Speak about a meet-cute! James Lafferty and Alexandra Park’s love story started on a TV set — and so they have since performed a small display screen couple in 2021’s Everybody Is Doing Nice.
The One Tree Hill alum first crossed paths with Park when he directed a 2015 episode of The Royals (which shared a created staff with The CW drama). Lafferty went on to direct 4 extra episodes of the E! sequence, whereas his love performed one of many lead characters, Princess Eleanor, on all 4 seasons.
The couple have since remained considerably tightlipped about their romance. Nonetheless, when Lafferty popped the query within the fall of 2020, he couldn’t assist however share the information along with his social media followers.
“She mentioned yeah 🙌🏼☺️,” the Proper Stuff alum captioned a snap of the newly engaged pair in September of that 12 months whereas snuggling within the kitchen.
Park, for her park, completely informed Us Weekly in January 2021 why she and Lafferty prefer to hold their romance out of the limelight.
“We’re very non-public by alternative, however we need to get some love out for the present, and we need to share our lives with our supporters and followers,” the Capturing in Useless actress mentioned on the time. “We stroll the road of placing a little bit bit on the market at occasions.”
That line, nevertheless, doesn’t apply to working collectively on display screen. The truth is, Park informed Us in January 2021 that the lovebirds got here up with the thought for Everybody Is Doing Nice collectively. (The present premiered on Hulu that very same month.)
“We thought it could simply be nice [to play a married couple]. The chemistry is in there,” the Elephant Princess alum recalled. “We love working collectively. That’s one of many issues I’m so grateful about in our relationship is that we’re in a position to work collectively doing the issues that we love, so we simply thought it could be actually enjoyable to mess around with the dynamic of Jeremy and Andrea in clearly one thing that’s very reverse to our private relationship.”
4 months later, Lafferty once more let followers into his world with Park whereas gushing over his then-fiancée’s ebook, Sugar Excessive.
“I couldn’t be extra proud/in awe of this girl. After watching her work via the years-long course of, the day has lastly come when she will get to launch it out into the world,” the Small City Crime actor wrote by way of Instagram in Might 2021, noting that the memoir talks about Park’s battle with kind 1 diabetes and her profession evolution. “It’s a uncooked, trustworthy, humorous and provoking journey that may go away you feeling like it doesn’t matter what comes your method, you possibly can obtain what you got down to do on this life.”
One 12 months later, Us completely confirmed that the duo acquired married in Hawaii. Lafferty’s former OTH costar Stephen Colletti — who additionally co-created Everybody Is Doing Nice — was one of many groomsmen. Park had her Royals costar and longtime BFF Tom Austen available as a part of her bridal celebration.
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