Jenny McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg's romance was within the playing cards.

The Masked Singer decide mirrored on her courtship with the Blue Bloods actor throughout an interview with iHeartRadio's I Choose Me With Jennie Garth. "We really met on Watch What Occurs Stay, Andy Cohen's present," McCarthy recalled. "He was the second visitor within the second chair and I'd by no means met him earlier than. And I believed he was married, so I didn't actually flirt with him. I used to be similar to, 'Oh, you're a very nice man.' Like, I had no thought Andy Cohen was like, 'You bought to ask her out. You bought to ask her out.'"

McCarthy subsequent related with Wahlberg whereas internet hosting her personal speak present, The Jenny McCarthy Present, in 2013. "I wound up doing my present and like six months later, he got here on as a visitor," she recalled. "So I'm doing my homework and like, 'Okay, who’s he relationship?' He's not relationship anyone. [I] nonetheless wasn't considering something."

The longer term couple hit it off whereas filming the interview. "He sat down and I began interviewing him and I used to be like, 'Oh, he's very sensible. Oh, he's very humorous. Wow, he's actually cute,'" she remembered. "After which the interview was imagined to be 9 minutes. It was 90."

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McCarthy stated her reference to Wahlberg was apparent to everybody within the room. "There was a lot sparks and chemistry that everybody within the viewers was like, 'Oh my God!'" she stated. "After which backstage — I haven't given my quantity to a man ever. And I had my assistant run over there and be like, 'Right here's Jenny's quantity.' So I'm like, 'I don't understand how to do that.' So he wound up ready for me in his dressing room to say goodbye."

The Singled Out alum stated she panicked after the interview was over. "I used to be so flushed like just a little highschool lady," she recalled. "My face was crimson and I used to be like, 'I can't stroll previous him. I can't stroll previous him. I'm too scared. I'm too nervous.' And so I wound up ready an hour. He was nonetheless within the room and I used to be nonetheless scared. So I ran previous his room, obtained within the elevator and I'm like, 'I simply hope he calls me.' Two weeks go by and he doesn't name me."

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Wahlberg wanted an additional push to achieve out to McCarthy. "He thought I simply gave my telephone quantity to everyone," she stated. "So he noticed a industrial of me asking a psychic on my speak present if I'm going to marry Donnie Wahlberg. And the psychic was like, 'Yeah.' And that is earlier than we even went on a date, okay?"

The psychic incident pushed Wahlberg over the sting. "He wound up calling me," McCarthy remembered. "We went on our first date after which it was recreation over."

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McCarthy stated that her relationship with Wahlberg stays sturdy. "Donnie was a kind of guys that might simply assist me and be there with me and need to, and have fun the successes, ?" she defined. "And he nonetheless does it to at the present time."

Hearken to the total dialog between McCarthy and Jennie Garth above.

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