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Actors know fans obsess over their on-screen relationships, and Kerry Washington proves it.
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Kerry Washington sat down with NPR’s Juana Summers to discuss her memoir and her family.
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Even though the show ended in 2018, Scandal fans can’t let go of the exciting and controversial relationship between Kerry Washington’s character and Tony Goldwyn’s character.
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In the popular ABC series, Kerry played Olivia Pope, a former media consultant turned “fixer” who falls in love with President Fitzgerald Grant III. Despite him being married, their chemistry was undeniable.
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For seven dramatic seasons, fans watched as the two characters had an affair and made bad decisions, but their chemistry kept viewers hooked. Fans even nicknamed them “Olitz.”
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Fans’ fantasies were fueled by knowing that Kerry and Tony were best friends off-screen and still are today.
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Kerry enjoys fueling the fantasy with her playful posts about Tony and Olitz, like this one:
She went further by joining a popular trend on TikTok called the Black Wife Effect. It describes how white men change their style and haircut when they marry or date a Black woman.
Kerry posted her own TikTok version on her Instagram. She used it to encourage people to vote, knowing how to grab everyone’s attention with her content .
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But what made this TikTok even funnier is that Kerry and Tony are married… to different people. Kerry is married to NFL player-turned-actor Nnamdi Asomugha. They have two children together. Tony has been with his spouse Jane Musky since 1987, and they also have two daughters.
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