Lust got here earlier than love for Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard.
On Wednesday’s episode of SiriusXM’s Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson & Woody Harrelson (Sometimes), Ted Danson introduces Bell to his co-host, Woody Harrelson, and the three focus on Bell’s first (and second) meet cute with hubby Shepard — and the second she knew he wished to “f**okay” her.
“I used to be chewing gum and he stated, ‘Do you’ve got any extra gum?’ and I stated, ‘No, simply this,’ and I form of coyly took it out of my mouth like this,” Bell stated of her second interplay with Shepard. “And he grabbed it from me, and he goes, ‘I will take it,’ after which he put it in his mouth, and I used to be like, ‘This man needs to f**okay me.'”
“Yeah. It is on,” Harrelson chimed in.
On the time, Bell was “contemporary on the scene” and “able to mingle,” having simply gotten out of a relationship. So, when she noticed that her good friend was on the identical L.A. Kings vs. Detroit Purple Wings hockey recreation she was at, she had each intention of flirting with him. He simply occurred to be there along with her future husband.
“I knew Michael and I used to be like, ‘All proper, we’re, we’re again on the, we’re single. We have not been single in years. That is gonna be nice. I am gonna go over and flirt with Michael,'” she continued on the podcast. “Thank god, Michael, as a result of it, you recognize, made the remainder of my life. Michael had one thing else to do and was speaking to another person and Dax got here as much as me and I used to be like, ‘Oh, you had been at Shauna’s dinner,’ and he was like, ‘Yeah, that is proper. I keep in mind you vaguely.'”
The pair — who wed in October 2013 and share daughters Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 9 — formally met a number of weeks beforehand at producer Shauna Robertson’s small sushi birthday dinner in 2007.
“All I keep in mind from that night time was that man from Jackass talks a lot,” Bell stated. “Whoa, he is chatty and he did not know who I used to be both and clearly he was not on Jackass, he was on Punk’d, however I did not know that on the time, after which we had no chemistry that night time.”
Though it could not have been love at first sight for the 2, Bell, 43, did admit that she thought Shepard, 49, was good-looking.
“He has a presence,” she stated. “A protectiveness and he has very broad shoulders. He is like an the wrong way up triangle, however my predominant takeaway was that he was chatty.”
Since Bell and Shepard reconnected on the hockey recreation and swapped gum, the remaining is historical past.
The actors celebrated their tenth wedding ceremony anniversary in October. In November 2022, the Frozen star dished to ET in regards to the secret to their lasting love.
“Keep susceptible,” Bell shared. “A minimum of my secret. You have gotta be susceptible — we now have to be susceptible after we do not need to be. That is what works for us.”
She told ET in September 2023 that “widespread objectives” together with your companion is vital to a wholesome relationship.
“Frequent objectives, search them out. Our youngsters are a standard objective, proper?” she stated. “Individuals are like, ‘Oh, I would not have the ability to work with my husband or spouse or companion.’ For me, I would like one other widespread objective with him. I respect him a lot creatively. I’ve a lot belief in him. In fact I would like him to be my director or my scene companion.”
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