Cheryl Hines is “feeling good” this weekend as she helps celebrate the 50th anniversary of her improv group.
On Saturday, October 19 at Curb your enthusiasm alum, 59, spoke to PEOPLE at The Groundlings’ 50th anniversary party in Los Angeles, amid the latest milestone for the sketch comedy school and following news of husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s alleged “personal relationship.” with journalist Olivia Nuzzi.
“Look, I’m feeling good,” Hines said at Club Jonathan when asked how she was doing. “I feel good.”
Hines could be seen wearing what appeared to be her wedding ring and answering questions with close friend and comedian Rachael Harris.
“The end is near,” she added, referring to the 2024 presidential election, in which her husband contested as an independent candidate before dropping out in August. “And I feel very calm about it. 17 days, actually. But yeah, let’s say it’s 16. Every day, I’m googling. You think I might remember from the day before. Every day, a countdown.”
Cheryl Hines attends The Groundlings 50th Anniversary Event on October 19, 2024.
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Hines described to PEOPLE how the comedy group “changed everything” in her career before coming to Curb.
“I met my best friends here. Rachael and I have been best friends for a long time. We don’t have to set a date. And I learned how to improvise in the Groundlings and do comedy,” she said. “And if I hadn’t learned how to improvise, I would never have participated Curb your enthusiasm. So, I mean, it just put me on a different path in every way.”
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At the event, Hines also posed for photos with the likes of Will Forte and Mindy Sterling while in attendance.
The celebration followed a month later New York magazine released a statement in September placing Nuzzi, 31, on leave because she “admitted” that she “engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while covering the campaign.” A source close to Hines told PEOPLE that she and Kennedy were “barely speaking” for two weeks after the news broke, while another insider claimed in early October that Hines had “talked about filing for divorce, but [Kennedy is] begging her not to take it.”
Hines and Kennedy, 70, have recently put on a united front in public appearances, including holding hands around the Kennedy family estate in Hyannis Port following the death of the politician’s mother Ethel and sharing a kiss at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner this week.
At dinner on Thursday, Oct. 17, the couple could be seen laughing and kissing as Hines stroked her husband’s face with her finger, according to a video posted on X. Former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and current NYC Mayor Eric Adams were also present at the dinner in New York.
A day earlier, Hines and Kennedy arrived hand-in-hand at his mother’s memorial service in Washington, DC
After his mother’s death, Kennedy wrote on Instagram that she “passed on to each of her 11 children her love of good stories, her athleticism, her competitive spirit and her deep curiosity about the world, and her intense interest in people of all backgrounds, which made her she bombarded everyone she met – from taxi drivers to the president – with a relentless barrage of questions about their lives.”
Hines wrote in the comments section: “This is beautiful. Your mother was very proud of you. 🤍.”
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