Hollywood Reporter article like this is
going to be lightning in a bottle this series. And
I was like, oh my god, amazing. And it just didn't.
It just didn't turn out age. By the way, my
wife was on episode. She was in. She was with
rick Hurst in an episode or two after me. They
wanted to say, hey, hey, I I think.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
I did do a scene with both of you in
Spring Breakdown. It was many many moons ago.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
What yeh.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Rick Hurst played a manager and Tiffany and merheessim was
managing her boyfriend and there was a movie premiere and
I was the the bimbo actress that kind of entered in.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
So I thought, I was like, wait, did he just
say she was on an episode?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Wait?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
What?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
No?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Spring Breakdown?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
It was one Wait and Palm Springs. Were you on
location though?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
No? No, no, no, no, it was in, It was in,
It was in town.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Wait was it after you were on?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
See? I was six or eight? Was it eight? I
feel like, oh later and seven seven.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, okay, we're gonna look.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Yeah, because Tiffany and Thesim was on it at that point. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure. I don't know if she was on
yours and all, but.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Would you say you played a bimbo? She played a bembo.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Tiffany and we all pretended like Cameron Crowe wanted to
meet me, and so she just showed me away so
that I wouldn't be near her handsome actor boyfriend that.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
She was managing on the show. Oh my gosh, Jen
We was that when?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Yeah, he was Sex in the City, Jason Lewis, who
went on Sex and the City, Kim Katrell's boyfriend, actor boyfriend,
he played another actor exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I love it. Oh, this has been fun. We're going
to keep an eye out for you. Then you both
look lovely. I'll let good to.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
See you by. Thanks son.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Wait, that was fun to get to meet her and
and hear that story.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, we watched. We watched them recently. I think we're
families and pulled them up and saw.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Okay, so you've done a lot of shows, a lot
of reality shows. Of all of them, what would you say,
like was has been your most challenging or the most difficult.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Wow, that's a great question. They're all challenging in their
own ways. I'd say, you know, we did. I did.
I was a co executive producer on a show called
Stars earn Stripes. It was with Burnett and Dick Wolf.
Actually even though he scripted and it was there showing.
It was celebrities like shooting live ammo and guns and
(17:20):
jumping out and yeah, we had like Nick Chet like
all these celebs and it was it was intense. I
mean it was real. They were shooting machine guns, they
were shooting.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Like everything that sounds like Special Forces now it's.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
It's very much. It was very much like like Special Forces.
But it was this was yeah, you were first, Yeah
we were first, and that just logistically with the safety
and everything. It was. It was a lot and the
celebs alone. Right then you've got and you've got all
the military consultants and experts on set all the time
(17:54):
telling how to do stuff. You know, I mean a
lot could go wrong and show like that if you're
not careful. I was one of the biggest I think,
and then one of my most fun was the best
time ever with Neil Patrick Harris. It was a live
show on NBC and it was just just a blast,
I mean live on network TV. Wow walk like out
(18:15):
of New York.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Will we talk us through that one?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah? So it was It was based on it a
UK series called Saturday Night Takeaway. There's these two guys
and Deck that are like super popular in the UK
and it's a show that they had and so we,
not me, NBC took it and wanted to do its
own version. We called it Best Time Ever. But it
was based on that show. So it was like what
(18:38):
do you call it? A show with a bunch of
different what's the thing?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Variety show, variety show.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Thank you? Like there was a lot of Neil kind
of always had like a live bit he would do.
We had some remote stuff that I also produced if
we were on like in Chicago and other places during
the episodes, but it was basically a variety show. We
had celebrities come on do bits. There was challenges that
we did. There was you know, like I said, Neil
(19:04):
singing and dancing and people came on as guests. MC's
Kelsey Kelsey Grammar like we had you know, one of
the baldwins. We had Reese Switherspoon on the show. They
had it like kind of everybody it was a really.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Fun Hey this sounds great. What happened to that?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Did one season? And I think probably the budget and
everything else. I mean, who knows. That's the one thing
I've I've learned to kind of not trying to figure out.
