'Dukes of Hazzard' star Catherine Bach still breaks out Daisy Duke shorts she made famous (2024)

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"Dukes of Hazzard" star Catherine Bach might still be rocking the famous "Daisy Duke" shorts.

Bach, who starred as Daisy Duke in the original TV series, revealed whether a reunion or reboot is in the cards, while speaking with Fox News Digital during her co-star John Schneider and Dee Dee Sorvino's wedding celebration at the Hollywood Museum in Los Angeles on Aug. 1.

"Well, you know, shows are a mystical thing at best, because you never know what's going to work and how things are going to click," Bach explained to Fox News Digital. "And you have to have a good writer. It can't just be writing on an idea."

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Catherine Bach revealed she still wears her "Daisy Dukes." (Getty Images)

"You have to execute that idea. So, yeah, if everything comes together. Of course," she noted. "I'm still here, the guys are still here. It would be great, but I don't know."

"Well, you know, shows are a mystical thing at best because you never know what's going to work and how things are going to click."

— Catherine Bach

"Dukes of Hazzard," which followed the story of the Duke boys from Hazzard County, aired from 1979 until 1985.

Fast-forwarding to today, fans could possibly still catch Bach wearing the classic denim shorts made famous by the comedy show.

"Only if you come to my house and watch me garden," Bach revealed. "Or at the beach. I'll be honest, at the beach."

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John Schneider, Catherine Bach and Tom Wopat in a promotional portrait for the TV show "The Dukes of Hazzard," circa 1980. (Getty Images)

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Bach originally didn't want the role of Daisy Duke.

"Here’s the thing – they’ve been looking for a year for that part," Bach told Fox News Digital in 2019. "They went to New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Georgia and California. Nothing. So I said, 'That’s very nice of you to think of me, and I know you’re doing this as a favor to my husband, but you don’t have to.' I just didn't think I had a chance. But he goes, ‘I really want you to come in.’"

"A few weeks later, I was at some little Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills with my girlfriend, who directed my one-act play . . . I tell her, ‘I do have this interview that I’m supposed to go, but I’m not. . . . You know part Daisy Duke for Warner Bros.? They want me to come in, but I know I’m not going to get it.’ . . . She goes, ‘It’s Warner Bros. You never know who you’re going to meet on the way in and on the way out. Just go!’ So I went."

"After Idid my reading during the audition, there was total silence. I thought, ‘Oh no, they didn’t like what I did.’ Then everyone, we’re talking about 30 people, got up and started clapping," Bach recalled. "They just connected with my vision of how this part should be played. Two weeks later, I was on a plane to Georgia."

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Catherine Bach starred as Daisy Duke in "Dukes of Hazzard." (Getty Images)

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45 years later, Bach attended Schneider's Aug. 1 wedding to Sorvino.

"I never thought I'd hold another hand or laugh again," Schneider told Fox News Digital at his wedding celebration.

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Catherine Bach attended the wedding celebration for John Schneider and Dee Dee Sorvino. (Getty Images)

Schneider's late wife, Alicia Allain Schneider, died in 2023 after battling breast cancer for four years. Sorvino's late husband, actor Paul Sorvino, died in 2022. Due to the recent deaths of their spouses, Schneider and Sorvino felt a little bit of "guilt."

"I think because we did lose our spouses, and we were very happy in those relationships, you can't help but feel guilt," Sorvino explained.

"I really actually felt guilty," Schneider admitted. "I felt guilty, it's like, ‘Whoa, what is this?’ I was more judgmental toward me than maybe anybody else. But what worked ultimately for me is the laughter. It sounds like such a maybe a minor thing, but laughter is so important."

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John Schneider and Dee Dee Sorvino hosted a formal wedding celebration in August. (Getty Images)

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'Dukes of Hazzard' star Catherine Bach still breaks out Daisy Duke shorts she made famous (2024)

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What was Daisy on The Dukes of Hazzard famous for wearing? ›

Catherine Bach is still best known as Daisy Duke from The Dukes of Hazzard, always rocking her “Daisy Duke” short shorts.

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Enos has a crush on Daisy Duke that she often uses to the Dukes' advantage in unraveling Hogg and Rosco's schemes.

What happened to the original Daisy Duke? ›

Bach, who played the sexy, sassy Daisy Duke on the CBS action adventure TV show The Dukes of Hazzard from 1979 to 1985, spends her time these days portraying Chelsea's mother, Anita Lawson, on The Young and the Restless as well as overseeing her Catherine Bach Signature Line of jewelry and participating in Dukes Fan ...

Where did the name Daisy Duke shorts come from? ›

As early as the 1960s, people began cropping their jeans, turning them into raw hem cutoffs. Cutoffs were commonplace by the 1970s, with a new, even shorter style dubbed “Daisy Dukes” being named after Catherine Bach's character in the television series “The Dukes of Hazzard.”

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After her marriage ended, she was pursuing a graduate degree at Duke University, and upon her return to Hazzard agrees to marry Enos Strate, who reveals he had been writing weekly love letters to Daisy for many years (tying into Enos's own spin-off series), but backs out at the last minute due to both the sudden ...

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Meaning of daisy dukes in English

very short pants that end just below the hip, made from jeans that have been cut short: She was dressed in daisy dukes and a blonde wig. hidesy/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages.

What happened to Daisy before she was married? ›

Daisy fell in love with Lieutenant Jay Gatsby, who was stationed at the base near her home. Though she chose to marry Tom after Gatsby left for the war, Daisy drank herself into numbness the night before her wedding, after she received a letter from Gatsby.

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Her father had German ancestry and her mother had Mexican ancestry. Cut-off denim shorts are sometimes referred to as "Daisy Dukes" as often worn by her character Daisy Duke on the television series The Dukes of Hazzard (1979). Descended from the Verdugo family, one of California's earliest landed families.

Did Daisy Duke have a car? ›

American Motors submitted a bid to offer their vehicle line where a Jeep CJ-7 Laredo (known as the Dixie Jeep throughout the latter run of the series) was provided. Daisy Duke's original car was a yellow 1974 Plymouth Road Runner.

Why is Daisy called Daisy? ›

The flower name comes from the Old English word dægeseage, meaning "day's eye". The name Daisy is therefore ultimately derived from this source. Daisy is also a nickname for Margaret because Marguerite, the French version of the latter name, is also a French name for the oxeye daisy.

What was Daisy Duke's yellow car? ›

A 1971 Plymouth Roadrunner (yellow with a black stripe) was used by Daisy Duke in the first five episodes of the first season.

What was Daisy Dukes middle name? ›

Daisy Mae Duke is a fictional character, played by Catherine Bach, from the American television series The Dukes of Hazzard.

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27 "The Runaway") Daisy is presented with her new car: a white AMC Golden Eagle Jeep named "Dixie." It sported a hood with a gold eagle emblem.

What does Daisy Dukes come from? ›

Daisy Duke is both the main female protagonist and the sex symbol on Dukes of Hazzard. In two episodes Daisy wears a red bikini to distract Cletus and a truck driver. She appears numerous times wearing tight and short denim shorts, which later became colloquially known as "Daisy Dukes".

What happened to Daisy Dukes Roadrunner? ›

Daisy's yellow 1974 Plymouth Road Runner lasted only the first 26 complete episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard (1979)'s 146 episodes. It was destroyed & replaced in the 27th, The Runaway (1980). The last 119 episodes, Daisy Duke drove the 1980 Jeep CJ7.

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