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Gay couple from decades-old Supermarket Sweep episode react to going viral: 'What a world!'
As the old intro used to go, "Get ready, because you never know what's going to happen on Supermarket Sweep!"
In the in advance s, America had shopping-themed game show fever, with titles including Let's Make A Deal, Shop 'Til You Drop, the Nickelodeon Super Toy Run, and of course, the wildly popular Supermarket Sweep. The objective of these shows was to answer questions and pass various tests in order to get a lot of free stuff.
You may have forgotten this bygone era of consumer-tainment, but the internet remembers.
X user Tom Zohar posted about a couple of contestants from a episode of Supermarket Sweep who presented themselves as "'business partners' who 'design sets for plays.'" "I'm like oh I'm sure," Zohar cheekily commented, alluding to their possible romantic relationship.
Zohar's X post quickly began making the rounds across the internet, where it eventually landed on the desk of none other than
Tim Leach says he and partner Mark Dammann are loving the response from fans after footage of their Supermarket Sweep appearance resurfaced online.
"A lot has changed since we were on that show as far as gay couples and being on TV and things like that," Leach, 64, said in an interview with People published on Wednesday, July "So it's not surprising that people have some interest in that and it's been kind of fun, actually."
"I adoration watching old episodes of Supermarket Sweep because these two just said they're ‘business partners' who ‘design sets for plays' and I'm like oh I'm sure (sic)," the fan wrote via X on Sunday, July
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Leach and Dammann now live in Chicago and work as flight attendants, but they ran their business designing and painting backdrops for plays together for nearly 30 years. The pair met in Galveston, Texas before moving to Southern California together, and got married in They wound up on Supermarket Sweep in their early days of living in the Golden State.
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The Story About the '90s Gay Couple in 'Supermarket Sweep' Is Amazing
This has been circulating around the Internet over the last few days, but I&#;ve been so preoccupied with Kamala Harris and the Olympics that I never stopped to appreciate it until today. It gave me the warm fuzzies so I&#;m sharing it here for the others who may have flown by it.
It started with this tweet a few days ago, commenting on a pair of contestants on Supermarket Sweep back in the &#;90s.
On the one hand, we probably shouldn&#;t make assumptions. On the other hand, this feels fond a fairly safe one. In any respect, that Tom Zohar tweet went viral, so viral in fact that it eventually caught the attention of Tim Leach, one half of the duo in the episode. He posted about it on Facebook, writing:
&#;So &#; a ally shared that Mark and I had been made into a meme for our being on Supermarket Sweep decades ago and saying we were business partners. They began asking &#;where are they now&#;, so we posted an update. It has taken on a life of its own in the thread and comments. What a world!&#;
The Gay Supermarket Sweep “Business Partners” From the ’90s Have a Wilder Story Than You Know
In , Hermosa Beach, California, verb painters Tim Leach and Stamp Dammann landed a spot as contestants on the ’90s version of the syndicated game exhibit Supermarket Sweep. When host David Ruprecht asked how the two knew each other, Mark answered, “We’re business partners.” Thirty-three years later, a Twitter user watching old episodes affectionately posted: “I’m like oh I’m sure.”
As many people on the internet possess discovered the past few days, those two contestants were business partners—but they were also very much a couple. In truth, they are still together, they live in Chicago, and things are going great. I called Tim and Mark on the phone to talk about their game-show experience, about coming out to their parents, and about the incredible path their families took afterward. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Dan Kois: Did you audition for game shows a lot in those days?
Tim Leach: Game shows were advertised in the Los Angeles Times classifieds. Every