Sarah Michelle Gellarsays she andReese Witherspoonwere too shy to pencil in a play date withAdelefor all of their kids.
TheBuffy the Vampire Slayeralum explained on a recent episode ofThe Kelly Clarkson Showthat her and her husbandFreddie Prinze Jr.'s son Rocky, now 13, attended preschool with Adele's son Angelo, also 13, years ago. When her son expressed an interest in playing with Angelo one day after school, Gellar admitted that she and the other parents — including Witherspoon — were too intimidated by the "Skyfall" singer to pick up the phone and work out the details.
"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 took herself out of the equation immediately. "I was like, 'Not it, not it, not it!'" she exclaimed, raising her hand in the air. "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 Witherspoon wasn't ready to sayhelloto Adele, either. "She's like, 'I don't want to ask Adele!'" Gellar recalled. "None of us wanted to ask. We were all so nervous."
When hostKelly Clarksonnoted that Adele was probably feeling equally as nervous, Gellar replied, "I don't know, but we were so… like, none of us wanted to ask her."
The Emmy-winning actress revealed that Adele and her son Angelo, whom she shares with ex-husband Simon Konecki, eventually moved back to London in the end, dashing their play date dreams.
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"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.'"
To say Gellar was a little envious that her son got to spend time with the 16-time Grammy winner is a bit of an understatement. "We're all like, 'What! What! Why weren't we at school?!'" she added.
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Clarkson, who is mom to daughter River Rose and son Remington Alexander, pointed out that it's important to find parents that you like spending time with when it comes to setting up play dates.
In response, Gellar clarified that Adele was "so lovely" whenever they crossed paths on the playground. "Let me end that story with she was so lovely and couldn't have been nicer," she said, "but, man, we were all way too shy to call Adele."
The Kelly Clarkson Showairs weekdays in syndication. Check your local listings. Watch Gellar discuss her foiled preschool play date with Witherspoon and Adele in the clip above.
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