Whitney Cummings recalls the awkward moment her fiancé met J.J. Abrams

Oh dear.
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Rachel Thompson
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Whitney Cummings recalls the awkward moment her fiancé met J.J. Abrams
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Meeting someone famous might sound like a life-changing moment. But not all of us are as adept at behaving in a cool, calm, collected fashion (myself included).

When comedian Whitney Cummings took her fiancé Miles Skinner to a party full of famous people, he acted pretty chill to begin with, but things took a nose-dive when he met director J.J. Abrams.

"We sit down, the great J.J. Abrams comes and says hello to everybody," Cummings recalled to Jimmy Kimmel. "My fiancé goes cold and says, 'What's up, dude?' 'What's your name?'"

Kimmel asked Cummings if there was any chance her fiancé didn't know who Abrams was. "Oh, he knows. This is a man who stands in line to get into Star Wars movies," she explained.

"J.J., to his credit, was so sweet, he was like, 'I'm J.J. Abrams,'" said Cummings. "I think he's seen this before, people just start to emotionally melt down around him."

"Then, my fiancé couldn't stop there, my fiancé went, 'So, what do you do, man?'"

Oh dear.

Rachel Thompson, sits wearing a dress with yellow florals and black background.
Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.


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