Dax Shepard detailed why he couldn’t assist feeling “unhappy” after failing to take house the primary Finest Podcast Golden Globe award.
Taking to Instagram after the ceremony on Sunday, January 11, the “Armchair Skilled” cohost shared a display screen shot of a textual content trade with one in every of his daughters that detailed his post-event reflections. “You recognize, the ONLY cause I’m unhappy I didn’t win is as a result of I needed to face on that stage and inform the entire world how a lot I really like you and your sister,” Shepard, 51, despatched to his daughter by way of textual content. (Shepard shares two daughters, Lincoln, 12, and Delta, 11, with spouse Kristen Bell.)
The touching response got here after his daughter wrote of his glam look on the 2026 Golden Globe Awards, “You look so good-looking dada,” adopted by “Your swimsuit is gorgeous.” Shepard, who misplaced the award to Amy Poehler and her work on “Good Cling,” provided additional perspective inside the display screen shot’s caption. “I received tonight. And each evening,” he wrote.
A number of celeb pals hit Like on Shepard’s publish together with Nina Dobrev, Joey King and Meghann Fahy, whereas many followers commented on his parenting model. “There’s one thing particular about when a kiddo reaches the age the place they will textual content you candy issues like this,” wrote one individual, whereas one other wrote, “Nothing higher than the super love between a baby and mother or father.”
Within the first-ever Golden Globes class of Finest Podcast, Shepard and Poehler had been up towards Alex Cooper’s “Name Her Daddy,” Mel Robbins’ “Mel Robbins Podcast,” Jason Bateman, Wil Arnett and Sean Hayes’ “Smartless,” and NPR’s “Up First.”
It was an additional particular evening for Shepard’s household as Bell, 45, was additionally nominated for a Golden Globe within the class of Finest Actress in a Tv Collection — Musical or Comedy. Regardless of Bell’s acclaimed efficiency in Netflix’s No person Needs This, the award went to Hacks’ Jean Sensible.

Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell Amy Sussman/Getty Photos
Shepard and Bell, who bought married in October 2013, arrived arm-in-arm on the occasion staged inside Los Angeles’ Beverly Hilton, clearly placing a current awkward joint “Armchair Skilled” interview with visitor star Cher behind them. The Monday, January 5, episode noticed Shepard ask the music icon who she thought can be a “dream companion” for Bell as a result of he believed Cher thought she “may do higher” than him.
Cher, who costarred with Bell in 2010’s Burlesque, responded, “The reality is, I belief her. So, it’s essential to have one thing that I don’t see.”
Bell added her personal two cents, noting that her husband is “a sluggish burn, however you’re going to study to like him,” earlier than saying that Shepard is “nearly too good for” her.
The episode additionally made headlines after Shepard revealed that he not too long ago promised Delta he would assist any future request to freeze her eggs. “Delta was saying how she will be able to’t wait to have a child,” he mentioned through the podcast, which is coshosted by Monica Padman. “I mentioned, ‘When do you suppose you’ll have your first baby, whenever you flip 18?’ I wish to be supportive of no matter. I mentioned, ‘If you wish to, we’ll freeze your eggs whenever you’re 18.’ I’ll pay so that you can get your eggs frozen so that you don’t have to consider that.”
