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Los Angeles Times
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Jason Segel and dancer-actor Kayla Radomski are engaged after two years of dating
Jason Segel and Kayla Radomski are taking their love to a new level: engagement. 'Shrinking' star Segel, 45, popped the question to girlfriend and 'So You Think You Can Dance' alumna Radomski, 34, she revealed on Wednesday on Instagram. Radomski shared a carousel of photos from the outdoor proposal, including photos of the actor kneeling as he asks for her hand in marriage. 'FOREVER YES,' Radomski said in her caption, adding emojis of a ring and a heart. Radomski, whose credits also include 'Once Upon a Hollywood' and TV series 'Chasing 8s' and 'Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,' and Segel were first spotted together in October 2023 during a date night at Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights. The duo made their romance red-carpet official at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards, when Segel was nominated for his work in Apple TV+'s 'Shrinking.' The pair continued hitting the red carpet later that year as part of the awards circuit, which included the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards and high-profile parties. Months before their engagement, 'How I Met Your Mother' star Segel and Radomski appeared again at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards. 'Nothing makes me happier than to stand by your side and see your light shine so bright!!!' Radomski said of Segel in an Instagram post shared in October amid the Season 2 premiere of 'Shrinking. 'Not only are you so talented but your kindness and the way you make everyone around you feel seen and loved is unmatched.' Segel's marriage to Radomski, who has also shared the stage with Taylor Swift as a backup dancer, will be his first. He previously had relationships with his 'Freaks and Geeks' co-star Linda Cardellini and 'Dying for Sex' star Michelle Williams. There was plenty of love going around in Radomski's Instagram comments section, where fellow entertainers and dancers including Broadway star Jordan Fisher, 'Dancing With the Stars' pro Valentin Chmerkovskiy , and fellow 'SYTYCD' alums Melanie Moore and Lex Ishimoto congratulated the couple on their engagement.
Elle
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Elle
Jason Segel Proposes to Dance Star Kayla Radomski
On June 18, Jason Segel and Kayla Radomski announced they were engaged with photos from the proposal shared on Instagram in an adorable carousel. The So You Think You Can Dance star captioned the post 'FOREVER YES,' adding a diamond ring and heart emojis. In the photos, they're stationed in front of a classical statue and columns at the Huntington Library in Pasadena and surrounded by massive flower arrangements. Segel, wearing a suit, is kneeling before an emotional Radomski who is wearing a sleeveless black plaid dress with fringe details. They are seen smiling, sharing a kiss, and then seated at a romantic meal with champagne. So who is Radomski and how did she and Segel connect? Here's everything we know so far. Kayla Radomski was born in 1991 in Denver, Colorado, per her IMDB profile. She was interested in dance from a young age and started dancing competitively when she was only seven-years-old. In 1999, she was named Miss Pre-Teen Colorado and in 2004 she appeared in a Britney Spears Tour concert video. She is perhaps best known for competing in season 5 of So You Think You Can Dance. Radomski was living in Aurora, Colorado, when she auditioned, and won praise from choreographer Sonya Tayeh, who called her audition 'smoking hot, slick, and slippery.' In her audition introduction, she shared that she lived with her mom and grandparents, who were very supportive of her dance dreams. Radomski came in fourth place on the show, and went on to have a number of roles acting and dancing in film. She appeared in Quentin Tarantino's 2019 film Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood. In 2024, she appeared in the short film Ukrainian Dance Movie as Katya, and in the horror movie Bunker. She also dance live at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards for Taylor Swift and Brendon Urie's performance of 'ME!' She shared a picture of herself hugging Swift, writing, 'I am forever grateful to be a part of this special moment!!' Segel and Radomski were seen in photos published by the Daily Mail in October 2023, holding hands at Universal Studios Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights. In January 2024, they made their red carpet debut at the Golden Globes were Segel was nominated for his performance in Shrinking. Radomski celebrated Segel on Instagram writing, 'I am so incredibly proud of you!!!! What a dream. You are absolutely one of the hardest working and most deserving humans on this planet. My Golden Globe Nominee! I love that we got to spend a whole day celebrating YOU and your talent!!! I love you so much baby!' In April 2024, she shared a picture of them enjoying a tropical vacation.
