No one is prouder of Ryan Seacrest’s success than his mom, Connie.
In a recent interview for Access Hollywood and “The Billy Bush Show,” Connie spilled some of her son’s secrets to Billy Bush.
“Is Ryan a momma’s boy?” Billy asked.
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“I never really thought about it, but he admitted it,” Connie said.
As producer of NBC’s upcoming fall reality show, “Momma’s Boys,” Ryan will be putting bachelors to that very test. So it’s only fair that Billy turned the tables on the single Seacrest, through his mom.
“Describe the perfect girl for Ryan,” Billy asked.
“That’s a tall order,” Connie said. “I would say she would have to love food and wine and have a great sense of humor and then probably be at least a ten.”
“Have you always approved of the girls that Ryan has dated?” Billy continued.
“Are you kidding?” Connie said with a laugh that said it all.
Quite the handsome bachelor today, the 33-year-old Seacrest wasn’t always the svelte presence we see on the red carpet.
“There was a time when he wore Huskys,” Connie said. “It’s a type of jean… if you’re a little chubby. But I always said, ‘Hey don’t worry about it. You will out grow it.’”
And that he did. Today, the “American Idol” host is one of the busiest men in Hollywood with a whopping ten jobs at last count.
“I think he has a God given talent because when he was a kid instead of going out and playing cowboys and Indians he was setting up a mic and pretending he was Casey Kasem,” Ryan’s mom said.
Of course with Ryan’s success comes intense interest in his personal life. Mom has yet to get used to the prying, including the time “Nightline” questioned his sexuality.
“[Reporter] Terry Moran asked him if he was gay. I wondered as his mom, you must have been like, ‘Woah!’” Billy said.
“Well, when he started out here first thing he said was, ‘Mom your going to have to get tough skin,’” she said.
“Did that make you mad?” Billy asked.
