JACK WAGNER (on Melrose Place, Heather Locklear, General Hospital, Working w/ Lindsay Lohan & More!)

BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE

David Yontef

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🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Jack Wagner steps Behind The Rope. Jack is here to chat about the full anthology of his career none the least of which is a several year run as Dr. Peter Burns on one of the best shows of all time, Melrose Place. Jack talks Heather Locklear, the boundaries Melrose pushed and reboots. Jack also talks General Hospital (shout out Frisco), The Bold and the Beautiful, Santa Barbara, being part of the Hallmark family, Dancing With The Stars, his recent elimination as “Eggplant” on The Masked Singer, touring the world on mega stages which mega hits, working with Lindsay Lohan and Sharon Osbourne and last, but certainly not least, crashing “We Are The World”! @jackwagnerofficial @behindvelvetrope @davidyontef BONUS & AD FREE EPISODES Available at - www.patreon.com/behindthevelvetrope BROUGHT TO YOU BY: PEACE CORPS - peacecorps.gov/serve (The Toughest Job You'll Ever Love) PROGRESSIVE - www.progressive.com (Visit Progressive.com To See If You Could Save On Car Insurance) ADVERTISING INQUIRIES - Please contact David@advertising-execs.com MERCH Available at - https://www.teepublic.com/stores/behind-the-velvet-rope?ref_id=13198 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you want to listen to this episode or any of our episodes, ad free, you can do that now.
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0:12.2	Plus every single day, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, you can listen to this episode or any of our other episodes at the same time, ad free over on Patreon. Hey everyone, this is David. Welcome back behind the Velvet Rope. Let's just get right into it today because we're joined by the one and only Jack Wagner.
0:58.5	Hi, David. How are you?
1:00.1	What's going on? Or I should just say eggplant is in the house, right?
1:04.1	Eggplant is in the house.
1:06.3	Listen, your clue package talked about, you know, five decades and you played doctors and ship captains
1:12.3	and rock stars like. What was this experience like for you? You've done so much in this business.
1:18.0	Oh, thanks for asking. It was, I love the theatricality of it. Actually, I love being back on stage.
1:24.0	I love singing again. It was very challenging to be in the, I would say, eggplant costume. It's a
1:33.0	bit cumbersome, but still, you know, it was challenging, but also, I mean, pushed me to, you know,
1:40.9	focus on the vocal and really try to knock out the best vocal I could, you know,
1:45.1	and also figuring out the movement what worked and, you know, what I was really capable of doing.
1:51.1	Yeah, some people get costumes like Galaxy Girl has like a slender costume.
1:55.0	I figured the eggplant can't be one of the easier costumes.
1:58.1	No, I would probably say it isn't.
2:00.7	It would have been nice to maybe have shown my
2:03.8	legs or moved my body a little bit. But listen, I think he was a likable character, you know,
2:09.9	and it was great to come out of the box with Rocket Man, one of my favorite artists and favorite
2:15.3	songs. So I got a chance to sing some really great songs.
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