Melissa Peterman is ruling out having her Baby Daddy sons, Jean-Luc Bilodeau and Derek Theler, making a guest appearance on Happy’s Place — but which one could she see playing her love interest?
During the NBCUniversal Backlot Summer Experience on Monday, August 4, Peterman, 54, told Us Weekly that she would love to have her former Baby Daddy costars on her new sitcom.
“Derek, Jean-Luc, Tahj [Mowry] — any of them. I would absolutely love it,” she shared. “And we are still all very tight, too. So I think they’d be really fun.”
Peterman pitched an unexpected story line for her character, Gabby, adding, “I think Derek [could be] a love interest maybe? I don’t know. It would be really fun. I would absolutely love to [see them on Happy’s Place].”
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Before joining Happy’s Place, Peterman had very memorable roles as Barbra Jean on Reba to Bonnie on Baby Daddy to Brenda in The Big Bang Theory spinoff Young Sheldon. Baby Daddy, which aired on Freeform from 2012 to 2017, followed a man (Bilodeau) raising a baby after a one-night stand with help from his friends, brother (Theler) and mom (Peterman). In addition to Peterman, Bilodeau, Theler and Mowry, Baby Daddy starred Chelsea Kane and Peter Porte.
“I love those boys. I love them all. I love Chelsea and I love Tahj,” Peterman previously gushed to Us in March about having her Baby Daddy costars visit her on the set of Happy’s Place. “It is another moment where I am like, ‘How lucky that I got to work on shows where I just loved the cast so much?’ I made sure I introduced Jean-Luc and Derek to the Happy’s Place creatives.”
She continued: “It would be so great [to see Jean-Luc and Derek cameo on Happy’s Place]. They’re both so talented and funny. I was thinking about how that could be really great. My mind is already working. That’s the beauty of working with a lot of great people. You just want to bring all your friends on and work with them again.”
As most of Us await news on possible Happy’s Place guest stars, there’s still a lot of exciting story lines to look forward to when the show returns for season 2 on November 7.
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“We had such success in that first round of the show. It’s always scary to come back together with new people and I was nervous,” Peterman said on Monday about reuniting with Reba McEntire after their time together on Reba two decades prior. “As soon as I met the [rest of the cast], it just felt so very natural. Even after we finished shooting the pilot, I was so proud of what we had done and so happy about it.”
Peterman credited the rest of the cast — including Belissa Escobedo, Rex Linn, Pablo Castelblanco and Tokala Black Elk — for making Happy’s Place such a hit.
“After the pilot I was like, ‘If this doesn’t get picked up and I don’t get to do a scene with Pablo or Belissa or Tokala, I’m going to be so mad.’ I would have been so angry not to have gotten to do scenes with them,” she noted. “It felt very natural. We didn’t want to force it and we didn’t have to. So my nervousness went immediately to relief and we truly have a great time together every day.”
Happy’s Place returns to NBC on Friday, November 7, at 8 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Olivia Bria
