Jennifer Tilly, on Tuesday’s The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills episode, revealed some information about her wealth that her Hollywood — and poker followers — most likely did not know.
The actress and fan favourite on televised poker reveals reminiscent of Excessive Stakes Poker has made a number of appearances on Season 14 of the hit actuality TV present, RHOBH. She is not the point of interest of the season, and has joined the present as a “good friend” of one of many Beverly Hills housewives.
However her presence on the most recent episode caused some chatter on social media and throughout Hollywood blogs and information websites when she disclosed an fascinating tidbit about her well-known ex-husband, Sam Simon.
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Simon is the co-creator of The Simpsons, the preferred American animated sitcom ever. The present started in 1989 and nonetheless airs on Fox tv to at the present time.
Tilly and Simon had been married from 1984 to 1991, and their marriage overlapped the early days of The Simpsons, again when, because the actress admits, nobody may have anticipated the present to turn out to be a 30-year hit. Simon handed away in 2015, years after Tilly started relationship poker legend Phil Laak (they’re nonetheless collectively). However, because the Bride of Chucky star mentioned on Tuesday’s RHOBH episode, she’s nonetheless cashing in big-time from her early Nineties divorce.
“It takes a very very long time to recover from a divorce,” Tilly informed viewers of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills. “My ex-husband was Sam Simon, who created The Simpsons.”
She then defined that “once we acquired divorced, I acquired a chunk of The Simpsons within the divorce settlement, and no one knew that The Simpsons was going to go on for trillions of years.”
“Daily, truthfully, every single day, I am like, ‘thanks, Sam,'” Tilly mentioned.
Tilly’s web price, following the conclusion of the most recent RHOBH episode, turned a scorching matter on social media and information shops reminiscent of Every day Mail and Folks. She was additionally trending on X throughout and shortly after the present.
Poker followers know of Tilly for greater than her marriage to Simon or appearances in numerous field workplace flicks. She’s been a mainstay on Excessive Stakes Poker for years and often competes within the large Hollywood dwelling video games.
Tilly is not the one high-profile poker participant to seem on a American actuality TV present this yr. Robbi Jade Lew competed on the reality-based gameshow, The Nameless on USA Community, however did not final lengthy within the sport.
New episodes of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills air Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.
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