I never know what you know, you think something's gonna
not go, and it goes and vice versa. It's just
there's so many, so many factors involved in it, especially
if it goes for a long time.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
You've you've been in it for a minute, I mean,
all the ups and downs. I'm sure your adventures are interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, it's been. It's been great. It's take some great
places and you know stuff that I've shot in Ireland
and Australia and all over the place, and it's been
it's been really fun.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
And you said you prefer being behind the camera instead
of in front of it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I do, I do?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
You know, I always kind of there's a question mark there.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah, I could. I wouldn't want to. I'd want to
host if that opportunity came up, I think, but to
go back full time acting again, I don't know. I
don't know. I I just I get so much out
of producing and creating, and that it would be it
would be a weird transition. And now that said, if
I was something recurring and I could do it while
(20:37):
I'm producing, for sure, like one hundred percent, kind of
like I just recently did. And but hosting, I always
love hosting, and a lot of times with the reality shows,
I'll kind of host the run throughs and things like
that before we get our hosts on board. So I
enjoy that. But producing is just like I just loved
at My wife will say I got to stop when
I get help, but my nature is just always producing things. Yeah,
(21:01):
and I do have to let it go sometimes when
I walk in the door because it's like, well, wait,
let's do that. We gotta do this, and what time
are we doing this? It's like gott to let it go.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Well, she is your life partner and business partner, So
where do you leave now?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah? Now I really have to be careful. But even
my daughter wud be like, Dad, stop producing us. You cannot.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Oh, I love that.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
So but it's been great, you know, and look, if
it's the right thing, and maybe as I get older,
you know, I end up coming back to it. I
keep thinking there is a chance I end up bookending,
you know, my my career and somehow I'm acting because
it's I'd much rather be sixty five seventy on a
show acting than running around putting out fires at that age,
so you never know.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, producing is hard work.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
It's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Acting is a lot easier. Just go get your makeup done.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
It's not easier, right, Well, I don't want to say
that to any action because it's really it is hard.
Obviously the lines. By the way, this recent thing I forgot,
like you forget that muscle, I'm like, can I do
this again? Well, i'd be able to retain this, like
and what happened? I did, just like getting back on
a bike.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I was like, soap operas are different, Like how many
pages a day?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Do you guys? Typically what?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Well? I mean, if it's an hour show, you could
you could have twenty pages.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Imagine Jen like would be screwed with like eight pages.
We'd be like, oh my god, we have so much
dialogue today.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I would feel the same exact way, Like if I
was having to memorize something and go act right now,
I'd be like, oh my god, I don't know if
I can do it.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I was blessed to luck out on with the exception
of Guying Light. It was only a year, but a
port Charles and Bold and Beautiful were half an hour shows,
so it was the same deal, but half the show.
You definitely didn't have as much Jay. I got to
ask you, Jenny, do you remember.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Because I was laughing, I'm just gonna say no.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
When we both I think I went out and got
a car when I was on the show, and you
went out to the same lady and got a car.
And there's the joke about lipstick. You don't remember any
of that to you. Probably not lipstick in a cart
a BMW from a woman on Wilshire and we had
this joke that she always kind of had some lipstick
on her and we would be on set and you
(23:13):
got like who I was like, oh my god, happened
to go to the same lady within like a couple
of weeks of me, and we chance No. I think
I got it first, and Jenny's like, where'd you get that?
And I said you should go talk to this lady
and then.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
We have the same car. Did I get the same
car as you.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
No, you got something different anyway. I just I just
remember that, like I love.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
That you remember that. I wish I did.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Well now that you brought it back around. Can we
talk about Resident Greg for a second, because our fans
really a ka us what happened. We weren't as fans
rewatching the show, as viewers were perplexed. We're like, he
never comes back, He's just gone the whole tear.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I think Tara. Tara's shared the crap out me.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Why didn't he try?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah, I don't know, right, it was weird.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
She said that Kelly wasn't up for a relationship, and she.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Planted that seat in my head and then I just
kind of backed off and then it just kind of
and that was it.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
We never see you again.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
You're never mentioned again. We're very upcited about it as yours.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, me too, because I remember too. I was like,
maybe this goes, maybe this something happens. I'm still waiting, guys,
by the way, So yeah, I don't know. It was
a weird. It was a weird ending. Yeah, I watched
them again reboot.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
On the reboot.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
On the reboot, we got your number, We'll book it.
Into your acting career with that.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
There you go, that would be funny. Twenty fifty.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Nine O two one old.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
So yeah, it was a weird ending. I just you
know that that whole thing. I mean, it was obviously
the single white female storyline, which was which was crazy.
