Stephen Colbert got candid about the moment he learned none other than supermodel Paulina Porizkova named him as her \u201chall pass.\u201d<\/p>\n
The talk show host explained how he and his friends were discussing their own \u201chall passes\u201d over dinner in the early 2000s, during an episode of \u201cStrike Force Five Returns to Celebrate Stephen Colbert\u201d shared via YouTube <\/a>earlier this month.<\/p>\n \u201cThe guy next to me goes, \u2018Paulina Porizkova,\u2019\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd this was midway through\u00a0\u2018The Colbert Report.\u2019 I pulled up my phone, opened the PEOPLE magazine app on my phone, and I was Paulina Porizkova\u2019s hall pass.\u201d<\/p>\n Stephen Colbert opneed up about the moment he learned none other than supermodel Paulina Porizkova named him as her \u201chall pass.\u201d Scott Kowalchyk \/CBS<\/p>\n The talk show host explained how he and his friends were discussing their own \u201chall passes\u201d over dinner in the early 2000s, and he discovered that he happened to be Porizkova\u2019s. CBS via Getty Images<\/p>\n Colbert\u2019s co-stars Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel,\u00a0John Oliver and Seth Meyers were in disbelief, saying, \u201cOh my God!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat was a flex that I\u2019ve never ever been able to match,\u201d the \u201cLate Show With Stephen Colbert\u201d star, 62, admitted.<\/p>\n Porizkova, 61, previously gushed over the TV personality <\/a>during an episode of \u201cGood Morning America\u201d with host Elizabeth Vargas in 2007.<\/p>\n \u201cThat was a flex that I\u2019ve never ever been able to match,\u201d the \u201cLate Show With Stephen Colbert\u201d star said. Scott Kowalchyk \/CBS<\/p>\n Porizkova, for her part, called him \u201chot\u201d during an episode of \u201cGood Morning America\u201d with host Elizabeth Vargas in 2007. (She\u2019s seen above in 2025.) Getty Images for The New York Times<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for the fact that I\u2019m already very happily married, and so is he apparently,\u201d she said. \u201cHe is just my kind of guy. He\u2019s so hot.\u201d<\/p>\n Porizkova then looked at the cameras and signaled for Colbert to call her.<\/p>\n At the time, Colbert reacted to the clip on \u201cThe Colbert Report,\u201d telling the audience, \u201cI don\u2019t know if I heard that supermodel correctly.\u201d<\/p>\n Colbert then pulled out a T-shirt he made with Porizkova\u2019s face and the quote about him being attractive.<\/p>\n He then joked that he wasn\u2019t surprised Porizkova thought he was \u201chot\u201d as he compared himself to her late husband, musician Ric Ocasek.<\/p>\n Porizkova was previously married to the late Ric Ocasek, and she is currently engaged to TV writer and producer Jeff Greenstein (the two are seen above). paulina porizkova\/Instagram<\/p>\n Colbert, meanwhile, tied the knot to Evelyn McGee in 1993 and is still married. Porizkova is seen here in 1986. Getty Images<\/p>\n Porizkova and the Cars frontman got married in 1989 and raised two sons, Jonathan and Oliver, together before their 2018 separation. <\/a><\/p>\n The following year, Ocasek was found dead <\/a>in his New York City apartment. His cause of death<\/a> was due to heart disease.<\/p>\n