Dax Shepard He opens up about how he spent Valentine’s Day.
“My girls are my Valentines,” Shepard, 51, said during the Monday, February 23, episode of his “Armchair Expert” podcast, referring to his wife. Kristen Bell and their daughters, Lincoln, 12, and Delta, 11. “So, I went out to look for my girls.”
Shepard added, “All I’m going to say is that somebody had a Valentine’s Day that wasn’t as good as their expectations,” apparently referring to Bell, 45.
“So I know my daughter likes floaties in the pool. So I got some heart-shaped floaties and I blew them up and put them in the pool. I made handmade cards for each one where I actually drew pictures. And then I wrote, actually, you know, how I felt about them. So I put several hours into my Valentines,” she continued.
Shepard added that his mother, Laura Labowas in town for Valentine’s Day weekend.
“You have been my Valentine for 51 years,” he said of Labo. “So, it’s really bandwidth. All my resources went to the little ones, and I really ignored my mom and Kristen.”
Shepard added that she believes her mother and Bell understood her priorities.
“I think from Kristen’s and my mom’s point of view, they saw that I was wasting a lot of my energy on my other two Valentines,” he said.
hosted by Shepard Monica Padmanhe pointed out, “For Kristen, that’s a Valentine’s gift.”
Shepard concluded, “I hope so.”
Bell and Shepard tied the knot in October 2013, seven months after welcoming Lincoln. The two later adopted Delta in December 2014.
The pair have been outspoken about their relationship over the years and have remained together during several recent controversial moments, including a letter for Bell’s birthday in which she praised Shepard for promising to “not kill him”.
“We enjoyed 12 years of marriage to someone who once said to me: ‘I will never kill you. Most men have killed their wives at some point. Even if I am so motivated to kill you, I never will,❤️'” Bell wrote in an October 2025 Instagram post.
The post sparked mixed reactions, with some users defending the couple’s jokes and others criticizing Bell and Shepard for joking about domestic violence.
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard have become some people’s favorite couple in Hollywood, but others are scrutinizing their every move. Bell began dating Shepard in 2007. The couple got engaged in 2009 and tied the knot in 2013. Bell and Shepard went on to welcome daughters Lincoln (born March 2013) and Delta (born Dec. […]
Shepard and Bell made headlines again in January there Cher appeared as a guest on “Armchair Expert” and expressed the feeling that Bell, his longtime friend, could do better than Shepard.
“[You’re] definitely the better half [in the relationship],” Cher, 79, told Bell, who also appeared in the episode.
Speaking to Shepard, Cher said, “The truth is, I trust him, so you have to have something that I can’t see.”
Shepard told later Reach out to Hollywood at the 2026 Golden Globes he and Bell thought Cher’s comment was “bad.”
Cher’s podcast comments came months after Shepard talked about the success of her marriage to Bell.
“I say this all the time, like, if Kristen and I ever break up, I can only describe this as a very successful relationship,” he said in a September 2025 episode of his podcast. “Because we loved each other to death, we had these two beautiful children, we had this wonderful time together.
