HEi5VgCpEPM

For millions of ’90s kids, Zack Morris and Kelly Kapowski were television’s perfect couple.

Posters, lunchboxes, and teen magazines sold the fantasy everywhere.

But behind the scenes, the real love story was different. Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Lark Voorhies were secretly dating for years, while the network aggressively promoted a different romance to protect the show’s image and merchandise empire.

It’s a reminder that the biggest teen TV romance of the decade may have been carefully manufactured.