Chad Duell & Courtney Hope - So Happy Together

They’re unlucky in love on TV, but offscreen, GH’s Chad Duell and B&B’s Courtney Hope are going strong.

- Mara Levinsky

Soap Opera Digest: How did the two of you meet?

Chad Duell: We had a mutual friend that had a premiere for his new TV show at his manager’s house. Bryan Craig [ex-Morgan, GH] was there, too.

Courtney Hope: I wasn’t even going to go! I had been working all day and I was really tired. My mom convinced me to go and I’m glad she did because I don’t think I would’ve met him otherwise! I knew Bryan, but I hadn’t seen him in a while, and I said to him, “I’m testing for your show.” And he said, “Oh, that’s cool. Actually, there’s someone else from my show here. He plays my brother,” and he pointed at Chad. That’s how we got to talking.

Duell: She was actually testing for my love interest on GENERAL HOSPITAL, so I was giving her a little bit of advice. The cool thing was, we mostly just talked about regular things, like about the fruit trees I was planting in my backyard. It was a Hollywood party and we were talking about real stuff. That’s not normal!

Hope: The other people at the party wanted to go to a club and neither of us are clubbers. We both kind of looked at each other like, “Well, if you’re going, I’ll go.” So we ended up going to a club, but we just sat in the back and talked the whole time. We were going to get each other’s numbers by the end of the night, but our friends kind of pulled us in different directions. I ended up Facebook-ing him later and said, “It was really nice to meet you.” So I reached out to him.

Digest: Did you end up seeing each other at GENERAL HOSPITAL?

Duell: Yeah, she came and tested. We were just starting to date at that time.