Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews have had a decades-long friendship. So how did they meet? We've got all the details her about their friendship.
Name a more iconic friend duo than Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews — we will wait! Did you recognize the two entertainment legends have in truth been very best buddies for many years?
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So how did they meet? Have they ever co-starred in any challenge in combination? What are their ideas on their friendship? Here's everything we learn about Carol and Julie's long-lasting friendship.
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How did Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews's friendship begin?
You know the ones besties you meet that you just click with in an instant? That was the case for Carol and Julie after they first met one fateful night time in 1961.
Carol advised Kelly Ripa on the Let's Talk Off Camera podcast (via People) in April 2023, "First there was an agent and a manager that I knew, who knew Julie, and he also knew the executive producer of The Garry Moore Show. And they said, you know, you two girls have to meet."
Naturally, Carol and Julie's first meeting took place after the 2 ladies had both finished Broadway performances. Carol joked that their mutual contacts "didn't stand a chance" when all 4 of them met up for dinner one evening.
"Julie and I never stopped talking," Carol said. "We just, it was like we've known each other forever. And, so that's since 1961 we've known each other."
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Naturally, it will've been against the law to not have those two talented very best pals create some type of magic in combination, so Carol and Julie fortuitously obliged the loving public with their first special together a year after their fateful first meeting.
Of course, the Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall particular won an Emmy. Because of course. Do you are expecting anything else much less from those two icons?
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Carol and Julie went on to reunite for the 1971 particular Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center. Their 1989 particular, Julie and Carol: Together Again, is available to watch on YouTube.
The two besties have also been noticed on the red carpet supporting each other at various events honoring each different, together with the March 2023 pink carpet premiere of the NBC particular Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love — a tribute to Carol's existence and work in honor of her ninetieth birthday on April 26, 2023.
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Julie, who appears in the NBC tribute to Carol, informed People (by way of the similar report), "From day one, we both seem to know and understand where each one of us is coming from ... Although we come from different countries, we recognized in each other things that were of mutual understanding."
Ever the relatable queen, Julie added that even supposing she and Carol don't discuss each and every single day, once they do it's "the kind of friendship that the minute you meet up again, it's exactly as it was. To know you've got a friend that special and loyal, and you don't need to be on, you don't need to be doing anything other than be yourself, it's a pleasure."
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