And yeah, I watched it recently and I kind of
forgotten some of it, and I was like, oh, yeah
that she totally tells me, like, you know, she's just
getting out of you know, the rehab, and she's trying
to get her life together, and you know you should
(25:07):
probably just give her some space. And and so I
will say I was probably taking the high road as
the med student.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, you got your like scruples back for a moment,
the high road.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I shouldn't be dating a patient. But now I'm going
to let her, you know, become her best self by
me not being part of it. And yeah, and then
that was that was the end.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Very Yeah, Very you made a big impact. We liked
Kelly and Greg together and we wanted to see more
of you.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I wish I would have and I wish I wish
I would have thought through my hair back in the
day on that I watched it. I'm like what was
I thinking. It's like this crazy weird but I guess
that was.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
The thinking the same thing. Yeah, my hair, you look back, geez. Yeah,
what was it all?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, yeah, it's great. I yeah, I lucked out because
it was all so nerve wracking because I had obviously,
we had our scenes Jenny, but then I had some
party scenes where I had to walk in and it
was the entire cast and I was just like, oh
my god, oh my god, it's such a dork. But
I remember it's when your brother Tory, well, when Randy
(26:15):
Forget his character got and passed out, and.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Oh when you come through the door and somebody makes
you say a poem or something.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brian had the camera and he's filmed
me on like he goes, I have a message, and
I was, and I forget. It was like rose and
revelized it was something something and you have birthday to
you or something.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I don't know you, but happy birthday to you.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yeah, And then I just remember being unsetty. He got
yeah he was drunk. He was drinking off the side,
and then I came over. I go, is the way
I'm a med student?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
You did? Thank god you were there, Kelly call nine
one one.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I think you said I didn't been the guy. It
was helping out there. But and I remember, yeah, we
had the bulling scene that we shot down in the
valley and then yeah, and then that's when Tara kind
of started also kind of like grabbing my arm, and
you know, it was getting a little a little weird
(27:19):
and creepy with her Page was her name, I think
page Page.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, we had fun though, I think that that even
though it was weird and icky, we had fun doing it.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
It was a great I mean a great story for
back then. I mean that was such a great, you know, lifetime,
single white female kind of story. Yeah, it's just everybody
loved and but yeah, I just kind of faded off.
I'm trying to even think the last scene like that
I was even seen. I don't remember the exact last
time on camera, but it was probably that Tara saying
(27:56):
something to me, because I don't think I do you remember, Jane.
I don't know if I called, like I didn't have
I didn't have a formal.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Like flowers to be bye. Well, I didn't send him flowers, Tara.
Tara sent him flowers from me. Oh, saying it's over,
and then he sends her flower. She sends Kelly flowers
from him. It says it's over. Yeah, yeah, so it's
a double flower.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
By the way, I remember this very clearly, exactly what
you're doing now. We all did Tara, Tara, tart We
did it all we did. Do you go so Tar, No,
it's Tara, Okay, try it again, Tara No, Tara.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
There was something about that name. I cannot get it right.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Every time ye had we had many retakes because I
either somebody was saying it wrong.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
We just say, Tara, Tara, What you just did? I
think it was Tara. I honestly don't know. I said
I think it was Tara, and I instantly thought it
was Tar.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I definitely did some taras I think in the mix.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Oh my god, it's such good memories talking to you
and seeing you. This is really fun.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Wise, miss you, guys, miss you, Randy.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Come back.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I'm hopefully we'll be back in the in the next
couple of weeks. We'll get back. But we kind of
put it laws. We we kind at least this amazing
place for like twelve years, and the landlord was like,
you know, I want to move back into this this home.
I love this home. I'm getting a little older. We're
(29:27):
like great, So we put everything into storage. So it's
all sitting in LA. We're just waiting now to come
back and pull it right back out and figure out
where we're gonna where we're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
But what's up for you? Yeah, what's next? What's your
next chapter? It's so exciting being an energy chapter.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Hopefully with that there's a there's a job that there's
something more of a long term thing that I that
I hope to get that. If that happens, then for
sure I'm back very soon full time. So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
We're sending you good energy.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Thank you, thank you, and then hopefully a couple of
these shows to get on the air.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
And we love a good challenge killing keep us in mind.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Thank you. It's so great to see you guys.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Really good to see you too. Thanks for coming on
of course, by bye bye.
It's nine O G Engine with Jenny Garth and Tory
spelling there Hi, Oh my gosh, this is wild.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, I'm a little grayer than last time. We probably
saw each other.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
A silver fuck I've seen you.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You have. I don't say this was I that was
like five, six, seven years ago. I don't know. I
can't remember. I think I was. Yeah, I think I
was great, great, pretty gray.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It looks so good on you.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh, thank you, thank you. So it's like you.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Weren't an actor, like I came in and took a
meeting with you producing.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
The roles were reversed. It was awesome, it was great.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Michael Dets. You still look the same you do. You
look exactly the same, but you have a great wing on.
It's weird.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's kind of yeah, a little older. God, I mean,
what are we talking.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Like thirty twenty thirty years it's twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You were in season six.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, so that was yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, you were a doctor or not a you were
a resident.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I was a I was like a med student, med
student something.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, they like kept mentioning that, right, Yeah, don't you.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Think it's a little unethical for a med student to
hit on one of his patients.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I think, so, yeah, I'm going to go with yes.
And you were in for cocaine, weren't you.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Right, I'm a great catch.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
At that point, you're like, oh, I think they're like,
we got to throw it in. He's not a doctor,
so maybe this storyline is okay. Yeah, exactly, he's in training.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It was crazy because I may have mentioned this back
in the day, but like, really quick, I was at
Penn State my second year, watching nine to two and
on a black and white TV in my dorm room.
