{"id":179086,"date":"2025-07-06T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/06\/hilarie-burton-encourages-friends-to-crush-on-husband-jeffrey-dean-morgan\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T21:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T21:00:26","slug":"hilarie-burton-encourages-friends-to-crush-on-husband-jeffrey-dean-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/06\/hilarie-burton-encourages-friends-to-crush-on-husband-jeffrey-dean-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilarie Burton encourages friends to crush on husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-07-06\" datetime=\"1751835626\" pubdate=\"\">6 July 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Hilarie Burton &#8220;thoroughly enjoys&#8221; knowing other school moms have a crush on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/jeffrey-dean-morgan\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,jeffrey-dean-morgan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffrey Dean Morgan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Hilarie Burton loves people having crushes on her husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old actress &#8211; who has Gus, 15, and George, seven, with her husband &#8211; admitted she&#8217;s heard a lot from friends all over the US who have been charmed by her spouse since the Walking Dead star began hosting Destination X, which hit screens in May.<\/p>\n<p>Hilarie told People magazine: &#8220;I have just thoroughly enjoyed all the moms at school having a crush on him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I keep getting text messages from high school friends, and they&#8217;re all like, &#8216;My wife or my mom has a huge crush on your husband.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[They] should. He&#8217;s great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHilarie is delighted Destination X has introduced people to a new side of Jeffrey, rather than just associating him with his Walking Dead alter ego Negan.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;Destination X was awesome because I knew how funny and charming he was in real life as opposed to the characters he plays.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I think it makes you appreciate Negan Smith more when you see the person behind it, because he is such a funny, sweet man.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;When he has to go play this dastardly creature, it shows you what range he possesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nJeffrey previously credited Hilarie for him taking on the presenting job on the NBC reality show.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe told People magazine: \u201cI am not like a typical host. I&#8217;m not Ryan Seacrest \u2014 who I love, and I think he&#8217;s excellent at his job \u2014 but that&#8217;s not me.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m a bit on the crass side, and I&#8217;ve got a very sarcastic sense of humour, and I didn&#8217;t picture it.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;[Hilarie] said \u2014 in a very nice way, but much more diplomatic than I&#8217;m going to make it seem now \u2014 \u2018You&#8217;re not getting any younger.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\nLast month, Hilarie made a surprise return as Lucille in TWD: Dead City on 15 June, when Negan hallucinated his dead spouse after suffering a head injury, and emotionally apologised for failing to keep his cancer-stricken wife alive.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd Hilarie has praised her husband&#8217;s performance and genuine emotion in the scene, which was filmed just days after his father&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe told People magazine: &#8220;Please forgive me if I get upset. I just watched it. I didn&#8217;t see it on Sunday. This was a really hard episode to shoot.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;What people didn&#8217;t know is that, throughout this season, Jeff&#8217;s dad was dying. He had died like six days before we shot this scene.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Watching this man that I love so much hold that grief and really have to focus at work and hold it together, I wouldn&#8217;t cry except I just watched it.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It was really, really amazing to watch the person you love most in the world be able to do that. He was able to channel a lot of the grief he was feeling for his dad into this episode while not letting anyone down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/hilarie-burton-encourages-friends-crush-husband-jeffrey-dean-morgan-1421548.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 July 2025 Hilarie Burton &#8220;thoroughly enjoys&#8221; knowing other school moms have a crush on Jeffrey Dean Morgan. 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