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“They got to know each other really well and I think that because of that, they still consider me a friend,” Lopez said.
Mario Lopez has always been a friend to his former cast mates Kelly Clarkson and Tiffani Thiessen. He did the right thing by telling the truth about their relationship and they can still be friends today.
When Mario Lopez appeared on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” in 2019, a fan asked if he had any “hookup” stories involving his fellow “Saved By the Bell” cast mates. The “Access” host confirmed his past relationship with Tiffani Thiessen. “However, it wasn’t a hookup … she was my girlfriend for a while, Tiffani Thiessen, who played Kelly,” Lopez said. The pair apparently had a serious teenage romance. “It’s funny, ’cause I went to regular high school and she used to wear my letterman’s jacket from my real high school,” he added. However, Lopez did not mention how their relationship came to a messy end.
In his 2014 memoir, “Just Between Us,” Lopez discussed dating Thiessen and came clean about being unfaithful to her. “I thought that being loyal to Tiffani was the right thing to do. But I can’t say that I was capable at that age of following through on my noble intentions,” he wrote, via E!
Producer Peter Engel spilled the tea on the former couple’s dramatic on-set split in his 2016 book, “I Was Saved by the Bell: Stories of Life, Love, and Dreams That Do Come True.” “[Lopez] was in his dressing room, making out with an extra, and Tiffani came in, catching him red-handed,” Engel wrote, via Radar. Apparently, Thiessen was wearing Lopez’s letterman jacket and “threw it at him” before storming off. Despite the dramatic breakup, Lopez and Thiessen were able to salvage their friendship.
