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Karen Gillanfound love with a little help from social media.
During theGuardians of the Galaxystar’s appearance onLive with Kelly and Markon Thursday, Gillan, 35, revealed that she and her husbandNick Kosherfirst met on Instagram.
“It’s true, it’s true,” Gillan explained, asKelly Ripaasked whether the story was accurate. “He popped up on my recommend friends list on Instagram. The algorithm is tearing the country apart but it brought me together with my guy.”
The actress went on to note that she followed up with Kosher on Twitter after he initially did not respond to her opening message on Instagram.
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“What do you say in the DM’s? I think I wrote — so he’s on Twitter because I follow him on Instagram but then he didn’t DM me,” she told the co-hosts. “I thought he may be like, ‘Oh hey,’ but he didn’t so I followed him on Twitter as well.”
Gillan went on to say that she told Kosher that she thought his Twitter posts were “really funny” before introducing herself.
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“It wasn’t very interesting,” she added of her opening line. “I hadn’t really read his tweets! And he’s a comedy writer. That’s how you make them feel very good about themselves.”
More recently, Gillan shared an amusing moment from her and Kosher’s relationship when she posted on Instagram an image of herselfattending a couple’s therapy session in full makeupfor herGuardians of the Galaxyrole as Nebula, an alien with blue skin.
The actress wrote on the social media platform that the session was coincidentally scheduled on a day she was also filming scenes for the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise’s latest entry,Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
“In honour of Guardians of the Galaxy in theaters Friday, here’s a screenshot of the time I forgot I had scheduled a COUPLES THERAPY session on a day we were shooting,” Gillan wrote alongside the image, which shows her neck and head covered in various shades of blue makeup — and a bemused emoji covering her therapist’s face for anonymity.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3is in theaters Friday.
source: people.com
