{"id":23849,"date":"2019-05-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1042178"},"modified":"2019-05-17T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:00:00","slug":"20-glee-secrets-revealed-on-set-romances-devastating-tragedy-and-unbreakable-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/20-glee-secrets-revealed-on-set-romances-devastating-tragedy-and-unbreakable-bonds\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Glee Secrets Revealed: On-Set Romances, Devastating Tragedy and Unbreakable Bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019319\/rs_600x600-190419081311-600x600-gleecast-gj-4-19-19.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Just like in the hallways of McKinley High, the <em>Glee<\/em> set featured a lot of flirtation and relationships between its young stars. (And even before the show, as Lea Michele revealed in her 2014 memoir <em>Brunette Ambition<\/em> that she and <strong>Matthew Morrison<\/strong> &#8220;actually dated back in for the day for a Broadway beat.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Michele and Cory Monteith, whose characters were one of the show&#8217;s most iconic couples,&#8221; dated for several years before Monteith&#8217;s tragic death in 2013, while <strong>Blake Jenner<\/strong> and <strong>Melissa Benoist<\/strong>, who now stars on <em>Supergirl<\/em>, married in&nbsp;2015 after meeting on the set in 2012 when they also played love interests; they&nbsp;split in 2016 and their divorce was finalized the following year. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Naya Rivera and Mark Salling briefly dated in the show&#8217;s earlier days and it wasn&#8217;t an amicable split, as Rivera would write in her 2016 memoir, &#8220;I think everyone should have that one relationship where you look back and ask yourself, &#8216;What the hell was I thinking?&#8217; You&#8217;ll learn something and you won&#8217;t regret it. Unless, of course, that relationship was with someone who had a sizable stash of child porn on his computer. Then, by all means, regret everything.&#8221; Rivera was referring to Salling&#8217;s child pornography indictment in 2017. In January 2018, Salling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/910373\/mark-salling-dead-at-35-from-apparent-suicide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">committed suicide<\/a> at the age of 35.<\/p>\n<p>While they first met when she guest-starred on <em>Glee<\/em>, <strong>Gwyneth Paltrow<\/strong> didn&#8217;t begin dating future husband <strong>Brad Falchuk<\/strong>, one of <em>Glee<\/em>&#8216;s co-creators, until she returned to the show in 2014, over a year after her split from Coldplay frontman <strong>Chris&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Martin<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re going through a divorce and you think about going out with somebody, it&#8217;s a weird thing,&#8221; she told Howard Stern of taking it slowly with Falchuk, a recently-divorced father of two. &#8220;So&nbsp;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s the same as being 23 and running into someone at a coffee shop. It&#8217;s just different. You have kids, you have divorce\u2014it&#8217;s just a lot of stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/964015\/gwyneth-paltrow-and-brad-falchuk-are-married\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">got married<\/a> in October 2018.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While there were whispers of a romance between <strong>Kevin McHale<\/strong> (Artie) and <strong>Jenna Ushkowitz<\/strong> (Tina) during the show&#8217;s run, it turns out they were just in a showmance, which became the new of their hit podcast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1042178\/20-glee-secrets-revealed-on-set-romances-devastating-tragedy-and-unbreakable-bonds?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like in the hallways of McKinley High, the Glee set featured a lot of flirtation and relationships between its young stars. (And even before the show, as Lea Michele revealed in her 2014 memoir Brunette Ambition that she and Matthew Morrison &#8220;actually dated back in for the day for a Broadway beat.&#8221;) Michele and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 08:05:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}