Nicole Richie Told Joel Madden a Major Lie on Their First Date

Nicole Richie is getting candid about her first date with husband Joel Madden.

The Simple Life star revealed that she told a little lie when she first started dating the Good Charlotte singer in 2006, and she didn’t come clean about it until “a few years later,” after they had already had kids.

Noting that Joel “hates” when she recounts the story, Nicole recalled that he asked her if she watched The Wire while inviting her over to his house to watch the HBO series.

“Never seen The Wire in my life,” she told Alex Cooper on the Dec. 11 episode of Call Her Daddy. “I go, ‘The Wire is my favorite show.’ Obviously, The Wire is an amazing show. I’m not dissing The Wire, but OK, I’m a girl. He just, like, threw me into season 3. There’s no music. And I, for a very long time, pretended, like, I watched and loved The Wire.”

The Paris & Nicole: The Encore star added that the couple—who share daughter Harlow, 16, and son Sparrow, 15—has “since rewatched The Wire” from the beginning together.