Taking part in it cool. Ali Wentworth put her husband, George Stephanopolous, on blast for downplaying his preliminary curiosity in her.
The couple — who’ve been married for greater than 20 years — appeared on The Howard Stern Present on Wednesday, Might 13, the place they recounted their first date.
“I feel I did ask her to dinner and he or she downgraded it to lunch,” Stephanopolous, 59, recalled. “I feel we each knew inside, if not that lunch, inside a pair days.”
Wentworth, 55, stepped in to name out the ABC Information anchor for appearing as if the occasion was a low-key affair for him.
“I’m simply curious why my husband downplayed our first date,” the comic mentioned. “George, for those who recall, I used to be very reluctant to go on a date with you. You have been like a pitbull with a chew toy when it got here to me.”
She additionally admitted that Stephanopolous wasn’t her typical sort and revealed that she didn’t count on their relationship to transcend a primary date.
“I didn’t assume I used to be going to finish up with George Stephanopoulos. I believed, you recognize, Hugh Grant — somebody like that,” Wentworth mentioned. “I had my hair up in a scrunchie, I learn The New York Instances in order that no less than I knew what was happening.”
The pair bought engaged two months after their first date and so they wed in New York Metropolis in November 2001. They’re the dad and mom of daughters Elliott, 17, and Harper, 14.
Wentworth shared in her 2018 memoir, Go Ask Ali, that she and Stephanopolous are nonetheless loopy about one another in spite of everything these years.
“The bottom second for me is when the time arrives for the fateful query: ‘How usually do you and your husband have intercourse?’” the Nightcap star wrote in her memoir. “I’ve misplaced pals with this query.”
She joked, “The ladies gasp and scream like I’ve confessed that I shot my canine. One among them all the time slams her fist down on the desk; a lady’s wine glass as soon as smashed in her hand. I’m sorry! We’re sizzling for one another. Jesus!”
Nevertheless, the twosome have been rather less sizzling and heavy amid the coronavirus pandemic. In April, Wentworth and the previous White Home communications director shared that they’d each examined optimistic for COVID-19. Though they’ve since recovered, Wentworth defined on The Howard Stern Present that the pandemic has put a damper on their intercourse life.
“I feel there’s one thing concerning the pandemic that has made everyone shut down a little bit bit bodily,” she mentioned. “I don’t assume anyone feels horny … it’s not an attractive time.”
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