Summer Van Horne is a main character in the first, second and third seasons of the ABC drama series Make It or Break It. She dated Steve Tanner and is the manager of The Rock. Summer is portrayed by Candace Cameron Bure.
She started as Steve Tanner's ex-girlfriend and old assistant. After she broke up with him and quit her assistant job, she becomes the manager of The Rock.
Background[]
She is Steve Tanner's ex-girlfriend and former assistant. She reveals to Lauren that in high school, before finding God, she slept with lots of boys and came to be known as a slut. After breaking up with Steve, she continues to have a relationship with Lauren and seems to serve as a sort of mother figure for the girl. She is the current manager of The Rock. She is a Christian who lives her life by faith, much to Sasha's amusement and frequent disdain. There is a measure of romantic tension between them that culminates in a kiss, although both agreed the kiss was inappropriate in "Loves Me, Loves Me Not". However, it is evident that the two have feelings for each other but between them it will never work out because of their differences, and in the episode "The Great Wall" they share a very passionate kiss in Sasha's trailer. On the episode "And The Rocky Goes To..." Summer drunkenly declares Sasha a "lovable guy". Sasha walks her home and says someday he wants to get married to the right woman and kisses her. After this point, the two appear to be dating. They mutually agreed to break up before Sasha left The Rock temporarily.
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Throughout the Series[]
Season 1[]
In Season 1, you see her as Steve Tanner's 'secretary'/girlfriend. They seem to have a close relationship but in the first episode, it is said that they are hiding their secret affair from Steve's daughter, Lauren. It is revealed to Lauren in episode two when, while Steve and Summer are in their new office and intimately hugging, Lauren spots them in the act and shouts out, "You're banging your secretary?!"
After being exposed, Summer tries to get closer to Lauren, despite the lack of Lauren's interest. Then, in the episode 'Like mother, like daughter', Summer reveals the secret about her high school life and how she was known as something along the lines of the class slut. Lauren initially uses this against Summer, but when Lauren is left friendless and in a crisis, Lauren turns to Summer and the two become close. (One thing that must be noted…The scene when Summer sits down with Lauren genuinely took me by surprise. A level of emotion and quality that I truly wasn’t expecting, and suddenly made me look at Candace Cameron in a different light. Maybe I should have already known, I’m just not familiar with her outside of Full House. But bravo on that scene! She’s easily the best part of the show and the woman from Frasier is a really great comic actress who also brings quality to the show.)
By the last episode of Season 1, at nationals, Summer discovers that Steve lied about the truth of Lauren's mom. In a few episodes back, she believed that Lauren's mom was a charity worker until Steve revealed that she was addicted to drugs. Lauren invites her mom to see her at nationals, but her mom is a no show. Summer takes it into her own hands and decides to ring Lauren's mom and ask her why she's not there. She was told that Steve threatened her if she came. This hurt Summer and she immediately broke up with Steve, but stayed for Lauren.
Season 2[]
During Season 2, Summer starts a relationship with Rock coach Sasha Belov. Before a certain episode, Sasha seemed to constantly flirt with Summer saying how she had feelings for him. When the bingo episode came, Summer goes to visit Sasha at his home to ask about China's invitational. When he says that they are coming, they hug and straight after, they kiss.
Summer and Sasha decide to hide their relationship for the gym, especially Lauren. But in the last episode of Season 2, when Summer kisses Sasha, he stops her from going too far and says that he didn't want to affect her values and breaks up with her.
At the beginning and during Season 2, you see that Summer gets back with Steve and seems to stay there with Lauren begging both of them to marry. Near the end of Season 2 and at the last episode, Summer finds out that it was Lauren who revealed the tape of Sasha and Payson kissing to Ellen Beals and says that she wants nothing to do with the family at all.
Season 3[]
The next time you see her isn't until middle Season 3, while Lauren is in hospital with her condition. Summer recommends prayer to Lauren as she believes that it will bring her peace. She rejects the idea but you see her praying in later episodes. Finally, at the last episode, you see Summer and Sasha sitting together on a bench alone and they discuss about their life at the Rock. While discussing mistakes, Sasha says he regrets losing Summer and they kiss and Sasha says, "Don't tell me you stopped believing in miracles". This indicates they continued with their relationship, even with no further seasons.
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Trivia[]
- She is a Christian.