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Stephen Colbert names much-younger A-list star he was 'wildly attracted to' ahead of his final show 28%
By Eve Buckland0%
5/13/2026, 5:25:22 PM
Topics: Celebrity, Late Night Show
BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Framing Effect, and Representativeness Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 26.5% saturation with 125 hits. Analysis detected 750 faulty-reasoning hits from 471 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 38.6% and a BS Rank of 28% (12,215 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 72.70% of the article peer group.
Stephen Colbert has revealed his most 'distracting' crush on an A-list guest as he prepares to bid farewell to his talk show after 11 seasons.
The married host, 62, whose show was canceled last year after a decade on-air, reminisced on a time he was 'wildly attracted' to a much-younger star in 2019 and 'didn't know what to do with his eyeballs.'
Appearing on the Strike Force Five podcast, Colbert was asked by co-host Jimmy Kimmel: 'Has there been a guest who was so attractive that you found it distracting?'
Colbert admitted: 'I’ll tell you who I did not expect to be wildly attracted to.
Like, I didn’t know what to do with myself.
I did not know what to do with my eyeballs when Michelle Williams was on for the first time.
'She sat down across from me and I went, "F**k, what is wrong with my head?"
I’d better not look directly at her for this entire interview.'
Colbert, who has been married to Evelyn McGee since 1993, then heaped praise on the 45-year-old Dawson's Creek star's 'vibe' and 'face', calling her 'so beautiful.'
Five-time Oscar nominee Williams first crossed paths with Colbert on his show in April 2019 as she plugged miniseries, Fosse/Verdon.
Her last encounter with the smitten host was in April last year to discuss the series, Dying For Sex.
Williams has been married to Thomas Kail, with whom she has three children, since 2020.
She welcomed daughter Matilda, 21, with late ex Heath Ledger.
Colbert also revealed he 'used to have a Rachel Weisz problem', detailing how he would have to 'leave the building' when she was on the show for 'fear I would say something stupid.'
Strike Force Five includes Colbert, Kimmel, Late Night host Seth Meyers, Last Week Tonight's John Oliver, and The Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon.
They formed in 2023 during a writers' strike, and the group reunited on Monday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
At the time, the network claimed it was 'purely a financial decision,' but the cancellation came days after the devout Catholic called Paramount/CBS's $16 million lawsuit settlement with President Donald Trump 'a big fat bribe.'
Paramount was also in the midst of a multibillion-dollar merger with the movie studio Skydance, which requires the government approval of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
'I will tell you when I got knocked off the air for a few days.
People canceled Disney+,' Kimmel noted.
'Why aren't you people canceling Paramount+?
Because you didn't have it in the first place?
[laughs]'
Former Late Show host David Letterman, Tom Hanks, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Pedro Pascal are among A-listers set to appear in its final days.
His final show will air on May 21.
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