Rob Lowe Just Named His Best On-Screen Kiss — and Andy Cohen’s Other Options Didn’t Stand a Chance
The actor didn’t need a lifeline on “Plead the Fifth” to pick Nastassja Kinski, recalling that he was “very, very scared” to kiss the woman he considered the most beautiful he’d ever seen.
Rob Lowe has kissed enough movie stars on camera to make the average actor’s résumé look aggressively under-romanced. Demi Moore. Kim Cattrall. Rashida Jones. Calista Flockhart. Meg Tilly. The man has spent four decades making cinematic chemistry look like a job requirement.
And yet, when Andy Cohen asked him to name his best on-screen kiss, Lowe did not pause, hedge or perform the elaborate diplomacy of a person trying to keep six famous women happy. He said Nastassja Kinski.
“Have a look at her,” Lowe replied on Sunday’s episode of Watch What Happens Live, after Cohen ran through his list of notable screen partners. It was less an answer than a closing argument. No notes. No ranking spreadsheet. Just a very famous man pointing toward the obvious fact that Nastassja Kinski has always had the kind of beauty that makes adjectives feel underqualified.
Then Lowe made the story more interesting by admitting that the kiss did not exactly leave him cool, calm and Hollywood-trained.
“At that moment in time, she was probably the most beautiful woman I’d certainly ever seen,” he said. “I was, like, very, very scared.”
The 1984 movie that started the legend
Lowe and Kinski appeared together in The Hotel New Hampshire, the 1984 comedy-drama directed by Tony Richardson and adapted from John Irving’s novel. The film also featured Jodie Foster, which means its cast list alone feels like a time capsule from the era when a single movie could casually assemble several future cultural institutions.
Kinski, now 65, was already an international star when she made the film. Lowe was in the early, glossy stretch of his own ascent: the Outsiders heartthrob, a member of Hollywood’s young elite and the sort of actor whose face seemed designed for both a movie poster and a teenage bedroom wall.
That context gives Lowe’s answer a little more sparkle than a standard celebrity “best kiss” anecdote. He was not describing a random day at work or a forgettable scene from a crowded filmography. He was talking about being young, famous and suddenly expected to kiss the person he found most beautiful in the room — while a camera watched.
For all the practiced ease of movie romance, the confession is charmingly unpolished. Lowe did not frame himself as a master of seduction. He framed himself as intimidated. In the world of celebrity storytelling, where everyone is usually effortlessly magnetic and every encounter is supposedly destiny, “I was scared” is refreshingly human.
Andy Cohen brought the chaos; Lowe brought the memory
The question arrived during “Plead the Fifth,” the Watch What Happens Live game that exists to make celebrities choose between oversharing and strategic evasiveness. Cohen did his part by reminding Lowe that the competition was serious. The actor has shared screen kisses with an unusually starry parade of women, including Moore and Cattrall, two names that could make even a seasoned guest suddenly discover an urgent interest in passing on the question.
Lowe did not pass. He also did not try to turn the answer into a lecture about chemistry, professionalism or the magic of collaboration. He simply went back to Kinski — and to the face that, in his memory, made the whole situation feel slightly terrifying.
There is a reason this kind of old-Hollywood memory travels. It is specific enough to feel personal, glamorous enough to feel like gossip and harmless enough to be enjoyed without needing a scandal attached. The internet does not always need a breakup, a feud or a suspiciously timed vacation photo. Sometimes it needs a handsome 62-year-old actor to reveal that his most intimidating romantic scene involved a woman who looked, to him, completely unreal.
Page Six’s story had been shared 45,785 times at publication, suggesting that this particular bit of cinematic nostalgia landed with more force than a routine talk-show anecdote. The appeal is obvious: Lowe’s answer instantly sends viewers back to The Hotel New Hampshire, then to every other famous screen pairing Cohen mentioned, inviting the kind of highly unserious debate friends conduct in group chats with the confidence of professional casting directors.
The real-life plot twist is Sheryl Berkoff
Lowe’s on-screen romantic history may be extensive, but his off-screen story has a much steadier ending. He married makeup artist and jewelry designer Sheryl Berkoff in July 1991, and the couple share two sons, Matthew and John Owen.
