
After that experience, you return to your own country, and your country is more enigmatic than the rest of the world.” We’ve got to separate.The late Raúl Ruiz, who spent the larger part of his career away from his native Chile, regarded himself not as an exile, but as an “exote.” He said, “You’re an ‘exote’ when you go everywhere and each country looks like a different place, impossible to deeply understand. I am having feelings for somebody’ … I separated from my husband. I told my husband at the time, ‘We have a situation here. So, he and I, we had a friendship for a long time,” Davidson said in a January 2016 episode of the Bravo show. “I knew he was married and I was married and I was totally respectful of that … but whatever. Scroll through for a list of other real-life soap opera couples:Ĭredit: Shutterstock (2) Soap Stars Who Dated: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, Justin Hartley and Chrishell Stause and More Their origin story came up during season 6 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. When the retired tennis pro met the actress on the set of The Young and the Restless in 2000, they were both married to other people. Van Patten and Davidson’s love story, meanwhile, sounds more like a soap opera story line. The twosome, who eloped in Las Vegas in May 1996, share three kids: Michael, Lola and Joaquin. If two people were ever supposed to be together, I’d say it was us.” Ripa added, “We just understood each other really well. We’ve been spending 12 hours a day together for the past year and a half,” Consuelos told Soap Opera Digest at the time. The Riverdale star previously described their connection as instant during a joint interview with the Live With Kelly and Ryan cohost in 1996. Ripa and Consuelos played onscreen couple Hayley Vaughan and Mateo Santos on All My Children for several years before exiting in 2001. I believe in any of that and now I do because of that moment.” Then all of a sudden, Judy Blye Wilson, who was the casting director in All My Children, said, ‘I found him’ … showed me his picture and … when I saw him, the photograph of him, I saw my entire future with him flash before. So I had auditioned every Latino actor in the city and around the city and then California. “They’d been looking for this character for some time … They didn’t want a dark-haired guy, they wanted a Latino actor. “I auditioned him,” Ripa recalled during a SiriusXM interview in August 2018 about meeting her now-husband. Kelly Ripaand Mark Consuelos, Vincent Van Patten and Eileen Davidsonand more celebrity couples fell in love on the set of soap operas.
