Author: Tufayel Ahmed

Jimmy Fallon is never going to live this one down.The Tonight Show host, 50, was hilariously reminded of the time he fumbled a date with actress Nicole Kidman during an interview with The Last of Us’ Isabela Merced on the Tuesday, May 20, episode of his late-night talk show.
Fallon said that The Last of Us “was one of the scariest computer games” he’s ever played, prompting Merced, 23, to quip: “Was that the game you were playing when you bombed your date with Nicole Kidman?”
A flabbergasted Fallon then joked, “It’s a pleasure meeting you. We’re out of time.”
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“Thanks for bringing it up,” Fallon went on, correcting Merced that he was, in fact, playing Mario Kart on said date.
“My favorite clip on this show!” Merced continued to tease Fallon, who admitted that his date fail was one of the “most embarrassing” moments he’s ever experienced.
As a refresher, back in January 2015, Kidman, 57, appeared on The Tonight Show as a guest and Fallon brought up how they’d met once before years earlier. (Fallon noted that it was around the time Kidman was gearing up to star in 2005’s Bewitched remake.)
“It was really embarrassing,” he reminded Kidman, who said she hadn’t seen Fallon since a mutual friend tried to set them up.

“I just remember that I liked you and he was like, ‘Oh, you can meet [Jimmy],’” Kidman shared her version of events.
“Our mutual friend says, ‘Jimmy wants to meet you. You can go over to his apartment,’” she continued. “I’m single and I’m like, ‘Okay, yeah, cool.’”
Upon hearing Kidman’s admission, Fallon exclaimed, “Wait. What?! What are you talking about? Did I date Nicole Kidman?”
Kidman then recalled that she went over to Fallon’s apartment. “You’re there in a baseball cap and you wouldn’t talk,” she said. “You didn’t say anything. You were like, ‘Hey.’ I’m like, ‘Okay.’ And then you put a video game on or something!”
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Kidman continued, “I’m like, ‘This is so bad!’”
“It was so bad,” the Nine Perfect Strangers said, turning to the audience. “After about an hour and a half, I thought, ‘He has no interest. This is so embarrassing,’ and I left and went, ‘Okay, no chemistry.’”

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For his part, an embarrassed Fallon admitted that he had “no idea” he was on a date.

Of course, since then, both Kidman and Fallon have found love with singer Keith Urban and film producer Nancy Juvonen, respectively. (Kidman and Urban married in June 2006, while Fallon wed Juvonen in December 2007.)
But alas, to think what could have been…

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Seth Meyers has drunk himself silly with the best of them in the name of hilarious TV — but one celebrity stands out the most.The Late Night With Seth Meyers host, 51, is known for the popular “Seth Goes Day Drinking” segment on his late-night talk show, with past guests including Dua Lipa, Kristen Stewart, Paul Rudd and Lorde.
But his best drinking buddy? None other than Rihanna, who drank Meyers under the table when she went drink for drink with the comedian in 2019.
“I will say Rihanna, who’s the best at a lot of categories, but she just kept her composure,” Meyers recalled on the Wednesday, May 21, episode of the “Table Manners With Jessie and Lennie Ware” podcast. “We just [gave] her stupid drinks. There was like a ‘Bitch Better Have My Bunny’ where we drank something out of a chocolate bunny.”
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Meyers and Rihanna’s infamous “Day Drinking” segment is among the most popular in Late Night history, with over 20 million views on YouTube.
Over the years, Meyers’ drinking session with Rihanna, 37, has become the stuff of legend.
During a 2023 appearance on The Late Late Show With James Corden, Meyers said that filming with “Rihanna was the drunkest I’ve ever been and it was worth every second of it.”
“First of all, I should note that — hate to break the news here — but she’s younger than me. We drank the same amount and then she definitely went out, like she was fine,” he added. “She walked out, she looked as good as she did when we started.”

Meyers, however, didn’t feel so fresh after filming the recurring segment.
“I went home, immediately fell asleep in the hallway of my apartment. Got in the door, fell asleep. My wife passively-aggressively put a water next to my head and went to bed,” he said.
Meyers even showed viewers a photo of him passed out in his hallway with a solitary glass of water beside him. “I like that I have my phone on my chest just in case Rihanna called,” he quipped.

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Earlier this year, Kevin Hart recalled how he “almost died” after shooting a “Day Drinking” segment with Meyers in 2024.

“I came into that day with such an idea of who I thought I was. I was like, ‘This gonna be crazy. I’m gonna drink with Seth, show him what I do because I know I drink like I used to’ … and I almost died,” Hart, 45, joked during a March Late Night appearance. “There was really a chance where it was over.”
“And then you called me the next morning and yelled at me like I had tried to kill you,” Meyers added.

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