After 23 years, Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman have seen a little too much of Steve Howey. As the trio enjoyed a mini Reba reunion for an upcoming episode of Happy’s Place, which premieres Friday at 8pm ET/PT on NBC, McEntire and Peterman recalled the shock of seeing their former onscreen son-in-law’s nude scene in the 2011 Shameless pilot episode. “I’ll never forget us coming to work. ‘Did you see Steve last night?’ ‘Yes, yes I did.
Oh! Oh my gosh!'” recalled McEntire from the set of their new sitcom on Entertainment Tonight. Peterman added, “And I said, ‘You need to warn us if there’s gonna be some unclothing happening in Shameless because you’re like our brother.
It was too much… But I then did watch it later, after I washed my eyes out. Because you’re so good on it.” Howey joked “that’s why I started working out, ’cause I was naked all the time” on the Showtime series, which ran for 11 seasons from 2011 to 2021.
Peterman said they’ll “give America what it wants,” telling Howey of his guest spot on Happy’s Place, “You’re gonna take your shirt off at some point.” In Happy’s Place, McEntire plays Bobbie, who inherits her father’s restaurant and is less than thrilled to discover that she has a new business partner in her half-sister Isabella (Belissa Escobedo), whom she never knew she had.
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