Keke Palmer Gets Spicy on “Hot Ones” as She Plants a Kiss on Host Sean Evans

Keke Palmer is spicing things up.

During an quality connected nan Sept. 15 section of Hot Ones with Sean Evans, nan multihyphenate made her move connected Evans, 39. Towards nan extremity of nan episode, promoting movies The Pickup and Good Fortune, Palmer, 32, asked nan big astir his crush connected her.

"And past there's 1 much point I'd for illustration to say, Sean," she began, "because I saw an question and reply wherever you said, like, I was your favourite guest, you know, and each this really saccharine stuff."

The Nope actress appeared connected nan show antecedently successful 2017 and 2021, making her 3rd quality record-breaking, per Evans.

"And I cognize we've conscionable had immoderate wings, but I thought that possibly we could conscionable person a speedy smooch to spot if there's a spark." Evans agrees, and nan duo stock a kiss.

"When I'm dying and my life flashes earlier my eyes, I'll person that snapshot," he said pursuing their smooch.

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During a November 2023 section of Chicken Shop Date pinch hostess Amelia Dimoldenberg, Evans was asked if he “ever had a crush connected a guest.” He said yes, adding that it was a impermanent he and Dimoldenberg, 31, had shared.

After guessing Jennifer Lawrence, Jack Harlow and Rosalía, nan Hot Ones personality revealed it to beryllium Palmer.

"Very charming," he said of nan True Jackson, V.P. alum. "Very charming woman."

In August 2024, Palmer told PEOPLE astir her reaction to learning astir Evans' "crush." “I was surviving for it,” she said, recalling her and nan host's "good chemistry" connected nan 2021 episode.

"Not to opportunity that I was amazed aliases I wasn't surprised," she continued. "But erstwhile I heard it and group were sending it to me, I was like, ‘I knew nan vibes were vibing.' "

The podcast host/singer-songwriter/actress besides said to PEOPLE successful August 2025, reflecting connected her profession trajectory.

"I recovered my sound successful reinvention done societal media and contented creation, and yet becoming a shaper and taking my accepted roots into thing that allowed maine to person a small spot much control," she said astatine nan time.

"That's erstwhile we've seen this era wherever I've go a meme," Palmer quipped astir her Vanity Fair lie detector test, wherever she didn't admit former Vice President Dick Cheney. "And [2022's Jordan Peele movie] Nope, and conscionable each these things that I couldn't person predicted."

"I was conscionable pursuing my bosom and my creativity. And I deliberation having nan 2nd activity of what that is, knowing what it's for illustration to spell done nan ebbs and flows of this manufacture and knowing that nary of nan excitement ever lasts forever."

The Pick Up, starring Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, Eva Longoria, Andrew Dice Clay, Marshawn Lynch and Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i, is disposable to watercourse connected Prime Video.

Good Fortune, besides starring Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves, Sandra Oh and Seth Rogen premieres connected Oct. 17.