- Keke seeks Ciara and Russell’s relationship advice in hopes that they will find her with the right partner.
- Russell explains that he knew Ciara was ‘the one’ after praying over his list of 5 ideal partner qualities.
- Ciara and Russell have successfully played matchmaker for celebrity friends, inspiring Keke to find her own soul mate.
Keke Palmer had her eye on the prize when she welcomed Ciara and Russell Wilson to her podcast.
Ciara and Russell Wilson are known for their strong, loving relationships, but they have never kept love entirely to themselves. The happy couple have also played matchmaker for some of their friends, having set up two celebrity couples on their way down the aisle: Normani and DK Metcalf, and Coco Jones and Donovan Mitchell.
When Palmer had the pair on his podcast, Baby this is Keke Palmer she asked about their Cupid-like tendencies, hoping they would work the same magic on her.
“I know I’m going to have to let you guys go soon, but that’s probably the most important part of the interview, what I’m about to ask right now. I heard you’re all good at matchmaking,” Palmer said. “You know, two of the people you all matched are already heading down the aisle.”
Keke continued, “So you know, I just want to make sure I asked before we got to the match. Well, let me ask who do you see for me?”
In response, Russell turned the question back to the host and asked her to describe exactly what she wants in a partner.
Listing the qualities she looks for, Keke said she wants a God-fearing man whose faith is reflected in how he treats those around him. One with direction, ambition and a clear sense of who he is and where he wants to go in life.
A man with a good sense of humor who is comfortable with her independence and supports her individuality. And most importantly, someone who will love her son as much as she does.
“The last one is that he loves my son,” she explained. “I love my son. I must honor my son.”
It’s no wonder Keke wanted to experience the same love as the couple after hearing them talk about their connection during the episode. While on the podcast, Wilson explained that he knew when he met Ciara that she was the woman for him.
“I knew exactly when I met her that she was the one,” he said.
He went on to agree with Palmer that “it really was” love at first sight.
The former NFL quarterback explained that his confidence in their connection started before he ever met Ciara in person, recalling a conversation with someone who asked him who he could see himself with in the future.
“Someone asked me, ‘Who do you see yourself with?’ And I was like, I don’t know. And I was like Ciara.”
Wilson went on to explain that he wrote down the five qualities he wanted in a woman and prayed about them with his pastor.
“He said, ‘Why five?’ I said, ‘Five is the number of grace,'” he explained. “I said marriage and life are of grace.”
According to Wilson, he met his now-wife just days later.
“We wrote five of them down. And three days later I meet Ciara for the first time,” Wilson recalled.
Watch the full episode above.
