‘Brady Bunch’ star shuts down rumor

“The Brady Bunch” star

Susan Olsen insisted during a recent interview that an old rumor of an affair between her TV brother and TV mother was never anything more than a hunch.

Olsen, 61, who played little Cindy Brady on the sitcom, told Fox News that although Barry Williams famously “had a crush” on

Florence Henderson, her co-stars were never romantically involved. Williams played Greg, the eldest of the Brady children, while Henderson portrayed the matriarch of the family.

“I disliked the rumors that Florence Henderson and Barry Williams had an affair,” Olsen said during an event at the Hollywood Museum.

“She was very kind to him,” she added. “She let him take her out for her birthday. So I don’t like the implication that’s been out there, that something was going on with them. There wasn’t anything going on with them except for mutual respect and love.”

In a 1991 interview with People magazine, Henderson said she would “never forget” the day Williams asked her “on a date.” Because “the crush was a very serious thing for him,” Henderson recalled being careful to avoid striking a “condescending” tone with Williams.

“He was too young to drive, so his older brother brought him to my hotel, and then I drove us to the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where we saw a singer,” Henderson told People. “It was so sweet because Barry made sure we had a good table.

“After the show, his brother picked him up and took him home,” she continued. “I certainly liked him too, but I wasn’t exactly the Cher of the TV mom set.”

According to the Huffington Post, Williams also reminisced about their evening together — which ended with Henderson giving him a kiss on the cheek — and clarified the extent of his feelings for his castmate in his 1992 memoir, “Growing Up Brady.”

“When those little things called hormones start kicking in, you get excited by even inanimate objects. It wasn’t that I sought to bed her. I just wanted to spend time with her,” Williams wrote.

“It was flattering that she gave me any attention at all.”

Henderson died in 2016 at age 82, while Williams turned 68 in September.