Garcelle Beauvais and Sean Penn
Charlie Galai/Getty Images for COREGarcelle Beauvais has had some pretty famous first dates.
“I have a question. Who’s the biggest celebrity you’ve dated?’ Erica Jane asked her The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills costars during the show’s Tuesday, Dec. 3 episode. Garcelle, 58, was quick to point out some of the top players.
“Eddie Murphy, will smith, Sean Penn” she replied.
Erica, 53, replied: “Oh, I didn’t know about Sean Penn.”
Garcelle Beauvais always keeps it cool no matter what she’s working on, but she’s still an earth queen. Long before Beauvais, 57, joined the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for Season 10, she got her start in Hollywood as an actress. She has appeared in several projects including The Jamie Foxx Show, NYPD Blue, White House (…)
Erika further weighed in on Garcell’s confession during her confession.
“Well, I just want to know if Garcell has been dating Eddie Murphy, Sean Penn and Will Smithwhy did you marry the man you married?” Erika wondered. “Why don’t you marry one of them, you know? I mean, that’s what I would do.
Garcelle isn’t shy about her previous romance with Will, 56. She discussed the relationship during a 2020 episode. RHOBA when Will’s ex-wife, Sherry Zampinomade appearance on the show. (Garcelle and Sherry are good friends and joked about having a partner in common.)
“He was hot,” Garcelle said of Fresh Prince of Bel Air alum. “He was a bachelor, I was single, you know, that’s what happens in Hollywood.”
After her famous relationships, Garcelle married a talent agent Mike Nylon for nearly 10 years. They split in 2011 after she discovered his infidelity. The exes share 17-year-old twins Jax and Jade. (She also shares son Oliver, 33, with her ex-husband Daniel Saunders.)
“We were kind of like the Hollywood couple. I’m an actress, he’s an agent. We would go to great parties, we have these two beautiful boys,” Garcelle told Nylon during a 2020 episode. RHOBA. “Mike was reliable. He was cute. I really thought this was my last stop.”
Celebrities are just like us—even they lose their subscription numbers. While speaking exclusively to Us Weekly about her new film, Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted by Love, Garcelle Beauvais revealed that she once unknowingly spent thousands of dollars on a dating app. “I went to this site and it was like $399 a week. (…)
However, things go awry when Garcell sees an “I love you” text on his phone from another woman. She later sent an email to his colleagues revealing the affair, and her message eventually leaked online.
“I go, ‘Hey, what’s that?’ And his face changed,” she recalled during the same episode. “And he said, ‘I had an affair.’ And I said, ‘How long?’ And he said, “Five years.”
Garcell noted that she never discovered the woman’s identity.
“I have no idea what happened. I was devastated so I didn’t care what happened to her,” she said at the time. “My priority was to take care of my children and now I feel like it’s my time.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs on Bravo on Tuesdays at 8pm ET and airs the following day on Peacock.
