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She lives in California with her dog. There was an immediate attraction between Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galeckiwho portrayed the neighbors turned love interests throughout leonard series' season run, too. The costars dated between andduring the earlier seasons of the sitcom, and according and Cuoco, dating "only are eyes" for Galecki.
He has such swagger.
We were both dating people at the time, but I only had eyes for Johnny. Galecki, for his part, was at first oblivious.
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That was the whole first season until we actually got together for real. As the crush continued to simmer, filming season 1's "The Nerdvana Annihilation," wherein Leonard has a dream that he saves Penny in an elevator shaft, was a turning point. I think that was a massive turning point [in our relationship]. At that point, both she and I knew that something mutual was real, and that it was going to be more of a distraction from the work to try just click for source life to ignore it than to actually recognize it and surrender to it.
Later, a kiss at the bar in Burbank's storied Smoke House Restaurant the two now single solidified the relationship. The two tried to keep the relationship on the down low on set, with Galecki recalling a time creator Chuck Lorre nearly "busted us hiding penny a car in the parking lot.
Post-split, the two remain on good terms.
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