During a sit-down interview with SiriusXM’s Jess Cagle and Julia Cunningham onThe Jess Cagle Showon Wednesday, Hamlin opened up about his adorable meet-cute with theReal Housewives of Beverly Hillsstar more than 20 years ago, when Rinna was working at a store selling sunglasses.
“We met in a restaurant. She was working at an eyeglass store doing the night shift selling sunglasses. And I happened to know the owner of the store, I was having dinner with him and she came in to deliver the keys when she closed the store at 10. That’s how I met her,” Hamlin explained.
While Rinna, 56, has become widely recognized in the time since, most recently with Bravo audiences, Hamlin, 68, noted that their introduction came “before she was acting a lot and before she had sort of broken out.”
TheMad Menactor was immediately smitten.
“It was sparks right away,” he admitted, before recalling the humorous conversation the pair shared upon meeting.
Added Hamlin, “I was enchanted right away.”
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In March, the couple — who wed in 1997 and share daughtersAmelia Gray Hamlin, 18, andDelilah Belle Hamlin, 21 — marked 22 years of marriage.
Appearing onWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohenin February 2018, themother of two opened upabout the secrets to their long-lasting relationship — and how they’ve kept the spark alive over the course of theirmarriage.
“I don’t really know. I really don’t know the answer,” she admitted. “I think that we are complete opposites. And I mean, we have nothing in common!”
“You know what you have in common that wildly comes across?” chimed in hostAndy Cohen, 51. “You are crazy about each other.”
“We are,” said Rinna. “We are crazy about each other, and you can’t create that, you can’t make it — it either is, or it isn’t.”
Cohen asked if the bond between Rinna and Hamlin is stronger because they spend so much time apart due to their busy schedules, making their time together even more special.
“I don’t think so. I don’t think that has anything to do with it,” she responded. “I think you either really dig somebody, or you don’t. And I’m so blessed, we are so blessed that that happened for us.”
source: people.com
