{"id":670987,"date":"2026-05-14T19:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670987\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:09:14","slug":"stephen-colbert-admits-being-wildly-attracted-to-michelle-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670987\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert admits being \u2018wildly attracted\u2019 to Michelle Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert said he didn\u2019t \u201cknow what to do with my eyeballs\u201d when actress Michelle Williams appeared on The Late Show for the first time in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian revealed that he was \u201cwildly attracted\u201d to the Dawson\u2019s Creek star during Wednesday\u2019s episode of the <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/ep-13-strike-force-five-returns-to-celebrate-stephen\/id1704871055?i=1000767536155&amp;at=1001l3bo9&amp;ct=93051X1547100Xc961a739a6549007ebb691a1fe5283d6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Strike Force Five podcast<\/a>, which he hosts with four other late-night hosts: Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHas there been a guest who was so attractive that you found it distracting?\u201d co-host Kimmel asked Colbert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll tell you who I did not expect to be wildly attracted to,\u201d Colbert, 62, responded. \u201cLike, I didn\u2019t know what to do with myself. I did not know what to do with my eyeballs when Michelle Williams was on for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cShe sat down across from me and I went, \u2018F**k, what is wrong with my head? I\u2019d better not look directly at her for this entire interview.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Colbert Report host, who will say goodbye to The Late Show next Thursday, went on to gush about the Dying for Sex star\u2019s \u201cvibe\u201d and \u201cface\u201d because he finds her \u201cso beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 45, first visited The Late Show to promote her miniseries Fosse\/Verdon in April 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The last time she went to Colbert\u2019s late-night show was in April 2025 to talk about her Golden Globe-winning Hulu series Dying for Sex.<\/p>\n<p>A rep for Williams did not immediately respond to Page Six\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>But the Greatest Showman star wasn\u2019t the only A-lister who caught Colbert\u2019s eye during his 11 seasons hosting the late-night CBS program. <\/p>\n<p>He also name-dropped stunners actresses Rachel Weisz and Rebecca Ferguson and actor Andrew Garfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to have a Rachel Weisz problem,\u201d he told his podcast co-hosts of the 56-year-old actress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Rachel Weisz would be on, I would leave the building for fear I would say something stupid,\u201d Colbert shared.<\/p>\n<p>As for 42-year-old Garfield, Colbert couldn\u2019t help but bring up the time they shared an intimate kiss in a January 2017 episode of The Late Show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndrew Garfield, he is so attractive,\u201d Colbert laughed as Kimmel chimed in, \u201cAnd you kissed him!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr he kissed me,\u201d the former Comedy Central star responded. \u201cWe did get our hands tangled in each other\u2019s hair. It was really nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers and Oliver all came together for a new episode of their Strike Force Five podcast in honour of Colbert\u2019s last Late Show episodes.<\/p>\n<p>The popular late-night program premiered in September 2015 and will air its last episode on May 21.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared in <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/13\/celebrity-news\/stephen-colbert-name-drops-a-list-actress-he-was-wildly-attracted-to-in-11-late-show-seasons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Page Six<\/a> and was reproduced with permission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert said he didn\u2019t \u201cknow what to do with my eyeballs\u201d when actress Michelle Williams appeared on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2095,75522,64,63,689,323790,485,37104,447,21301,323235,134,323791,2105,1973,6517,4625,323787,25708,673,2041,2067,677,323786,154432,124222,323788,323789,3869,323792,670,2614],"class_list":["post-670987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-america","tag-andrew-garfield","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-bridal-bra","tag-california","tag-cbs-corporation","tag-celebrities","tag-comedy-central","tag-crazy-night","tag-entertainment","tag-fellow-late-night-colleagues","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-hollywood","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-late-night-hosts","tag-michelle-williams","tag-new-south-wales","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-oceania","tag-podcast-co-hosts","tag-rachel-weisz","tag-rebecca-ferguson","tag-seth-adam-meyers","tag-show-multipe-times","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-stunners-actresses","tag-sydney","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670987","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=670987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}