Inside General Hospital's Chad Duell's Relationship With Soap Opera Actress Courtney Hope

Courtney Hope and Chad Duell comprise one of soaps' most popular real-life pairs. While they have yet to appear on a soap screen at the same time, it almost happened, and the story goes back to how they met when a mutual friend introduced them at a party back in 2016.

"I wasn't even going to go! I had been working all day and I was really tired. My mom convinced me to go and I'm glad she did because I don't think I would've met him otherwise!" Hope told Soap Opera Digest, while revealing she was about to do a screen test for "General Hospital." Duell explained the rest.

"She was actually testing for my love interest on 'General Hospital,' so I was giving her a little bit of advice," Duell said. "The cool thing was, we mostly just talked about regular things, like about the fruit trees I was planting in my backyard. It was a Hollywood party and we were talking about real stuff. That's not normal!"

Hope didn't get the role, but she did get the guy as she and Duell soon began dating.