It turns out that Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton’s famous romance was all due to a misunderstanding. The cute couple appear, alongside Adam Levine, in T-Mobile’s funny, star-studded Super Bowl spot that aired during the big game on Sunday.
The commercial is set “a few years ago” and shows Stefani talking with Levine via video chat.
“I think I’m ready to start dating again,” Stefani tells Levine. “I’m sick of LA guys. I want someone completely different. Maybe from another country. And someone cultured and sensitive and not threatened by a strong, confident woman.”
However, due to a spotty network and bad connection, what Levine heard Stefani say was: “I’m sick of LA guys. I want someone completely country, uncultured, and threatened by a strong, confident woman.”
Levine just so happened to be having lunch with someone he felt fit the bill — his best friend and former “Voice” co-star.
Levine plays matchmaker and the two meet up for a first date dinner — Stefani in a zebra-print dress and Shelton rocking denim and spurs on his boots.
“Oh my god, hilarious, right?” Stefani says, to Shelton’s confusion. “I mean, no.”
After shutting him down, Stefani asks, “Are those spurs? Did you ride a horse here?”
“Yeah,” Shelton replied, as if it was the only logical mode of transportation.
While the T-Mobile connection seems to imply that you don’t want to trust your love life to a spotty wireless network, things seemed to work out for Stefani and Shelton, who got engaged in October after nearly five years of dating.
The ad was a big hit with Shelton’s family and friends who were delighted to see him in the commerical.
“Of all the things that I’ve been fortunate enough to have happen in my life, I don’t know that my phone has ever erupted — I mean my phone was smoking last night,” Shelton told EW afterwards. “You realize, ‘Oh my God, nobody has ever really watched me win an award.’ I know that now. But everybody watches the Super Bowl. Now it’s confirmed: I know every contact in my phone was watching that game.”
He added, “It was funny, we had a blast. When I read the script, I thought it was a great idea. I thought it was so funny. Because people still don’t really understand why she’s with me. And fair enough, right? So I loved being able to spin that out.”
Check out the video below for more on the cute couple’s adorable love story.
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