Never it acted, and uh, and I watched it. It
was almost coming up on and I was like, first
of all, I had a crush on a little crush
on Jenny when I was watching it, and I was like,
(02:06):
Beverly Hills. I had never been to California, and I
was like, it looks like a great place to live,
and these guys look like they're having fun doing this show.
And I called my mom, and long story short, she
got me crush. She's like, what are you doing? I
knew one guy in Newport Beach I ended up staying
for the summer Meta manager. It was Lee Daniels, who
now directs Lee Daniels The Butler, and he was like
(02:27):
my first manager stayed. My stepfather at the time was like,
you can always go back to school. You may as
well give it a shot. And like four three four
years later, I was standing with you. I remember on
the scene we were about to have a kissing scene,
and I think it was when Tar, her name was
the character Tar was watching like from the window, and
I just remember like thinking, I literally stepped through the television.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Set and now I was in color. Oh my god,
you never told me that.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, that was that true story. It's a really like
one of the reasons I drove to California. I'm currently
on the East Coast through the holidays, but the reason
I drove to LA was that show partly and then
ended up just staying and then ended up being on
that show. Was just so bizarre. Still one of those
stories I tell because it still gives me goosebumps that
I can't believe that that actually happened.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That I just got goosebumps too. That's like a like
a dream come true. You like, should we say you're welcome.
I think we didn't have much to do with it.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
That was just like weird, No, but it was.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It was I hadn't saw you and had a little crush.
Maybe he never done it, that's.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Right, so right, I never.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I never.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, I never got creepy crush vibes from you.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
So that at that point, Yeah, that was years and years,
but yeah, the true true story. And then from there,
I think there was a couple of things I did
before and then I remember you guys, we had seen
Blockbuster that dates it, doesn't it a Blockbuster on Wilshire,
and I remember toy You and Jenny were like everybody
that's done the show goes on to like work or
(03:57):
do soaps, and you were naming like all these people.
And then sure enough I ended up, you know, doing
soaps for six years I think after that show or
seven years.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So it all kind of just what was your like,
your acting experience prior to doing the show.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I think I did. I want to say, I did
a bay Watch where Pamela Anderson saves me from the
ocean from a gator.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Long story and there's a gator in the ocean.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah again, long story came out of a sewer sewer
drain and Hasselhoff picks me up and puts me in
the truck and.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Was this a dream sequence some other one of your dreams?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It was real?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It was real, and oh my god.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So yeah, he puts me in the back of this truck.
And that was I think my first first thing. And
then right as I found out, I got and I
think I got the call to test for Guiding Light,
like I think it was within like I think it
was pretty close. And then Guiding Light was like my
first year on on soaps.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
But I remember being in your your dad's office toy,
and I was just I was so nervous. I walked in.
It was down to the final callbacks, I guess, and
I look and there's David Chokichi sitting them like, oh god,
like what, I like, what am I doing here? Like
all these people. There's like about four or five guys,
And I just remember recognizing David and and went in
and your dad was there, and I was just like,
(05:21):
oh my god, I can't believe I'm in I'm in
the office here, and and uh and I did the audition.
I just remember the Steelers were playing in the Super
Bowl like that that following Sunday or something, and your
dad was like I knew I was a Steeler fan.
I was talking about it and he's like, you want
to place a ben And I just remember saying, you
mean my dollar to year like millions? And uh. And
that was like the last last thing I said. And
(05:43):
I ended up leaving the office and got a call
I want to say later that day, or like a
couple of day later or two days later that I
that I booked it, and I was so excited.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I mean, back then, David Chokichi is still mad at you.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Wait, but did you know that your role was going
to be key?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I think that's a really good question. I honestly, I
don't know how much they gave us. I can't remember
like if it was a you know, just two pages,
or if there was any context.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
To what one of those fake scenes reads, you know,
what's going on.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And especially then, it was probably pretty under wraps. I
would imagine with the story, you know that the popularity
and the storylines and stuff. So I don't know, but
I just remember getting the call and I was like,
oh my god, I can't I can't believe that that
this is happening. So and I remember the first day Tory,
I just remember you walked by. I was in the
dress room. I just gotten like acclimated, I got sent
(06:37):
and I just remember you coming in. You were the
sweet as you were like him. So I'm like, yeah,
I know who you are, and you're so kind and
sweet and made me feel so at home. And I
always remember that that was like my first, you know,
first impression, my first experience being like on set.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
And and then well we all got to hang out.
Like I never had scenes with you, but like we
all went out and we're friends in real life.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And during that time, yeah, and I remember, yeah, you
lived on I think Wilshire, someplace on Wilshire, yeah, yeah,
And I remember we ran into each other a lot.
