MATCH POINT

What happens when a pop star moves to suburbia?

IN“Happy Together,” a hip young pop star flees the paparazzi to the least “cool” place you’d expect to find him: living in suburbia with a 30something married couple. That premise might seem far-fetched, but it’s actually based on a real- life incident in 2012 when pop star Harry Styles moved in with producer Ben Winston (“The Late

Late Show”) for 18 months. “We didn’t really get to know [Styles, who’s also a ‘Happy Together’ producer] because he was on his world tour while we were shooting the show,” says Amber Stevens West, 31, who stars as one half of the married couple (Damon Wayans Jr. plays her husband). “[Styles] did get an opportunity to come by the set once and finally introduce himself to everyone. He was just lovely and seemed very grateful to be behind the scenes, for once.”

“Happy Together,” premiering Monday at 8:30 p.m. on CBS, follows Claire (West) and Jake (Wayans Jr.), a happily married couple whose mundane life is upended when Styles’ stand-in character Cooper James (Australian actor Felix Mallard in his American TV debut) moves in with them.

“I adore Damon. I think he’s supertalented,” says West. “We had worked together on ‘ New Girl’ when I guest- starred on that show. He was one of those people where as soon as I met him, he felt like an old friend.”

West explains that the shooting location for “Happy Together” also felt like an old home. For most actors, a set isn’t a sentimental place — it’s their office. But West says the CBS studio in LA on Radford Avenue has played a major role in her life. It was part of her childhood, thanks to her actor/ DJ father Shadoe Stevens — and it’s where she met her husband, Andrew West (“Greek”).

“I worked on ‘Greek’ for four years [and met West] on the stage just underneath where we shoot ‘Happy Together,’ ” she says. “And then my dad, when I was growing up, also shot a sitcom called ‘ Dave’s World’ at CBS Radford for four years. So I spent a lot of time on that lot. There’s a lot of happy memories that all started at CBS Radford.”

West, who’s expecting her first child, was pregnant during the filming of “Happy Together” — and says the show took pains to hide it.

“We did all of the tricks [to hide it], with the exception of holding the laundry basket, because we didn’t want to have the stereotype that the wife does the laundry in the house,” she says.

“We got creative — I’m holding a lot of bags; I’m sitting on the couch a lot with a pillow over my lap. There’s strategically placed fruit bowls in the kitchen. Any time I’m standing by the kitchen islands, there’s something nicely placed right in front of my belly.

“We did all that we could, and it was fun.”