{"id":15512,"date":"2025-07-22T13:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15512\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:36:12","slug":"matt-leinart-opens-up-on-failed-date-with-rihanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15512\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Leinart Opens Up On Failed Date With Rihanna"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Leinart
\n Not ‘Da One’ For Rihanna
\n … Lip Blister Derailed Our Date!!!<\/p>\n

\n Published July 21, 2025 3:27 PM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Throwbacks with Matt Leinart & Jerry Ferrara<\/p>\n

The biggest fumble of Matt Leinart<\/a>‘s career happened off the gridiron — the former quarterback revealed he took Rihanna<\/a> on a date back in the day … but an unwelcome appearance torpedoed the whole thing.<\/p>\n

The ex-USC Trojans superstar broke it all down on his “Throwbacks” podcast with “Entourage” star Jerry Ferrara<\/a> … when he reminisced on working with show guest Josh Richman to set up some one-on-one time with the singer at Teddy’s nightclub in L.A.<\/p>\n

Leinart said the odds already weren’t in his favor after two previous attempts … but what REALLY put the final nail in the coffin was a “f***ing ginormous blister” on his lip from being out in the sun too long.<\/p>\n

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The Heisman winner said he got plenty of assurance from his buddies that the boil wasn’t a big deal … but he admitted it impacted his entire interaction with RiRi to the point where he couldn’t even make eye contact with her.<\/p>\n

Leinart went on to say he got confirmation he totally blew it … but he’s good in the love department these days — he married his wife, Josie, in 2018, and they have a lovely family!!<\/p>\n

Speaking of Josie, Leinart said he got clearance to share the story … and even his spouse said he was an “idiot” for the ordeal.<\/p>\n

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As for Rihanna, she’s now with A$AP Rocky <\/a>… and they’ve got their own clan now, too!!<\/p>\n

It all work, work, work, work, work, worked out in the end!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Leinart Not ‘Da One’ For Rihanna … Lip Blister Derailed Our Date!!! Published July 21, 2025 3:27…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,44,82,865,866],"class_list":["post-15512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}