George Crook, a cameraman for WSM, squired Locke to Nashville society events including the 1965 hunt ball. He later got into local politics and was elected mayor of Belle Meade in 2000. Locke was also rumored to have dated co-stars Bruce Davison ("Willard"), Paul Sand ("The Second Coming of Suzanne") and Bo Hopkins ("Gondola"), as well as producer Hawk Koch and John F. Kennedy's nephew Robert Shriver. For a while in the early 1970s, she shared a non-exclusive liaison with married actor David Soul after they played siblings in an episode of "Cannon".