{"id":484379,"date":"2026-02-16T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484379\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:24:10","slug":"love-boat-star-admits-he-messed-up-scene-on-purpose-to-keep-kissing-diahann-carroll-cut-that-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484379\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLove Boat\u201d star admits he messed up scene on purpose to keep kissing Diahann Carroll: ‘Cut that out!’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actor Ted Lange still has fond memories of the time that Diahann Carroll<\/a> appeared on a 1977 episode of his show, The Love Boat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lange played bartender Isaac Watson on all nine seasons of the ABC dramedy, which aired until 1986, and was he ever excited \u2014 perhaps too excited \u2014 to share a moment with his leading lady.<\/p>\n

“I kissed Diahann Carroll about 15 times before she realized I was messing up on purpose,” Lange said on the Still Here Hollywood podcast<\/a> hosted by Steve Kmetko. “So then she said, ‘Hey, hey, cut that out!'”<\/p>\n

Lange said that he immediately apologized for his behavior.<\/p>\n

“You’re just so beautiful,” he recalled telling Carroll.<\/p>\n

“And she could kiss.” Lange said, before laughing. “That’s my claim to fame!”<\/p>\n

More seriously, he said that the Oscar nominee, who later appeared on series including A Different World, Grey’s Anatomy, and White Collar, had been “a delight.”<\/p>\n

The kissing took place when the long-running show was still a freshman. He and Carroll shared the screen in only the fifth episode of season 1, in which Isaac finds himself romancing his favorite singer, Roxy Blue, who was played by the actress.<\/p>\n

Carroll, was already familiar to TV audiences by the time she appeared on The Love Boat. Most significantly, she had starred on the groundbreaking sitcom Julia, which depicted a Black, widowed nurse raising her son alone, from 1968 to 1971. (She received her second Emmy nomination for the part; her first was for a 1962 episode of police procedural Naked City.)<\/p>\n

The veteran actress died in 2019<\/a> of cancer. She was 84.<\/p>\n

\"TedTed Lange in September 2025 <\/p>\n

Michael Simon\/Getty<\/p>\n

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After The Love Boat, Lange continued acting in projects such as In the Heat of the Night, General Hospital, The Cleveland Show, and Are We There Yet?.<\/p>\n

Ahead of his conversation about Carroll, the actor had wisely made a point to say he was sorry for talking about it to his wife off-camera.<\/p>\n

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