Stars Who Reveal Their Wildest Blind Date Stories
“I was put on a blind date with Tristan and that’s how [we met],” Khloe Kardashian said of meeting Tristan Thompson, during the ‘KUWTK’ 10 year anniversary special. “Brandon Jennings, who is a basketball player and a friend of mine and Malika [Haqq]’s, was like, ‘You’re such a good girl, I want to introduce you to someone.’ I was at the Bel-Air hotel, and [Tristan] came to the dinner. I didn’t want to go on a blind date, so Brandon kind of ambushed the blind date. We just connected.” The star went on the confirm that “it’s a serious relationship.” (SplashNews)
Stars Who Reveal Their Wildest Blind Date Stories
“In my twenties, I went to meet my date at a really chic, fashionable restaurant,” Michael Kors said in Sarah Wexler’s book “Awful First Dates.” “I wasn’t dressed up necessarily, but I had one a nice shirt and jeans. My date showed up in cutoffs and a tank top,” he said. “I knew half the people in the restaurant, who were all looking at me like ‘Who is this guy with Michael Kors?’ It was so embarrassing. My tip: Always have your first date at a casual place.” (REX/Shutterstock)
Stars Who Reveal Their Wildest Blind Date Stories
“This friend told me he knew a girl version of me,” Tom Brady told “Details” in 2009. “And he said to me he’d found a boy version of me,” Gisele Bündchen added. “I knew Tom was the one straightaway. I could see it in his eyes that he was a man with integrity who believes in the same things I do,” the model told “Vogue.” (REX/Shutterstock)
Stars Who Reveal Their Wildest Blind Date Stories
“I have a friend at home and he randomly sets me up with people every now and then on dates,” Britney Spears said on “The Jonathan Ross Show.” “It’s just awkward because there’s so many times that you meet people and it’s just too awkward and you just don’t feel right. … I went with this one guy and he looked like a lizard. Like I was so scared … I was like, ‘Holy s—, he looks just like a lizard,’ and I had to go. [I left] immediately.” (REX/Shutterstock)
Stars Who Reveal Their Wildest Blind Date Stories
“The worst [date I’ve been on] was a setup, a blind date,” Ellie Kemper told “Glamour.” “When your friends pick someone out for you, they say, ‘Oh, you’ll like this guy.’ Then you meet him, and you’re going, ‘You thought I would like him?!’ This particular guy was rude and was much older than I was. He seemed pained to be there. I was like, ‘Why would this person even want to go on a date?'” (REX/Shutterstock)
Stars Who Reveal Their Wildest Blind Date Stories
“I got set up on a blind date by the husband of my best girlfriend, and he set me up with a man that he didn’t know very well and she had never met,” Jenny Slate said on “Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso.” “He comes around the corner inside the restaurant … this dude, and I’m not kidding, is dressed in full chainmail. He’s got a full authentic knight’s costume on, including a floor-length tabard, which I called a tunic and then he corrected me and was like, ‘It’s actually a tabard.'” (REX/Shutterstock)
Stars Who Reveal Their Wildest Blind Date Stories
Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber were set up by her agent! “We decided to meet the night before and get to know each other,” he told “PEOPLE.” “I was surprised at how cool and down-to-earth she was.” (REX/Shutterstock)
Stars Who Reveal Their Wildest Blind Date Stories
Salma Hayek didn’t even know she was on a blind date with now husband Francois-Henri Pinault. “My first date with my husband started badly,” Salma said, according to “Latina.” “I didn’t know it was a date. I thought I was going to an event, and then there was one person at it. I was set up by friends to think I was going to an event, because they knew I wouldn’t go on a date! I was angry. And he didn’t know, because he thought I knew he was coming just to meet him. I started out really badly, but, as you can see, it ended happy.” (REX/Shutterstock)
Stars Who Reveal Their Wildest Blind Date Stories
Husband and wife Chris Hemswoth and Elsa Pataky were set up by their dialect coach. “It was like a blind date,” Elsa said on the Spanish show “El Hormiguero.” “We had never seen each other before. It was our dialect coach, the person who helped us both with the accent. So, this lady started to talk to each other about each other. Finally, she insisted so much that I thought, ‘Okay, let’s meet.’ We talked on the phone and we met.” (REX/Shutterstock)
Stars Who Reveal Their Wildest Blind Date Stories
Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff were set up by his sister and comedian Mike Birbiglia. “It was a blind date by modern standards. I mean, I used the internet,” he told Vulture. “[On the date] I told Lena everything about my whole life, because when you really like someone, you want them to know everything about you.”(REX/Shutterstock)
Stars Who Reveal Their Wildest Blind Date Stories
“We met on a blind date,” Ali Wentworth revealed on “The Tonight Show” of meeting husband George Stephanopoulos. “I had a birthday party, all girls, and everyone said, ‘You know, you have to start dating, Ali.’ And I said, ‘You know what, I live in L.A., it’s either agents or actors — I’m not interested … And one of them said, ‘You should go out with my old boyfriend, George Stephanopoulos.’ And I said, ‘No, thank you.'” Eventually though, she caved! “I came in, we sat down, we both ordered the crab salad. And, I’m telling you, by the end of lunch, [it was] done. We were engaged two months later. Married six months later,” she said. (REX/Shutterstock)
Stars Who Reveal Their Wildest Blind Date Stories
“I met my husband when I was 16 and sitting onstage at one of his concerts,” Lauren Conrad wrote on her blog of hubby William Tell. “Ten years later we were set up on a blind date.” (SplashNews)