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Seth Rogen and Jason Segel Relive 27 Years of Friendship: Smoking Before ‘The Matrix,' Peeing Next to Scorsese and Harrison Ford Watching Segel Naked
Jason Segel and Seth Rogen, who both emerged from the Judd Apatow comic universe, are now two of the funniest multi-hyphenates in the industry. Segel, with Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, co-created 'Shrinking,' a dramedy about an unconventional therapist, played by Segel, going through the stages of grief. Rogen, with his longtime writing partner, Evan Goldberg, co-created 'The Studio,' and co-directs every episode. He stars as a newly appointed studio executive trying to keep his head above water. Seth Rogen: The first time we met — 27 years ago — I was 16 or 17 when we shot the pilot of 'Freaks and Geeks.' How old were you? More from Variety Dave Chappelle Joins Mo Amer for Rare Interview on Political Comedy, Fiery 'SNL' Monologues and Crying Over Netflix's 'Mo': 'I'm Not Doing This S--' If the 'Show Sucked' Like Father, Like Son: Arnold and Patrick Schwarzenegger on Nepo Babies, Nude Scenes and 'Becoming the Greatest Star of All Time' How 'The Studio,' 'Yellowjackets,' 'Monsters' and 'White Lotus' Make Bad Behavior Appealing Jason Segel: I was 18 or 19. It's crazy to think about that. In preparation for this, I was thinking about the first time we bonded. I have a very clear idea of the moment. Rogen: What was it? Segel: While we were shooting the pilot, 'The Matrix' came out. We didn't know each other that well. We didn't know anybody else that well. We were all just meeting each other. And all we knew is that you and I both liked to smoke weed. Rogen: [The film] came out the day the pilot wrapped, so in my head, the whole pilot was just a march to 'The Matrix' being released. Segel: We rolled giant joints and drove to the movie theater and saw 'The Matrix' together. I remember coming out of that movie legitimately feeling like something had changed. It was a very inspiring thing. Rogen: It was like our 'Star Wars.' Segel: You and I started writing harder after that. I think about that period as something you can never get back. We had the naivete of youth. We didn't really know how to do it. Rogen: I remember having no fucking clue what I was doing at all. Meeting you — you had thoughts about the craft of acting. You were the first serious actor I ever talked to. All I did was memorize the lines and try to say them in a way that sounds remotely realistic and natural. Then I realized everyone else on the show was creating a whole character. Segel: But don't you think acting is all just tricks so that when they say 'Action,' you feel comfortable? Rogen: The longer I act, the less I understand it, honestly. Sometimes I look back at the choices I made, and they're more surprising at times than things I would do now. Segel: People always ask, 'What would older you say to younger you?' I think the opposite is more important for me at this age. Don't forget the guys who felt like, 'Why can't I make this movie and end it with a Dracula puppet musical? Why can't we do this whole movie about trying to get booze?' You know what I mean? There was a naivete that we had: 'Who's going to stop us?' Rogen: I've let pragmatism invade my thinking in many ways. You get too realistic about things, and you're like, 'What's going to work?' instead of 'What sounds fun in the moment?' Segel: The most strategic decisions I've made have been the worst ones. Do you have a true north — a view of life you're trying to express? Rogen: No. Sometimes. I'd say that some things I've made are trying to eventually have an idea that they're trying to get across — something I believe. But I mostly start thinking of an idea as I think of the energy of it. That's what becomes exciting to me. I never start with one single thing. Where do your ideas come from now? Segel: I don't write very often because I don't love it. I find it to be kind of fraught. I think of an idea, something I'm dealing with in my life, and then I try really hard not to write it. But if it keeps nagging at me, I'm like, 'This is something I'll write.' Rogen: Me and Evan talk about a Darwinistic approach to our ideas often — the ideas that stick around are the good ideas. Segel: It's not that hard to think of ideas. But I get a little indecisive about committing to one. You gave me a piece of advice for a script I'm working