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After stealing hearts as Lt. Kelly Severide at the helm of Chicago Fire for 14 years and counting, it\u2019s hard to imagine a time before Taylor<\/p>\n
Kinney played the valiant firefighter. But it\u2019s far from Kinney\u2019s first time playing a character who will go above and beyond to save civilians.<\/p>\n
Case in point: Kinney\u2019s starring role as an EMT in Trauma, a 2009 drama series that followed San Francisco paramedics. Kinney played EMT Glenn Morrison, a charming young paramedic who flexed his heroic dedication in all 18 episodes of the series.<\/p>\n
In a throwback photo from Kinney\u2019s Trauma era, he can be seen donning a mustache and goatee, a bit of a far cry from the shaved salt-and-pepper style he\u2019s embraced at Firehouse 51 in recent seasons of Chicago Fire. After all, it is a snapshot from 2009, just a few years after Kinney broke into the entertainment industry and before he made his 2012 Chicago Fire debut.<\/p>\n
Taylor Kinney as Glenn Morris in Trauma Episode 3 Season 1.<\/p>\n
Photo: Paul Drinkwater\/NBCU Photo Bank<\/p>\n
Taylor Kinney reflects on his Chicago Fire audition: \u201cI was excited\u201d<\/p>\n
Kinney\u2019s role on Trauma came just a few years before he helped launch the One Chicago franchise in the mothership series, but Chicago Fire\u2018s Kelly Severide isn\u2019t his only iconic role.<\/p>\n
Aside from dynamite guest roles in hit series like Castle, CSI: NY, Shameless, and Bones, many audiences know Kinney for his recurring role as werewolf Mason Lockwood in the supernatural thriller The Vampire Diaries. Kinney has also appeared in big-screen projects like Zero Dark Thirty and Here and Now.<\/p>\n
Kinney made his way to Dick Wolf\u2019s Windy City-based drama after several years spent in the television circuit, giving him the know-how and experience to successfully nail his first-ever Chicago Fire audition. That quiet confidence and assurance no doubt helped Kinney score the leading role of Severide, a firefighter who boasts infallible confidence and unbridled determination.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy first audition for Chicago Fire? I was in the circuit of auditioning a lot, so I was decent at it. I remember never having any anxiety. I was excited about it, and then you kind of leave it up to the powers that be,\u201d Kinney revealed during a 2023 NBC interview. \u201cIt went well, and 10 years later I\u2019m still here bugging you through your televisions while you fold laundry.\u201d<\/p>\n
After stealing hearts as Lt. Kelly Severide at the helm of Chicago Fire for 14 years and counting, it\u2019s hard to imagine a time before Taylor Kinney played the valiant firefighter. But it\u2019s far from Kinney\u2019s first time playing a character who will go above and beyond to save civilians.<\/p>\n
Case in point: Kinney\u2019s starring role as an EMT in Trauma, a 2009 drama series that followed San Francisco paramedics. Kinney played EMT Glenn Morrison, a charming young paramedic who flexed his heroic dedication in all 18 episodes of the series.<\/p>\n
In a throwback photo from Kinney\u2019s Trauma era, he can be seen donning a mustache and goatee, a bit of a far cry from the shaved salt-and-pepper style he\u2019s embraced at Firehouse 51 in recent seasons of Chicago Fire. After all, it is a snapshot from 2009, just a few years after Kinney broke into the entertainment industry and before he made his 2012 Chicago Fire debut.<\/p>\n
Taylor Kinney as Glenn Morris in Trauma Episode 3 Season 1.<\/p>\n
Photo: Paul Drinkwater\/NBCU Photo Bank<\/p>\n
Taylor Kinney reflects on his Chicago Fire audition: \u201cI was excited\u201d<\/p>\n
Kinney\u2019s role on Trauma came just a few years before he helped launch the One Chicago franchise in the mothership series, but Chicago Fire\u2018s Kelly Severide isn\u2019t his only iconic role.<\/p>\n
Aside from dynamite guest roles in hit series like Castle, CSI: NY, Shameless, and Bones, many audiences know Kinney for his recurring role as werewolf Mason Lockwood in the supernatural thriller The Vampire Diaries. Kinney has also appeared in big-screen projects like Zero Dark Thirty and Here and Now.<\/p>\n
