{"id":292326,"date":"2020-05-13T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1151407"},"modified":"2020-05-13T11:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:26:03","slug":"ali-wentworth-calls-out-husband-george-stephanopoulos-for-downplaying-their-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/ali-wentworth-calls-out-husband-george-stephanopoulos-for-downplaying-their-love-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Wentworth Calls Out Husband George Stephanopoulos for Downplaying Their Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"23\">\n<p>Just when&nbsp;<strong>George Stephanopoulos&nbsp;<\/strong>thought he was going to skim over his love story,&nbsp;<strong>Ali Wentworth<\/strong>&nbsp;brought up some extra details.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a famous married pair for nearly two decades, the star couple have a lot of history together. While revisiting their love story in an interview on&nbsp;<em>The Howard Stern Show&nbsp;<\/em>on Wednesday, the&nbsp;<em>Good Morning America<\/em> co-host recalled his first date with the comedian, though characteristically did not add in any flourish about falling in love with her. The journalist was straightforward, explaining that they had been set up by friends and went to lunch at a restaurant that no longer exists.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I did ask her to dinner and she downgraded it to lunch,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think we both knew within, if not that lunch, within a couple days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, it wasn&#8217;t long before Wentworth called in to playfully criticize her man for playing it cool while telling the story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just curious why my husband downplayed our first date,&#8221; she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;George, if you recall, I was very reluctant to go on a date with&nbsp;<em>you<\/em>,&#8221; Wentworth quipped. &#8220;You were like a pit bull with a chew toy when it came to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"45.751284246575\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020413\/rs_634x1024-200513084927-634-george-ali-gj-5-13-20.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"George Stephanopoulos, Alexandra Wentworth\" alt=\"George Stephanopoulos, Alexandra Wentworth\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Patrick McMullan\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"31.729632945389\">\n<p>She continued to explain that she hadn&#8217;t shaved her legs for the date and went with no expectations. &#8220;I did not think I was going to end up with George Stephanopoulos. I thought, you know,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/hugh_grant\">Hugh Grant<\/a><\/strong>\u2014someone like that,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I had my hair up in a scrunchie, I read&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em> so that at least I knew what was going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wentworth brought up their second date and recalled that he &#8220;grabbed [his] heart&#8221; when she came down the stairs. When <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/howard_stern\">Howard Stern<\/a><\/strong> asked if that was true, Stephanopoulos confirmed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the actress didn&#8217;t hold back about her intelligent husband&#8217;s imperfections, noting that he loses keys, can&#8217;t find his glasses and that she has to fix their garbage disposal. &#8220;He&#8217;s all in the brain,&#8221; she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, they&#8217;ve been going strong for nearly 20 years and, as was confirmed in the interview, have sex daily. However, with their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1140058\/good-morning-america-s-george-stephanopoulos-tests-positive-for-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coronavirus diagnoses<\/a>, that isn&#8217;t exactly the case right now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there&#8217;s something about the pandemic that has made everybody shut down a little bit physically,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think anybody feels sexy&#8230;it&#8217;s not a sexy time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1151407\/ali-wentworth-calls-out-husband-george-stephanopoulos-for-downplaying-their-love-story?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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While revisiting their love story in an interview on&nbsp;The Howard Stern Show&nbsp;on Wednesday, the&nbsp;Good Morning America co-host recalled his first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-20 05:31:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}