Timing may not have been on Dax Shepard's side when he tried shooting his shot with Kate Hudson, but that didn't stop him from trying.
During a Wednesday, Oct. 28 episode of his "Armchair Expert" podcast, the "CHiPs" actor, 51, recalled his first time meeting the "Running Point" star, 47, while she was still married to Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson
. Shepard and Hudson later dated for three months in 2007."I was at his house one night playing poker, and she came and played, and she was still with Chris," Dax told his guests, Sara and Erin Foster. "I gave her 111% of any charm I have, right?"
He said he remembers leaving and feeling proud of his game: "Well, that’s as good a job as one can do. I mean, she’s married, who cares?" He described
his flirting as "a great first showing."
His crush on the "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" actress did not fade away. After she and Robinson separated in 2007, she reunited with him at a dinner party in Malibu, California, where Shepard tried to see if he could "muster up this magic and get it going again."
"I went, and she was there, and she’s now single," he said. "And then I got it going again. And then from that night on, we were just together every single day."
Sara Foster says Dax Shepard and Kate Hudson 'got serious fast'
Sara, who was friends with both actors, shared, "You guys got serious fast. And you guys were like, always in beanies."
Shepard replied, saying he and Hudson would make out "all day long."
"I remember being like, 'Kate, this is crazy. It’s like my best friend!'" Sara Foster told Shepard. "And I remember like you and her were kind of like, 'What?' She was like, 'You don’t know him that well.'"
A surprised Shepard responded, "Oh my goodness, I didn’t even know any of this happened."
Since 2021, Hudson has been engaged to musician Danny Fujikawa, whom she started dating in 2016. The "Song Sung Blue" actress has three children — sons Ryder, 22, and Bingham, 15, and daughter Rani, 8 — from her relationships with Robinson, Muse frontman Matt Bellamy, and Fujikawa, respectively.
Shepard is married to "Nobody Wants This" star Kristen Bell, with whom he shares two daughters, Lincoln, 13, and Delta, 11.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Dax Shepard's gave Kate Hudson '111%' of his flirt game while she was married
