{"id":484273,"date":"2026-05-14T12:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/484273\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:41:24","slug":"stephen-colbert-admits-he-was-surprised-to-be-wildly-attracted-to-1-of-his-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/484273\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Admits He Was ‘Surprised’ To Be ‘Wildly Attracted To’ 1 Of His Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Colbert<\/a> was struck by one of his guest\u2019s beauty \u2014 and doesn\u2019t want to wait for our lives to be over<\/a> before revealing it. <\/p>\n

The host of the \u201cLate Show\u201d reunited with fellow late-night hosts Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and John Oliver for an episode of their \u201cStrike Force Five\u201d podcast<\/a> that was released Wednesday, and Kimmel asked Colbert a pretty spicy question.<\/p>\n

\u201cHas there been a guest who was so attractive that you found it distracting?\u201d<\/p>\n

Colbert didn\u2019t hesitate at all before giving his answer.<\/p>\n

\"StephenStephen Colbert and his crush.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll tell you who I did not expect to be wildly attracted to,\u201d Colbert began. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what to do with myself. I like this person\u2019s work, but I never thought of them as like a bombshell.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cI could not \u2014 I didn\u2019t know what to do with my eyeballs when Michelle Williams<\/a> was on for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ColbertColbert interviewing guest Michelle Williams in 2025 on \u201cThe Late Show.\u201d<\/p>\n

CBS Photo Archive via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Colbert went on to say the first time she sat across from him on his show, he immediately thought, \u201cOh, fuck, what\u2019s wrong with my head? I cannot, I better not look directly at her for this entire interview.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was something about her vibe, her face, everything! \u2026She\u2019s so beautiful!\u201d<\/p>\n

Colbert also admitted to having a \u201cRachel Weisz problem\u201d but \u201crecovered.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Rachel Weisz would be on \u2018The Daily Show\u2019 I would leave the building out of fear of saying something stupid to her,\u201d Colbert said. He also admitted that Rebecca Ferguson was another guest he was attracted to because she\u2019s a \u201cgreat interview.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe brings game,\u201d Colbert said of the \u201cDune\u201d star.<\/p>\n

Colbert certainly wasn\u2019t the first to immediately swoon over Williams. Apparently the late Heath Ledger, who shares a child with Williams, was smitten with her right away as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember him looking at her, and she looking up at him with these wide eyes,\u201d Diana Ossana, the screenwriter of \u201cBrokeback Mountain\u201d told Out magazine<\/a> in 2015.<\/p>\n

Ossana added, \u201cShe was almost startled by the attention he was giving her, but you could see it every day from thereon. For him it was truly love at first sight. He was so taken with her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert was struck by one of his guest\u2019s beauty \u2014 and doesn\u2019t want to wait for our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,9664,4951],"class_list":{"0":"post-484273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-michelle-williams","14":"tag-stephen-colbert"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116572985132436498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}