Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard’s love story started with gum — and the story is quite a bit to chew on.
Throughout an look on Wednesday’s episode of the podcast “Where Everybody Knows Your Name,” Bell mirrored on how she first met Shepard, whom she tied the knot with in 2013.
She advised co-hosts Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson that she first met Shepard years prior at a celebration hosted by their mutual buddy, movie producer Shauna Robertson. She mentioned that her preliminary impression of him was that he was “chatty” and that that they had “no chemistry” between them.
“All I keep in mind from that night time was, ‘That guy from ‘Jackass’ talks a lot— whoa he’s chatty,‘” she said with a laugh, before explaining that she later realized that Shepard, in fact, starred on the reality TV series “Punk’d.” “And he didn’t know who I was either, and obviously he was on ‘Punk’d’ and not ‘Jackass,’ but I didn’t know that at the time.”
The “Good Place” star mentioned that she later noticed him at a hockey sport and was initially concerned with getting flirty with their mutual buddy, Michael, whom he was with on the time.
However she mentioned Shepard approached her as a substitute and {that a} gum swapping occasion between them actually caught together with her.
“I was chewing gum, and he said, ‘Do you have anymore gum?’ and I said, ‘No just this,’” she mentioned, whereas demonstrating how she “coyly” eliminated the gum from her mouth and held it.
“And he grabbed it from me, and he goes, ‘I’ll take it,’” she recalled. “And then he put it in his mouth, and I was like, ‘This guy wants to fuck me.’”
“Truly beyond that, I was absolutely smitten,” she added.
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Shepard and Bell, who share two kids, typically talk about their relationship and lives as mother and father.
Final month, Bell advised Folks journal that she and her husband typically talk about “the hypocrisy between Father’s Day and Mother’s Day.”
“On Father’s Day, dads are allowed to, let’s say, go golfing for eight hours and not see anyone,” she mentioned. “For some reason, on Mother’s Day, we are expected to be woken up with breakfast in bed and have all the kids all around us at all times. That’s not a big celebration. That is something that is a daily thing in my household.”
She mentioned that Shepard deliberate her a “Father’s Day Mother’s Day” final month on the vacation, by getting their youngsters out of the home and hiring a masseuse and manicurist.
“It was glorious,” she mentioned.
