I’ve just thought of a fun talk show game which every celebrity guest should play: “Blind Items.” Celebrity guests should come prepared with a blind item about something they witnessed or someone they know doing something weird/funny/gross/scandalous. No names are mentioned, and the celeb can keep the clues as vague as they want. The host cannot make guesses but can ask questions. Well, Sophie Turner decided to become a founder for this game. During an appearance on Late Show with Seth Meyers, Sophie told a blind-item story about how an A-lister accused her (Sophie) of flirting with the A-lister’s fiance. Sophie believes she’s the reason why the celebrity couple broke off their engagement. This is a good blind item!!
Sophie Turner accidentally played a part in a celebrity couple breaking off their engagement after a San Diego Comic-Con afterparty run-in years ago. The actress, 29, explained to Seth Meyers on Thursday that her “quite crazy” evening “went really south really quick” when her childhood friend asked for a favor.
“She saw this actor she, like, loved,” the “Game of Thrones” alum explained on “Late Night With Seth Meyers.”
When Turner’s pal begged her to “say hi,” she simply waved at the man from afar.
“That was it,” the Emmy nominee insisted. “Later on, I see this girl looking at me and she’s a famous actress. And I go, ‘I have to go and tell her how much she means to me.’”
Turner “dance[d] on over” to the woman — only for the unidentified A-lister to ask, “Can you stop f–king flirting with my fiancé?” When Turner asked who the woman’s partner was, she “point[ed] at the guy” the “Joan” star had waved at.
“I have no idea who this man is,” Turner claimed. “Turns out, they broke their engagement off that night because of my [wave]. I didn’t realize I held this power.”
Turner noted that she couldn’t reveal the couple’s names or she would get “in trouble.”
I would find it hilarious if it was Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom, but Sophie says it was “years ago.” Ariana Grande & Pete Davidson, perhaps? I mention them because… that absolutely sounds like something Ariana would say. Other broken engagements include Ben Affleck & Ana de Armas (lmao), Lady Gaga and Christian Carino (doubtful), and Gigi Hadid & Zayn Malik (interesting!). But there’s a consensus guess for this blind item: Emma Roberts and Evan Peters. Yeah… they’re probably the most likely choice, and I could see how Sophie would recognize Emma but not Evan. Of course, I could also see that being true of Ariana and Pete.
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I read about this yesterday somewhere else and Sophie said this happened in 2015. I’m too lazy to research this beyond googling “celebrity breakups 2015.. the most interesting was Miss Piggy and Kermit the frog, but I think Sophie would’ve recognized Kermit! 😂
And Piggy wouldn’t have just told her off. There would have been some karate chops in there too! We’d have seen the signs!
at afterparty SDCC 2014.
None of those listed were A list actresses (only 2 were even actresses) in 2015? Emma Roberts A list?
Yeah I don’t think Emma was ever A-list
An actress that was A-list years ago, dated an A-list actor, and might mean something to Sophie pretty much eliminates all your guesses. I think it’s someone older.
Glancing at the 2015 Comic con lineup, Sophie was there for GOT, Evan Peters was there for X Men: Apocalypse, and Emma Roberts was there for American Horror Story so that’s a strong possibility
Great research!!
Her wave was the catalyst but that couple were on the verge of break up already.
Sophie, you don’t have that power, you just hurried it along. It’s best that they broke up before they got married. That couple should thank her for preventing them from making a big mistake.
Ugh. Just waving at a guy means you’re flirting!?!? 🙄🙄🙄 The female A-lister is awful.
Jealousy at this level is a pathology. Anyone this insecure has no business being engaged. Sophie did them a favor.
this story probably sounded better in her head…I would have left this in the archive.
But why would Emma‘s career “mean so much” to anyone? She’s just a C list Nepo baby.
I can see someone who grew up watching Wild Child and Aquamarine having nostalgia love for her
It can’t be Evan Peters they made a couple of X-Men movies together. She would have known him.
I never watched GOT, but as soon as I saw that header photo, my first thought was that *this* woman is who Ryan Murphy should have cast as Carolyn Bessette Kennedy!
Interesting!
Ohmigosh I ABSOLUTELY agree with you @LORELEI never would have thought of that, but she has exactly the right je ne sais quoi
She’d be wasted on a Murphy production. Wait until a proper director does the movie…she’d definitely be a frontrunner.
Is Emma Roberts really considered an A-Lister, though? Grande fits.