The timing matters. Lowe met Berkoff on the set of the 1990 erotic thriller Bad Influence, after their earlier meeting on the film Class. In a 2022 interview with People, he described falling for her as the moment he understood that a lasting relationship might actually be possible for him. He also said he went to rehab and got sober in order to build a future with her.
“I had the feeling that if I was ever going to be able to make it work with anybody, it was Sheryl,” he said at the time.
That history gives the Kinski story its best contrast. Lowe can still identify the screen kiss that left him frightened by beauty, but the relationship he built his life around began somewhere less cinematic: on a set, with a woman he came to recognize as the person who made permanence feel possible. One is a perfect talk-show answer. The other is the actual plot.
And yes, he also revisited the Oscar disaster
Lowe’s Kinski confession was not his only recent detour into Hollywood memory. On Andy Cohen Live, he also joked that he was “the only person happy” when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars.
The reason was brutally self-interested: Lowe hoped the incident would finally knock his own infamous 1989 Academy Awards opening number out of the conversation. He called that performance “the worst opening ever,” then admitted the relief did not last.
“It turns out I still am dragged, dragged every year,” he said.
That may be Lowe’s real talk-show gift: he knows exactly which pieces of his past remain permanently available for public teasing, and he is willing to bring them up before someone else does. The bad Oscar opening, the famous exes, the long marriage, the terrifyingly beautiful co-star — he has enough lore to fill several rounds of “Plead the Fifth.”
But on this night, the headline belonged to Kinski. Decades after The Hotel New Hampshire, Lowe still remembered the kiss, still remembered being scared and still had no interest in pretending anyone else came close.
Barbara Palvin and Dylan Sprouse Welcome a Baby Girl — and Give Her the Cutest Labor Day Announcement
The model and former Disney star are officially girl parents after a whirlwind year that went from Cannes bump debut to Dodgers-jersey family portrait.
Barbara Palvin and Dylan Sprouse have entered their girl-dad, girl-mom era — and naturally, they announced it with a little holiday wordplay and a very Los Angeles family portrait.
Palvin revealed Monday that she and Sprouse welcomed their first child, a baby girl, on Sept. 7. The model shared a photo of the new family of three wearing Los Angeles Dodgers jerseys, with the newborn tucked between her parents. “We took Labor Day literally this year,” Palvin captioned the post.
It is a neat little announcement for a couple whose entire pregnancy rollout has been unusually polished without feeling overproduced: a Cannes red-carpet reveal, a soft-focus podcast gender announcement, a princess nickname and, finally, baseball jerseys. No elaborate celebrity birth spectacle. No name reveal. Just one extremely on-brand joke and a tiny Dodgers fan making her public debut before she can even hold a baseball.
From Cannes glamour to full-on family portrait
The couple announced they were starting a family in May, when Palvin debuted her bump on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet. It was the kind of reveal that makes the red carpet do double duty: one part fashion moment, one part “wait, is that a baby bump?” confirmation.
By July, Sprouse and Palvin had shared that they were expecting a girl during the first episode of Sprouse’s “Wildmen” podcast, which he co-hosts with Brendan Columbus. Sprouse said he was excited to become a “girl dad” and, in a particularly charming detail, added that he unironically loved the idea of tea parties. Palvin predicted that having a daughter would mellow out her husband, while suggesting that parenting would give him an entirely new category of things to stress about.
The baby had already acquired a temporary nickname before arriving. Palvin said the couple had been calling her “principessa,” Italian for princess, while going back and forth on names. Whether that nickname survives outside the delivery room is anyone’s guess, but it is hard to imagine a more Palvin-coded placeholder: romantic, slightly international and ready for a tiny silk robe.
Now the pregnancy arc has reached its final, extremely photogenic chapter: the Victoria’s Secret model and the former Disney Channel star in matching team gear, introducing their daughter to the world on a day built for barbecue, fireworks and aggressively casual family photos.