on now that really stuck with me. I didn't feel like I was smart enough to write this thing, and you said, 'We're the age now where you write stuff like that.' That's the beauty of this thing, starting to realize, 'OK, now let's try to up the degree of difficulty.' Rogen: Aging is weird in many ways. But acknowledging that your taste has changed and your sensibilities have changed … That was a scary thing for me and Evan to even acknowledge: Oh, we don't want to make stuff about dumb teenagers anymore. Segel: Or being afraid of girls. Rogen: It's been a decade since Evan and I wrote and directed and produced a thing I was also in. It took us a transition period from our 30s into our 40s where we were working on other stuff the whole time, but it wasn't our stuff. Segel: Do you and Evan have the same taste, or is it like a Venn diagram? Rogen: It's close enough that we've never really had a major conflict over what we want to work on. There's never been a thing that one of us really wants to make and the other doesn't want to make at all. Segel: You really notice, in 'The Studio,' this energy that goes through it. It felt to me like a mix: 'Birdman' meets 'Curb.' Rogen: That's exactly what we were going for. Segel: It's all of the awkwardness and reality of 'Curb,' but set to a rhythm. Rogen: I wanted it to be fast — that was a word I would use a lot. I thought a lot about: What do I want to do all day? What do I like to do? What I don't love to do is insert shots and establishing shots. I don't love doing scenes that feel like they're serving some storyline that will pay off in a few episodes. I love high-stakes, intense scenes where everyone wants to grab each other and shake each other. As we were writing the show, the first conversations we were having were 'How do we infuse every scene so I'm only doing scenes that are really funny?' Segel: It's like you only did the scenes that people like. Rogen: We didn't cut. Nothing we shot was not in the show. Do you guys improvise a lot? Segel: When it makes sense. Our show is also this mix of comedy and drama. You know I love talking about acting. Rogen: Not as much as some. Segel: All those improv skills that we learned for comedy and got pretty damn good at turned out to really apply to dramatic scenes also. Rogen: Even more so, I think. Because you aren't trying to make jokes. Segel: And you're not trying to prove you're clever. With 'Shrinking,' the writers are incredible, and they give us a really good treasure map that's pretty fucking detailed. But then you're dropped into the treasure map and it's three-dimensional and you're like, 'Oh, but there's an interesting little thing over here …' Rogen: Does the same person direct the whole show? Segel: No. Rogen: How's that? That's the one thing I'd never really done. 'Pam & Tommy' was the first time since 'Freaks and Geeks' or 'Undeclared' that I'd acted in a television show, and I honestly struggled with having different directors. I was very thrown off by it, having all these people come in, handing off the show from one person to the next. Segel: I get it. There's a lot of moving targets, and you're block shooting for locations, so … Rogen: … different directors will come in throughout the day. Segel: That happens occasionally. But we have a really cohesive unit up top with Bill Lawrence. But it's an interesting thing, you know, because you do all the jobs, but I don't think anyone knows, until you get into editing, what the show is. Rogen: Not on our show. Segel: This is a show about grief, and we wanted to honor that. People are really going through this shit in the world. You also want it to be funny. So it was a lot of turning the dials of how bad you can make him as a therapist. Rogen: I was explaining it to Lauren, my wife, as we were watching it. She was like, 'Is he doing cocaine and sleeping with prostitutes?' I didn't think this show went there. Segel: You've known me a long time, so you'd probably agree if you were directing me: I was like, 'Guys, you can have him do as much bad stuff as you want.' Rogen: 'It'll be OK.' Segel: People are going to think, 'Oh, I hope he's OK.' Rogen: Sympathy. Segel: Spend the currency. Rogen: How did you get Harrison Ford? Segel: We got Harrison Ford because Harrison Ford is the kind of person you make an offer to so that for three days you can say, 'We've made an offer to Harrison Ford,' and then you'll pick the real guy. Rogen: Sounds