Eve Plumb, who played the middle child Jan on The Brady Bunch, recently revealed that she went on a date with one of her TV brothers. Christopher Knight, who played Peter, tried taking her out after the sitcom ended in 1974. However, since the pair were already so close, the evening didn’t go the way they had hoped.
“It was sweet,” Plumb told Page Six. “It was fun, but we were really already by that time just too good of friends to make that transition into being romantic partners.”
Plumb also discussed the date in her upcoming memoir, Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond. She wrote, “Any attempts at making out that evening ended with laughter and resignation that we’d always be sister and brother, even in real life.”
Although a romantic relationship didn’t work out between the pair, Plumb revealed that they have remained close friends over the years. She and her husband even have a monthly Zoom call with Knight and his wife. It was a tradition that started during the COVID-19 pandemic that has continued to this day.
Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond is available on April 28. The book will include the “behind-the-scenes story of her colorful and impressively versatile Hollywood career and revelatory recollections of her off-camera life along the way—complete with many photos from her private archives.”
When speaking about the memoir to Woman’s World, Plumb said, “Part of this book was that I really didn’t want to throw anybody under the bus—not my castmates, not anyone. I had to tell the truth about a few things, but I was cloaking it, for their sake and for mine. I think most of us realize there’s no need. It doesn’t look good on me to trash them in public, does it?”
She went on to say, “People always wanted secrets. And I didn’t get a big publisher because I wasn’t throwing anybody under the bus. But, to me, this is a very intimate book. This is what I was not telling people. It might seem gentle and simple and unimportant, but I haven’t shared it before—because to me, I’m being very vulnerable.”
