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Marissa Jaret Winokur admits she might have gone a little too Method for the season finale of her TV Land series Retired at 35. Laughs the bubbly Tony winner (for 2002′s Hairspray) and former Dancing With the Stars contender, “I took more time picking out that wedding dress than my own!” Starting Tuesday night, the two-week season closer event follows her character Amy down the aisle, where she may or may not marry fiancé Jared (John Ross Bowie). The complication? Her brother’s best friend Brandon (Josh McDermitt) “really is in love with [Amy],” she says, “and there’s definitely a triangle going on for a little while.”

Winokur admits the season-long tug-of-war between the two guys was even tough for her. “I actually didn’t even know as an actress who I wanted Amy to be with,” she says. “Every week when I’d get a script, I’d wonder which way it was going to go — ‘Is this the week that says [she's] with Brandon, or is the one that says [she's] with Jared?’ … One week, I’d be super-close with Josh and be like, ‘Oh, I hope we’re going to get together this week!’ [Then again] John and I have such great chemistry, too. So even I was wishy-washy with who [Amy] should be with.” READ FULL STORY »