Laura Leighton's 26-Year Marriage to “Melrose Place” Costar Doug Savant Is 'the Best Thing to Come Out of The Show'

Laura Leighton says marrying her former Melrose Place costar Doug Savant ended up being the "best thing" to happen in her life as a result of the '90s soap.

On a Monday, Jan. 6 episode of Still Here Hollywood with Steve Kmetko, the 56-year-old actress reacted to Savant saying in a 2007 interview with PEOPLE that meeting his wife was the "best thing that happened to me as a result of Melrose."

As Leighton revealed on the podcast, she "absolutely" agreed.

"That was a very lovely thing to say," Leighton said. "... Who would've thunk? We're [at] 26 years of marriage, we've raised four children together and we're pretty proud of that. And still going. It truly was the best thing to come out of the show."

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Leighton and Savant, 60, wed in May 1998 amid the show's run on FOX from 1992 to 1999. Savant starred as Matt Fielding in the series from 1992 to 1997, while Leighton appeared as Sydney Andrews from 1993 to 1997.

Later in the podcast, after being asked if it "helps or hurts" to be married to another actor, Leighton told Kmetko that "it helps."

"We've never had an issue, like we're not competing for the same roles. So there's no competition there," she said. "He recently just did a play and the possibility of us maybe doing a play together or something like that, that's really an appealing idea."

"I'm rooting for him. He's rooting for me," Leighton added. "We're not competing against each other. So I think it's been a better thing than a bad thing."

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While celebrating her 22nd wedding anniversary to Savant in May 2020, Leighton revealed an "embarrassing true fact" about their wedding on Instagram: they didn't have any of their own photos from the ceremony, just "snapshots."

"After our wedding, we ordered so many beautiful photos from our [photographer] and gifted them to our friends and family...but we never got around to ordering photos for ourselves," she said. "🙈🙈 Pretty sure it’s time we did that... I will try to have more photos of this day by the time our next anniversary rolls around. 😘😬❤️"

Elsewhere during her recent Still Here appearance, Leighton — who has also starred as Ashley Marin in Pretty Little Liars — spoke about the challenge of aging in Hollywood.

“It's a different business for middle-aged women than it is for someone in their 20s,” she said, adding that her "drive" is different now.

“I had a lot of enthusiasm for being that actor when I was in my 20s, and now I just want to make a living and have a nice life and support a family,” she added. “The reasons for what I want have changed, and how I look at things. But it's definitely the opportunities are fewer and far between.”

Alongside her Melrose Place costars Courtney Thorne-Smith and Daphne Zuniga, Leighton launched a rewatch podcast, Still the Place, in July — which she described as a chance to talk "about how much hairspray there was and the outfits."

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