And then Jenny, I think I ran The last time
I ran into you was like in a Ralph's, like
fifteen years ago, the one on Ventura by the across
from the old Maxwell Maxwell's Drugs, Maxwell Drugs, whatever that
(07:21):
one is. And I think that was the last time.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Oh my god, Why don't I remember that because it
was like it was literally like I, oh my god,
and then like it was like two minutes was it Ralph's? Okay?
So we were groceries?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Ralph you were, Yeah, you were shopping, and it had
to be maybe it could be twenty well maybe twenty
years ago, because I'm trying to think, Yeah, it might
have been fifteen.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And did we say hello to one another?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
We did? We did? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And did I reckon? Did I know who?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You realize? Really are?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You probably remember people?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We chatted? And then I think that was it. It
might have been the only time I saw you after
Oh my god, anything since the show. But and then
you know, I know Randy's on it, but then you know,
obviously Randy's son, Colton became my son on Poor Charles
on My Soap, which was.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So You've got to work with Colti.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I did. Now he's so growing up, it's so weird.
But I loved it. It was It was a great
It was great. I saw some of the scenes, like
a couple of years ago, I pulled out a VCR
tape and and there were some scenes of me and him.
Was so sweet, he was so little.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I just realized, you and mister Showbiz have the same hair,
exact same hair.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I've seen it recently in some of the posts.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
But do you wear tank talks because he wears going
really well.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I'm not. I'm not. I'm not doing it. I'm not
doing the cutoffs with the tank tops yet. But Randy,
maybe you got a you know, he can show me
some style.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Oh he will.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
But you're still iconically known in the soap world in
a good way. I'm obsessed with soap operas like Live
for Them. Do people ever recognize you from now two?
And oh?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Though, I mean it was only four episodes.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
And I made mistake or not mistake, I guess, however
you look at it, going down to Tijuana Rosa Rito
maybe spring break with some friends and it was like wow,
one of them while they were still airing, and so
definitely it's like the one time I remember it was
like wait then we'd be sitting at the bar and
I kid you not, there'd be like a preview coming
up and you'd see it flash. Wait after that, I
(09:40):
think for a bit, and soaps very rarely now long ago.
I mean, the last show that I did well, I
think I can say this because I saw it online.
I'm not going to say anything else. But I did
a very short stint recently, the first time in twenty
years in front of camera, and that respect on on days.
(10:04):
But I'm not saying anything else because I'm not supposed
to say it. But I did see it online, so
they I think talked about it. I saw my name
like a couple days ago, so anyway, but it been
it's twenty we're talking about twenty years since I did
Port Charles, Finish Port Charles, and then I did Bold
and Beautiful was the last one, and my daughter was born,
(10:26):
so that was twenty one. Yeah, it was twenty one
years ago since I did I'd left a soap opera, which.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Is crazy, but no one forgets soap operas.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
No one ages on soap operas.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
No one does. And you know, I've done I hosting,
I did a couple of things, and then you know,
as you know, I got into producing fully, like twenty
three years ago. I kind of right when Bold and
Beautiful was over and just realized how much I loved it.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
How did that happen?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Like?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
What was the reality? TV? Unscripted was kind of starting,
and I remember thinking, God, you know, I should I
should pitch some ideas and come up with some ideas
that I have for different shows and things like that,
and so basically started kind of putting my own stuff
together and pitching and and then through that a friend
(11:15):
of mine that worked on Big Brother and was one
of my favorite shows. My friend Sean was like, you know,
you'd be great like creating games and doing competition shows
for for like these type of shows, and I was
like great. He got me an interview at Big Brother.
My resume was like course, guys like you produce TV.
I'm like no, But I went in and I knew
(11:36):
the show well enough that I pitched like all these games.
And he called like a week later, and I remember
him saying, you know, I've got people with like resumes
like this, but you're you know, the meeting was so great.
And so I came on as a producer on Big
Brother and then have been kind of working since. Yeah,
and I just love everything from Apprentice to Minute to
(11:58):
Win It to a Big Brother to Food Network shows too,
I mean pretty much everything.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
And you did House Civilains? Correct?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Did How Civillains last?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
First season?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah? First season? And then Generation Gap I did that
same year with Kelly Rippa and uh. And then I
do a lot of you know, developing stuff for for
networks as well in production companies. And then my wife
and I started pitching a lot of our own stuff
as well, and so we currently have seven projects in
(12:30):
various stages of development with you know, we've so I've
sold option shows like Fox and Sony, and we currently
have one with Reese Witherspoon's company, He'll of Sunshine, And
so we we found we really enjoy that and kind
of doing our own thing and pitching our own stuff.
