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Mark-Paul Gosselaarmay have been the object of millions of teen girls’ affections in the early ’90s, but his wife wasn’t among them.
“I feel so blessed that I have a job and I get to do what I do, because I love what I do,” he said. “But I just see myself as a husband and a father, and that’s my day.”
“And they could care less what I do, right?” Gosselaar, who currently stars in NBC’sFound, added of his wife, advertising executiveCatriona McGinn, andfour kids.
Catriona McGinn and Mark-Paul Gosselaar in January 2024.Arturo Holmes/WireImage
Arturo Holmes/WireImage
Gosselaar, 50, went on to reveal that McGinn, whom he married in 2012, had no idea what he did for a living when they met.
“She knew my costar on another show — on a show that I was on, it was calledRaising the Bar, and she knew one of the costars,” he explained. “And she didn’t even know that I was on the show ‘cause her friend was on the show. She was like, ‘Yeah, you were in the way. I was, like, fast-forwarding to see my friend and you just happened to be the guy that was on a lot.’ ”
“So, she had no idea that you were, like,everybody’s crush?” a shocked Hudson asked.
“I wasn’thercrush,” Gosselaar joked.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar in ‘Raising The Bar’ in 2008.Danny Feld/Tnt/Kobal/Shutterstock
Danny Feld/Tnt/Kobal/Shutterstock
“A lot of that I don’t remember, because it was at a point in my life where I wasn’t sentimental about anything,” he explained, adding that he never even swiped props from the show’s set to remind him of the experience. “I took nothing from that other than: I met these people and the relationships that we still have — that’s what we took from it.”
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“We were children, and we never thought that the show would become what it did years and years later,” he continued.
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Gosselaar noted that even as a teen star, he never took success for granted. But he admitted that he regrets putting his education on hold.
“I think when I decided that I was going to become an actor I kind of put education behind me,” he said. “I thought, ‘I’ll get to it. I don’t have to go to school right now. I’ll go a little bit later.’ And what happened was life started happening. You know, I got married very young and I had kids and things change. But I wish I had sort of pushed myself harder to get a higher education.”
Gosselaar married his first wife, former modelLisa Ann Russell, in 1996 when he was just 22. The couple, who share two children — 20-year-old Michael Charles and 18-year-old Ava Lorenn — divorced in 2011. Gosselaar and McGinn, 46, also share a son and daughter, 11-year-old Dekker Edward and 9-year-old Lachlyn Hope.
source: people.com
