set hearts aflutter among the Dawson's Creek fandom by liking a comment about her and her ex-boyfriend .
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Katie Holmes Bold Comment on Ex Joshua Jackson
Katie Holmes set hearts aflutter among the Dawson's Creek fandom by liking a comment about her and her ex-boyfriend Joshua Jackson.Jackson, 47, and Holmes, 47, ...
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Jackson, 47, and Holmes, 47, shot to fame on the CW teen drama and dated in real life early in the show's run, spending a year together from 1998 to 1999, during which time she gushed that he was her 'first love.'
After their breakup, they were able to settle into a close friendship as well as professional rapport, continuing to co-star on the show until its conclusion 2003.
During the later seasons of Dawson's Creek, Holmes and Jackson's characters Joey and Pacey respectively
Now Holmes has written and .
When she posted an Instagram shot of the two of them together promoting the film, a fan commented: 'They should be a couple' - earning a like from Holmes.
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Katie Holmes set hearts aflutter among the Dawson's Creek fandom by liking a comment about her and her ex Joshua Jackson; the pair are pictured in a 2000 publicity still for the show
Holmes and Jackson were seen just last week linking arms at a New York City screening of the new documentary Brunello, The Gracious Visionary
Holmes set off a round of plastic surgery speculation with her radiant complexion as she and Jackson swanned around the fete, glowing with bonhomie
Kimberly Van Der Beek, the widow of Dawson's Creek leading man James Van Der Beek, also leapt into the comments to .'
Jackson and Holmes were seen just last week linking arms at a New York City screening of the new documentary Brunello, The Gracious Visionary, which centers on the Italian fashion designer Brunello Cucinelli.
Now Holmes has written and directed a movie called Happy Hours, starring her alongside Jackson, whom she is pictured filming the project with in New York this past December
(from left) Michelle Williams, James Van Der Beek, Jackson, Holmes, Meredith Monroe and Kerr Smith are pictured in an early-2000s publicity still for Dawson's Creek
Neither naming her boyfriend nor denying he was Jackson, she added that the man she was involved with had 'been in the business so long' and had consequently 'really helped me. I respect him as a friend and a professional.'
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Jackson confessed that 'Katie and I did have a romance' during an interview in 2006, three years after Dawson's Creek .
'Which is ancient history now, but I can’t tell you how much fun it is to have an actual romance, and then we broke up, and then a year later to have an onscreen romance,' he shared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
He joked that 'there's nothing more fun than going to work with your ex-girlfriend everyday,' adding: 'Sorry, Katie, I love you, but it was a little difficult there for a while.'
While Joey and Pacey dated on the show, Jackson confessed he would occasionally be 'reading the scripts' and find himself thinking: 'Did I say that to her? That’s not healthy. This shouldn’t be…oh my God.'
Last year Jackson surprised fans by remarking that 'Katie and I are very close,' during an appearance on the podcast Dinner's On Me hosted by Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
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'It's not a daily call. Sometimes it's not a weekly or monthly or even a half-yearly call,' he acknowledged. 'But when you're together, A, there's always that, like, I know you know. And B, there is, you know, these moments...,' he tried to explain.
'Like, these major moments in life are, like, other than your husband, there's probably no other people in your life that you are that forged to. Because you had to go through good and bad, and happy and: "F*** you," and: "Don't talk to me," and: "I love you."'
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