So it's been it's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And yeah, like.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Literally we're so we're you know, it's funny because we're
now Our daughter's twenty two, she's in her final year
at Duke and we only have the one and we
were empty nesting. So when she went, she was very
supportive too. She's like, I'm excited to see what you
guys are gonna do when I go, you know, go
off to college. And so I kind of feel like
it's that moment back in you know, college, watching something
(13:16):
on TV that it's kind of the next chapter. And
so I keep joking like I feel like a lot
of ways we just got to La. It's like what
are we going to do now? And you know, there's
so many opportunities, as everybody knows. The last couple of years,
I think in entertainment in general, especially unscripted and but
but yeah, we've we've enjoyed it, and we're currently we
(13:36):
did a couple of months on the East Coast now
through the holidays. My wife is here with her mom,
who's not not doing great, and so we're spend some
time here. My mom's up in Pittsburgh. We've kind of
been bouncing all around the East Coast the last last
couple of months and hopefully back in La soon.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Are you laying in bed at night and you're just like, wait,
I have this idea and then you just like, is
it the pileon?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah? Absolutely, Sometimes it pops in. I have to write
it down immediately or I forget it, and yeah, And
a lot of times it's been like around somebody or
a talent, right we base it on and then and
other times, yeah, it's just format. So I'm kind of
the majority of the stuff is kind of the competition
game formats that I've done a lot of, you know,
(14:21):
and it's obviously very competitive. It's not just as easy
as going out the first thing I sold years ago.
You were asking how I got into it, like write
around right before Big Brother I started, I actually sold
a scripted show to NBC and we were in. The
script was written the weekend that it was going to
be decided to go into series. A lot of people
got let go at NBC and the Project Fill apartment.
(14:44):
There was like a Hollywood Reporter article like this is
going to be lightning in a bottle this series. And
I was like, oh my god, amazing. And it just didn't.
It just didn't turn out age. By the way, my
wife was on episode. She was in. She was with
rick Hurst in an episode or two after me. They
wanted to say, hey, hey, I I think.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
I did do a scene with both of you in
Spring Breakdown. It was many many moons ago.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
What yeh.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Rick Hurst played a manager and Tiffany and merheessim was
managing her boyfriend and there was a movie premiere and
I was the the bimbo actress that kind of entered in.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
So I thought, I was like, wait, did he just
say she was on an episode?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Wait?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
What?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
No?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Spring Breakdown?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
It was one Wait and Palm Springs. Were you on
location though?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
No? No, no, no, no, it was in, It was in,
It was in town.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Wait was it after you were on?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
See? I was six or eight? Was it eight? I
feel like, oh later and seven seven.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, okay, we're gonna look.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Yeah, because Tiffany and Thesim was on it at that point. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure. I don't know if she was on
yours and all, but.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Would you say you played a bimbo? She played a bembo.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Tiffany and we all pretended like Cameron Crowe wanted to
meet me, and so she just showed me away so
that I wouldn't be near her handsome actor boyfriend that.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
She was managing on the show. Oh my gosh, Jen
We was that when?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Yeah, he was Sex in the City, Jason Lewis, who
went on Sex and the City, Kim Katrell's boyfriend, actor boyfriend,
he played another actor exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I love it. Oh, this has been fun. We're going
to keep an eye out for you. Then you both
look lovely. I'll let good to.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
See you by. Thanks son.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Wait, that was fun to get to meet her and
and hear that story.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, we watched. We watched them recently. I think we're
families and pulled them up and saw.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Okay, so you've done a lot of shows, a lot
of reality shows. Of all of them, what would you say,
like was has been your most challenging or the most difficult.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Wow, that's a great question. They're all challenging in their
own ways. I'd say, you know, we did. I did.
I was a co executive producer on a show called
Stars earn Stripes. It was with Burnett and Dick Wolf.
Actually even though he scripted and it was there showing.
It was celebrities like shooting live ammo and guns and
(17:20):
jumping out and yeah, we had like Nick Chet like
all these celebs and it was it was intense. I
mean it was real. They were shooting machine guns, they
were shooting.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Like everything that sounds like Special Forces now it's.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
It's very much. It was very much like like Special Forces.
But it was this was yeah, you were first, Yeah
we were first, and that just logistically with the safety
and everything. It was. It was a lot and the
celebs alone. Right then you've got and you've got all
the military consultants and experts on set all the time
(17:54):
telling how to do stuff. You know, I mean a
lot could go wrong and show like that if you're
not careful. I was one of the biggest I think,
and then one of my most fun was the best
time ever with Neil Patrick Harris. It was a live
show on NBC and it was just just a blast,
I mean live on network TV. Wow walk like out
(18:15):
of New York.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Will we talk us through that one?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah? So it was It was based on it a
UK series called Saturday Night Takeaway. There's these two guys
and Deck that are like super popular in the UK
and it's a show that they had and so we,
not me, NBC took it and wanted to do its
own version. We called it Best Time Ever. But it
was based on that show. So it was like what
(18:38):
do you call it? A show with a bunch of
different what's the thing?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Variety show, variety show.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Thank you? Like there was a lot of Neil kind
of always had like a live bit he would do.
