School GameDay presenter Jess Sims wasn't afraid to close down Theo Von's delicate makes an attempt at flirting along with her on-air.
“Oh, I'm already going?” The comic, 45, requested Sims, 37, throughout the Saturday, October 4, broadcast of ESPN's School GameDay when he was instructed to share his subsequent batch of picks. “Do I get to see you once more?”
Sims appeared to direct Von towards the stage exit, earlier than denying his request.
“So long,” she quipped. “No, I hope not.”
Von was the superstar visitor picker throughout Saturday's broadcast, the place Sims additionally interviewed him about his passionate help of Vanderbilt College.
“I reside in former coach Derek Mason's outdated home, that's true,” he mentioned of the previous coach, who left his place in 2020. “However, give him a break. I believe he went 0 and 16. I'm not joking, [but] bless him. He left some trophies that I've to get again to him — and a plunger.”
Sims laughed at Von's remark, rapidly attempting to steer the dialog again to the collegiate video games at hand.
Neither Sims, who additionally works as a Peloton teacher, nor Von have additional addressed their awkward on-air trade. Sims, nevertheless, all the time tries to be skilled when she's on the clock.
“I all the time get butterflies. I all the time get nervous,” she instructed Boardroom TV in a March 2024 profile, discussing her profession. “After which I simply all the time come again to figuring out that folks don't come to me for perfection. They arrive to me as a result of they see themselves in me. They see imperfections, they usually can have this sense of aid. I don't must be good. They arrive for enchancment and inspiration.”
She added, “We develop up and we're consistently instructed to, ‘Attempt tougher. Do that. Attempt that.' I've realized that if you must strive too laborious, you're most likely forcing one thing. So ever since I turned 30, I say that from if you're born to 30, you be taught a bunch of stuff, after which from 30 till the day you die, you unlearn all of these issues.”
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Based on Sims, she's realized to cease forcing issues in her life.
“Attempt to get right into a circulation state, one thing that feels good for you after which feels good for the folks round you, and go along with that,” she defined. “If I caught with my targets, I wouldn't be right here at Peloton [or ESPN]. Once I discuss or take into consideration targets, it's like you have got blinders on and also you simply see that one purpose. And if you try this, you are inclined to not veer off the crushed path. You don't benefit from the course of since you're fixated on the result.”
Von, for his half, is a comic who's typically candid about his relationship life and experiences.
“My greatest factor is dedication points,” he mentioned on a June 2023 episode of the “Podcast Owl” present. “I don't know [about getting married]. I don't know if I might sleep in the identical mattress [or] the identical home, however I do envision it. It simply actually scares me, I don't know if I might reside with anyone. That sort of stuff makes me nervous.”
