{"id":41475,"date":"2025-09-24T22:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/41475\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T22:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:28:10","slug":"valerie-bertinelli-reveals-shes-never-been-on-a-first-date-no-ones-ever-asked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/41475\/","title":{"rendered":"Valerie Bertinelli reveals she’s never been on a first date: ‘No one’s ever asked’"},"content":{"rendered":"

This news does not rock: Valerie Bertinelli<\/a> has never been on a first date before.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yes, you read that right. During Wednesday\u2019s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show<\/a>, the One Day at a Time actress revealed that none of her previous partners \u2014\u00a0including the late rock legend Eddie Van Halen<\/a> \u2014 ever actually asked her out on a traditional first date before they began dating.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bertinelli made the revelation during a conversation about the recent \u201cBob the Builder\u201d relationship trend<\/a>, in which people match with others on dating apps to ask for help building furniture or fixing things around their respective homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it’s a great idea,\u201d Bertinelli said. \u201cI think sometimes you wanna play a game or, I mean, I don’t even know. I don\u2019t know. I’ve never been on a first date, so I have no idea how it works.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\u00a0Jeff<\/p>\n

Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic<\/p>\n

Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli in 1994<\/p>\n

Her admission shocked fellow Drew\u2019s News desk cohost Ross Mathews<\/a>, but not host Drew Barrymore<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s because she goes straight to marriage,\u201d Barrymore teased.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWait, you’ve never been on a first date?\u201d Mathews asked, to which Bertinelli responded, \u201cNo. No one’s ever asked me out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barrymore then said what everyone else in the room and watching at home was likely thinking: \u201cYou’re\u00a0Valerie\u00a0Bertinelli. How the hell is that possible?\u201d<\/p>\n

But Bertinelli noted that there was a very simple explanation. \u201cI got married at 20 and I was married for 20 some odd years,\u201d she said, referring to her 26-year marriage to Van Halen from 1981 until 2007.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Barrymore followed up by asking what the \u201cJump\u201d rocker and Bertinelli did when they first met instead of going on a date.\u00a0\u201cDo you remember like your first night with Ed?\u201d she asked. \u201cWas it an official date? Did you guys just meet somewhere?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sign up for\u00a0Entertainment Weekly’s\u00a0free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to get breaking news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy brother Patrick, brought us to the concert that [Van Halen] were having in Shreveport, Louisiana,\u201d Bertinelli replied. \u201cMy parents lived out there, and we just made eyes and then we talked backstage and then we talked.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the show, Bertinelli said that Van Halen, who died in 2020, invited her to attend the band’s concert in Oklahoma.\u00a0\u201cSo Patrick and I went, and then we were together ever since,\u201d she said. \u201cEight months later, we were married.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outside of the cosmic magic that is falling in love with a musician at a rock concert, it’s not immediately clear why none of Bertinelli’s other partners didn’t ask her out on a first date. After divorcing Van Halen in 2007, the author was married to Tom Vitale from 2011 until 2022. She was also linked to writer Mike Goodnough in January 2024, but the couple went their separate ways<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n

Barrymore has helped set people up on first dates on her show before<\/a> \u2014\u00a0maybe there’s an opportunity here?<\/p>\n

The Drew Barrymore Show airs weekdays on CBS.<\/p>\n

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