Eek, Blink-182's Mark Hoppus Said He Went On An "Awful" Date With Melissa Joan Hart
Today in '90s Mad Libs, Mark Hoppus said he went on a less-than-stellar date Melissa Joan Hart back in the day.
The Blink-182 bassist shared an excerpt of his upcoming memoir, Fahrenheit-182, with Entertainment Weekly ahead of its release today. In it, he wrote of the Sabrina the Teenage Witch star, "She and I had met at the Teen Choice Awards, and she must've found me interesting because she had her publicist reach out to my label's publicist to give me her number. Totally normal courtship."
"When we got on the phone, I played it cool. 'Oh, awesome, yeah, I'll be in L.A. shooting my new music video, so we should have dinner after I wrap,'" he continued. "I thought I was so slick using this Hollywood industry jargon, but I doubt it impressed her. I was newly famous, but she had been famous for years."
The pair went and got sushi together. He wrote, "It was an awful date. She was very nice, but we weren't connecting. Everything in her life revolved around acting, and it was hard to relate to her about anything else. I'd ask what she liked to eat besides sushi and she'd say, 'Well, I'm usually eating whatever catering provides on set.' I'd ask what she likes to read, and she'd say, 'Well, I'm usually reading scripts for work.' And I'm sure from her perspective, all I could talk about was music. We just weren't a great match. It was tough."
"After dinner she took me to her house and showed me around. She had a beautiful place nearby with a view that overlooked the city and a huge hot tub. I thought she might be hinting that we should get in the tub. I told her I had an early set time and that I should probably get going. She dropped me back at my hotel," he added.
That night, he ended up on the phone with MTV booker Skye Everly — the woman he ended up marrying the following year. The pair are still together and share one son. Meanwhile, Melissa married Mark Wilkerson, the guitarist of Course of Nature, in 2003, and they still seem to be going strong.
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