Why OneMelrose PlaceStar Skipped Out on a Cast Reunion — and Still Regrets It

Mar. 15, 2025

Thomas Calabro in 2018 and on ‘Melrose Place’ in 1994.Photo:Greg Doherty/Getty; SNAP/REX/Shutterstock

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Thomas Calabroadmits he regrets not joining hisMelrose Placecastmates for a 2012 reunion photo shoot.While the 65-year-old actor was the only original cast member to play his character, Dr. Michael Mancini, for the entirety of the hit primetime soap’s seven-season run in the ’90s, he skipped the cast reunion for the cover ofEntertainment Weekly’s October 2012reunion issue.On the most recent episode of their rewatch podcastStill the Place, fellowMelrosealumniLaura Leighton,Courtney Thorne-SmithandDaphne Zunigatook Calabro to task for his absence at the photo shoot.“We missed having you,” Leighton said while questioning why Calabro was a no-show.Thomas Calabro on ‘Melrose Place’ in 1994.mikel roberts/Sygma via Getty“Okay. I’ll tell you why I didn’t do it,” Calabro replied. “Because I didn’t think about seeing all you guys together and having that kind of fun. That would have made it attractive to me.”“I should’ve gone. What am I doing?” Calabro recalled telling his wife after his former castmates called him while they were all having dinner together at the time.“But I’m not into looking back that much, you know what I mean? I’m kinda done,” he continued, adding that he turns down “pretty much all” interviews about the show. “I’m not interested,” he said.Despite that, however, Calabrodidreprise hisMelrose Placerole in The CW’s 2009 reboot of the series. And for its 20th anniversary in 2012, heshared memories of being on the show, telling PEOPLE, “Going to work wasalwaysa pleasure. It was such a great community and cast and crew. Everybody was having a ball.“The cast of ‘Melrose Place’ on a 2012 EW cover.Entertainment WeeklyNever miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Thorne-Smith said that she initially shared Calabro’s disinterest in revisiting the past, but her perspective has since shifted. “It’s fun to talk about that time in our lives,” she said. “We were all together doing this thing in this time in our lives. So, that’s what’s been really fun, remembering that time, the nineties, and what we were doing in that crazy time.”“We were so close. I think that’s really rare,” she added.“It is, and that’s why I say, I miss seeing you guys,” Calabro said. “But doing a photo shoot … I’m not interested.”Thorne-Smith encouraged Calabro to think about the opportunity for the cast to get together again should another reunion photo shoot ever come up. (Or perhaps forthat upcoming reboot.)“I’ll come to New York and have dinner with you guys,” he said, though added, “I probably won’t do the shoot.”

Thomas Calabroadmits he regrets not joining hisMelrose Placecastmates for a 2012 reunion photo shoot.

While the 65-year-old actor was the only original cast member to play his character, Dr. Michael Mancini, for the entirety of the hit primetime soap’s seven-season run in the ’90s, he skipped the cast reunion for the cover ofEntertainment Weekly’s October 2012reunion issue.

On the most recent episode of their rewatch podcastStill the Place, fellowMelrosealumniLaura Leighton,Courtney Thorne-SmithandDaphne Zunigatook Calabro to task for his absence at the photo shoot.

“We missed having you,” Leighton said while questioning why Calabro was a no-show.

Thomas Calabro on ‘Melrose Place’ in 1994.mikel roberts/Sygma via Getty

mikel roberts/Sygma via Getty

“Okay. I’ll tell you why I didn’t do it,” Calabro replied. “Because I didn’t think about seeing all you guys together and having that kind of fun. That would have made it attractive to me.”

“I should’ve gone. What am I doing?” Calabro recalled telling his wife after his former castmates called him while they were all having dinner together at the time.

“But I’m not into looking back that much, you know what I mean? I’m kinda done,” he continued, adding that he turns down “pretty much all” interviews about the show. “I’m not interested,” he said.

Despite that, however, Calabrodidreprise hisMelrose Placerole in The CW’s 2009 reboot of the series. And for its 20th anniversary in 2012, heshared memories of being on the show, telling PEOPLE, “Going to work wasalwaysa pleasure. It was such a great community and cast and crew. Everybody was having a ball.”

The cast of ‘Melrose Place’ on a 2012 EW cover.Entertainment Weekly

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Thorne-Smith said that she initially shared Calabro’s disinterest in revisiting the past, but her perspective has since shifted. “It’s fun to talk about that time in our lives,” she said. “We were all together doing this thing in this time in our lives. So, that’s what’s been really fun, remembering that time, the nineties, and what we were doing in that crazy time.”

“We were so close. I think that’s really rare,” she added.

“It is, and that’s why I say, I miss seeing you guys,” Calabro said. “But doing a photo shoot … I’m not interested.”

Thorne-Smith encouraged Calabro to think about the opportunity for the cast to get together again should another reunion photo shoot ever come up. (Or perhaps forthat upcoming reboot.)

“I’ll come to New York and have dinner with you guys,” he said, though added, “I probably won’t do the shoot.”

source: people.com