Blink-182's Mark Hoppus Details "Awful" Date With Melissa Joan Hart

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Mark Hoppus was not feelin' this day with Melissa Joan Hart.

The Blink-182 rocker elaborate however helium failed to onslaught up a spark with the Sabrina the Teenage Witch prima erstwhile the 2 went retired connected a day successful the precocious '90s. According to Mark, they archetypal crossed paths astatine the 1999 Teen Choice Awards, wherever "she must've recovered maine absorbing due to the fact that she had her publicist scope retired to my label's publicist to springiness maine her number."

"Melissa and I went to a sushi edifice successful the Valley," helium wrote successful an excerpt from his memoir Fahrenheit-182 shared by Entertainment Weekly April 7. "It was an atrocious date. She was precise nice, but we weren't connecting."

As she "been celebrated for years," Mark said overmuch of Melissa's beingness astatine the clip "revolved astir acting," portion helium was inactive trying to navigate the ins and outs of the amusement manufacture arsenic a "newly famous" musician.

"I'd inquire what she liked to devour too sushi and she'd say, 'Well, I'm usually eating immoderate catering provides connected set,'" helium recalled. "I'd inquire what she likes to read, and she'd say, 'Well, I'm usually speechmaking scripts for work.'"

Mark continued, "And I'm definite from her perspective, each I could speech astir was music. We conscionable weren't a large match. It was tough."

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Bu destiny didn't autumn abbreviated that night. Upon returning to his edifice from the date, Mark said helium received a voicemail from his now-wife Skye Hoppus, who was moving arsenic an MTV booker astatine the time.

"I called her backmost and immoderate airy pleasantries rapidly turned into heavy conversation," the bassist recounted. "We talked for truthful agelong that the prima came up and we realized we'd talked each night."

The mates yet started dating, earlier tying the knot successful December 2000. They welcomed son Jack Hoppus successful 2002.

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