Eddie LeBec

On the television series Cheers, Eddie LeBec was Carla Tortelli's second husband. They met in 1987 when Eddie, while playing goalie for the Boston Bruins hockey team by Cheers. The two had an affair and, after learning Carla was pregnant, they were married. By the end of Season Six they had a set of twin sons: Elvis and Jesse.

Related Topics:
Cheers - Carla Tortelli - Goalie - Boston Bruins

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Eddie was played by Jay Thomas, who never became a cast regular, and thus Eddie was not often seen. Initially, the writers handled this by having Eddie retire from hockey and take a job with a traveling ice show, thus requiring him to be away from Boston most of the time. In 1989 the writers realized that the public didn't like the idea of Carla being married so they killed him off the show.

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The episode titled, "Death Takes A Holiday On Ice," dealt with Carla dealing with Eddie getting killed by a zamboni. At the funeral she learned that Eddie had a mistress, Gloria. As a result of the affair, Gloria had become pregannt and Eddie, despite being already married to Carla, felt obliged to also marry Gloria. At Eddie's funeral, Carla and Gloria learn of each other for the first time and wind up in a catfight with one another over the issue of which of the two is the 'real' Mrs. LeBec. Carla in anger took back her first marieed name, Tortelli.

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