cool in a restaurant. Segel: He read it, and he didn't know anything about me. Brett Goldstein met with him, and they had a really nice meeting, and they sent him 'The End of the Tour' and 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall.' Then, apparently, Bill Lawrence got a text that said, 'I'm in. And tell the kid, great dick.' Rogen: Even if he was out, that would be great. I would take that. Segel: How about your cameos? Is that the people you've amassed throughout your career? Rogen: No, not at all. I'd say half of them were people I didn't know at all. We wanted people you haven't seen us with before. Martin Scorsese, we just sent it to his manager. I'd met Zoë Kravitz once or twice. I met a lot of these people in passing. I'm sure you have at a party. Segel: I did meet Martin Scorsese once. I met him at the Golden Globes, and we peed next to each other at the urinals. But I had the kids' one and he had the tall one. So everything about it was just way off. That's a great memory. Rogen: He's a little guy. Segel: Were you intimidated to direct people like that? Rogen: It was the worst thing in the whole world. We were shooting the show in such a specific way that I was so nervous it would be creatively rejected. Segel: I'm so interested to hear that you get nervous. Rogen: The character is me in many, many ways. And the crux of the character is that he doesn't want to let down his idols. And that's one of the biggest things that I'm navigating: Whenever I get anyone to come do a thing we're doing, I'm so aware of how upset I'll be if they think it's bad. Segel: How do you act while you have to be carrying all this other stuff too? Rogen: To me, it's more fun to be directing the scene and in the scene and having written the scene than it is to just be acting the scene. The fact that it's way harder, I like it. Segel: It's a tightrope. Rogen: 'Steve Jobs' was the first time I had done anything where there were these long, elaborate shots and these long walk-and-talks — it has to be exactly right. It was the first time I made a thing where everyone's really leaning in and everyone's engaged. And when you got it, everyone's clapping. That was an energy I wanted to try to create on a day-to-day basis. Segel: You're describing my ethos of acting. Repeatability is an important skill when you start doing all the other angles. But the magic part, the part where I'm like, 'Oh, fuck, we did it,' is when you catch something. Best of Variety What's Coming to Netflix in June 2025 New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts?
New York Post
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Harrison Ford once complimented his ‘Shrinking' co-star Jason Segel on his ‘great d–k'
It belongs in a museum! Harrison Ford once complimented Jason Segel on his 'great d–k' after watching the 45-year-old actor go full frontal in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall.' Segel recalled the 'Indiana Jones' star's surprising words during Variety's 'Actors on Actors' series with Seth Rogen published on Thursday, June 5. 7 Harrison Ford once complimented Jason Segel's 'great d–k' after watching the younger actor go full frontal in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall.' AFP via Getty Images 7 Segel recalled Ford's surprising words during a recent episode of Variety's 'Actors on Actors' series with Seth Rogen. Peggy Sirota for Variety He began by explaining how the producers of 'Shrinking,' Brett Goldstein and Bill Lawrence, convinced Ford, 82, to sign on to the popular Apple TV+ series. 'We got Harrison Ford because Harrison Ford is the kind of person you make an offer to so that for three days you can say, 'We've made an offer to Harrison Ford,' and then you'll pick the real guy,' Segel said on Thursday. 'He read it, and he didn't know anything about me,' the 'How I Met Your Mother' star continued. 'Brett Goldstein met with him, and they had a really nice meeting, and they sent him 'The End of the Tour' and 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall.'' 7 Segel began by telling Rogen how the producers of 'Shrinking' convinced Ford to sign on to the Apple TV+ show. Peggy Sirota for Variety 'Then,' he added, 'Bill Lawrence got a text that said, 'I'm in. And tell the kid, great d–k.'' Rogen, 43, couldn't get over the fact that Ford once complimented Segel's manhood. 'Even if he was out, that would be great,' the 'Studio' star joked. 