Debra Messingisn’tnotlooking for love — she’s just not noticing many contenders for her heart at the moment.
“I have been open,” Messing says, with a pause that leads the audience to erupt into laughter and DeGeneres, 60, to jokingly accuse them of having dirty minds.
“Noone has asked me on a date. Not one — zero,” the actress continues.
“Where are you going?” DeGeneres asks her guest.
“No one, ’cause no one’s asking me anywhere!” jokes Messing,who split from husband Daniel Zelmanin 2011 after 10 years of marriage and formerSmashcostarWill Chase in 2014 followinga two-and-a-half-year relationship.
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DeGeneres suggests that Messing turn her girls’ nights into outings with single friends instead of those in relationships, to help her meet potential suitors. The only problem? She doesn’t have single friends.
“Are you good at setting people up?” she asks the host, who has been married to wifePortia de Rossifor more than 10 years.
“I’m so good at setting people up — let me know what [you’re] looking for. I have set so many people up,” DeGeneres replies enthusiastically.
“Really smart, really funny, cares about the world,” Messing says of the traits she desires in a romantic partner.
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“Hmm,” DeGeneres jokes in reply, with a knowing look at the camera.
“That third one is really tricky,” says Messing, adding that she’d “rather not” date someone in show business but is “open” to that possibility, as well as to seeing someone within 10 years of her age in either direction.
Of her 14-year-old sonRoman Walker, Messing admits he has been “begging” her “to go on a date” with someone.
“I want to give him the gift of me going on a date, at this point,” she jokes.
TheEllen DeGeneresShowairs weekdays in syndication (check local listings).
source: people.com
