Several costars remembered the joke on the new rewatch podcast, “Still the Place.”
Heather Locklearwas abigdeal when she moved intoMelrose Placeat the end of the soapy drama’s first season.
She had already made a name for herself on shows such asDynastyandT.J.

Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Leighton, and Daphne Zuniga cohost a “Melrose Place” rewatch podcast.Rachel Luna/Getty; Amanda Edwards/Getty; Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty
“This came to me today, and made me laugh out loud.
Is Helen here?'
That made me laugh out loud this morning.”
(Off screen, Wagner and Locklear fell in love in 2007.
They were engaged in 2011, but called it off later that year.)
Locklear played Amanda, the villainous boss of Thorne-Smith’s kinder Alison.
Zuniga was photographer Jo Reynolds, while Leighton was the unstable Sydney.
New episodes drop on Monday, the day of the week on which most of the series aired.