Julian McMahon and Shannen Doherty’s Romance Remembered After Deaths

Julian McMahon and Shannen Doherty briefly dated throughout the making of their basic TV sequence Charmed.

Tragically, the Charmed costars died inside one 12 months of one another after they each battled most cancers. Doherty handed away at 53 in July 2024, whereas McMahon’s demise was confirmed almost one 12 months in a while July 4, 2025. The actor was 56.

The previous couple reportedly acquired collectively throughout Charmed’s third season in 2001, which turned out to be Doherty’s final enjoying Prue Halliwell. On the time, Doherty’s departure – and the on-screen demise of her character – had been blamed partially on off-screen stress with costar Alyssa Milano, who performed Prue’s sister, Phoebe Halliwell. (Rose McGowan was ultimately solid as an extended misplaced Halliwell sister, Paige, to primarily exchange Doherty’s Prue.)

Doherty and McMahon’s relationship state of affairs throughout Charmed season 3 could have been particularly difficult since McMahon performed Milano’s on-screen love curiosity, Cole Turner. McMahon was additionally going by a divorce from first spouse, Baywatch star Brooke Burns, on the time.

Doherty addressed the tense Charmed set setting throughout a December 2023 interview with former costar Holly Marie Combs on her “Let’s Be Clear with Shannen Doherty” podcast. Combs briefly acknowledged Doherty and McMahon’s relationship as she mentioned the occasions that led as much as Doherty being dropped from Charmed in 2001.

“You recognize, [Brian Krause, who played Leo] and [Alyssa] had been relationship on the time when this all went down, which, to me, us being fully oblivious, to me was the worst half,” Combs stated. “The place, it was all kind of a part of this plan that was taking place and unfolding by over months. It was months of that 12 months. You had been relationship Julian [McMahon]. So that you guys had been off in that world. Brian was off with Alyssa.”

Away from the Charmed set, Doherty and McMahon performed lovers within the 2001 TV film One other Day. Within the movie, Doherty’s character Kate developed emotions for childhood buddy David (McMahon) after mysteriously being despatched again in time to 2 days earlier than her late boyfriend Paul’s demise in a hearth.

McMahon and Doherty had been reportedly already cut up up by the point One other Day premiered. Having beforehand been married to actor Ashley Hamilton within the Nineteen Nineties, Doherty wed poker participant Rick Salomon in 2002, although they had been granted an annulment the next 12 months. (Salomon went on to advertise a intercourse tape that he shot with ex-girlfriend Paris Hilton, and was later married to Pamela Anderson twice, between 2007 and 2008 and once more between 2014 and 2015.)

Doherty married her third husband, photographer ​​Kurt Iswarienko, in 2011. They introduced their cut up in April 2023, however their divorce was not finalized till hours earlier than Doherty’s demise from breast most cancers in July 2024.

In the meantime, McMahon’s first marriage was with Australian pop star Dannii Minogue between 1994 and 1995. Following his divorce from second spouse Burns in 2001, he tied the knot with third spouse Kelly Paniagua in 2014 and was together with her till his demise.

McMahon’s household confirmed on July4 that he died following a personal battle with an unspecified type of most cancers. His former Charmed costar Combs mourned McMahon by expressing hope that he would reconnect with Doherty within the afterlife.

“One among a form is an understatement,” Combs remembered by way of Instagram. “Your unyielding zest for all times and loopy making humorousness shall be sorely missed. The enjoyment and laughter you had been the direct reason behind will at all times be remembered.”

She then referenced Doherty in writing, “I hope you discover our girl buddy and dance in these rose petals.”

McMahon is survived by his third spouse Paniagua and 25 year-old daughter Madison, who was born throughout his marriage to Burns.

“With an open coronary heart, I want to share with the world that my beloved husband, Julian McMahon, died peacefully this week after a valiant effort to beat most cancers,” his spouse, Kelly, stated in a press release. “Julian cherished life. He cherished his household. He cherished his pals. He cherished his work, and he cherished his followers. His deepest want was to deliver pleasure into as many lives as attainable.”