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Eve Plumb is sharing more about the crush she had on her The Brady Bunch costar Christopher Knight
The actors played siblings Peter and Jan Brady on the beloved series from 1969 to 1974
Both have shared over the years that there was a brief moment when their off-screen bond nearly shifted into something more
Eve Plumb says that one big reason she had a crush on her The Brady Bunch costar Christopher Knight was “proximity.”
Speaking on Joann Butler In Studio With, Plumb, 68, opened up about the relationship between the actors, who played siblings Peter and Jan Brady on the beloved series from 1969 to 1974.
Both have shared over the years that there was a brief moment when their off-screen bond nearly shifted into something more.
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Christopher Knight and Eve Plumb on The Brady Bunch.
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“It was proximity,” Plumb said in the interview, adding: “As a little girl, and he’s a little boy and we’re hanging out and … I didn’t have any other pool of applicants.”
Asked if Knight knew she had a crush on him, Plumb responded: “I don’t think so,” but added that he likely does now: “Probably. Probably. People like to talk about it.”
In a recent interview with Page Six, Plumb said that the two went on a date shortly after The Brady Bunch ended.
“It was sweet,” she said. “It was fun, but we were really already by that time just too good of friends to make that transition into being romantic partners.”
Speaking to PEOPLE at The Brady Bunch Experience on Tuesday, April 28, in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, Knight weighed in, saying: “Eve was more mature than me very early [and] always had, from the earliest I can remember, her claim on me, but I wasn’t there.”
“You know, I wasn’t ready to be claimed. I wasn’t even aware for part of that time that it just wasn’t there, right to the very end,” he added.
And by the time Knight says he began to feel ready to reciprocate, the show was winding down: “And right as, all of a sudden, I’m now ready perhaps to turn around and recognize this attention and maybe give some of my own, we’re off the air.”
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“It was sweet, but it was [not] destined, and I’m glad,” he said of the romance that never was. “Because surely, you know, exes aren’t somebody you normally stay very close to. So we never had a chance to be an item, to find a distance in one another.”
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