'I would take that.' 7 Ford and Segel as the therapists Paul Rhoades and Jimmy Laird in Season 2 of 'Shrinking.' Apple TV+ The full-frontal scene in question occurs in the 2008 comedy when Segel's character, Peter Bretter, stands fully naked as his girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), breaks up with him. Segel previously opened up about the surprising scene in 2015 and revealed that he was the one who came up with the idea. 'I thought that was hilarious,' he told Vulture at the time. 'I was actually not very uncomfortable doing it. I really felt free.' 7 'I'm in,' Segel recalled Ford saying. 'And tell the kid, great d–k.' ©Apple TV/Courtesy Everett Collection 'You have to put it in the context that this was 2006, 2007, and this hadn't been done before, in my recollection,' Segel added, 'where the main guy was going to be naked in the first five minutes of the movie.' Even more surprising was Segel's admission that the full frontal idea was inspired by a similar incident that had actually happened to him in real life years before. 'She arrived at the house and I had decided that the way to really kick off this sex was that I was waiting on the couch totally naked, like posed,' he told Conan O'Brien during an episode of the comedian's podcast in 2023. 7 Ford and Segel seen at 'Shrinking' FYC Event at The Think Apple TV+ Emmy House on May 18, 2025, in Los Angeles Apple TV+ via Getty Images 'So she walked in and there I am laying,' he continued, 'and I said, 'I've got a surprise for you,' and then she said, 'We need to talk.'' One person who didn't enjoy Segel's nude scene was his mother, who was blindsided when she watched it at the movie premiere. 'She said, 'Why didn't you tell me?'' the recalled last year. 'I said, 'I thought it would be a funny joke.' She said, 'This is not a funny joke.'' 7 This wouldn't be the first time that the 'Indiana Jones' star complimented his 'Shrinking' co-star's manhood. Getty Images As for 'Shrinking,' the series stars Segel and Ford as therapists Jimmy Laird and Paul Rhoades, respectively. The show, which premiered in January 2023 and concluded its second season in December, follows Segel's character in the wake of his wife's death. It also follows Ford's character as he battles Parkinson's disease. 'There's no intention to make it into a joke,' Ford said of his character's startling diagnosis during an interview late last year. 'But there are people that absorb these kinds of experiences with grace and courage and a little bit of wisdom,' he added. 'And that is not to say that some people do not.'
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Harrison Ford Went Out Of His Way To Compliment 1 Celebrity's 'Great Dick'
Who says Indiana Jones is afraid of snakes? On Thursday, Variety published a conversation between friends and longtime collaborators Seth Rogen and Jason Segel — and in it, Rogen asks his former 'Freaks and Geeks' co-star how he managed to snag Harrison Ford for his show, 'Shrinking.' Segel co-stars in the Apple TV+ series that he co-created with Brett Goldstein (of 'Ted Lasso' fame) and Bill Lawrence. Segel admitted to Rogen that Ford had no idea who he was, and he had to get Goldstein and Lawrence involved to help sway 'The Fugitive' star to accept the role as Dr. Paul Rhoades, a senior therapist and colleague of Segel's character. 'He read [the script], and he didn't know anything about me,' Segel explained. 'Brett Goldstein met with him, and they had a really nice meeting, and they sent him 'The End of the Tour' and 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall.'' The latter of these two movies has a very memorable scene in which Segel fully exposes his little Jason — and it seems that Ford was impressed. 'Then, apparently, Bill Lawrence got a text [from Ford] that said, 'I'm in. And tell the kid, great dick.'' 'Even if he was out, that would be great. I would take that,' Rogen joked in response, and Segel quickly changed the subject. Although the anecdote is pretty funny, it's hard to believe that Rogen didn't set up his buddy to brag about his junk. Last year, Stephen Colbert asked Ford about a headline that claimed that he had no idea who Segel was before signing on to 'Shrinking.' 'Not true,' Ford said, explaining he'd watched 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' before agreeing to do the show. 'And the producer asked me what I thought [of the movie] and I said, 'Nice penis.''
