Jason Ritter changes his karaoke song when wife Melanie Lynskey is there

On karaoke nights Jason Ritter likes to delve into his feelings. The Parenting alum says he usually goes for a Miley Cyrus song, but as a woman Melanie Lynskey is nearby, he turns to Queen Bey.

“My favorite karaoke song is ‘Wrecking Ball’ by Miley Cyrus,” Ritter, 44, reveals exclusively in the latest edition of We weeklyon newsstands now. “Or ‘Sandcastles’ by Beyonce when Melanie is there.”

Ritter first met Lynskey, 47, on the set of their film more than a decade ago The big question. After rekindling a romance, the duo went on to film two more films together: We will never have Paris in 2014 and The intervention in 2016.

“We’ve worked together a few times and it was always a lot of fun,” Lynskey said Us about working with her husband last year. ‘But I mean, I do everything with him. He’s so talented. I like his face. I like looking at his face.”

The couple got engaged in 2017 before welcoming their daughter the following year. When Lynskey was called in Yellowjackets and had to work in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, travel restrictions prevented Ritter from crossing the border with her. Their solution? Saying, “I do.”

“I was like, ‘We have a kid. What? I can’t leave for six months,’ so I thought, ‘We have to get married tomorrow,'” Lynksey said on SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show” in May 2022. “We got married on the porch of our little rental house in Atlanta. A nice lady came and married us. We had two friends there.”

For 25 things you don’t know about Ritter, including his favorite way to spend a date night with Lynskey, keep scrolling:

The sneak peek of Ritter’s new show, Matlockpremieres September 22 at 8pm ET on CBS.

1. I’m very good at quite a few video games.

2. As a child I collected marbles and pennies. I still appreciate a good marble.

3. My first job was cooking chicken and beef patties on a Little League field. This is where I learned that chicken can look white and cooked on the outside and still be pink and raw on the inside! I also learned that 100% of people don’t like lightly seared chicken on their sandwich.

4. My first car was a Tonka truck.

5. My favorite piece of clothing is a hat that I have worn since I was 8 years old. It has surfers on it and I take it everywhere.

6. My favorite movie is Nights of Cabiria.

7. The actors I looked up to growing up were Giulietta Masina, Keanu Reeves And River Phoenix.

8. My alternative profession would be a livestreamer of current streams.

9. At school I was strangely good at math – much to the chagrin of some classmates and friends. My brain just likes it!

10. My favorite way to spend a date night with my wife is going out to eat, but I’m just as happy ordering in and watching TV, even if we keep pausing it to chat (I’m usually the pause/chat starter ).

11. My comfort food is Salt & Straw’s Salted, Malted, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream.

12. Three things I can’t leave the house without are shoes, a shirt, and cell phone service.

13. My fondest childhood memory is winning a game of hide and seek so thoroughly that the babysitter left the park we were at to look for my parents and tell them she couldn’t find me.

14. The best part of being a dad is watching [my daughter] experiencing new things for the first time helps [her] navigating fears and anxieties, laughing together, and sharing some of my favorite shows and movies with her.

15. After working with Kathy Bates on MatlockI’ve learned that sometimes, you should meet your heroes. She is as kind as she is incredibly gifted.

16. I relate [my Gravity Falls character] Dipper Pines makes the most of all my roles because I love solving puzzles and my siblings, I have a favorite hat, I’m a bit clumsy and I sound like him.

17. There was a time when one of my best friends and I were going through our parents’ divorce, and we discovered that both of our fathers listened to Chumbawamba’s “Tubthumping” a lot. It made us laugh together. That song has a special place in my heart.

18. My typical Uber Eats order is chicken tikka masala, very hot, no rice and roti.

19. I would like to make a space thriller with at least some zero gravity scenes.

20. My favorite karaoke song is ‘Wrecking Ball’ by Miley Cyrus – or ‘Sandcastles’ by Beyoncé when Melanie is there.

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21. I got the best advice from my father[John Ritter]is that you don’t attach too much importance to what other people say or think about you, bad or good. (I’m still figuring out how to do that).

22. My favorite book is The haunted toll booth.

23. I’m binge watching the show Scavengers rule now.

24. Hear Paul McCartney‘s lyrics “You know very well that he’s a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder” [in “Hey Jude”] freed me in high school to stop trying to be cool and just be authentic…not that.

25. I was obsessed with Kurt Cobainas a teenager and listened exclusively to Nirvana for years, so I have huge gaps in my knowledge of music from about 1992 to 1998.