Paul Rudd Shares All About His Unforgettable Night in Atlantic City with Pregnant Wife Julie Yaeger Tommy McArdleThu, May 28, 2026 at 7:32 PM UTC 0 Paul Rudd and Julie Yaeger on May 19, 2026Credit: Steve Eichner/Variety via Getty Paul Rudd shared a spontaneous trip to Atlantic City with his pregnant wife as his favorite night out The couple unexpectedly scored a luxury suite, concert tickets to see Boston, and won thousands playing video poker Rudd and Julie Yaeger have been married since 2003 and share two children, Jack and Darby Paul Rudd and his wife Julie Yaeger had quite the night on the...
Paul Rudd Shares All About His Unforgettable Night in Atlantic City with Pregnant Wife Julie Yaeger
Tommy McArdleThu, May 28, 2026 at 7:32 PM UTC
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Paul Rudd and Julie Yaeger on May 19, 2026
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Paul Rudd shared a spontaneous trip to Atlantic City with his pregnant wife as his favorite night out
The couple unexpectedly scored a luxury suite, concert tickets to see Boston, and won thousands playing video poker
Rudd and Julie Yaeger have been married since 2003 and share two children, Jack and Darby
Paul Rudd and his wife Julie Yaeger had quite the night on the town while she was pregnant with one of the couple's two children.
Rudd, 57, recounted taking a spontaneous trip to Atlantic City, New Jersey, with his wife Yaeger, also 57, when he appeared on the Thursday, May 28 episode of Jake Shane's podcast Therapussto promote his new movie Power Ballad.
"When my wife was pregnant, we were watching TV. We're living in the West Village and we were watching, I think The Sopranos. . . and all of a sudden I said, ‘Do you want to go to Atlantic City?' And she said, 'Yeah,' " Rudd said, when asked about his favorite night out ever.
"And we went. So we just walked down the street to the dollar rent-a-car, rented a car, drove to Atlantic City, didn't have a place [to stay]. We just went and walked up and say, ‘We'd like to get a room.' And they said, 'Well, we're sold out. [But], you know what? Here, just take this.' They just gave us, these two randos, a suite. So, we're like, 'This is incredible.' "
Rudd added that after he and Yaeger stopped by their suite, he began playing "a video poker game" and was quickly invited by an employee at a casino to see the band Boston play a show that the couple did not realize was happening.
"So my wife comes down. I go, 'Boston's playing in ten minutes.' And the guy just goes ‘Here,' and gave us tickets — house seats," Rudd said. "She's pregnant. We see Boston. It's an amazing concert. We walk out, I go past that machine. I put in like $20 or something, and I hit it and I got like a royal flush. I won a few thousand dollars. And then we went to the suite and, and then we just left. I'm like, 'Okay, that's a perfect [night]. This just kept going. It kept getting better and better and better. And it was an amazing night."
Paul Rudd and Julie Yaeger on May 1, 2003
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"That is so beautiful. I thought you were gonna be like, 'I drank until the morning,' " host Shane, 26, said after Rudd finished his story. "No. Seeing Boston with my eight months pregnant wife," Rudd said, with a laugh.
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Rudd and Yaeger have been married since 2003 and share son Jack, born in 2006, and daughter Darby, who was born in 2010.
The couple originally met when Rudd first moved to N.Y.C. after shooting the 1995 movie Clueless, which was one of his first hits as an actor.
"She was the first person I met in New York. We started talking and there was a maturity with her — she had experienced some tragedy in her life, I had too, and the impression I got was, wow, this is a woman. This isn't a girl," Rudd said of meeting Yaeger in a 2018 interview with Marie Claire. "I was really taken with who she was and how she had overcome and was in the process of overcoming adversities in her life. There was a perspective that she had and still has on the world that you don't come to easily — it's earned and most people don't have it at such a young age."
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Julie Yaeger and Paul Rudd, circa 1998
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Yaeger is credited as a publicist on the 1997 movies Niagara, Niagara and Mr. Jealousy. She also wrote the 2017 movie Fun Mom Dinner and is a producer on an upcoming movie that Rudd stars in titled Rain Reign, which premieres at the Tribeca Festival on June 6.
Rudd's new movie Power Ballad is in theaters May 29.
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Published: May 28, 2026 at 03:45PM on Source: PRIME TIME
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