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Alex McDaniel

Peyton Manning foolishly passed on an ‘Emily in Paris’ cameo to enjoy a romantic vacation with his wife

For those of us who are firmly centered in the Venn diagram of football and lightweight romantic comedies, Peyton Manning stole our hearts in January with his VERY ACCURATE REVIEW on Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” about the hit Netflix series, “Emily in Paris”:

“Oh, my God, Colin! This show has everything! Romance, adventure, sensuality, culture, a fresh take on feminism – finally! Not to mention a culinary tapestry so rich, I can only describe it as food porn.”

Manning’s appearance (which ‘Emily in Paris’ star Lily Collins LOVED) nearly gave him the opportunity to make a cameo appearance during filming of the third season. But he recently told USA TODAY he couldn’t make it work due to a last-minute location change.

Manning, who went to Paris for the first time in June with his wife, Ashley Thompson, said he was prepared to do the cameo until production moved the shoot hundreds of miles away to Provence.

“I had this Paris vacation planned with my wife,” he told USA TODAY. “I didn’t really want to travel somewhere else to do this show that I wasn’t already in.”

Manning said he was “crushed” and “very disappointed that the cameo role they were planning for me never came together.”

I think he could have called an audible to move the romantic vacay to Provence long enough to get it done, but kudos to Manning for choosing a real-life Parisian romance over Emily’s fabulous and wildly un-relatable adventures in the City of Lights.

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