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Was bad blood between Marcia and Jan behind the botched “The Brady Bunch” reunion?

http://rgr-static1.tangentlabs.co.uk/images/bau/97800614/9780061490149/0/0/plain/heres-the-story-surviving-marcia-brady-and-finding-my-true-voice.jpgThis week on The Today Show, some of television’s most beloved families have been reunited. I saw Monday’s show with some of the Eight Is Enough cast and Grant Goodeve, who played David, is still rather gorgeous.

But we won’t get the chance to see how the Brady kids have aged because their hoped-for reunion did not come together. Entertainment Weekly reported that the reunion planned for this morning “has been canceled due to scheduling conflicts.”

That’s the official reason. The other explanation which is all over the media, is that Eve Plumb who played Jan and Maureen McCormack who played Marcia, are feuding and will, not appear together.

The feud seems to stem from when Maureen was writing her memoir Here’s the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice released in late 2008.

When word of the book was first out, Maureen seemed to hint that she and Eve had once shared a kiss while on the set of the show. Eve then had paparazzi staking out her house and seemed none too pleased.

Here is what Maureen says about the situation at that time to People Magazine: “On a late night talk show, I said, ‘Oh yeah, we kissed.’; It was a joke – we kissed on the cheek like two friends. Eve was so upset and apparently that’s why she won’t talk to me.”

The New York Daily News writes that Plumb feels McCormick’s initial words were purposefully misleading because she wanted to sell books. McCormick said she tried to call Plumb “to tell her what happened, but unfortunately, this was one of the things that stopped our relationship. There were also other things, but this was a big factor. It’s sad, because she was my best friend. We went through a lot together.”

Susan Olsen, who played the youngest Brady sister, Cindy, appeared to support Plumb’s view of the situation when she expressed unhappiness that her former TV family is not getting along.

“I don’t like there to be a rift in the family. I love them both and this means whenever we get together for any project there will only be one or the other. But I do understand Eve’s point of view,” Olsen told Fox 411 last November. “She got tired of Maureen gaining attention for herself by regurgitating the tiresome and false insinuations that they had a lesbian affair.”

Eve is the Brady kid who seemed to have the most resentment over the shadow that role cast over her career. She was easily the best actress of the group and did some stellar TV work after the original show went off the air including Dawn: Portrait of a Teenaged Runaway and the miniseries Little Women. She also played the mom in the Saturday morning series Fudge.

But the Brady paydays kept being offered and she was lured back to reprise Jan in the early 1980s sitcom The Brady Brides (co-starring Maureen), the highly-rated 1989 reunion movie A Very Brady Christmas and the early 90s dramedy, The Bradys. She did, however, wisely skip the 1976 Brady Bunch Variety Show series.

Whatever Eve Plumb’s feelings are about McCormack, they certainly don’t extend to her TV mom Florence Henderson. The two had a fabulous reunion last week in New York for a duet as part of the Broadway Backwards benefit that Florence has hosted for the past two years.

Eve Plumb and Brady Bunch, Florence Henderson Large Picture

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  1. March 3rd, 2010 at 3:40 pm
    JontheMoonspinner says:

    I love them both and hope they can get together soon and resolve old wounds and new issues.

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