Danica McKellar and Candace Cameron Bure clearly shared more than a dash of teenage stardom in their youth.
Wonderful years star revealed at 90s Con in Tampa last weekend that she and Full house the favorites were in a love triangle of sorts around the time they were just entering the dating age.
“So in 1989, I believe it was, there was a party thrown by a teenage magazine and [Growing Pains star] Jeremy Miller, who was also a young actor, was at this party,” McKellar, 48, told Fox News. “I was there, and Candace was there. And he asked me to be his girlfriend. And I said, ‘Yes!'”
Danica McKellar and Jeremy Miller at the “Batman” Westwood Premiere on June 19, 1989 at the Mann Village & Bruin Theaters in Westwood, California.
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Things get a little messy from there — according to McKellar, Bure also thought she was dating Miller at the time. The Full house The alum first met Miller, now 46, when he starred alongside her brother Kirk Growing pains.
McKellar realized what had really happened years later when she and Bure, now 47, were on Dancing with the stars in 2014.
“I found out she said, ‘Oh, we were dating.’ I’m like, ‘What?'” McKellar recalled. “So Jeremy, cck, cck, not good.”
Jeremy Miller and Candace Cameron at the 60th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade on December 1, 1991 at KTLA Studios in Hollywood, California.
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Fortunately for all three, there was no anger in the end. In retrospect, McKellar called the whole love triangle “so silly.”
“I mean, we were so young. We were like 13. So this wasn’t any kind of serious relationship we’re talking about,” the actress reflected. “Luckily, my friendship with Candace has survived well.”
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The actresses have continued to work together in recent years on the Great American Family network, for which Bure is the chief creative officer. McKellar’s latest project, Swing into romance, will premiere online on October 7 as part of the Autumn Harvest event.
Danica McKellar attends 90s Con on March 18, 2023 in Hartford, Connecticut. Astrid Valigorsky/Getty
According to the network’s description, the film stars McKellar as former dancer Christine Sims, who temporarily returns to her hometown in time for the town’s fall festival and discovers that her family’s store is in trouble. In her quest to save her job, Christine will have to dust off those dancing shoes once again, face her ex-fiancé, and maybe even find love.
“I wanted to dance in a movie since I was in it Dancing with the stars in 2014, but I’ve always loved dance,” McKellar told PEOPLE in March. “My mom was a professional dancer before I was born, so my love of dance is in my genes.”
The actress will star alongside David Haydn-Jones and DWTS favorite Gleb Savchenko. She works as an executive producer on the film. Her husband, Scott Sveslosky, also wrote the story.
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Swing Into Romance premieres October 7 at 8:00 PM ET on Great American Family.
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