Christopher Knight, who played Peter Brady, recalls a brief teenage romance with Eve Plumb, a brother from “The Brady Bunch.”
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Christopher Knight is recalling his brief romance with ‘The Brady Bunch’ co-star Eve Plumb.
Knight, who played Peter Brady on the series from 1969 to 1974, reflected on their on-screen brotherly bond to People magazine in an interview published Thursday, April 30, saying the cast were “the only people I was closest to in my world.”
But once the co-stars became teenagers, Knight and Plumb, who played fellow middle school student Jan Brady, tried to date.
“Eve was more mature than me early on (and) always had her claim on me from as early as I could remember, but I wasn’t there. I wasn’t ready to be claimed,” Knight, now 65, continued. “For some of that time, I didn’t even realize it wasn’t there.”
When Knight finally tries to respond to Plum’s interest, he realizes it’s too late.
“All of a sudden, I’m off the air now because I’m probably ready to turn around and realize this attention and give it some attention of my own,” he added.
The comments came weeks after Plumb, 68, told Page Six that the on-screen siblings had dated and solidified their status as friends. “It was sweet,” she told the tabloid. “It was fun, but by then we had become too good friends to move into a relationship.”
She added, “We’ve remained friends to this day,” so much so that the two and their spouses have monthly Zoom calls, which began during the pandemic. Plumb has been married to her second husband, business consultant Ken Pace, since 1995. Knight has been married to his fourth wife, Carla Kokenes, a fitness model and entrepreneur, since 2016.
Given their bond today, Knight says it would have been better if no further romance occurred.
“It was sweet, but it wasn’t fate, and I’m happy about it, because ex-girlfriends aren’t usually people you’re very close to,” he told People magazine.
Knight and Plumb weren’t the only cast members to date. “We all stuck with each other at some point,” Barry Williams, who played Greg Brady, told Us Weekly in 2024.
“I dated Maureen (McCormick), Chris dated Eve, and Michael (Lookinland) and Susan (Olsen) had a little mock wedding at one point,” he said at the time. “So, yes, we all connected.”
