Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines' marriage to former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly brought on friction with a few of her Hollywood friendships.
The couple had been famously launched to 1 one other by Hines' Curb costar Larry David, they usually acquired married on the Kennedy household compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, in August 2014.
RFK Jr. ‘s rising prominence within the anti-vaccine motion subsequently put him at odds with the Western medical institution, whereas his resolution to affix President Donald Trump's second administration in January 2025 because the U.S. Secretary of Well being and Human Providers seemingly alienated a lot of his spouse's former associates. Hines stood by her husband all through his foray in politics.
“I've a couple of associates, when Bobby stepped into the political area, it grew to become too tough emotionally for them to remain shut, only a few associates,” she informed CBS News in October 2025. “And I perceive it.”
Hold scrolling for a have a look at the place a few of Hines' Hollywood friendships stand.
Larry David
Larry David and Cheryl Hines Michael Buckner/Selection by way of Getty Photographs
In response to Hines, her Curb Your Enthusiasm costar launched her to Kennedy at a ski fundraiser in 2004. (The longer term couple didn't critically start courting till 2010.)
“[Larry] was very blissful about [the relationship] and [said] Cheryl was the most effective particular person he'd ever met,” Kennedy recalled in a 2024 interview. “He stated that she was beloved within the trade and that she was the one one in Hollywood who didn't have a single enemy.”
Nonetheless, Kennedy then confessed David had a really totally different response to their relationship when the Curb creator spoke privately to Hines.
“He stated, ‘Oh, that's by no means going to work,'” Hines stated.
Requested whether or not David was kidding round, Kennedy acknowledged that the comic was genuinely giving his longtime costar “good recommendation.”
Jack Schlossberg has pointed ideas about his cousin-in-law Cheryl Hines. “I've by no means met Cheryl Hines, but when I did, I'd inform her she appears to be like tremendous dehydrated,” Schlossberg, 32, quipped by way of X on Wednesday, July 23. Jack is the son of Caroline Kennedy and her husband, Edwin Schlossberg, making him the one grandson of late […]
Hines continued to work with David on Curb Your Enthusiasm following her marriage to Kennedy. Nonetheless, David spoke out when Kennedy informed The New York Times that he felt “quite a lot of assist and love” from Hines' associates, together with David, after he introduced his short-lived presidential run in 2023.
“Sure love and assist, however I'm not ‘supporting' him,” David clarified in a textual content message to the Occasions.
Hines revealed on Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen in 2024 that she and Kennedy had dinner with David the identical night time he launched his assertion.
“Weirdly, it wasn't [uncomfortable],” she informed host Andy Cohen. “These two have been associates for thus lengthy and I believe when Larry stated it, I believe he was being Larry, like, ‘Oh, I assist him however I don't assist him.' And I believe Larry and Bobby are like, ‘Properly, OK.' And I'm identical to, ‘Go the asparagus. It is a bizarre night time, however OK.'”
Rachael Harris
Rachael Harris and Cheryl Hines in September 2024. FilmMagic/FilmMagic for HBO/Max
Hines and Harris grew to become finest associates within the mid-Nineteen Nineties whereas performing with the influential L.A. sketch group The Groundlings, which launched the careers of Conan O'Brien, Lisa Kudrow, Kristen Wiig, Jennifer Coolidge and lots of different comedy titans.
“Rachael and I've been finest associates for a very long time. We don't must put a date on it. And I realized tips on how to improvise on the Groundlings and do sketch comedy,” Hines informed People in 2024. “And if I hadn't realized tips on how to improvise, I might've by no means gotten a part of Curb Your Enthusiasm. So, I imply, it simply put me on a unique path in each method.”
That very same 12 months, Harris — who's finest identified for starring in Lucifer and Fits — referred to Hines as “my coronary heart” whereas chatting with the publication.
“I've all the time stated to Cheryl that if she ever leaves me, I'm going along with her,” Harris quipped. “So, we've been associates since round 1995. And the factor that I wish to say about Cheryl today is I really like her. She's the primary particular person I wish to speak to within the morning after I get up. And the final particular person I wish to speak to earlier than I'm going to mattress at night time.”
Ted Danson
Cheryl Hines and Ted Danson in January 2024. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Hines and Danson labored collectively on Curb Your Enthusiasm for over 20 years, together with a season the place their characters briefly dated on display screen.
In mild of Kennedy becoming a member of the Trump administration, Danson revealed on the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast in April 2025 that he was now not in contact with Hines or Kennedy.
“Each of them, I don't see,” Danson informed host Howie Mandel.
Danson stated it felt like “none of [his] enterprise” to test in with Hines about Kennedy's political ambitions, although she did as soon as open up to him that it was “onerous to be married to a really controversial particular person.”
The previous Cheers actor admitted there have been political problems as a consequence of his spouse Mary Steenburgen's shut friendship with Invoice and Hillary Clinton, since Kennedy was essential of the Clintons prior to now.
“If Cheryl needed me to know what it was wish to be with Bobby at this level, she would inform me,” Danson identified. “However till anyone tells me, I really feel like [it's] none of my enterprise.”
Tig Notaro
Tig Notaro and Cheryl Hines Courtesy of Instagram/_cherylhines
Hines and the Star Trek alum hosted the favored podcast “Tig and Cheryl: True Story” for 4 years earlier than they benched the collection in 2024.
Many followers of the podcast suspected Notaro – who shares twin sons along with her spouse, Stephanie Allynne — was uncomfortable with Hines and Kenendy's budding involvement in right-wing political circles, which the comic confirmed to be true in October 2025.
“Cheryl's married to Bobby Kennedy Jr. When he was asserting his run, I simply felt like I wanted to step away as a result of there are beliefs that had been like a gnat on the arm years in the past that had been getting additional into the highlight,” Notaro informed the “Breaking Bread With Tom Papa” podcast.
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Notaro identified that her friendship with Hines “predated her marriage to Bobby,” although the politician's controversial beliefs drove a wedge of their friendship.
“Once more, different beliefs he had had been like a gnat on my arm. However then it began to develop, and Cheryl needed me to listen to Bobby out. … After which he endorsed Trump, after which it simply acquired onerous,” Notaro remembered.
The comedian added, “Cheryl did carry me a lot pleasure. However that's what I'm on the lookout for, is I wish to get again to prioritizing people who carry me pleasure and workloads that carry me pleasure.”
