Rachel Bilson reacts to ex Adam Brody’s ‘Nobody Wants This’ heartthrob status as ‘Hot Rabbi’
nypost.comtold PEOPLE that even though she hasn’t sat down to watch the new show, she’s happy about its success.“I hear everyone loves it and I couldn’t be more excited, ’cause literally Kristen [Bell] and Adam [Brody] both I love, and are like my people,” she said of the rom-com series. “So I’m really excited about it and excited for them.”Bilson and Brody, 44, dated while playing TV couple Summer Roberts and Seth Cohen on the teen show “The O.C.,” which aired from 2003-2007.After the pair split in 2006, Bilson dated actor Hayden Christensen for ten years; the exes share a daughter, Briar, 9.
Bilson and Christensen split in 2017, she went on to date actor and comedian Bill Hader, but that was short-lived.Brody married “Gossip Girl” alum Leighton Meester in 2014 and the couple share two children.
Though the former couple never reunited again on-screen, they have interacted with each other over the years since their early 2000s break up.Bilson and Brody ran into each other in 2019 at JFK Airport in New York and took a selfie.
Both were heading to California. In 2021, Brody was a guest on Bilson’s “Welcome to the OC, Bitches!” with former co-star Melinda Clarke.Though it’s been over two decades since the popular Fox series aired, Brody has reprised his heartthrob status as what PEOPLE is calling, the “Adam Brody Renassaince.”“I feel like it’s always been there,” Bilson, told PEOPLE at a SimpliSafe launch event.
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