‘White Lotus’ couple Jennifer Coolidge, Jon Greis: Real-life friends

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In HBO’s “White Lotus,” shady Greg Hunt (Jon Gries) plotted successfully to kill his rich heiress wife, Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge). But Gries, 67, and two-time Emmy winner Coolidge, 63, won’t let a dark storyline end their real-life friendship.

Gries and Coolidge are BFFs. He promises.

“We’re always in touch with each other,” Gries tells USA TODAY, offering the best, only-in-Hollywood proof that involves “Saturday Night Live” original player Garrett Morris: “We just spent Christmas together. We went over to Garrett Morris’ house. It was an amazing day.”

How are Jon Gries and Jennifer Coolidge connected to Garrett Morris

What’s the connection between Gries, Coolidge and Morris, 88? Gries played scatterbrained producer Shawn McDermott on TV’s “Martin” from 1992-94, when Morris played Martin’s (Martin Lawrence) first boss Stan Winters. And Coolidge starred as Polish businesswoman Sophie on “2 Broke Girls,” in which Morris co-starred as Earl, the Williamsburg Diner cashier.

“So we all go way back,” says Gries. “We picked up a box of donuts and went to Garrett’s house with coffee in the morning. We just sat around and laughed. It was an incredible Christmas.”

Onscreen, the relationship between Greg and Tanya started after they met in Hawaii, the setting of the first season in 2021. Tanya fell to her death in a yacht disaster off the coast of Italy in Season 2, among a gang with suspicious links to Greg, her new hubby. In the current third season (Sundays, 9 ET/PT), Greg calls himself Gary and lives a billionaire life in Thailand. However, White Lotus Hawaii therapist Belinda (Natasha Rothwell), who was supposed to go into business with Tanya, is visiting Thailand and has spotted Greg/Gary.

Coolidge wants to see Greg/Gary punished on the show, telling Forbes, “I hope he gets it!”

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