Comic Kumail Nanjiani has revealed the surreal second his spouse was informed he was “doing it” with Michelle Obama — regardless that he’s by no means met the previous first woman.
“The Huge Sick” star revealed in a current podcast that his spouse, Emily Gordon, informed him concerning the fast-spreading, false rumor he was having an affair with the previous first woman, amid different rumors she was having her personal marital woes along with her husband, former President Michelle Obama.
“I used to be so excited!” the actor mentioned of the flattering rumor.
“My pal, our mutual pal, pulled Emily apart and was like, ‘Hey, so I heard that Kumail and Michelle Obama are like doing it.’ And she or he was like, she wasn’t even upset, however a number of individuals introduced it as much as me,” he informed comedian Caleb Hearon on the “So True” podcast.
“I’ve by no means met Michelle Obama,” Nanjiani careworn.
The dialog pivoted to the Obamas, and the beforehand wiudely unfold unfounded rumor that the previous president was having a romance with “Pals” star Jennifer Aniston.
“What I’m saying is, my pal Kumail, you’re up there with Jen Aniston when it comes to affair rumors,” Hearon teased the comic.
Nanjiani joked that the Obamas have been each “slumming it” with their alleged affair companions — and added he meant “no shade to Jen.”
Aniston earlier additionally addressed the outlandish gossip about her and Obama.
“Of all of the calls you get out of your publicist the place you’re similar to, ‘oh no, what’s it going to be?’, or the e-mail saying, ‘some tacky tabloid goes to make up a narrative’… after which it’s that. I used to be not mad at it,” she mentioned on “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” final 12 months.
“That’s completely unfaithful,” she clarified, including that she had solely met the forty fourth US president as soon as, and truly “is aware of Michelle [Obama] extra.”
