From Sarah Michelle Gellar to Chad Michael Murray: all the 90s teen stars making a comeback for 2025
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Apart from championing double-barrelled first names, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Chad Michael Murray and Jennifer Love Hewitt were the heartthrobs of the Nineties and Noughties. Yet after adorning the walls of many teenager’s bedrooms alongside the likes of Ryan Philippe and Freddie Prinze Jr, our great crushes slipped off the radar. However, this year they are all set to make comeback, as they’ll appear in blockbuster TV shows and reboots of their biggest films.
While Gellar, Hewitt, Philippe and Prinze all starred in TV shows throughout the Nineties, their breakout movie was the 1997 slasher hit I Know What You Did Last Summer, in which they played four friends stalked by a killer. As well as setting their careers in motion, the film was the meet-cute for Gellar and Prinze, who were 19 and 20 years old at the time. Prinze told People magazine that although the pair "really didn't dig each other," at first, they soon became close friends and eventually got together in 2000, before marrying two years later. They have been together ever since and share two children named Charlotte and Rocky.
Gellar and Ryan Philippe became co-stars again for the 1999 romantic drama Cruel Intentions, where they played scheming step-siblings caught in a love triangle with Reese Witherspoon, who was Philippe’s girlfriend at the time. The pair would marry a few weeks after Cruel Intentions was released, welcoming their daughter, Ava Philippe later that year. They had a second child, Deacon Philippe, in 2003 before divorcing in 2006.
