It’s hard to believe that Sarah Michelle Gellar and Reese Witherspoon would be starstruck or be nervous around another famous name, but it happened.
Gellar appeared on a recent episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show” where she revealed that her and her husband, Freddie Prinze Jr.’s son attended preschool with Adele’s son.
The “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star’s son, Rocky, told her that he wanted to hang out with Adele’s son, Angelo, but she admitted she an other parents were too intimidated to ask the singer.
“They [the kids] all loved Angelo. Everybody loved this kid,” she explained. “They all wanted a play date, and everyone was like, ‘Well, who’s gonna call Adele and ask for a play date?’”
Gellar immediately bailed on the idea, joking, “I was like, ‘Not it, not it, not it!’”
One of the other parents in the group included Reese Witherspoon, who Gellar tried to rope into popping the playdate question.
“Reese Witherspoon’s son [Tennessee] was also in the class. I’m like, ‘Reese, you’re the most famous. You have to ask Adele for a [play date].'”
But the “Legally Blonde” star was just as shy. “She’s like, ‘I don’t want to ask Adele!’” Gellar said. “None of us wanted to ask. We were all so nervous.”
Clarkson offered the encouraging idea that maybe Adele was just as nervous to ask them, but Gellar replied, “I don’t know, but we were so like, none of us wanted to ask her.”
It’s unclear if the kids ever got their playdate, but Adele and Angelo eventually returned to London.
“She came into class and she brought all of these double-decker buses and a whole book about where her son was moving to,” Gellar said. “And our son came home and [he] was like, ‘Yeah, his mom came to school.’”
Of course, Gellar was bummed she missed out on meeting Adele at the school, admitting, “We’re all like, ‘What! What! Why weren’t we at school?!’”
Gellar and Adele did cross paths occasionally at school, so they weren’t total strangers, noting that the Grammy-winner was “so lovely.”
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