{"id":28541,"date":"2019-08-08T14:55:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T20:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1063469"},"modified":"2019-08-08T14:55:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T20:55:59","slug":"kristen-bell-recalls-her-and-dax-shepards-awkward-night-with-beyonce-and-jay-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/kristen-bell-recalls-her-and-dax-shepards-awkward-night-with-beyonce-and-jay-z\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Bell Recalls Her and Dax Shepard&#8217;s Awkward Night With Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201978\/rs_1024x759-190808135035-1024.kristen-bell-dax-shepard-beyonce-jay-z.cl.080819.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell, Beyonce, Jay-Z\" alt=\"Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell, Beyonce, Jay-Z\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Kevin Mazur\/WireImage\/Ian West\/PA Wire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.244102564103\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.749743589744\">\n<p>While <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kristen_bell\">Kristen Bell<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;commands her own cult following as the star of <em>Veronica Mars<\/em>, she has the biggest&nbsp;fanboy right at home: Her husband&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/dax_shepard\">Dax Shepard<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, the actor&nbsp;accompanied her to the prestigious Met Gala and the two were seated at a table next to none other than <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/beyonce\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Jay-Z<\/strong>. Shepard is a&nbsp;<em>huge<\/em> fan of the rapper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We went to the Met Gala a couple years ago and we were sitting right next to Jay-Z and Beyonc\u00e9,&#8221; Bell said on an episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/firstwefeast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First We Feast<\/a> food blog&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KOlQWNGAAbM?t=516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hot Ones<\/a><\/em> YouTube series, posted on Thursday. &#8220;When we found this out we were, forget it, we were so excited. And I was like, &#8216;Oh this is going to be great, finally after tonight, we&#8217;ll have them in our phones, and we&#8217;ll be best friends.&#8217; And then we maneuvered the table so that Dax could sit right next to Jay-Z and Dax talked his ear off and I don&#8217;t think Jay was that interested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I was proud of him that he went for broke!&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Talk to the person you love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10\">\n<p>Things later seemed to take an even more awkward turn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think at one point he also hit him with a lyric,&#8221; she said.&nbsp;&#8220;I think he was like, &#8216;Real recognize real!&#8217; And I was like, Dax, Dax, don&#8217;t.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.356429463171\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"20.875156054931\">\n<p>In April, Shepard recalled the story on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JFkvdVYbt4s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Late Late Show With James Corden<\/a><\/em>, saying, &#8220;I am the number one Jay-Z fan in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that in addition to Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z, their table seatmates included&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kanye_west\">Kanye West<\/a><\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/sacha_baron_cohen\">Sacha Baron Cohen<\/a><\/strong> and wife&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/isla_fisher\">Isla Fisher<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did not belong there, but as luck would have it, I was seated right next to my hero Jay-Z,&#8221; Shepard said. &#8220;I said to Kristen, &#8216;I hope he doesn&#8217;t mind hearing his own lyrics repeated back to him.&#8217; I gave Jay-Z what I would call the platinum package. Everything was on the table\u2014jokes, sincerity, admiration, you name it. I gave him like 120 percent and I promise you if we had bump into each other in the bathroom mid-meal, he&#8217;d have no idea I was sitting at his table. I think all I was was like a roadblock to look at Kristen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-5-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201544\/rs_634x1024-150504190557-634.Beyonce-jay-Z-Met-Gala.jl.050415.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Beyonce, Jay-Z, Met Gala 2015\" alt=\"Beyonce, Jay-Z, Met Gala 2015\" data-text=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"65.427230046948\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"23.43661971831\">\n<p>During her&nbsp;<em>Hot Ones<\/em> interview, Bell also talked about the recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1060027\/why-veronica-mars-needed-that-death-to-move-forward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Veronica Mars<\/em> season four<\/a>,&nbsp;which was released on Hulu in July\u201412 years after the previous season and five years after fans crowdfunded a movie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only reason that we are doing more <em>Veronica Mars<\/em> is because our fans are ride or die and they are so loud,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And they also are smart, which is flattering that smart people watch the show that you&#8217;re in, that you&#8217;re not mindless entertainment in the background. I mean, the fans have organized themselves. The first year when we were on UPN they were sending Mars bars into UPN saying &#8216;Save Veronica Mars.&#8217;&nbsp;The second year they were sending dollar bills, which was a part of the show that said, &#8216;Veronica Mars is smarter than me.&#8217; The third year they hired a plane to fly above the CW with a banner that said &#8216;Save Veronica Mars.&#8217; I mean, they are organized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this new series on Hulu, it was our chance to make Veronica more complex, not necessarily give the fans what they want but maybe give them what Veronica needs,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1063469\/kristen-bell-recalls-her-and-dax-shepard-s-awkward-night-with-beyonce-and-jay-z?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! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mazur\/WireImage\/Ian West\/PA Wire While Kristen Bell&nbsp;commands her own cult following as the star of Veronica Mars, she has the biggest&nbsp;fanboy right at home: Her husband&nbsp;Dax Shepard. A few years ago, the actor&nbsp;accompanied her to the prestigious Met Gala and the two were seated at a table next to none other than Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z. 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