Thanks, but no thanks from her grateful heart! Trista Sutter cheekily responded to Jay Leno this past weekend via Twitter, after the former Tonight Show host told an awkward story involving the original Bachelorette.
After 10 yrs, ironic that I'm the topic of convo on @CraigyFerg last show. Thx 4 the shoutout @jayleno! Next time, plz mention my book. 😉
— Trista Sutter (@tristasutter) December 20, 2014
Sutter, the author of Happily Ever After: The Life-Changing Power of a Grateful Heart, became a topic of interest during Leno's appearance on the final episode of Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show last Friday, Dec. 19.
Ferguson mentioned how, as late-night hosts, it was sometimes exhausting to entertain celebrity guest after guest. Leno, however, blamed the "people on the show" for boring him, as opposed to the sheer number of guests he was once expected to interview.
"The classic example is I had one of these reality stars on… Trista!" Leno recalled of the first-ever Bachelorette, who rose to fame in 2003. "From one of these Bachelorettes… So, I'm sitting and I'm looking at the side of her head. I couldn't be less interested. I've never seen this stupid reality show — you know what it was."
Leno said that after their interview was over, he ran into Sutter in the parking lot — where he awkwardly did not remember who she was. "She goes, 'Hey, can I have a picture?'" the former Tonight Show star said. "And I go, 'Sure, what's your name?'"
Despite Leno's sentiments about reality TV, Sutter found true love on the series and eventually married firefighter Ryan Sutter. The couple — who are proud parents to kids Maxwell, 7, and Blakesley, 5 — recently celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary together.
