He had a crush on her, but Alyssa Milano doesn’t mind — she thinks "he’s hot."

Nick Lachey told Access Hollywood in a recent interview that he had to tell his Charmed co-star about his former crush to avoid the humiliation of having her find out from someone else.

Lachey plays Milano’s love interest in an upcoming six-episode arc on the WB show.

"The first day I came I said, `I’m just going ... to tell you right now that your poster was hanging in my locker. Because you’re going to hear about it and I don’t want to be embarrassed later on."`

Milano says the feeling is mutual.

"His eyes are like lavender," the 31-year-old actress told the syndicated entertainment TV show. "I can’t even look at him when I’m working with him ... Yeah, he’s hot."