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Showing Their Love Loud and Proud: LGBT Celebrities and Their Other Halves

Samira Wiley and Lauren Morelli

The hit TV series ‘Orange Is the New Black’ led to a blooming relationship. Lauren Morelli, the show’s writer, met Samira Wiley on the set of the show, where Samira played a character named Poussey Washington.

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The pair got engaged in October 2016 and married a year later. Morelli was actually married to a man prior to Samira but later came out as gay while working on the series. She divorced her ex-husband and hasn’t looked back since.