Beverly Hills, 90210 alum Jamie Walters would 'love to reconnect' with ex-fiancee Drew Barrymore 30 years after breakup | 0P0DR76 | 2024-01-28 20:08:01
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JAMIE Walters has turn into considered one of Los Angeles' most beloved firefighters, dashing out on calls to cope with the whole lot from burning buildings to ladies giving start in sudden places.
Nevertheless, Jamie has a secret superstar past his colleagues love to rib him about when he's back at the station in Van Nuys – he was a teen idol on Beverly Hills, 90210.
And not solely did he play dangerous boy heartthrob Ray Pruit, the love curiosity of Donna Martin, performed by Tori Spelling, he was engaged in actual 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 defined they first met after sharing an agent and she or he invited him to a party, during which they hit it off and shortly started courting when she was simply 17 and he was 23.
"I used to be dwelling in an condominium 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.
Recalling how he popped the query, Jamie recalled, "I was really into previous automobiles back then. I still am, however back then I truly had the time and money to try this as a result of now I have to have sensible automobiles that run that my youngsters can drive.
"Back then I used to be into like previous Chevys. So I feel I was in a very cool 1967 [Chevrolet& ] Chevelle with and good black interior.
"I keep in mind we have been within the automotive and that's where I popped the question. I gave her a ring."
He stated the pair broke up months later because they have been so busy with their careers and "too younger" to get married, but he has "fond reminiscences" of their time together.
"Through the years, a number of occasions we've run into one another and she or he's all the time like tremendous, super nice and we're all the time completely satisfied to see each other," he stated.
"I'd like to reconnect together with her but I feel each of our lives [are busy] once you begin having youngsters," the ex-actor stated.
The U.S. Sun found dozens of previous pictures of the pair from snaps on the Cannes Film Festival in France to a loved-up shoot in a park for a magazine spread by famous photographer, Bruce Weber.
The 52-year-old even admitted the pair obtained matching tattoos of each other's names throughout their whirlwind romance.
And though it's unknown whether Drew nonetheless has hers, he never had his ink removed.
Whereas he tries to keep his prime while coaching recruits at the hearth station, he revealed, "I still have the tattoo, although it's quite previous now and exhausting 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 extremely 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 couch together with his ex Beverly Hills, 90210 co-star Tori, Drew, now 48, exclaimed, "Oh my god, Jamie Walters! My boyfriend on the time," as they realized the hyperlink.
Tori joked that Drew was the "OG Donna Martin" and praised her former co-star, describing him as "such an excellent 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 to be exactly the same," she added.& "He has a household, a daughter who performs soccer."
Earlier than 90210, Jamie appeared within the film 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 home abuse storyline, he went in a special course.
He's now been working as a fire-fighter paramedic saving lives with the& Los Angeles& Hearth Division for greater than 20 years.
Jamie admitted it's a troublesome, aggressive job involving long 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 department it was like 20,000 individuals at the Los Angeles Conference Middle," he recalled, "They usually have been going to hire 500 individuals over five years.
"I didn't grow up in 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 household once I determined, 'Hey, I'm gonna go take a look at this appearing music course.'"
NEW CAREER
Jamie continued to reveal more about his childhood and career path.
"I had grown up with this concept, get a job, go to work, do your 30 years and also you retire, you already know?" he added.
"I began having second ideas about this profession path, and I'd all the time been thinking about turning into a firefighter."
Jamie and Drew's lives could also be very totally different lately, however he's conversant in life as a single father or mother as he has three daughters and a son.
Drew also has two daughters, Olive, 11, and Frankie, 9, with ex-husband Will Kopelman, and has spoken about how she's but 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 collectively.
"I've four youngsters they usually stayed with me, they reside with me," Jamie revealed to The U.S. Sun.
"They have a superb 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 right here, and it's very secure.
"My youngest is 17, she's a junior in high school. My subsequent is 18 and she or he's a freshman in school and she or he performs soccer and that's sort of been her path, she loves it, and she or he obtained recruited to go play soccer."
FAMILY LIFE
Jamie also spoke about his older daughter.
"After which my 20-year-old daughter, we have now loads of similarities, and so she's obtained into modeling. She's been capable of travel throughout Europe. And she or he sort of lives forwards and backwards between New York and LA right now," he stated.
He additionally has an older son from a previous relationship who's working as a digital camera operator.
"He only recently acquired married. And he works on a regular basis. I'm very pleased with him. He does plenty of music movies and business work.
"And he co-wrote and co-directed a brief film together with his wife that they're getting into in plenty 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," he stated.
Requested how he feels about his youngsters going into the business, he stated, "It's onerous to argue. They're like, 'Properly, dad, you did it!'
"I push my youngsters, 'Hey, go to school, discover ways to do something properly, comply with your dream,' but all the time sort of, you recognize, simply have something to fall back on."
He added, "I'm supportive of no matter they need to do, there are some mistakes I made [in Hollywood], so I give them recommendation and I'm very involved."
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