‘I Like Funny’ (and Calls Sherri Shepherd ‘Sexy’)

The king of romance is one.

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Fabio — the one-monikered Italian product-turned-romance novel star-turned-butter substitute pitchman-turned-pop society icon — is continue to seeking for adore. “I want to get married,” the 62-calendar year-aged tells Jason Sheeler and Andrea Lavinthal on the season finale of the Men and women in the ’90s podcast. “I want to have children.”

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Back in 1993, when he was on the protect of Individuals, Fabio spoke of the just one he claimed received away. “I taken care of her badly,” he says on the podcast. “She required to settle down, and I was just also wild.” (He would not say her identify, only describing her as a productive American model.)

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These days, Fabio is retired for the most portion — he turns down a large amount of do the job, which has integrated Dancing with the Stars and Diet regime Coke and Viagra adverts — and spends his time concerning Los Angeles and Washington Condition, the place he rides grime bikes and fishes for salmon.

But he does like to day. In simple fact, a handful of days before this interview, he’d taken a female to evening meal, choosing her up in a person of his 31 sports vehicles.

Fabio has a variety: “I like amusing,” he states. She cannot be social media obsessed. (He hates it and is not on Twitter or Instagram.) And, he provides, “She has to be ready to be in the middle of mother nature. She can’t be afraid about bugs.” He has possibilities, he insisted. “There is quantity, but I want high quality.”

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“Can we repair you up?” Lavinthal questioned Fabio.

“I’ve bought an individual for you,” Sheeler explained, contemplating of when actress and comedian Sherri Shepherd appeared on Folks in the ’90s and admitted to possessing — like a whole lot of other men and women — some Fabio fantasies. “I dreamed of him picking me up on the seaside, his linen pants rolled up to his knees,” she claimed.

Sheeler and Lavinthal instructed Fabio the story.

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“You like amusing,” Sheeler explained. “Sherri is hysterical.”

“She’s stunning,” Lavinthal mentioned, demonstrating Fabio her image, from a new shoot for People today.

“Incredibly sexy lady,” Fabio claimed.

So the query is: When is Fabio asking Shepherd out?

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