We had some remote stuff that I also produced if
we were on like in Chicago and other places during
the episodes, but it was basically a variety show. We
had celebrities come on do bits. There was challenges that
we did. There was you know, like I said, Neil
(19:04):
singing and dancing and people came on as guests. MC's
Kelsey Kelsey Grammar like we had you know, one of
the baldwins. We had Reese Switherspoon on the show. They
had it like kind of everybody it was a really.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Fun Hey this sounds great. What happened to that?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Did one season? And I think probably the budget and
everything else. I mean, who knows. That's the one thing
I've I've learned to kind of not trying to figure out.
I never know what you know, you think something's gonna
not go, and it goes and vice versa. It's just
there's so many, so many factors involved in it, especially
if it goes for a long time.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
You've you've been in it for a minute, I mean,
all the ups and downs. I'm sure your adventures are interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, it's been. It's been great. It's take some great
places and you know stuff that I've shot in Ireland
and Australia and all over the place, and it's been
it's been really fun.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
And you said you prefer being behind the camera instead
of in front of it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I do, I do?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
You know, I always kind of there's a question mark there.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah, I could. I wouldn't want to. I'd want to
host if that opportunity came up, I think, but to
go back full time acting again, I don't know. I
don't know. I I just I get so much out
of producing and creating, and that it would be it
would be a weird transition. And now that said, if
I was something recurring and I could do it while
(20:37):
I'm producing, for sure, like one hundred percent, kind of
like I just recently did. And but hosting, I always
love hosting, and a lot of times with the reality shows,
I'll kind of host the run throughs and things like
that before we get our hosts on board. So I
enjoy that. But producing is just like I just loved
at My wife will say I got to stop when
I get help, but my nature is just always producing things. Yeah,
(21:01):
and I do have to let it go sometimes when
I walk in the door because it's like, well, wait,
let's do that. We gotta do this, and what time
are we doing this? It's like gott to let it go.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Well, she is your life partner and business partner, So
where do you leave now?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah? Now I really have to be careful. But even
my daughter wud be like, Dad, stop producing us. You cannot.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Oh, I love that.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
So but it's been great, you know, and look, if
it's the right thing, and maybe as I get older,
you know, I end up coming back to it. I
keep thinking there is a chance I end up bookending,
you know, my my career and somehow I'm acting because
it's I'd much rather be sixty five seventy on a
show acting than running around putting out fires at that age,
so you never know.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, producing is hard work.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
It's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Acting is a lot easier. Just go get your makeup done.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
It's not easier, right, Well, I don't want to say
that to any action because it's really it is hard.
Obviously the lines. By the way, this recent thing I forgot,
like you forget that muscle, I'm like, can I do
this again? Well, i'd be able to retain this, like
and what happened? I did, just like getting back on
a bike.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I was like, soap operas are different, Like how many
pages a day?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Do you guys? Typically what?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Well? I mean, if it's an hour show, you could
you could have twenty pages.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Imagine Jen like would be screwed with like eight pages.
We'd be like, oh my god, we have so much
dialogue today.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I would feel the same exact way, Like if I
was having to memorize something and go act right now,
I'd be like, oh my god, I don't know if
I can do it.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I was blessed to luck out on with the exception
of Guying Light. It was only a year, but a
port Charles and Bold and Beautiful were half an hour shows,
so it was the same deal, but half the show.
You definitely didn't have as much Jay. I got to
ask you, Jenny, do you remember.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Because I was laughing, I'm just gonna say no.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
When we both I think I went out and got
a car when I was on the show, and you
went out to the same lady and got a car.
And there's the joke about lipstick. You don't remember any
of that to you. Probably not lipstick in a cart
a BMW from a woman on Wilshire and we had
this joke that she always kind of had some lipstick
on her and we would be on set and you
(23:13):
got like who I was like, oh my god, happened
to go to the same lady within like a couple
of weeks of me, and we chance No. I think
I got it first, and Jenny's like, where'd you get that?
And I said you should go talk to this lady
and then.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
We have the same car. Did I get the same
car as you.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
No, you got something different anyway. I just I just
remember that, like I love.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
That you remember that. I wish I did.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Well now that you brought it back around. Can we
talk about Resident Greg for a second, because our fans
really a ka us what happened. We weren't as fans
rewatching the show, as viewers were perplexed. We're like, he
never comes back, He's just gone the whole tear.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I think Tara. Tara's shared the crap out me.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Why didn't he try?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah, I don't know, right, it was weird.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
She said that Kelly wasn't up for a relationship, and she.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Planted that seat in my head and then I just
kind of backed off and then it just kind of
and that was it.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
We never see you again.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
You're never mentioned again. We're very upcited about it as yours.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, me too, because I remember too. I was like,
maybe this goes, maybe this something happens. I'm still waiting, guys,
by the way, So yeah, I don't know. It was
a weird. It was a weird ending. Yeah, I watched
them again reboot.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
On the reboot.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
On the reboot, we got your number, We'll book it.
