Martha Stewart Reveals the 'Especially Attractive Actors' Who Have Left Her Starstruck Over the Years (Exclusive)
Stewart, who partnered up with Pure Leaf, tells PEOPLE about the “many fabulous movie stars” she's hosted on her shows
Martha Stewart still gets butterflies over certain stars.
The lifestyle expert, who is partnering with Pure Leaf for their latest campaign, tells PEOPLE that there are very few parts of her life in the spotlight that make her nervous.
“I'm not very fearful of anything. I like intermingling with people. I like going on television. I like being interviewed. I like all that stuff,” says Stewart, who is publishing her 100th cookbook, Martha: The Cookbook, on Nov. 12.
But, when asked to recall moments that left her starstruck, Stewart was quick to answer that she’s had “so many fabulous movie stars” as guests on her TV shows over the years.
“When Russell Crowe came on, he was still fit and gorgeous, just having done maybe Gladiator. He was pretty attractive. Matthew McConaughey, he still is pretty attractive. Tom Cruise in his first movies was so cute and attractive,” she says. “There's all those memories of especially attractive actors.”
The celebrity encounters that come with her stardom are particularly exciting to her grandson, Truman Stewart, 12.
Stewart attended the U.S. Open with her grandson on Sept. 8. At the sporting event, the duo mingled with fellow famous viewers, and Stewart posted photos from the day on Instagram. Commenters were quick to joke that she was the “Martharazzi.”
“They said I was better than TMZ," she tells PEOPLE, noting that that was not her intention. "I couldn't believe it."
“I was taking them for myself and Truman. He likes to send them all to his friends,” Stewart says of the pictures of Jon Hamm, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.
At the U.S. Open, Martha and Truman posted for photos together and Stewart said the tween surprised her with his natural skills in front of a camera.
“He's never been on a red carpet and he's always pooh-poohing it. And I said, ‘Oh, come here, do the red carpet,’ and he ran right over,” she says. “I couldn't believe he stood there with me. And he hugged me. It was crazy! He never hugs me.”
In her new commercial with Pure Leaf, Martha has a different buddy by her side: unsweetened iced tea. The ad spot shows her plucking bottles of the drink, which she calls “Martha’s Little Helper," from various hiding spots around her Bedford, N.Y. estate — like tucked in a bouquet or fit into a cutout inside a book.
While the bottles might not be hidden around her home, Stewart said she does keep the tea nearby.
“It's a very nice drink. I keep bottles of it in my car in the little cooler and in my fridge, for people who are visiting here or working here. They all love it,” she says.
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