“At first they were like, ‘Don’t talk to the crew,’” Nick recalled of the producers. “’They’re a fly on the wall!’ I was like, ‘Guys, if this is ever going to work, that’s just not how I’m wired. You’re not going to be in my house and watch my every move and we’re not going to talk to each other. We got to get past that right now.’”
And before long, Nick—who now shares kids Camden, 12, Brooklyn, 10, and Phoenix, 8, with wife Vanessa Lachey—grew so close to everyone involved in the production that he deemed them an honorary part of his and Jessica’s family.
“I actually came to really love the crew,” he gushed. “I remember crying the day we shut down because you develop relationships with them. They really became family.”
For a full timeline of Nick and Vanessa’s love story following his split from Jessica, keep reading.
