When Michelle Obama needs to unwind, she often turns to reality TV.
On the April 8 episode of Sophia Bush's Work in Progress podcast, the former First Lady, 61, opened up about some of her favorite TV shows while sharing why she loves unscripted programming.
When it comes to watching television, Obama admitted that she often leads towards reality programs, "because when I go to TV, I just want to turn off."
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"I am a Real Housewives person. I love the dating shows, you know. I don't agree with them all, but I love to watch," she said, adding that her daughters Malia and Sasha "will have me watching" Love Island.
"I watched that only with them because I'm as amused at their feedback and their commentary as I am with what's going on," she continued.
More of her favorite TV shows include The White Lotus, Running Point, Nobody Wants This and Shrinking.
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"I love Shrinking. [It's] my favorite with Harrison Ford. That whole cast is amazing. I love that showrunner [Bill Lawrence]," Obama added. "I'm a Ted Lasso fan too."
The accomplished author noted that she often seeks out more light-hearted programs, while her husband and former president Barack Obama leans towards darker shows.
"Barack and I, we sometimes argue over what can we watch jointly because he likes death and darkness," she revealed. "I said, 'You know, you like the plots where everybody's sad and then they die.'"
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Obama has taken her love for reality TV and channeled it into her work.
In November 2024, she worked as an executive producer and partnered with Netflix to release, The Later Daters, a reality series that followed six baby boomers as they jumped back into the dating pool with the help of their friends, family and relationship expert Logan Ury.
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According to an official synopsis, the six singles lean on Urym, a Harvard trained behavioral scientist, who is on hand as a dating coach as “they navigate a whole new dating world and its different rules and online etiquette (where the eggplant emoji maybe doesn’t mean what they think it does)."
"Whether divorced, widowed, or longtime single, they end up forging deeper connections not only with their families and potential partners, but with themselves,” the description continues.
