Ed O’Neill has new bombshells about his longtime bitter feud with his “Married…With Children” co-star Amanda Bearse.
The sitcom ran for 11 seasons on Fox, from 1987 to 1997, starring O’Neill, Katey Sagal and Christina Applegate.
O’Neill, 77 starred as family patriarch Al Bundy, married to Peg (Sagal), while Bearse, 65, played Marcy, their neighbor and Peg’s friend.
During a recent appearance on the “Dinner’s On Me” podcast of his former “Modern Family” co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson, O’Neill shared that he had some “regrets” about his relationship with Bearse.
In a 2013 interview with the Television Academy, O’Neill revealed that he and David Faustino were the only cast members who were excluded from the invite list when Bearse married her wife, businesswoman Carrie Schenken, in 2010.
When O’Neill confronted Bearse about being excluded from her wedding, according to him, “[She said]: ‘This was a very tough call, but I just feel that you would find it amusing that me and Becky would come in tuxedos in a church and walk down the aisle, and you and David would be snickering and finding it funny,’ ” he said, incorrectly recalling her wife’s name.
“I started laughing and she said, ‘See!’ And I said, ‘Well, you know why? Because it is f–king funny, and I’m not going to be the only one that doesn’t think so.’ But it was funny. She had a little white tux and, to me, it was funny. But in other words, she may not have been wrong in excluding me.”
Well hey, at least he can look back on the whole dustup realistically, rationally, and with good humor now. Which won’t ever be enough to dulcify the rage-a-holic bull dagger, her outraged “wife,” or their absolutely furious Big Gay Circle O’ Friends, no matter how many years have flown by since. Still, it’s something, right?
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Oh, come on. Would you want Al Bundy at your wedding?
Sheeit, I’d have paid him by the hour to come to mine. BOTH of em, actually, seeing as how my first wife really dug MWC.
sniff…never mind.
In other news I watched some MWC re-runs on YouTube. It turns out, men will look at anything except Peg’s ass.
I wasn’t invited to a coworkers wedding for much the same reason. Even though I moved out of town, I’d have come back to attend.
Turns out, it sort of backfired. When the groom started bubbling during vows, my two friends that were there started cracking up just thinking about what I’d say.
I thought Faustino was married to fellow cast member Applegate. Was she invited?
Anyway, it seems that perhaps none of them were acting on that show? I’m sure they were snickering on the show when Marcie got married to Jefferson too
Wow after all these years thinking they were married I appear to have been buying into a prank. Faustino and Applegate are not married…
Nope, never were. Applegate has for years had some serious health issues, I do know that.