These 2 Stars Of Netflix's Wednesday Got Married - And Kept It Secret For TWO YEARS!

The biggest secret of Netflix‘s Wednesday? Two of its stars are secretly a couple — and not just that, they’ve been married for years already!

Fred Armisen and Riki Lindhome have known each other for 15 years. But when they both flew to Romania to start filming the spooky YA mystery series, something changed. Fred was putting his SNL and Portlandia sketch skills to use becoming nearly unrecognizable as Uncle Fester, while Riki — best known for being half of the musical comedy duo Garfunkel & Oates — was set to play Wednesday’s therapist Dr. Valerie Kinbott.

But little did they know it was under these bizarre circumstances that suddenly romance would bloom! Riki told People this week:

“We were friends for so long that it just happened fast. We had one dinner and then it was like, ‘Oh, yeah, let’s see where this goes.’ It was surprising. I would say it was more of a shock to him. He did not see it coming at all.”

The only wrinkle? Riki had decided to have a kid on her own! She was close to the end of a long process of having a child through surrogate, intending to be a single mom.

This kind of messed up those plans! She recalled:

“I could tell I was having feelings, but then I was like, ‘Well, I can’t say anything because I’m about to have a baby.”

Awkward timing! She explained:

“I knew that I was starting to have feelings for him, and I wanted to go on a date. That’s what I knew. So I was like, ‘Okay, let’s explore.’ Then it unfolded naturally over time. I wasn’t like, ‘You’re the dad.’ I was like, ‘I want to have dinner with you.’ My thought was, ‘I want to kiss you. I want to see you.’ Then it just kept going.”

Then on March 1, 2022, Riki welcomed her son Keaton — and it was crunch time for Fred, who has been twice married, to UK musician Sally Timms and actress Elisabeth Moss. Riki laid it down:

“He didn’t get to meet Keaton until three weeks after he was born because he was still working. And I said, ‘All I want is the truth. If you feel in your gut that’s not for you, it doesn’t make you a jerk. I’m not mad at you.’ I said, ‘I still think you’re the best. I just want you to really feel what you feel. And then be honest about it because it’s a big life-altering thing.’ … I told him, ‘So you just tell me what your heart says, and he said ‘Yes.’ It was just insta-family, basically.”

Such a cute and modern love story! And just over two years ago, on June 1, they got married. Hilariously, Riki says they didn’t actually try to hide their marriage — they just didn’t announce, and it went under the radar!

“Then we got married in a courthouse. It’s not a secret, but we didn’t really tell people. We didn’t announce it or anything. And we thought people would hear about it eventually. And that’s what happened, one friend at a time.”

Huh! We wonder how long everyone on the show has known! If Wednesday Season 2 sees Uncle Fester in an unexpected romance, we guess we’ll have our answer! LOLz!

[Image via Netflix.]