Jonathan Knight and his husband, Harley Rodriguez, had quite the meet-cute moment when they met way back in 2008. At the time, the New Kids on the Block had reunited for their comeback album, The Block . And although the boy band was now all grown, their popularity and fame hardly faded, especially among fans who were no longer tweens and still practically fainted at the thought of the group comprised of Knight, Jordan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood.
(Past members also included Jamie Kelly and Mark Wahlberg). But while the group enjoyed Beatles-like fandom, surprisingly there still existed some people who had no idea who they were. And among those included none other than Rodriguez, who tells ET's Cassie DiLaura that his age may have had something to do with it.
"I heard their music on the radio and stuff like that but I was never a fan ...
I never went to a concert, nothing," Rodriguez, 51, explains. Knight, who traded in his dancing moves for a hammer and tool belt as an HGTV star with a new show, once recalled to ET that he met Rodriguez when he was a trainer at Barry's Bootcamp. NKOTB rehearsed most every day, all day, and the only time Knight had to himself was while taking part in Rodriguez's class at the famed workout camp.
"So, all of a sudden we had met. He invited me to his first show at House of Blues in L.A.
," Rodriguez recalled. "It was a pre-tour thing. So, I'm sitting up there with a friend and these girls down on stage are screaming, cry.
