Sarah Michelle Gellar called Howard Stern after telling Freddie Prinze Jr. in 2001 that her marriage to Gellar wouldn’t last 10 years. Two decades later, Gellar is ready for Stern to keep his end of the bet.
Gellar took to Instagram on Thursday to share an old image with her hubby and captioned it “20,” adding a star emoji. On “The Howard Stern Show” in 2001, the host told Prinze, “So you’ll marry Sarah Michelle Gellar even though you know it won’t last.”
Prinze replied, “Absolutely, it will last,” which Stern wasn’t buying. “I want to make a written bet with you. In about 10 years, you’re going to be stalking me and saying, ‘Howard, I owe you money,'” Stern said, to which Prinze agreed.
Gellar posted a screenshot of the back and forth between Stern and her husband on her Instagram Story on Thursday. “What do you think?!?!” she wrote followed by “I think you owe us.”
Prinze reposted his wife’s story and added, “She’ll never forget,” along with two laughing face emojis.
Sarah Michelle Gellar called Howard Stern after telling her husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., in 2001 that their marriage wouldn’t last.
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The happy couple first met in 1997 while filming ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ and started dating three years later. They quickly got engaged and married in Mexico in 2002. They share two children: Charlotte Grace, 12, and Rocky James, 10.
In 2020, Gellar told Today Parents how, as parents, she and Prinze tried to limit their children’s screen time. At the time of the interview, the schools were completely remote, which meant a lot more screen time for her little ones.
The ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ actress has shared that the impact of distance learning on her children due to the coronavirus pandemic has led to her son being diagnosed with myopia, which affects his eyesight.
“I really put it down to screen fatigue because my kids didn’t have much access to devices (before the coronavirus quarantine),” Gellar told the outlet. “All of a sudden they’re thrown into this world where they’re on Zoom for school and the only way they’re going to connect with their friends afterwards is to continue on those devices. It wasn’t something my kids were used to.”
Eventually, things got so bad that she decided to have Rocky evaluated by an eye doctor. “They said he not only had myopia – the common term is nearsightedness – but it was progressing extremely rapidly,” she said.