before Meghan Markle She was a duchess and a former ESPN host Ryan Rossello He hoped things would work out in the DMs.
Rosselló, 49, now works for… RingingShe recalled meeting Markle, 43, during Super Bowl weekend in 2014.
“We played together in a celebrity flag football game and that was all…Sports Illustrated) Swimsuit models. “No one really cared about Markle,” Rosselló said on the Thursday, December 5, episode of “Markle.” “Bill Simmons Podcast”.
The game featured former NFL stars playing alongside celebrities such as actress Markle Nina Dobrev And the actor Michael B. Jordanand Sports Illustrated Models like Chrissy Teigen, Agdal said and Hannah Davis.
“I was like, ‘This is my lane.’ “She’s probably doubting herself a little bit now,” Rosselló recalls. “It’s never been easier to get.”
The flag football game was three months before the season 4 premiere Suitsthe USA Network show in which Markle previously starred, and two years before she dated Prince Harry.
After she and Rosselló parted ways on the field, he said, “I shot her on the DM.”
“It was a very quiet sale,” Rosselló explained. “It was like, 'Hey, I know the new season of' Suits It will appear if you wish to be on the show to promote it. “It was really professional.”
However, Rosselló couldn't help but admit that there were some ulterior motives.
“It was kind of a measure of interest,” he said. “Like, if you get an emoji back, who knows?”
Markle an act reply to Rosselló – but it did not lead to any future meetings for the pair.
“It was pretty cold,” Rosselló said of her response to the direct message. “The response was, 'Oh, I don't know anything about sports, but thanks for the offer.'
In the end, Rosselló said, “it didn't work out.”
Although Markle didn't leave the famous game of soccer with a new love interest, she did meet a star athlete who would become one of her best friends: Serena Williams.
“When Serena Williams ran toward me last February at an event, getting her nails done and her hair done and all, I'll be honest and say I looked back to see who she was running to. “It was Serena Williams after all,” Markle wrote on her blog. The tej In August 2014.
Markle continued at the time: “We hit it off right away, took pictures, laughed during our soccer match, and talked not about tennis or acting, but about all the good old-fashioned girl stuff. That's how our friendship began. We quickly became close people.” The ones I'd text when I was travelling, the friend I'd crowd around at her tennis matches, and the humble girl I'd managed to have lunch with just two weeks ago in Toronto.