Kristen Bell focuses on the Nobody wants that season 2 press tour amid controversy over it Dax Shepard birthday item.
During his appearance on the Thursday, October 23 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonBell, 45, kept things light and didn’t mention her marriage or the controversial post throughout the interview.
In the lightweight segment, Bell talked about what to expect in the upcoming season of Nobody wants that as well as sharing a sweet anecdote about Fallon from one of the summer trips they shared with their respective families.
“Can I just say that not only is it a super fun trip, but you’re my favorite guest to see there. And I’ll tell you why. Because you have – you’re such an inspiring guest. You have a way of organizing life that hits me in the marrow,” she said.
Bell continued: “Let me just set the scene. We’re all having dinner. It’s very normal. It’s beautiful. It’s like by a gentle river. Someone says, ‘Hey, we’re going to do karaoke later.’ Great. We decide to do karaoke, and literally out of nowhere…Jimmy knocks on the door. He somehow left the dinner and showed up looking great. Evel Knievel suit.”
Bell made headlines last week when she honored his and Shepard’s birthday with a photo of the couple hugging, writing, “Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once told me, ‘I would never kill you. Many men have killed their wives at some point. Even though I have a strong incentive to kill you, I never would.'”
Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell.
(Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)In the comments section, some users questioned the caption.
“Domestic violence is no joke,” one user wrote, while another noted, “1. Congratulations! 2. I know the caption is supposed to be cute, funny, but in the whole world, a woman [sic] is killed every ten minutes by his partner… #stopviolenceagainstwomen. The official Instagram account of Data line also chimed in, writing “Screenshot.”
Others, however, don’t see a problem.
“I was in an abusive marriage for TWENTY THREE YEARS and I love this post. If you don’t want to be triggered, get off the internet,” one user wrote, while another added, “I was in an abusive relationship and got out of it. This post is for her husband not all of us! Why do people have to take it to the next level??? She talks to her husband but shares with us. Not everything has a hidden message!
Bell has since limited his comments on Instagram.
A few days later, Bell was scheduled to appear on the Today Show alongside Nobody wants that costar Justine Lupéaccording to the program schedule. Bell, however, was absent from the NBC morning show — Lupe, 36, instead speaking about the series and a prank she pulled on Bell. (Us every week has contacted Today and the Bell team for comment.)
“Kristen is obsessed with pranks. She will come on set and she will pull up different pranks on her phone and show them to me. So I knew that was kind of her love language, it was a prank,” Lupe said. “And then I also know that Kristen – if you’ve met her, you know she’s obsessed with biohacking. She’s done everything body hacking related.”
As for “biohacking,” Lupe noted that Bell wears a weighted vest between takes and “pumps iron” in addition to having a glucometer — which gave Lupe the idea to create a prank to “play with that.” (The Cleveland Clinic defines “biohacking” as a “DIY approach to self-care that uses everything from lifestyle changes to high-tech tools to improve your health.”)
“Basically, I was like, I’m going to convince her that I’m drinking my own pee. For two months, I staged different variations of me drinking fake pee, which was actually chamomile tea,” Lupe said, adding that Bell “fully believed” the prank and asked a doctor if it was “safe.”
Ahead of the TV appearance, Bell shared a series of Instagram photos from the Nobody wants that press tour. In one clip, Bell sat side by side with his teammate Adam Brody as Lupe, Timothy Simons And Jackie Thon were seated behind them.
“Lewks and Prezz days 1 and 2 @nobodywantsthisofficial,” she shared via Instagram. “(I used a bed because the emoji doesn’t have a nightstand IYKYK and if you don’t know that, you will find out on October 23).”
