How Alexandra Breckenridge Met Her Husband Through a Chicken (and Katy Perry)
Alexandra Breckenridge forms a perfect couple with Martin Henderson in Virgin River, the romantic series from Netflix. But in the city, the actress is spending happy days alongside her husband, Casey Hooper, whom she met in a rather unusual way, thanks to her culinary talents and the intermediary of Katy Perry…
After recurring roles in True Blood, American Horror Story And The Walking DeadAlexandra Breckenridge joined the cast of Virgin River. Broadcast on Netflix, the romantic series – the first ten episodes of season 5 of which were put online last September – follows Mel Monroe, a grieving nurse, who abandoned everything in Los Angeles to come live in the remote town of Virgin River. There, she meets the locals, including the attractive Jack. If the chemistry between Martin Henderson and Alexandra Breckenridge shines on the screen, the actress is married to musician Casey Hooper, whom she met in the early 2010s thanks to Katy Perry… and chicken.
Casey Hooper, Alexandra Breckenridge’s Husband, Was Katy Perry’s Guitarist
While she was preparing a chicken on the set of the show The Talk, broadcast on the American channel CBS, Alexandra Breckenridge revealed the way in which she met her husband. “This is strangely how I met my husband” she said, jokingly, as she cooked. “I was alone in my apartment in Los Angeles in 2011, cooking a chicken. My friend Shannon Woodward called me and she was on her way home with her friend Katy Perrywhom I had never met. I suggested they come to the house: ‘I’m roasting a chicken, come on’. And Katy Perry said to me: ‘This is the best chicken I’ve ever eaten. Why don’t you come to the Grammy Awards party?‘ I went to the party, and I met my husband, who was her guitar player at the time“.
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Alexandra Breckenridge and Casey Hooper have two children
After four years of dating, Alexandra Breckenridge and Casey Hooper were married in September 2015 during an outdoor ceremony in Colorado. A year after their union, the actress gave birth to their first child, a boy named Jack. “When Jack was born, I felt a love I had never felt before. I loved my husband more than anything, and then I had a child, and it was a whole different level of love“, she revealed to the magazine People. The couple then welcomed a daughter, Billie, born in December 2017.
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