Kinney made his way to Dick Wolf\u2019s Windy City-based drama after several years spent in the television circuit, giving him the know-how and experience to successfully nail his first-ever Chicago Fire audition. That quiet confidence and assurance no doubt helped Kinney score the leading role of Severide, a firefighter who boasts infallible confidence and unbridled determination.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy first audition for Chicago Fire? I was in the circuit of auditioning a lot, so I was decent at it. I remember never having any anxiety. I was excited about it, and then you kind of leave it up to the powers that be,\u201d Kinney revealed during a 2023 NBC interview. \u201cIt went well, and 10 years later I\u2019m still here bugging you through your televisions while you fold laundry.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the ongoing debate over whether the nature of\u00a0Drew Sidora\u00a0and\u00a0Dennis McKinley’s relationship is business and\/or pleasure on\u00a0The Real Housewives of Atlanta\u00a0Season 16,\u00a0Ralph Pittman entered the chat with some new intel.<\/p>\n
During a dinner with\u00a0Porsha Williams\u00a0and\u00a0Shamea Morton\u00a0on Episode 10, Ralph weighed in on\u00a0his estranged wife’s music partnership, revealing, “Dennis reached out to me to get the blessing.”<\/p>\n
When Shamea, who called Dennis and Drew’s friendship “so inappropriate,” noted, “That’s big,” Ralph replied, “No, that’s respect.”<\/p>\n
Porsha, for her part, went on to inform him that Dennis had texted her about Drew supposedly “trying to sleep with” him for free studio services. (Dennis previously denied the claim on Episode 9, insisting that\u00a0Porsha was “interpreting that incorrectly.”) The\u00a0Go Naked Hair founder\u00a0added in a confessional that she simply wanted Ralph to know that “Drew and Dennis had not had sex because he was basically telling her no.”<\/p>\n
Shamea asked Ralph if he believed they were “romantically linked,” to which he responded, “I don’t know. I thought she had somebody else that she was dealing with.”<\/p>\n
The purpose of the dinner meeting, Shamea explained, was for Ralph to run a podcast idea by her, since she hosted a previous Atlanta Househusbands show he’d done with\u00a0Todd Tucker\u00a0and\u00a0Aaron Ross. She ultimately invited Porsha to join them as a “witness” that nothing out of pocket was going down.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with meeting up with Ralph,” Shamea said in a confessional. “Honestly, I don’t know if Ralph had any ill intent in reaching out to me, but you know what, I’m a concerned citizen. And if [the] people of the United States of Atlanta want to know if Ralph’s wife and Dennis are making hot dogs, it’s gonna be gotten to the bottom of.”<\/p>\n
Ralph, meanwhile, claimed that he “had no idea” Porsha was going to be joining them. And after\u00a0she had vehemently opposed Dennis filming with Drew, Porsha also took the opportunity to clear up any misconceptions about her motives.<\/p>\n
“I’m not hangin’ with Ralph, OK?” she told producers. “I didn’t call him and ask him to come to dinner tonight. This is not tit for tat. \u2026 I’m just hungry.”<\/p>\n
Viewers only got a brief glimpse of\u00a0Angela Oakley\u00a0telling Drew about the trio\u2019s get-together. Though she was taken aback by the news \u2014 and didn\u2019t even know Ralph had a podcast \u2014\u00a0the\u00a0“I Did It to Me” singer \u00a0was more concerned about Dennis’ supposed text allegation to Porsha that she “wanted to sleep with him in an effort to not pay for services,” as Angela put it, repeating the phrase, “Girl, bye.” (According to Porsha, Dennis’ text said, “I told Drew I wouldn’t “f” her, and run me my money.”)<\/p>\n
Continuing to maintain that there is nothing romantic going on with Dennis, later on\u00a0RHOA’s May 11 episode, Drew vented to her life coach, Dr, Ken, “It just feels so unfair. It just feels like music is my safe space, but now that’s been compromised.”<\/p>\n
As the mom of three \u2014 who had already “ceased communication” with Ralph three weeks earlier \u2014 elaborated in a confessional, “Why would Dennis make up this lie? We are building something we both believe in, and I felt like he was supporting my desires and my passion in music.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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