00:00I went over to his house, and he opens up the door, and it smells delicious.
00:05And he's like, I've made some things, and it was pizza and gnocchi, crab claws, chocolate chip cookies, and BLT.
00:11And he had remembered what my favorite foods were, and he made them all.
00:15Jimmy Kimmel's wife of 13 years, Molly McNerney, recalled the moment she knew her now-husband, and then-boss, wanted
00:22to get it on.
00:23The Hollywood couple shared the story on the latest episode of the Armchair Expert podcast.
00:27At the time, she'd been working on his late-night show for eight years, and she was one of the
00:32head writers.
00:33During a writer's meeting, she had revealed her five favorite foods, pizza, gnocchi, crab claws, BLT, and chocolate chip cookies.
00:41Six months later, Jimmy invited her to dinner at his house after hours, where he had all five foods waiting
00:47for her.
00:47That's when podcast host Dax Shepard asked a question on all of our minds.
00:52Now, really quick, do you immediately register that as like, oh, he wants to f***?
00:57Yes.
00:58Yeah, he likes f***ing with me.
01:00Yes, and it made me very excited and very nervous.
01:04But I remember thinking, oh, no, this is a bad idea.
01:07I mean, he was my boss.
01:08I didn't have that thought.
01:09Yeah, no.
01:10Yeah, yeah.
01:10Clearly.
01:11No, no, the person in power usually doesn't.
01:13Despite it still being a touchy subject many years later, clearly, it all worked out.
01:18The couple got married on July 13, 2013 in Baja, California, and they have two kids together, 12-year-old
01:25Jane and 9-year-old Billy.
01:27Jimmy was previously married to Gina Kimmel from 1988 to 2002, and they have two kids, Catherine Katie, who is
01:3534, and Kevin, 32.
01:37Meanwhile, on the pod, Jimmy admitted he was oblivious of what could have been considered an inappropriate workplace relationship.
01:43As for Molly, she admitted she was very skittish and kept telling him it was a bad idea to date
01:49a co-worker.
01:50She went on,
02:01At the time, the duo did some sneaking around for a little bit before going public with their romance.
02:06They were very, very quiet for the first few months, and she confessed she was very nervous that the fling
02:12would change the work dynamic, especially as a woman in a male-dominated field, such as a late-night writer's
02:18room.
02:18Molly also told podcast listeners that early on, as a staffer on Jimmy Kimmel Live, she did not see the
02:25host in a romantic way at all.
02:27In fact, she was initially intimidated before years later getting to know what a great guy he was.
02:32Hey, a workplace romance worked out for Jim and Pam from The Office, but what do you think about how
02:37Jimmy and Molly met?
02:39Cute or cringy?
02:41Sound off in the comments.
