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Michael Nader, aka Dex Dexter of Dynasty, in After Six - The Dynasty Collection. 1987

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"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐲." -𝐊𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 (𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐄𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐬) 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐛𝐲 (𝐉𝐨𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐬). Joan Collins as Alexis Carrington Colby and Michael Nader as Dex Dexter in the Dynasty episode entitled The Voice, Part 3, originally broadcast by ABC on March 28th, 1984. Though their troubled (but passionate) relationship was fraught with tension, arguments and breakups, Alexis and Dex got married the following season, divorced in 1987, and reconciled (in an off and on manner) in the series' remaining two seasons. Though the characters had strong love-hate chemistry, Dex eventually sacrificed his own life while saving Alexis' in the last episode of the show's final season during an argument with her son Adam and cousin Sable which resulted in Alexis and Dex both plummeting off a balcony; the cliffhanger was eventually explained in the Dynasty reunion movie in 1991, with Alexis living and Dex dying after he used his body to break her fall. It's of interest to note that Michael Nader was the nephew of 1950s and 1960s actor George Nader who was one of screen icon Rock Hudson's closest friends and confidantes; Rock guest-starred on Dynasty in 1984 and 1985, his last acting credit prior to his AIDS diagnosis becoming public knowledge (it was rumored that Rock had AIDS at the time due to his progressively unwell appearance and loss of weight on the show, and his kissing scene with Linda Evans on Dynasty caused a media frenzy after his illness became known amidst "the AIDS panic" of the 1980s; Hudson sadly died of AIDS in 1985 at the age of 59, the first well-known celebrity to be claimed by the disease). Decades later, it was revealed that Michael Nader was also HIV positive during his years on Dynasty after he passed away from complications of HIV/AIDS at the age of 76 in 2021, with his illness confirmed by his daughter Lindsay shortly after his demise in an Instagram post. Diagnosed as HIV positive in the early-1980s before she was born in 1984, Lindsay stated that he told her about his illness when she was sixteen and that due to advances in treatment, Michael was one of the longest surviving people infected with the disease at the time of his passing. When Rock Hudson became gravely ill with the disease before it was publicly disclosed, he was hastily written off of Dynasty; had Nader's diagnosis also been known at the time, he too would've been sent packing and the fantastic on-screen chemistry between Joan Collins and Michael would've been short-lived during an era when transmission of the disease was poorly understood by many, prejudice against those who had it was at an all-time high, and HIV/AIDS was widely feared.