John Cena has opened up about how reality TV shows have helped in his marriage to Shay Shariatzadeh. He said that they ask each other internal questions and talk about things after watching these shows.
John Cena and Eric Andre gave an interview with Entertainment Tonight, published on Friday, June 26. They have worked on a movie titled Little Brother, which was released on Friday. They also spoke about reality TV shows during the interview, with Cena naming some of his favorite shows.
When asked if the former WWE superstar was a fan of the reality TV shows, he said:
“So, I love this.. The.. Secret Millionaire [Million Dollar Secret]. I keep getting the title wrong.”
The interviewer and Andre asked him if he watched dating reality shows, and Cena responded:
“I don’t do the dating show. I will say the wife does the dating shows. She loves ‘Love is Blind’. And I constantly get to get caught up on that. And it’s weird, because I use her perspective to start conversations about our relationship and make sure, like, Hey, it’s not just cannon fodder for, ‘I saw this while you were asleep’, and ‘Can you believe these people’, or ‘I like this trait about this person?’”
“I’m like, ‘Okay, well, let’s look inward and see, like, are… Are we a mirror of what you saw that you didn’t like? Can we do better?’ So, uh, amazingly enough, reality TV is guiding my relationship.”
John Cena has been married to Shay Shariatzadeh since October 2020. They first met when the former was filming Playing with Fire, and they were first linked in March 2019.
Shariatzadeh is an engineer with a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of British Columbia. She has worked in companies like Motorola Solutions and Sonatype. She and John Cena have made numerous public appearances together, but Shariatzadeh prefers to keep her life private in general.
How did John Cena meet Shay Shariatzadeh?
John Cena revealed how he met Shay Shariatzadeh during an episode of The Howard Stern Show, released in February 2024. He revealed that he met her in February 2019 at a bar in Vancouver, Canada, when he was there to watch the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl.
Cena revealed that he was in this restaurant, where Shariatzadeh also arrived with her friends. One of her friends asked the actor for a picture, as he explained:
“So I got a picture with her, and then she brought by my wife-to-be over, we have our first fan photo, which we hang proudly where we hang our hats. It’s awesome.”
“I asked her for her number and she gave me her number, and I didn’t wait like the two days [to reach out]. I left the restaurant and on my walk home I [texted], ‘It was so nice to meet you, you’re beautiful, I’d like to get to know you more if you have any free time coming up I’ll make time for you.’ She’s like, ‘You want to go out this weekend?’ I said, ‘Sure’,” he added.
John Cena revealed that he knew within three months that he wanted to marry Shay Shariatzadeh.
Edited by Aditya Singh
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