Do you remember the extremely cheesy Saturday morning kids’ sitcom on NBC called Saved by the Bell? The show saw the beginning of the careers of famous now-adult actors and reality show hosts Mario Lopez, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen.
I used to watch Saved by the Bell every week, and I caught every episode at least once again in syndication. There was at least one spinoff: Saved By The Bell – The College Years, and a few made-for-tv-movies that followed the exploits of the Bayside High School crew. In one of the movies, that famous on-again, off-again couple from the show, Zach and Kelly (played by Gosselaar and Thiessen) were united in holy matrimony… I didn’t know that, since I was only interested in the original show, not so much the spin-offs or updates.
Sometimes I peruse the celebrity gossip (and sometimes current events info) site tmz.com, especially lately when they’ve been reporting a lead in the Stacy Peterson case (a missing woman from the Chicago area whose case I’ve been following because I used to live in the area). For their part, tmz.com seems to have quite accurate info and usually has it much earlier than other news outlets. So the other day, I noticed a headline on Tmz saying that “Kelly” – aka Tiffani-Amber Thiessen – is pregnant and looking ready to pop, as they say. At the bottom of that article, there was a link to another Saved by the Bell story: Zach Morris and Kelly Kapowski – Back Together! If you click the link, you’ll find that the Saved by the Bell actors were out and about together in NYC in September.
Interesting… wasn’t September about 9 months ago? An interesting footnote to this story is that I read that Mark-Paul Gosselaar was divorced from his wife only weeks ago. So are Zach and Kelly from Saved by the Bell having a baby together? Did you read it here first? Most importantly, will the actors continue their name-hyphenating tradition when they name the baby? How about Saved by the Bell – The Baby Years? Stay tuned…
There was an awful, very short lived New Class (Zack, Kelly, etc. lookalikes and name changes) with Mr. Belding and later Screech coming on as a teacher. Lasted about as long as the College Half-Year lasted. Time will tell if we see a little Thiessen-Gosselaar (did I get it right?).
I think I watched maybe two episodes of the original show…