Each decade has some famous couples who are impossible to forget about. And then there are those relationships that somehow fly under the radar. Before Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan got married, the actor dated Jennifer Grey, known for playing Baby in Dirty Dancing. Grey has talked about her plastic surgery and the pressures that women face in the industry. But has she said much about the time that she went out with the Back To The Future star?
Even though Michael J. Fox and Jennifer Grey are huge celebrities who have enjoyed starring roles and made tons of money over the last few decades, their relationship seems to have been forgotten about. What really went on between these actors?
All About Jennifer Grey And Michael J. Fox's Relationship
Fans love hearing stories about Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swazye on the Dirting Dancing set. At the time that the movie was released in 1987, Grey had just starred in Ferris Buller's Day Off. In the years after the hit movie Dirty Dancing, the actress would star in Wind, If The Shoe Fits, and Bloodhounds of Broadway. And she would play some TV characters as well, from Mindy in an episode of Friends to Judy Meyers on Red Oaks. Still, Grey's time as Baby in Dirty Dancing is what people talk the most about to this day.
Several sources, such as Entertainment Tonight Canada, say that Jennifer Grey and Michael J. Fox dated in the mid-1980s. The Sun reported that they were a couple in 1986. It's exciting to hear about this since the two became famous around the same time. Fox's two most well-known projects are Back To The Future, which came out in 1984, and the TV series Family Ties, which began airing in 1982.
This was right before Fox and Tracy Pollan's own romance started. According to ET Canada, Fox and Pollan started dating at the end of the '80s and got married in 1988.
Have Michael J. Fox and Jennifer Grey ever discussed the fact that they were once a couple?
Grey and Fox have been really quiet about their former relationship. Grey talks about her acting roles all the time and has done a lot of reflecting on her past, especially in her memoir "Out of the Corner." And Fox has said a lot about his battle with Parkinson's disease. But they don't seem to have discussed each other.
While not much has been said about Jennifer Grey and Michael J. Fox's relationship, the two seem to have stayed friends after. ET Canada published an article about Pollan's 63rd birthday in June 2023 and said that her famous pals like Jennifer Grey and Julianne Moore wrote on her Instagram.
Since Grey and Fox stayed in each other's lives, it's possible to guess that they didn't have a terrible breakup. Maybe they didn't fall in love and so neither one was truly upset when they split up.
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And since the former couple are now pals who got married several years after they broke up, they might want to be quiet about their relationship because they still care a lot about each other.
In 2023, Michael J. Fox discussed Still, his documentary about Parkinson's, in an interview with Variety. He called Jennifer Grey his pal. He mentioned the time when he was drinking too much and said, “My friend Jennifer Grey had a great expression in her memoir. She wrote, ‘My body cannot metabolize the excitement that I crave.'"
Who Else Have Jennifer Grey And Michael J. Fox Dated?
Jennifer Grey went out with a few other actors besides Michael J. Fox. She was in a relationship with Matthew Broderick, who she co-starred in Ferris Bueller's Day Off with. She was also with George Robert Stephanopoulos and Johnny Depp.
Jennifer Grey was also married to Clark Gregg. According to USA Today, he asked for a divorce in 2020. They began seeing each other in 2000 and got married in 2001. They have a daughter named Stella Gregg.
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Of her divorce from Clark Gregg, Jennifer Grey told USA Today that she feels compassion for her ex-husband. She said, "It was a very introspective time for a lot of people. What I knew was that there was a certain amount of grace to my ex-husband and I separating. We did it with so much love, and so much care. I'm just so proud of how we navigated something that from what I can tell in the world is not usually (like that)."
Grey continued to USA Today, "I have never loved him more. I feel enormous gratitude and I love him and care for him. It wasn't like I was dealing with (something) unpleasant. Divorce is very, very, intense. The separating of lives that was once one, it’s a very intense undertaking."
The actress has been much less private about some of the famous people who she has been in relationships with. In 2022, she was interviewed on The Drew Barrymore Show and she said about Johnny Depp, who she was engaged to, "You have to understand, Johnny Depp, 1989 Johnny Depp, so beautiful, you've never seen a more beautiful...it's almost inhuman."
Grey also told USA Today that when she thinks about the people she dated in the past, she wants Stella to be more confident than she was. She said, "It was a reflection of my self-worth."
She also wrote about dating Matthew Broderick in "Out Of The Corner," her memoir. Before she tried out for the role of Baby in Dirty Dancing, he said that he didn't think she would be cast. That definitely sounds very harsh.
According to Who's Dated Who, Michael J. Fox once went out with Karla Michelle from 1976 to 1982, Nancy McKeon from 1982 to 1985, and Kari Michaelson from 1985 to 1986. The website also says that he was in a relationship with Susanna Hoffs in 1986 and with Sarah Jessica Parker in 1984.
It doesn't seem that Fox has ever spoken about these relationships, though. Since he has been married to Tracy Pollan for so many decades, he has been interviewed many times about how much he loves her.
