Netflix’s latest drama series Nobody Wants This dropped its third season this week, and it’s got us deep in our feels. The unlikely romance story between sex podcaster Joanne (Kristen Bell), who is notoriously unlucky in love, and rabbi Noah (Adam Brody), who has is funny, heartwarming, and crucially the first rom-com in a while to not cringe us out. It turns out the series is, in part, inspired by the real-life love story between its creator Erin Foster and her husband Simon Tikhman.
Erin, music producer David Foster’s daughter, has described the show as a “love letter” to her marriage to Simon and began working on it in May 2023—aka when the project was originally green-lit by Netflix. Read on and discover the IRL fairytale that inspired our latest binge-watch. Erin Foster, 42, is the daughter of music producer David Foster and former model Rebecca Dyer.
Along with her sister Sara Foster, Erin has worked in TV for a number of years. She began her career in acting with roles in Gilmore Girls, CSI, and The O.C., which *also* starred Nobody Wants This cast member Adam Brody. She was also a writer on Ryan Murphy’s The New Normal series and co-created the show Barely Famous with Sara.
Erin and Sara also have a clothing line together called Favorite Daughter and a podcast titled The World’s First Podcast. Nobody Wants This is, in part, based on the love story between Erin and her current husband Simon. Simon is a record label owner (not a rabbi) and the pair began dating in 2018 after meeting at the gym, with Simon asking Erin to be his girlfriend in June of that year.
One year later, the couple announced their engagement via Erin’s sister Sara thanks to a picture she posted on Instagram with *that* ring alongside the caption, “Ladies, I guess the moral of the story is stay crazy because apparently it gets you a ring.” Just a few months later, the couple tied the knot on New Year’s Eve in a traditional Jewish ceremony in Nashville. Oh, and they recently welcomed their first child together named Noa. Erin ended up converting to Judaism ahead of her wedding to Simon, which partially inspired the idea for Nobody Wants This.
The series echoes similar issues the couple ran into when they first started dating as they tried to navigate building a relationship with their differing lifestyles. I came from a more unconventional place. When we got together we were like, ‘How’s this gonna work?’” Erin based Noah’s character off Simon, explaining on The World’s First Podcast that she wanted to create someone who was, “emotionally available, chivalrous, old-fashioned...but also really funny and confident.” Additionally, there are other moments from the couple’s real-life love story that also made it into the series—namely, the sunflower moment.
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