The couple’s long runway to parenthood
Palvin and Sprouse have been together since 2018, after meeting at a party the year before. Their relationship has occupied a sweet spot in celebrity culture: recognizable enough to generate headlines, private enough that every public appearance feels like an occasion.
Sprouse proposed in September 2022, though the couple waited until the following summer to share the news publicly. They married in July 2023 in Palvin’s native Hungary, giving the relationship a wedding chapter that felt intimate by celebrity standards and distinctly rooted in her family history.
That history has remained part of the couple’s public image. They have moved between fashion-world glamour, Hollywood nostalgia and the kind of domestic normalcy Palvin has described as important to their life together. In a May interview with L’Beauté, she praised Sprouse’s calm and sense of humor, saying they understood each other’s worlds while keeping things “super normal” at home. She also described him as supportive and grounding, adding that they balance each other out.
That is a particularly useful description now that their relationship has crossed into parenthood. Sprouse is still permanently associated with his childhood role on “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody” and its spinoff, while Palvin’s career has made her a fixture of global fashion and beauty coverage. Together, they have the rare celebrity-couple contrast that practically writes its own captions: former Disney kid meets international runway star, now united by a newborn in a Dodgers jersey.
Palvin’s pregnancy was personal, polished and very online
Throughout the pregnancy, Palvin documented the experience in glimpses rather than a daily diary, sharing car selfies and Fourth of July party photos while keeping the bigger family details for carefully chosen moments. The result was less “pregnancy influencer” and more “supermodel occasionally allows the internet one beautiful clue.”
She has also spoken publicly about her endometriosis struggles, including in the same May L’Beauté cover story. Palvin said the experience made her more aware and patient with herself, and taught her not to ignore what her body was telling her. She emphasized prioritizing her health more seriously — a note of candor in an otherwise glossy season of red carpets and announcement photos.
That context gives the birth announcement a little more weight than a standard celebrity lifestyle update. Palvin’s public pregnancy story was not only about clothes fitting differently or a famous partner becoming a father. It also sat alongside her effort to talk about listening to her body and taking her health seriously, without turning the conversation into a performance of perfect motherhood.
Of course, the internet will want the usual next installments: the baby’s name, a close-up of the nursery, a first family vacation, possibly a tiny pair of designer sunglasses that cost more than most adults’ rent. For now, the couple has offered only the headline details: a daughter, a Labor Day arrival and a family photo with enough Dodgers blue to make the announcement feel like a team expansion.
Palvin and Sprouse have spent years carefully calibrating the line between public romance and private life. Their engagement arrived late, their wedding was shared on their own timeline, and the pregnancy unfolded through a handful of major moments rather than constant access. The birth announcement follows that same rhythm — celebratory, funny and just revealing enough.
So welcome to the world, little “principessa.” Your first public appearance says your parents are glamorous, sentimental, baseball-friendly and already very committed to the bit. Honestly, that is a pretty strong celebrity family origin story.
Tom Brady’s Divorce Era Was Apparently Written All Over His Face
A new biography revisits the quarterback’s brutal final NFL season, when teammates reportedly watched him lose nearly 20 pounds as his marriage to Gisele Bündchen unraveled.
Tom Brady has spent most of his adult life looking like the human embodiment of controlled conditions: perfect posture, perfect preparation, perfect hair, and the unnerving confidence of a man who has never once misplaced his travel itinerary. But during the final season of his NFL career, the famously disciplined quarterback apparently looked less like Tom Brady and more like a man being slowly deleted by stress.
That is the striking portrait emerging from Brady: An American Story and the Price of Greatness, a new biography by Lars Anderson. According to excerpts acquired by People and reported by Reality Tea, Brady lost nearly 20 pounds during the 2022 season, the same period when his 13-year marriage to Gisele Bündchen was coming apart.
The detail is not exactly surprising in hindsight. The Brady-Bündchen split was already one of the most intensely watched celebrity breakups of the decade: an NFL dynasty colliding with supermodel glamour, Florida real estate, three children, and the uniquely exhausting public spectacle of two people whose faces were recognizable from opposite ends of the cultural universe. But the book’s account puts a new physical dimension on a breakup that had mostly played out through headlines, carefully worded statements, and the suspiciously polished silence of two global brands.
