When John F. Kennedy Jr. came by the set of “Murphy Brown,” everyone was in awe.
9/95 JOHN F. KENNEDY JR. ON THE SET OF MURPHY BROWN
That’s how the show’s star, Candice Bergen, remembers his brief appearance on the show.
“That sound stage, when he did the ‘Murphy Brown,’ he did it to promote George, which was his magazine, that was then had the first issue coming out,” Bergen told Vogue in a new video. “You couldn’t get in the stage, because the women from all over the Warner Brothers lot were clogging the doorways.”
The hype about the son of the late President John F. Kennedy was real though.
“He was so charming and so modest and so handsome,” Bergen said. “God, he was handsome.”
LOS ANGELES – JANUARY 1: (Pictured left to right) Candice Bergen stars as Murphy Brown, a seasoned broadcast journalist, and John F. Kennedy Jr. guest stars as himself on “Murphy Brown,” a CBS television situation comedy program featuring topical current events and satire. Episode titled: “Altered States”. Image dated: January 1, 1995. Los Angeles, CA. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)
JFK Jr. made his appearance on the show’s “Altered States” episode, which aired Sept. 18, 1995, playing the part of Murphy Brown’s assistant of the week (the character had a habit of burning through them each episode).
His character gifted Brown a copy of George magazine with her on the cover, along with a one-year subscription, as part of a wedding gift even though Brown’s engagement has been called off.
Brown also pokes fun at JFK. Jr’s much publicized failing the bar exam twice before passing, quipping, she was sorry “the lawyer thing didn’t work out.”
While a pop culture figure before his tragic death in 1999 in the plane crashed that killed him and his wife, Carolyn Bessette, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, JFK. Jr didn’t have a habit of making sitcom appearances.
347798 01: (NO ITALY, MAGAZINES PLEASE CALL) John F. Kennedy, Jr. and his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy attend the “Brite Nite Whitney” Fundraising Gala March 9, 1999 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. July 16, 2000 marks the one-year anniversary of the plane crash off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts that killed Kennedy, his wife, and her sister Lauren Bessette. (Photo by Arnaldo Magnani/Liaison)
His life and romance with Carolyn Bessette was recently chronicled in the FX series, “Love Story.”
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