Keke Palmer Reacts to Hot Ones Host Sean Evans Crushing on Her: ‘I Knew the Vibes Were Vibing’ (Exclusive)

Keke Palmer knows good chemistry when she feels it!

While I was talking to PEOPLE about hosting the Made by Google After Party — which featured a Hot one segment — Aug. 13. The 30-year-old actress recalled her reaction when she found out the show’s host, Sean Evans, had a “crush” on her last year.

“I lived for it,” Palmer tells PEOPLE, recalling the pair’s “good chemistry” while filming her iconic film Hot one episode in 2021 — plus, an even earlier episode in 2017.

“I don’t want to say that I was surprised or that I wasn’t surprised,” she continues. “But when I heard it and people sent it to me, I said, ‘I knew the vibes vibrated.’ ”

Sean Evans and Keke Palmer in ‘Hot Ones’ 2021.

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Evans, 38, first said he was in love with Palmer while appearing on another chicken-themed celebrity show, Amelia Dimoldenberg Chicken shop date.

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During Hot one In the host’s episode last November, Dimoldenberg asked Evans if he had “ever fallen in love with a guest.” After admitting that he did – and did Chicken shop the host guessed their identity — he found it to be Palmer.

“Very charming,” he said of the actress. “A very charming woman.”

Then Palmer reacted to the clip Chicken shop acknowledgment on Instagram, joking: “It was love at first hot wing 🤪— this was too kind @seanseaevans 🫶🏾.”

After Evans revealed his crush, many viewers returned to him Hot one episode with Palmer to confirm their chemistry — and they weren’t disappointed.

“Who’s all here after hearing he’s in love with her?” one user wrote of the 2017 interview, while a comment on a more recent episode said: “Here after Sean says he has a crush on Keke and I agree, she’s charming.”

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Also speaking with PEOPLE, Palmer opened up about her life as a busy mom to her 1-year-old son Leo, saying she tries to “bring him everywhere I go.”

Keke Palmer.

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The actress also said that as the child – who she shares with ex Darius Jackson – grows up, she wants to “preserve” that “closeness”.

“The beauty of a career like mine — and, obviously, his age — is just that he can be with me,” Palmer explains. “That’s why I’m grateful for that. I think I want to still be able to just do that and have him with me and do things together and make sure he feels like a part of my life and sees what I’m doing.”

“I’m working, but you know, you’re here and we’re here together and just to set an example for him, that’s just important to me,” she adds.

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