July 11, 2025
Barry Williams Talks Romance With ‘Brady Bunchโ€™ Co-Star Maureen McCormick


He may not have been as cool as Johnny Bravo, but โ€œBrady Bunchโ€ star Barry Williams still managed to woo co-star Maureen McCormick.

Williams said he had an โ€œon-again, off-againโ€ relationship with co-star McCormick during a rerun of an episode of his โ€œA Very Brady Re-Runโ€ podcast that aired this week.

Williams, who played Greg on the classic sitcom, was discussing the popular Season 4 episode โ€œThe Subject Was Noses,โ€ in which McCormickโ€™s Marcia has her nose broken, causing a jock at her school named Doug to cancel their date after she had previously backed out of a date with her mild-mannered classmate, Charlie, to go out with him.

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Maureen McCormick (left) and Barry Williams (right) in 1972. Darlene Hammond / Getty Images

โ€œIt did look like she was dating somebody very close to her on the set, judging from the relationship that I was witnessing between the two of you during this show,โ€ said Williamsโ€™ co-host, Christopher Knight, who played his brother Peter on the show.

โ€œYou two were looking a little bit close, a little bit less like brother and sister and more like โ€” you were looking at her, at times, the way the directions in the script probably told Charlie to look at Marsha,โ€ he continued.

โ€œYou mean dreamy-eyed?โ€ Williams replied.

โ€œThe longing kind of wide-eyed. Yeah. That was you. And she was looking dreamy,โ€ Knight said. โ€œYeah. You guys you were going through a good week, I would say.โ€

Williams said there was always chemistry with McCormick.

โ€œIt was sort of like on-again, off-again with Maureen and I throughout the years. There was always a little dance being played that was broken up by hiatus,โ€ he said.

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The cast of “The Brady Bunch” in Season 3.Everett Collection

He also said that he tried not to let his emotions get in the way of the job he and McCormick had to do on the show.

โ€œWhen she was pretending to have be affectionate with other guys and going out on dates and stuff, I liked to just stay out of the way and let her do her job and focus on and concentrate until an episode that called for us to be sitting next to one another,โ€ Williams said.

Knight also wondered if Williams made a point to be on the set when McCormick had a scene with someone like Nicholas Hammond, who played Doug in the episode.

โ€œAt all times. Always โ€ฆ Just to basically have a presence,โ€ he said.

McCormick has echoed Williamsโ€™ comments about their relationship in the past.

โ€œBarry and I were extremely attracted to each other,โ€ she told TODAY in 2008. โ€œIt was even hard to be in a scene together. I was just dreaming of this romance. I had such an amazing attraction for him. It was awkward to be in scenes playing brother and sister. People started seeing it. Fortunately, it was on-again, off-again. We look at it now and we laugh.โ€

Williams and McCormick have spoken many times over the years about their relationship. In his book โ€œGrowing Up Brady,โ€ Williams wrote about how they first kissed while shooting the Season 4 episodes when the Bradys were in Hawaii.

When McCormick was asked about the kiss during an appearance on โ€œWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” in 2019, she said, โ€œIt was good.”

Williams also confirmed he and McCormick dated during a 2013 interview with OWN, noting he initiated the kiss in Hawaii.

โ€œThat was in Hawaii while we were filming those episodes,โ€ Williams said. โ€œWe snuck away, it was a full moon, (we) walked along the sand. Well, I knew where that was headed. Of course, I set it up.โ€

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