The quarterback’s final season got very un-Brady
Brady’s body had long been part of the mythology. He was not simply an athlete who stayed in shape; he built an entire lifestyle religion around the idea that preparation could outsmart time. His diet, training regimen, sleep schedule, and competitive rituals became as familiar to the public as his seven Super Bowl rings.
So when he appeared noticeably thinner during his last NFL season, the change landed differently. Anderson’s book says Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers teammates and coaches worried that he might be ill. Former head coach Bruce Arians reportedly connected the weight loss to the personal turmoil surrounding the breakdown of Brady’s marriage.
“It was very clear that the reason for the weight loss was the stress from the personal issues he was dealing with,” Arians says in the book. He also offered the sort of brutally vivid locker-room description that is destined to escape the pages of a biography and sprint directly into the group chat: Brady “looked like a cancer patient with really good hair.”
It is a jarring comparison, and not exactly a gentle one. But it captures the central image of this chapter in Brady’s story: a man whose physical condition had been treated as nearly invincible suddenly looking visibly worn down. The book says Arians considered the change especially startling because Brady took such pride in his body and athletic maintenance.
Inside the Bucs, the marriage drama was not invisible
The public had been watching the marriage strain from a distance, parsing every interview and every absence. Inside the Buccaneers organization, according to former coaches quoted in the book, the situation was much less mysterious.
Arians said Brady seemed “miserable,” adding that he was “not even close to the Tom we all loved.” Another former Buccaneers coach recalled that Brady “never smiled” and “wasn’t himself from the moment he showed up for training camp.” A third person connected to the organization described his changing appearance with a line that sounds almost too perfectly dramatic for a sports biography: “His cheekbones had freaking cheekbones.”
That is the strange afterlife of celebrity heartbreak. A breakup that may feel private to the people living through it becomes a workplace atmosphere, a visual shift, a change in who laughs at practice and who does not. In Brady’s case, the workplace happened to be an NFL locker room, where every bad day gets examined through the lens of performance and every pound lost can become a team concern.
The 2022 season was already an unusually chaotic final act. Brady had announced his retirement, reversed course, and returned to the Buccaneers, all while his personal life was under a level of scrutiny usually reserved for presidential campaigns and royal family group chats. The book’s account suggests that the emotional cost was visible long before the public had a clean ending for the story.
The split that turned a power couple into a pop-culture case study
Brady and Bündchen had been married for 13 years, long enough to become less a celebrity couple than a permanent piece of the culture. He was the precision-engineered football machine. She was one of the most famous models in the world and a public advocate for wellness, environmental causes, and a less football-centered family life. Together, they represented a particular fantasy of elite adulthood: beautiful, rich, disciplined, photogenic, and somehow still capable of coordinating school pickups.
That fantasy became more complicated as Brady’s football future kept shifting. His return to the NFL placed the marriage under renewed attention, with the public eager to turn every red-carpet absence, interview answer, and family photograph into a clue. Neither celebrity needed to say much for the story to become enormous. Silence, in this ecosystem, is not an absence of content. It is content with better lighting.
Brady retired from the NFL in 2023 and moved into broadcasting, where he is now in his third season as part of Fox’s top NFL booth. The career pivot has allowed him to remain in the sports conversation without the weekly physical punishment of playing. But the biography’s account gives his final season a darker texture: it was not simply the last campaign of an aging champion. It was also the season when the machinery of his personal life appeared to be breaking down in public.
There is a reason this particular detail will travel. Celebrity breakups are usually packaged as announcements, statements, and tasteful portraits. This one comes with a locker-room visual: the greatest quarterback of his generation, visibly thinner, reportedly silent, and carrying enough private stress for the people around him to worry about his health. It is less a glossy divorce narrative than a portrait of a perfectionist discovering that no amount of discipline can keep every part of life under control.
And, naturally, the hair apparently remained excellent. Some brands survive anything.