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Little House on the Prairie's Dean Butler discusses age gap kiss with co-star Melissa Gilbert when she was 15 and he was 23: 'I wish we could have been a little closer in age'


Little House on the Prairie's Dean Butler revealed that he wished he and teenage co-star Melissa Gilbert were 'closer' in age while filming their kiss scene.

Little House on the Prairie's Dean Butler revealed that he wished he and teenage co-star Melissa Gilbert were 'closer' in age while filming their kiss scene. Little House on the Prairie's Dean Butler, 67, revealed that he wished he and teenage co-star Melissa Gilbert were 'closer' in age while filming their kiss scene; seen in 2017 'When I met Melissa in "Back to School," there was no sign of a woman there,' Butler explained, adding, 'I think she did it amazingly well when you look at how little life experience she had'; (Top L-R) Matthew Laborteaux, Gilbert, Michael Landon, Butler, Melissa Sue Anderson, Linwood Boomer, (Bottom L-R) Karen Grassle, Lindsay Greenbush

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