Into your acting career with that.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
There you go, that would be funny. Twenty fifty.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Nine O two one old.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
So yeah, it was a weird ending. I just you
know that that whole thing. I mean, it was obviously
the single white female storyline, which was which was crazy.
And yeah, I watched it recently and I kind of
forgotten some of it, and I was like, oh, yeah
that she totally tells me, like, you know, she's just
getting out of you know, the rehab, and she's trying
to get her life together, and you know you should
(25:07):
probably just give her some space. And and so I
will say I was probably taking the high road as
the med student.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, you got your like scruples back for a moment,
the high road.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I shouldn't be dating a patient. But now I'm going
to let her, you know, become her best self by
me not being part of it. And yeah, and then
that was that was the end.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Very Yeah, Very you made a big impact. We liked
Kelly and Greg together and we wanted to see more
of you.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I wish I would have and I wish I wish
I would have thought through my hair back in the
day on that I watched it. I'm like what was
I thinking. It's like this crazy weird but I guess
that was.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
The thinking the same thing. Yeah, my hair, you look back, geez. Yeah,
what was it all?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, yeah, it's great. I yeah, I lucked out because
it was all so nerve wracking because I had obviously,
we had our scenes Jenny, but then I had some
party scenes where I had to walk in and it
was the entire cast and I was just like, oh
my god, oh my god, it's such a dork. But
I remember it's when your brother Tory, well, when Randy
(26:15):
Forget his character got and passed out, and.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Oh when you come through the door and somebody makes
you say a poem or something.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brian had the camera and he's filmed
me on like he goes, I have a message, and
I was, and I forget. It was like rose and
revelized it was something something and you have birthday to
you or something.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I don't know you, but happy birthday to you.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yeah, And then I just remember being unsetty. He got
yeah he was drunk. He was drinking off the side,
and then I came over. I go, is the way
I'm a med student?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
You did? Thank god you were there, Kelly call nine
one one.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I think you said I didn't been the guy. It
was helping out there. But and I remember, yeah, we
had the bulling scene that we shot down in the
valley and then yeah, and then that's when Tara kind
of started also kind of like grabbing my arm, and
you know, it was getting a little a little weird
(27:19):
and creepy with her Page was her name, I think
page Page.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, we had fun though, I think that that even
though it was weird and icky, we had fun doing it.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
It was a great I mean a great story for
back then. I mean that was such a great, you know, lifetime,
single white female kind of story. Yeah, it's just everybody
loved and but yeah, I just kind of faded off.
I'm trying to even think the last scene like that
I was even seen. I don't remember the exact last
time on camera, but it was probably that Tara saying
(27:56):
something to me, because I don't think I do you remember, Jane.
I don't know if I called, like I didn't have
I didn't have a formal.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Like flowers to be bye. Well, I didn't send him flowers, Tara.
Tara sent him flowers from me. Oh, saying it's over,
and then he sends her flower. She sends Kelly flowers
from him. It says it's over. Yeah, yeah, so it's
a double flower.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
By the way, I remember this very clearly, exactly what
you're doing now. We all did Tara, Tara, tart We
did it all we did. Do you go so Tar, No,
it's Tara, Okay, try it again, Tara No, Tara.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
There was something about that name. I cannot get it right.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Every time ye had we had many retakes because I
either somebody was saying it wrong.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
We just say, Tara, Tara, What you just did? I
think it was Tara. I honestly don't know. I said
I think it was Tara, and I instantly thought it
was Tar.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I definitely did some taras I think in the mix.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Oh my god, it's such good memories talking to you
and seeing you. This is really fun.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Wise, miss you, guys, miss you, Randy.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Come back.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I'm hopefully we'll be back in the in the next
couple of weeks. We'll get back. But we kind of
put it laws. We we kind at least this amazing
place for like twelve years, and the landlord was like,
you know, I want to move back into this this home.
I love this home. I'm getting a little older. We're
(29:27):
like great, So we put everything into storage. So it's
all sitting in LA. We're just waiting now to come
back and pull it right back out and figure out
where we're gonna where we're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
But what's up for you? Yeah, what's next? What's your
next chapter? It's so exciting being an energy chapter.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Hopefully with that there's a there's a job that there's
something more of a long term thing that I that
I hope to get that. If that happens, then for
sure I'm back very soon full time. So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
We're sending you good energy.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Thank you, thank you, and then hopefully a couple of
these shows to get on the air.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
And we love a good challenge killing keep us in mind.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Thank you. It's so great to see you guys.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Really good to see you too. Thanks for coming on
of course, by bye bye.
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