Michelle Pfeiffer tried to set her husband David E. Kelley up with her sister when she first met him.


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The Stardust actress has confessed it was not love at first sight when she was introduced to the Ally McBeal creator – who she married in 1993 – on a group blind date, because he spent most of the evening speaking to her sister.

She said: “It wasn’t instant love with David. We met on a blind date at a restaurant with a group of other people.

“We didn’t really speak to each other that night. He talked to my sister and I talked to his friend. And he and my sister seemed to be hitting it off so I thought maybe we should set them up instead. But the friend said, ‘Don’t you dare.'”

Pfeiffer – who has two children, 14-year-old adopted daughter Claudia Rose and 13-year-old biological son John Henry, with Kelley – says the pair hit it off immediately when they finally got some time alone together.

She is quoted by the Daily Express as saying: “We finally had a date where it was just the two of us, and here we are.”

The 49-year-old actress is currently shooting Chasing Montana, a comedy drama about a father-daughter relationship Kelley wrote specifically for her.