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Y&R’s Joshua Morrow and Courtney Hope Weigh In On Their Surprise Pairing 

- Devin Owens

Soap Opera Digest: Before your storylines converged, how much interaction did you have with each other?

Joshua Morrow: We had some scenes when Sally was messing with Summer. It was a lot of me and [Michelle] Stafford [Phyllis] sort of complaining about Sally and mad-dogging her from across the room.

Courtney Hope: I remember a couple of scenes with Joshua in the Grand Phoenix lobby, where Sally was talking to him about how he used to work at Restless Style magazine.

Morrow: Those were probably some of the most impactful moments of your career, though. I remember every second of them but I just didn’t want to embarrass myself by saying all of that [laughs].

Hope: Oh, I get it, I get it.

Digest: Do you remember the first time you met?

Hope: I remember the first time I saw Joshua. I was on B&B and we passed each other in the hallway and he kind of smiled. Because I knew who he was, I got a little intimidated so I just kept walking, and then the next time I saw him was at Gina Tognoni’s [ex-Phyllis] going-away party. I became friends with her, so I wanted to come over and say good-bye. Joshua was there but I didn’t really talk to him. I was a little nervous because he’s been on the show for a while and he’d probably be like, “Who the hell is this girl?” And then, when we started working together, I discovered he was totally not that person at all.

Morrow: I had seen Courtney around and I smile at everyone but I didn’t know her. She’s obviously an extremely beautiful young woman, so she’s hard not to notice. Now, Courtney, correct me if I’m wrong on this, but at Gina’s party, were you wearing red leather?