When it comes to smelling feet on national television, Drew Barrymore is staying footloose and fancy free.
On Friday’s episode of “The Drew Barrymore Show,” the trio of hosts — including Sunny Anderson and Ross Mathews — revisited the now-viral Oct. 7 segment, which involved Anderson and Matthews taking a bold whiff of Barrymore’s feet.
“I started getting alerts that this went viral — every publication, every magazine, every website… We were smelling your feet. People are into some stuff,” Matthews said, trying to get his footing.
Anderson added that her friends were quick to call her out: “My DMs flooded with my friends like, ‘So you just gonna smell her feet like that? You gonna smell her feet?’ I was like, ‘They don’t smell like anything!’ They really don’t!”
Barrymore, mortified by the attention, asked if people were “upset” about the segment. Matthews reassured her, explaining that it was just unexpected content for people causally flipping through channels, not knowing what they’re stepping into.
Then things took a hard left — Matthews suggested that Barrymore return the favor by smelling both hosts’ feet.
Drew Barrymore smells her co-hosts’ feet during a recent broadcast of her daytime talk show.
Barrymore swiftly responded, “Yes.”
“Thank God I got a pedicure yesterday, are you serious?” Anderson said. “I’m not even wearing socks, Drew! I’m so nervous!”
After smelling Anderson’s feet, Barrymore declared them “scentless.”
“There’s no scent!” she said, before pretending to eat Anderson’s toes, calling them “beautiful.”
The table then turned, and it was time for Matthews to bring his feet into the spotlight.
“In my defense, these are hot out of the oven!” he said.
While both Barrymore and Anderson agreed that there was “nothing” to smell, Matthews admitted that the whole experience left him “terrified,” even calling it “invasive.”