In 2021, Barry Watson told Us Weekly that he was certain Jessica Biel and Beverley Mitchell both had a crush on him during the early days of filming "7th Heaven." "I think they were always, sort of, lingering around my trailer," the actor recalled. "I'd walk out and they [would] just, like, pretend [that] they weren't really there." However, Watson says that it was never something that got in the way of their work, or was even at the front of his mind while on set. "I think at the time I didn't really think about that," he stated.

For her part, Biel did admit a teenage crush on her co-star during an interview with Dax Shepard's "Armchair Expert" podcast that same year. "Beverly and I both had crushes on Barry, who played our older brother," the actor confessed. "But no one ever dated anybody. He was dating real-life women. We were like 14 years old, just like, 'Oh my god.' There was no chance for us. It was not happening," she quipped.

Of course, both Biel and Mitchell moved on from their childhood crush. Biel is now married to singer Justin Timberlake and the pair share two children, Silas and Phineas, together. Meanwhile, Mitchell is married to Michael Cameron and the couple have three children, Kenzie, Hutton, and Mayzel.