celebrates its 15th anniversary, a new tell-all book is peeling back the curtain on never-before-heard stories and revelations from the hit CBS comedy's 12-season run. available now, chronicles the behind-the-scenes tales you may not have known to bring the popular sitcom to life — from the initial casting process to the show's breakout success to the real-life, off-set circumstances that threatened to derail the series. Series creator Chuck Lorre and author Jessica Radloff sat down with ET's Nischelle Turner to dig into the most illuminating revelations from the book, which features new interviews with the cast and producers, and go down memory lane of what almost did or didn't happen.«There’s a general sense of gratitude that we got to take this journey and 12 years is an incredibly long time to do one thing and there was a genuine affection amongst everyone,» Lorre shared. «It was difficult to end it.»While Lorre opted not to get into the legacy of the show, he acknowledged that has made a lasting impact.«The fact is, we made a show that we were very fortunate that actually, people cared about it.
‘The Big Bang Theory’ Book Revelations: Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki’s Romance in Their Own Words and More
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It all started with a bang! The Big Bang Theory not only transformed the lives of its stars — including Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Melissa Rauch and Mayim Bialik — but it also made a deep impact on its viewers, who propelled the CBS hit to a rare 12-season run, making it one of the longest-running sitcoms in television history.
In her book The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series — out on Tuesday, October 11 — journalist Jessica Radloff lets dedicated Big Bang fans in on all of the behind-the-scenes secrets, weaving the story via interviews with the entire cast, its guest stars, the series’ creators, show runners, writers and even the sitcom’s prop master (who was responsible for all of the guys’ delicious-looking Chinese food).
Intertwined with iconic anecdotes, the cast and crew’s takes on various fan theories and more, at the heart of the Big Bang Theory tome is the commentary on the characters’ relationships — and the real-life relationships that formed between the cast members.
Cuoco and Galecki — who not only portrayed onscreen fan-favorite couple Leonard and Penny, but also dated IRL for nearly two years during the beginning of the show’s run — recalled the many facets of their relationship, from how they told the rest of the Big Bang family that they were dating to the reason for their breakup. The former couple, who have remained close since their 2009 split, also looked back fondly on the beginnings of their romance — or at least, how the Flight Attendant star attempted to not-so-subtly hit on the Roseanne alum.
Recalling an early weekend getaway with the cast, Cuoco revealed in the Big Bang book that she tried to get Galecki to come into
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Kaley Cuoco Is 'Gonna Be a Helicopter Mom,' Jokes 'Big Bang Theory' Boss Chuck Lorre (Exclusive)
boss is sending his well wishes to Kaley Cuoco! In an interview with ET on Wednesday, producer Chuck Lorre gushed over Cuoco's pregnancy announcement and was sure to wish her congratulations. «I found out today,» he shared with ET's Nischelle Turner, while sitting down with writer Jessica Radloff to discuss her new oral history book, .The 36-year-old actress announced this week that she and her boyfriend, actor Tom Pelphrey, are expecting their first child -- a baby girl.«She and Tommy are so perfect together,» said Radloff, who worked closely with Cuoco while crafting the book. «They are just so happy. I'm so thrilled for her and they're gonna be such great parents, I absolutely know it.»As for what kind of mother Cuoco will be, Lorre cracks: «She's gonna be a helicopter mom! Gonna be all over this kid.» Radloff adds, «For as busy as Kaley is, she is so on top of things.… She will have a chart for this kid, I mean, it will be amazing.»Cuoco previously starred as Penny on the hit sitcom, which ran from 2007 to 2019.
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'Big Bang Theory's' Jim Parsons was ready to fight for Mayim Bialik: 'Almost never disagreed with the writers'
Can you imagine "The Big Bang Theory" without Sheldon? Probably not, given the gigantic success the character has had independently of the show, with the spinoff series of "Young Sheldon" still on-air. Now can you imagine the long-running comedy without Sheldon's romantic interest-turned-wife Amy in Mayim Bialik? Jim Parsons, who portrayed Sheldon, said he was not willing to imagine a scenario where Bialik's character was written off the program.
Kaley Cuoco recalls nearly losing her leg after a horseback riding accident
Kaley Cuoco once had a horseback riding accident that nearly saw her leg amputated. In an excerpt of The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series posted by Vanity Fair, the Big Bang Theory star told the story of a horseback riding accident that occurred over a decade ago. Her co-star Johnny Galecki and series creator Chuck Lorre helped tell the story in the excerpt.
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Jim Parsons’ sudden exit from ‘Big Bang Theory’ made co-stars ‘emotionally crumble’: new book
“The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series,” when the news broke that Parsons would leave the show after 12 seasons, and it would not continue without him, “there was a lot of crying in the room,” especially from co-star Kaley Cuoco, 36.“The Big Bang Theory” aired on CBS from 2007 to 2019, with a total of 279 episodes. The plot followed a nerdy group of friends, including physicists Sheldon Cooper (Parsons) and Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki), their aspiring actress neighbor Penny (Cuoco) and their pals: engineer Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg), astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar), and neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik).
Kaley Cuoco Jokes ‘Big Bang Theory’ Pixie Cut Was the ‘Worst Decision,’ Says It Wasn’t ‘Easy to Style’
The ‘do that shook CBS! Kaley Cuoco opened up about her dramatic hair transformation ahead of season 8 of The Big Bang Theory — and the effect it had on her character, Penny.
Kaley Cuoco Opens Up About Her Pixie Cut on The Big Bang Theory: ‘That Decision Bit Me in the Ass’
In , a new book from Grand Central Publishing available Tuesday, October 11, the cast and producers of the hit sitcom reunited for over 120 hours of interviews with Glamour senior editor Jessica Radloff to talk about life on-and-off screen. In this exclusive excerpt, Kaley Cuoco (Penny Hofstadter) opens up about and the surprising lesson she learned after making the chop. As soon as the eighth season of The Big Bang Theory started airing, the big news was Penny’s new look. Over the summer, Kaley Cuoco decided to cut her hair, first into a chic shoulder-length bob, then a chin-framing cut, and eventually into a pixie.
Johnny Galecki remembers how Kaley Cuoco first hit on him
Kaley Cuoco used a “Big Bug Theory” to lure her co-star and crush Johnny Galecki to her cabin, a new tell-all reveals.Galecki — tight-lipped until now about his off-screen romance with fellow “Big Bang Theory” cast member Cuoco — dished that she first hit on him by using a ruse about an insect.They were on a cast getaway at the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, Calif., and Cuoco, who had just broken up with her boyfriend, was staying in the room next door.“She tried to have him come over in the middle of the night to kill a bug,” said Jessica Radloff, author of “The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series,” out Oct. 11.“So I declined the demand to go kill a bug in her room,” Galecki recalled in the book.
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Kaley Cuoco talks about her crush on Johnny Galecki, her ‘The Big Bang Theory’ co-star
Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki played Penny and Leonard in “The Big Bang Theory,” the show’s primary couple over the course of 12 seasons. The two also dated in real life, from the year 2008 to 2010. Cuoco now shares that she had a crush on Galecki from the series’ start.Kaley Cuoco says she first met Pete Davidson in an escape roomKaley Cuoco and her boyfriend Tom Pelphrey make their Emmys debut“I had a very big crush on Johnny early on,” said Cuoco in an excerpt of “The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series,” published in Vanity Fair.