{"id":2223328,"date":"2026-01-05T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2223328"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:25:28","slug":"cher-says-dax-shepard-is-definitely-kristen-bells-better-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cher-says-dax-shepard-is-definitely-kristen-bells-better-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Cher says Dax Shepard is &#8216;definitely&#8217; Kristen Bell&#8217;s &#8216;better half&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Cher admits she&#8217;s puzzled by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/10\/20\/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-wedding-anniversary-post\/86804700007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kristen Bell<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/07\/29\/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-kids-swearing\/85424638007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dax Shepard<\/a>&#8216;s relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The music legend appeared on Shepard&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ydwkf7n-V7I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Armchair Expert&#8221; podcast<\/a> on Monday, Jan. 5, joined by her &#8220;Burlesque&#8221; costar Bell for a conversation on her life and career, tough childhood and how it feels to be an icon. Well into their two-hour conversation, Shepard shared that, like Cher, he had a difficult childhood and that amid &#8220;violence&#8221; and &#8220;addiction,&#8221; he &#8220;couldn&#8217;t be more grateful&#8221; to have Bell and their two kids. &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t change a thing. It&#8217;s golden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re lucky. Definitely the better half,&#8221; Cher, 79, responded, pointing to Bell, 45, next to her. The &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2025\/10\/23\/nobody-wants-this-season-2-finale-adam-brody-kristen-bell\/86814540007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nobody Wants This<\/a>&#8221; actress replied, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know about that,&#8221; shaking her head.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Shepard, 51, asks Cher who she would like to see Bell with from her pick of &#8220;every eligible bachelor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t even have to be available,&#8221; Shepard said. &#8220;Who would be your dream partner for her?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Kristen Bell shares divisive <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/10\/20\/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-wedding-anniversary-post\/86804700007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">anniversary post for Dax Shepard: &#8216;I would never kill you&#8217;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He added, laughing: &#8220;Because I know you think she could do better, and I don&#8217;t disagree. Brad Pitt, maybe?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know!&#8221; the &#8220;Believe&#8221; singer exclaimed, with Bell saying Shepard was &#8220;being self-deprecating right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shepard acknowledged that Cher was &#8220;not sold yet&#8221; on him, while Bell noted he and the musician &#8220;don&#8217;t have the relationship&#8221; that she and the singer have. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have the talent of either of you guys,&#8221; Shepard quipped.<\/p>\n<p>Cher and Bell got close after starring in the 2010 backstage musical film, also starring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2024\/12\/19\/christina-aguilera-birthday-photo\/77083795007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christina Aguilera<\/a> in her film debut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, but the truth is, I trust her,&#8221; Cher explained. &#8220;So you must have something that I don&#8217;t see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comment appeared to mortify Bell, who covered her face. &#8220;There is a lot to this man,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Shepard explained that one of his best qualities is that he is &#8220;not threatened by her shining. I love it, the shiner she gets, the better.&#8221; Cher was then able to find some common ground, saying her boyfriend, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2024\/06\/03\/cher-boyfriend-alexander-edwards-travis-scott-fight\/73953971007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alexander Edwards<\/a>, shares a similar quality. &#8220;Alexander is that way, too. The more I shine the more he has fun,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Shephard and Bell <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/people\/2013\/10\/18\/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-get-married\/3007257\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">married in 2013<\/a>, and share <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/07\/29\/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-kids-swearing\/85424638007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">daughters Lincoln, 12, and Delta, 11<\/a>. The couple drew <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/10\/20\/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-wedding-anniversary-post\/86804700007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">negative attention<\/a> late last year, when the &#8220;Veronica Mars&#8221; alum shared a divisive anniversary post that poked fun at Shepard once telling Bell, &#8220;I would never kill you. I&#8217;m heavily incentivized to kill you, I never would.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.shelbystar.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cher admits she&#8217;s puzzled by Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard&#8216;s relationship. The music legend appeared on Shepard&#8217;s &#8220;Armchair Expert&#8221; podcast on Monday, Jan. 5, joined by her &#8220;Burlesque&#8221; costar Bell for a conversation on her life and career, tough childhood and how it feels to be an icon. Well into their two-hour conversation, Shepard shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2223329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[39915,22220,347030,21751,239390,22367,22823,352457,367194,314108,6297,21741,24311,239392,307363,345140,21739,298114,21800,211924,21738,239343,239453,239347,21940,23083,23759,307161,349407,430061,24316,239344],"class_list":["post-2223328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-affiliate","tag-arts","tag-bell","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-relationships","tag-cher","tag-dax","tag-dax-shepard","tag-eamotion","tag-entertainment","tag-gossip","tag-gossip-u0026-tabloid-news","tag-kristen","tag-kristen-bell","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-music","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-overall-positive","tag-pop","tag-pop-music","tag-positive","tag-relationships","tag-romance","tag-shepard","tag-tabloid","tag-u0026"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cher-says-Dax-Shepard-is-definitely-Kristen-Bells-better-half.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223330,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223328\/revisions\/2223330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}