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Secrets of the 'Golden Girls': Why Pregnant Rue Dumped Hubby, Married Estelle's Shack Up, Bea Really Hated Her Costars – and the Star Betty Refused ......
May 6, 2025
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Here's the scoop on their bedroom antics.
In real life, McClanahan was a lot like her man-eating character, Blanche Devereaux – tying the knot six times.
She met her first husband, Tom Bish, in the 1950s, and the two quickly got hitched.
But their marriage soon soured, and when she discovered she was pregnant, McClanahan hightailed it to her parents' home to have the baby.
McClanahan – who died in 2010 at age 76 of a brain hemorrhage – saw her husband only once more, after their son, Mark, was born.
She wed an old friend only a few months after her divorce from Bish was final in 1959.
At 56, McClanahan dated 29-year-old Michael Thornton, and their romance had her acting like a 16-year-old.
She'd flirt with male crew members, and came to work drenched in perfume that caused others to say, "Everyone evacuate."
Divorces, STDs, young studs – Arthur, Rue and the rest sure weren't the retiring types.
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Getty lived with a much younger man – while she was still married.
In 1989, while The Golden Girls was still being produced, then 65-year-old Getty – who played Sophia Petrillo, the feisty 80-something mother of Arthur's character – shared a Hollywood apartment with a handsome 30-year-old actor, J. David Krassner.
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