--- title: Golden Globes 2017: Kristen Bell on Meeting Riz Ahmed description: Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and recalled a hilarious experience at the Golden Globes with Riz Ahmed. canonical: https://time.com/4650909/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-riz-ahmed-golden-globes/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-26T22:39:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:30.191Z og:title: Even Kristen Bell Gets Flustered In Front of Her Celebrity Crush og:description: With husband Dax Shepard as her wingman og:url: https://time.com/4650909/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-riz-ahmed-golden-globes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26ce63ca15f99e76/6988b77bfb4eac0c6f8908e8/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-riz-ahmed-golden-globes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5069 og:image:height: 2851 og:image:alt: NBC's "74th Annual Golden Globe Awards" - Red Carpet Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Even Kristen Bell Gets Flustered In Front of Her Celebrity Crush twitter:description: With husband Dax Shepard as her wingman twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26ce63ca15f99e76/6988b77bfb4eac0c6f8908e8/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-riz-ahmed-golden-globes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Even Kristen Bell Gets Flustered In Front of Her Celebrity Crush > Sponsored content. 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From _Rogue One_ to _The Night Of_, the charming British actor has been stealing hearts left and right… including that of [Kristen Bell](http://motto.time.com/4352130/kristen-bell-frozen-depression-anxiety/)! Bell and her husband, Dax Shepard, dropped by _The Ellen DeGeneres Show_ Thursday, where they recalled a hilarious encounter at the Golden Globes with Ahmed, Bell’s self-proclaimed celebrity crush. After spotting Ahmed, who Bell said was just her type, as she finds “Indian men irresistible,” Shepard played wingman to introduce his wife to the actor. Only, his services were not of much need. “I walked up to him, and I just, out of my mouth came, ‘I find you very attractive,’” Bell explained. “Which made him very nervous, because he immediately looked at me and he thought, ‘Is this their perverse setup? Now he’s going to get jealous and fight for her?’” Shepard chimed in. “Or, he was like, ‘Is this an opportunity for a three-way?’ You could see him going back and forth.” Bell admitted to DeGeneres that the two had put Ahmed in an awkward spot, but that didn’t stop her from laying on further compliments. “I just told him how fabulous I think he is, and very nice and easy on the eyes,” she said. Watch the full clip below to hear about Bell’s creative means of keeping her [cleavage-boasting Globes dress in place](http://ew.com/article/2016/09/19/kristen-bell-instagram-2/). _This_ [_article_](http://ew.com/tv/2017/01/26/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-riz-ahmed/) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4650909/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-riz-ahmed-golden-globes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4650909/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-riz-ahmed-golden-globes/"},"headline":"Even Kristen Bell Gets Flustered In Front of Her Celebrity Crush","datePublished":"2017-01-26T22:39:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:30.191Z","description":"With husband Dax Shepard as her wingman","url":"https://time.com/4650909/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-riz-ahmed-golden-globes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","celebrities","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26ce63ca15f99e76/6988b77bfb4eac0c6f8908e8/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-riz-ahmed-golden-globes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachel DeSantis / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26ce63ca15f99e76/6988b77bfb4eac0c6f8908e8/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-riz-ahmed-golden-globes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"NBC's \"74th Annual Golden Globe Awards\" - Red Carpet Arrivals","caption":"Actors Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell arrive to the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 8, 2017.","creditText":"Christopher Polk—NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images","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/4650909/kristen-bell-dax-shepard-riz-ahmed-golden-globes/","name":"Even Kristen Bell Gets Flustered In Front of Her Celebrity Crush"}}]}] ```