Jason Ritter Changes His Karaoke Song When Wife Melanie Lynskey Is Around

Karaoke night, Jason Ritter he likes to get into his feelings. I Parenthood the alum says he usually goes to study a Miley Cyrus song, but if the wife Melanie Lynskey he’s close, he turns to Queen Bey.

“My karaoke song is ‘Wrecking Ball’ by Miley Cyrus,” Ritter, 44, reveals exclusively on a recent episode of. Us Weeklyon newsstands now. “Or ‘Sandcastles’ by Beyoncé if Melanie is there.”

Ritter first met Lynskey, 47, a decade ago on the set of their film The Big Question. After rekindling their romance, the duo went on to film two more films together: We will never have Paris in 2014 again Intervention in 2016.

“We’ve worked together a few times, and it’s always been really fun,” Lynskey said Us about working with her husband last year. “But I mean I’ll do anything with him. You are very talented. I love his face. I love looking at his face.”

The couple got engaged in 2017 before welcoming their daughter the following year. When Lynskey entered Yellowjackets and had to work in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, travel restrictions prevented Ritter from joining him across the border. Their solution? Saying “I hear.”

“I was like, ‘We’re having a baby. What? I can’t go for six months,’ so I was like, ‘We’re going to have to get married tomorrow,'” Lynksey said on SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show” in May 2022. “We got married on our front porch of our little one. rental houses in Atlanta. A lady came We had two friends there.”

For 25 things you didn’t know about Ritter, including his favorite way to spend a night with Lynskey, keep scrolling:

A sneak peek of Ritter’s new show, Matlockpremieres September 22 at 8 pm ET on CBS.

1. I am very good at a few video games.

2. When I was a child, I collected marbles and pennies. I still appreciate the beautiful marble.

3. My first job was cooking chicken and beef patties at the Little League stadium. This is where I learned that chicken can look white and cooked on the outside but be pink and green on the inside! I’ve also read 100% of people don’t like lightly grilled chicken on their sandwiches.

4. My first car was a Tonka truck.

5. My favorite item in the wardrobe is the hat I’ve worn since I was 8 years old. It has surfers on it, and I take it everywhere.

6. My favorite movie Night of Cabiria.

7. The players I watched growing up were Giulietta Masina, Keanu Reeves again Phoenix River.

8. My other job would be a live broadcast of a reality show.

9. At school, I was incredibly good at math—much to the chagrin of my classmates and friends. My mind just loves it!

10. My favorite way to spend a date night with my wife is to go out to dinner, but I’m happy to order and watch TV, even if we keep pausing to chat (I’m usually the pauser/conversation starter. ).

11. My comfort food is Salt & Straw’s Salted, Malted, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream.

12. The three things I can’t leave the house with are shoes, a shirt and cell phone service.

13. My favorite childhood memory is winning a game of hide and seek so well that the babysitter left the park we were at and found my parents and told them she couldn’t find me.

14. My favorite thing about being a father is watching [my daughter] you experience new things for the first time, you help [her] navigate through fear and anxiety, laugh together and share some of my favorite games and movies with him.

15. After working with no Kathy Bates to MatlockI have learned that sometimes, you it should meet your heroes. He is kind as he is wonderfully gifted.

16. I am related [my Gravity Falls character] Dipper Pines is the most out of all my roles because I like to solve puzzles with my siblings, I have a favorite hat, I’m very sensitive and I sound like him.

17. There was a time when one of my best friends and I were estranged from our parents, and we found out that both of our fathers were listening to Chumbawamba’s “Tubthumping” a lot. It made us laugh together. That song has a special place in my heart.

18. My usual Uber Eats order is chicken tikka masala, super hot, no rice and roti.

19. I would like to do a space thriller with at least zero gravity scenes.

20. My karaoke song is “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus — or “Sandcastles” by Beyoncé if Melanie is around.

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21. The best advice I got from my father[John Ritter]it’s not focusing too much on what other people say or think about you, bad or good. (Still trying to figure out how to do that).

22. My favorite book is this The Phantom Tollbooth.

23. I enjoy watching the show Trash rules right now.

24. Hearing Paul McCartney‘s lyrics “Surely you know he’s a fool who plays for fun by making his world a little colder” [in “Hey Jude”] free me in middle school to stop trying to be cool and be real… not that.

25. I died for myself Kurt CobainI’m still young and I listened exclusively to Nirvana for many years, so I have big gaps in my music knowledge from about 1992 to 1998.