Beverly Hills, 90210 alum Jamie Walters would 'love to reconnect' with ex-fiancee Drew Barrymore 30 years after breakup | 196BB5I | 2024-01-29 20:08:01
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JAMIE Walters has turn out to be considered one of Los Angeles' most beloved firefighters, dashing out on calls to cope with every thing from burning buildings to ladies giving start in sudden places.
Nevertheless, Jamie has a secret movie star previous 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 how he'd like to reconnect if the pair crossed paths once more.
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 began courting when she was just 17 and he was 23.
"I was 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 used to be actually into previous automobiles again 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 practical 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 inside.
"I keep in mind we have been within the automotive and that's the place I popped the query. I gave her a hoop."
He stated the pair broke up months later because they have been so busy with their careers and "too young" to get married, but he has "fond reminiscences" of their time collectively.
"Through the years, a couple of occasions we've run into one another and she or he's all the time like tremendous, tremendous 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 received matching tattoos of each other's names throughout their whirlwind romance.
And although it's unknown whether or not Drew nonetheless has hers, he by no means had his ink removed.
While he tries to keep his prime while training recruits at the hearth station, he revealed, "I still have the tattoo, though it is quite previous now and arduous to make out. It's on my back. 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 very 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 at 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 a very good guy," which Drew agreed with.
CO-STAR PRAISE
Jennie Garth, who also appeared on the speak show and starred on 90210, gushed he "nonetheless is," and remembered his cameo for the reboot in 2019.
"He seems exactly the same," she added.& "He has a family, a daughter who plays soccer."
Earlier than 90210, Jamie appeared in the movie Shout with John Travolta, followed by a stint on the TV present, The Heights, during which he released successful track, How Do You Talk To An Angel.
After deciding he didn't have sufficient management over his career as an actor and leaving 90210 after a fan backlash over his character's domestic 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 lengthy hours but he finds the position extremely rewarding and loves the camaraderie together with his colleagues and coaching recruits.
"Once I took the check for the hearth division it was like 20,000 individuals on the Los Angeles Convention Middle," he recalled, "They usually have been going to rent 500 individuals over five years.
"I didn't grow up in the appearing world. My mother was a faculty instructor, my dad was in enterprise. I used to be type 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
Jamie continued to disclose more about his childhood and career path.
"I had grown up with this idea, get a job, go to work, do your 30 years and you retire, you understand?" he added.
"I began having second ideas about this career path, and I'd all the time been curious about turning into a firefighter."
Jamie and Drew's lives may be very totally different nowadays, but he is conversant in life as a single father or mother as he has three daughters and a son.
Drew additionally 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 once more since their divorce in 2016.
Sarcastically, Jamie revealed he additionally acquired divorced the identical yr and is now co-parenting together with his ex-wife, Patty, whom he cut up from after 12 years together.
"I have four youngsters they usually stayed with me, they reside with me," Jamie revealed to The U.S. Sun.
"They have an excellent relationship with their mom, she moved to Arizona, in order that they don't get to see her all that a lot, however they've an excellent life here, and it's very secure.
"My youngest is 17, she's a junior in highschool. 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 received recruited to go play soccer."
FAMILY LIFE
Jamie additionally spoke about his older daughter.
"After which my 20-year-old daughter, we've got a number 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 stated.
He also has an older son from a earlier relationship who is 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 a whole lot 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 numerous film 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.
Asked how he feels about his youngsters going into the business, he stated, "It's onerous to argue. They're like, 'Nicely, dad, you did it!'
"I push my youngsters, 'Hey, go to school, discover ways to do one thing nicely, comply with your dream,' however all the time sort of, you realize, just have one thing to fall back on."
He added, "I'm supportive of whatever they need to do, there are some mistakes I made [in Hollywood], so I give them advice and I'm very concerned."
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