--- title: Jimmy Fallon Dating Nicole Kidman description: He could've been a contender. canonical: https://time.com/3657371/jimmy-fallon-nicole-kidman-dating/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-07T15:43:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:45.605Z og:title: Watch Jimmy Fallon Realize He Once Had a Shot at Dating Nicole Kidman og:description: He could've been a contender. og:url: https://time.com/3657371/jimmy-fallon-nicole-kidman-dating/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c2b68d1090d2e69/6987788ae53aba72d14d6e1e/nicole-kidman-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: nicole-kidman-jimmy-fallon og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Jimmy Fallon Realize He Once Had a Shot at Dating Nicole Kidman twitter:description: He could've been a contender. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c2b68d1090d2e69/6987788ae53aba72d14d6e1e/nicole-kidman-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Jimmy Fallon Realize He Once Had a Shot at Dating Nicole Kidman by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 7, 2015 3:43 PM UTC  by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 7, 2015 3:43 PM UTC During a visit to the _The Tonight Show_ Tuesday, Nicole Kidman and Jimmy Fallon quickly started chatting about their first interaction — but they have _very_ different takes on that meeting. Fallon recounted that a mutual friend brought Kidman to his apartment several years ago when they were both single, and he was very concerned with what type of cheese to serve the A-list star. Kidman’s version of the story was slightly different, though. Turns out she was actually interested in dating Fallon, but after an hour of him ignoring her and playing video games while she sat on the couch, she decided he just wasn’t interested. Fallon’s reaction to the news makes it clear he had absolutely no clue she was interested in him. If you’ve ever wanted to see Fallon’s jaw drop to his knees, this is the clip for you. He gasps, “Wait, what?” and then falls over in horror in what is inadvertently one of the funniest clips of the year. _Read next:_ [_Watch Bradley Cooper Show Off His Epic Air Guitar Skills on The Tonight Show_](http://time.com/3655536/bradley-cooper-on-jimmy-fallon/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3657371/jimmy-fallon-nicole-kidman-dating/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3657371/jimmy-fallon-nicole-kidman-dating/"},"headline":"Watch Jimmy Fallon Realize He Once Had a Shot at Dating Nicole Kidman","datePublished":"2015-01-07T15:43:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:45.605Z","description":"He could've been a contender.","url":"https://time.com/3657371/jimmy-fallon-nicole-kidman-dating/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","jimmy fallon","The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon","Nicole Kidman"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c2b68d1090d2e69/6987788ae53aba72d14d6e1e/nicole-kidman-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c2b68d1090d2e69/6987788ae53aba72d14d6e1e/nicole-kidman-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"nicole-kidman-jimmy-fallon","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3657371/jimmy-fallon-nicole-kidman-dating/","name":"Watch Jimmy Fallon Realize He Once Had a Shot at Dating Nicole Kidman"}}]}] ```