{"id":375274,"date":"2025-12-28T04:52:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/375274\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T04:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:52:28","slug":"kumail-nanjiani-laughs-at-michelle-obama-affair-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/375274\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumail Nanjiani Laughs At Michelle Obama Affair Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entertainment\/topic\/kumail-nanjiani\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Kumail Nanjiani\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"694ecd9ae4b0414a52f6ee7a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/entertainment\/topic\/kumail-nanjiani\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kumail Nanjiani<\/a> was tickled to find out he was the topic of some absurd gossip this year.<\/p>\n<p>After getting a joking \u201cCongratulations!\u201d from Hearon, Nanjiani openly admitted the murmurs made him \u201cso excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the phony tea even felt plausible enough for a mutual friend of the \u201cSilicon Valley\u201d star and his wife, Emily Gordon, to bring themself to pull her \u201caside\u201d and tell her, \u201cHey so I heard that Kumail and Michelle Obama are, like, doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The entire idea was so ludicrous that Gordon \u201cwasn\u2019t even upset,\u201d according to her husband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultiple people brought it up to me,\u201d Nanjiani went on, adding the ultimate kicker as he revealed, \u201cI\u2019ve never met Michelle Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gossip was news to the \u201cBig Sick\u201d actor, who asked Hearon whether he thought it was true or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know, but what I\u2019m saying is, from my frame, Kumail, you\u2019re up there with Jen Aniston in terms of affair rumors,\u201d the host replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know, I think Michelle\u2019s slumming it,\u201d Nanjiani joked back, whose Hulu stand-up special \u201cNight Thoughts\u201d is out now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kumail Nanjiani was tickled to find out he was the topic of some absurd gossip this year. After&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,67834,56201,3637],"class_list":["post-375274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-kumail-nanjiani","tag-michelle-obama","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}