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5. Kirk Cameron Won't Let His Character Marry Julie McCullough's - Growing Pains
For a time, it seemed as though everything was pointing towards a happy ending for Growing Pains' Julie Costello and Mike Seaver, with the two engaged to be married on the show.
However, said wedding never came to pass as it was said that Kirk Cameron wasn't exactly pleased with the revelation of his co-star's bare-all past. With Julie McCullough posing for Playboy a few years before appearing on the show, Cameron, who had become a born again Christian a few year earlier, was said to have been infuriated and offended by the shots of her in the magazine.
People magazine later reported that tensions got so high between the two that Cameron outright refused to work with her or follow through with the wedding storyline, leading to McCullough being sacked from the show altogether.
Producer Dan Guntzelman would state that an actual marriage was never part of the plan and that Cameron "never expressed any concern over Julie’s pictures." But the fact that McCullough is still highly critical of Cameron's beliefs and the way he conducted himself during her time on the show suggests that there's at least some truth to the apparent reason behind her controversial departure.