Regulation & Order: Organized Crime star Christopher Meloni has promised followers he’s doing his greatest to make the will-they-won’t-they romance between Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson occur.
Meloni, who performed Elliot Stabler alongside Mariska Hargitay’s Captain Olivia Benson on Regulation & Order: Particular Victims Unit earlier than leaving to steer the spinoff Organized Crime, has admitted he desires the 2 beloved characters to get collectively as a lot because the followers.
On Monday (July 28), a Regulation & Order viewer despatched Meloni a put up on X, writing, “@Chris_Meloni for f— sake, kiss her already!”
The Emmy-nominated actor responded, “I’m f****** attempting.”
I’m fucking attempting https://t.co/qtXyzlqJzm
— Chris Meloni (@Chris_Meloni) July 29, 2025
Benson and Stabler had been companions for over a decade on SVU, taking down numerous criminals in New York Metropolis. Their friendship and closeness grew over the seasons, main many followers to wish to see them flip their work partnership right into a romantic one. Stabler even confessed his love for Benson and tried to kiss her in SVU Season 24.
Sadly for Stabler and the viewers, that kiss by no means occurred. Benson informed her former companion, “Elliot, I wish to. I wish to, however I can’t.” When Stabler requested why, she mentioned, “As a result of what if it doesn’t work out?”
Mariska Hargitay as Captain Olivia Benson, Christopher Meloni as Det. Elliot Stabler in ‘Regulation & Order: Organized Crime’
After Meloni’s newest tweet, followers jumped into the feedback to share their reactions, with one commenter writing, “Effectively TRY HARDER.”
“You set your sport face again on and get again in there!! There’s no attempting! Simply do!” quipped one other.
“Good grief I’m not supplying you with two 30 extra years to determine it out! Instances a-wastin’!” one other added.
One other wrote, “Im prepared to attend till each star is counted within the sky to see this occur. Im so invested my grown children are invested!!!!”
“I used to be a child when i began delivery Bensler, now I’m a dentist and nonetheless ready,” mentioned one consumer.
“Attempt more durable! in the event you can remedy a homicide In a 44 minute episode . It shouldn’t take your 26 years to make a transfer !!” joked one other fan.
“This makes me so joyful!! I actually hope you make it occur this season,” mentioned one commenter.
As for Hargitay, she additionally desires Benson and Stabler to get collectively. In a Could 2024 interview with Selection, she revealed, “To be trustworthy with you, Chris and I believed it ought to go a method and the powers that be didn’t, so it received modified on the final minute, that close to kiss. Clearly Martin Holmes, TV Insider Dick [Wolf] will get remaining say. It’s his present and he didn’t need that.”
Regulation & Order: Particular Victims Unit, Season 27 Premiere, Fall 2025, Thursdays, 9/8c, NBC
Regulation & Order: Organized Crime, Streaming now, Peacock