Beverly Hills, 90210 alum Jamie Walters would 'love to reconnect' with ex-fiancee Drew Barrymore 30 years after breakup | 5ZM40VA | 2024-01-26 20:08:01
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JAMIE Walters has grow to be considered one of Los Angeles' most beloved firefighters, dashing out on calls to cope with every part from burning buildings to ladies giving start in sudden places.
Nevertheless, Jamie has a secret superstar previous his colleagues love to rib him about when he's again on the station in Van Nuys – he was a teen idol on Beverly Hills, 90210.
And never only did he play dangerous boy heartthrob Ray Pruit, the love curiosity of Donna Martin, played by Tori Spelling, he was engaged in real life to an A-list star; Drew Barrymore.
Jamie spoke solely to The U.S. Solar about his relationship with the Oscar-nominated actress, and the way he'd like to reconnect if the pair crossed paths again.
He explained they first met after sharing an agent and she or he invited him to a party, throughout which they hit it off and shortly started courting when she was simply 17 and he was 23.
"I was dwelling in an house in Hollywood, after which I met Drew Barrymore, and she or he and I ended up dwelling collectively and have been engaged for a short while," he revealed.
Explaining how he popped the query, Jamie recalled, "I was actually into previous automobiles back then. I still am, but again then I truly had the money and time to try this because now I have to have sensible automobiles that run that my youngsters can drive.
"Again then I was into like previous Chevys. So I feel I used to be in a very cool 1967 [Chevrolet& ] Chevelle with and nice black interior.
"I keep in mind we have been within the automotive and that's where I popped the question. I gave her a hoop."
He stated the pair broke up months later because they have been so busy with their careers and "too younger" to get married, however he has "fond reminiscences" of their time together.
"Through the years, a number of occasions we've run into each other and she or he's all the time like super, super good and we're all the time completely satisfied to see each other," he stated.
"I'd like to reconnect together with her however I feel both of our lives [are busy] once you start having youngsters," the ex actor stated.
The U.S. Solar found dozens of previous pictures of the pair from snaps at the Cannes Film Festival in France to a loved-up shoot in a park for a magazine spread by well-known photographer, Bruce Weber.
The 52-year-old even admitted the pair received matching tattoos of each other's names throughout their whirlwind romance.
And although it's unknown whether Drew nonetheless has hers, he by no means had his inking eliminated.
Whereas he tries to maintain his prime whereas training recruits on the hearth station, he revealed, "I nonetheless have the tattoo, though it is fairly previous now and onerous to make out. It's on my again. higher right shoulder blade. It's a cross together with her identify on it."
Jamie stated he was touched when the actress spoke highly of him on The Drew Barrymore Show final yr, saying, "Individuals have been sending me the clip and I couldn't consider it. It was really nice."
While chatting on the sofa together with his ex Beverly Hills, 90210 co-star Tori, Drew, now 48, exclaimed, "Oh my god, Jamie Walters! My boyfriend at the time," as they realized the link.
Tori joked Drew was the "OG Donna Martin" and praised her former co-star, describing him as "such a great guy," which Drew agreed with.
CO-STAR PRAISE
Jennie Garth, who also appeared on the speak present and starred on 90210, gushed he "nonetheless is," and remembered his cameo for the reboot in 2019.
"He seems exactly the identical," she added.& "He has a household, a daughter who performs soccer."
Earlier than 90210, Jamie appeared in the movie Shout with& John Travolta, adopted by a stint on the& TV& present, The Heights, during which he released successful music, How Do You Talk To An Angel.
After deciding he didn't have sufficient control over his career as an actor and leaving 90210 after a fan backlash over his character's domestic abuse storyline, he went in a unique path.
He's now been working as a fire-fighter paramedic saving lives with the& Los Angeles& Hearth Department for more than 20 years.
Jamie admitted it's a troublesome, competitive job involving lengthy hours but he finds the position highly rewarding and loves the camaraderie together with his colleagues and training recruits.
"Once I took the check for the hearth division it was like 20,000 individuals at the Los Angeles Convention Middle," he recalled, "They usually have been going to rent 500 individuals over 5 years.
"I didn't develop up within the appearing world. My mom was a faculty instructor, my dad was in business. I used to be sort of the black sheep of the family once I determined, 'Hey, I'm gonna go take a look at this appearing music path.'
NEW CAREER
"I had grown up with this idea, get a job, go to work, do your 30 years and you retire, you understand?
"I started having second ideas about this career path, and I'd all the time been interested by turning into a firefighter."
Jamie and Drew's lives may be very totally different lately, but he's accustomed to life as a single dad or mum elevating four youngsters, three daughters and a son.
Drew additionally has two daughters,& Olive, 11, and Frankie, nine, with ex-husband& Will Kopelman, and has spoken about how she's yet to seek out love again since their divorce in 2016.
Paradoxically, Jamie revealed he also received divorced the same yr and is now co-parenting together with his ex-wife, Patty, whom he cut up from after 12 years together.
"I have 4 youngsters they usually stayed with me, they stay with me," Jamie revealed to The U.S. Sun.
"They've an excellent relationship with their mom, she moved to Arizona, in order that they don't get to see her all that a lot, but they have a very good life here, and it's very secure.
"My youngest is 17, she's a junior in high school. My next is 18 and she or he's a freshman in school and she or he plays soccer and that's type of been her path, she loves it, and she or he acquired recruited to go play soccer.&
FAMILY LIFE
"And then my 20-year-old daughter, we've a whole lot of similarities, and so she's acquired into modeling. She's been capable of journey throughout Europe. And she or he type of lives forwards and backwards between New York and LA right now."
He also has an older son from a previous relationship who's working as a digital camera operator.
"He only recently received married. And he works on a regular basis. I'm very pleased with him. He does lots of music movies and business work.
"And he co-wrote and co-directed a short film together with his wife that they're getting into in a number of movie festivals this season, so I'm hoping that they get some good attention off of that. I like that he's on that aspect of the digital camera."
Requested how he feels about his youngsters going into the business, he stated, "It's onerous to argue. They're like, 'Properly, dad, you probably did it!'
"I push my youngsters, 'Hey, go to school, discover ways to do something nicely, comply with your dream, but all the time type of, you already know, just have one thing to fall again on."
He added, "I'm supportive of whatever they need to do, there are some errors I made [in Hollywood], so I give them advice and I'm very involved."
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