Retired TV information anchor confesses he’d like to date Martha Stewart and smoke pot along with her

Former TV information anchorman Bill Boggs is single and able to mingle — and smoke weed — with Martha Stewart.

The 82-year-old Emmy winner has recognized Stewart, 81, since her first guide “Pies & Tarts” was launched in 1992 — and has had a crush on her from the second they met.

“I assumed, ‘She’s lovely. She’s actually humorous. She’s gifted. She’s primarily my age,’” Boggs informed The Submit forward of the release of his second novel “Spike Unleashed” final week.

And now, since they’re each single and have comparable pursuits, he’d like to date her.

“She smokes pot. I smoke pot,” he stated. “We could possibly be on the market in her home in Connecticut smoking pot.”

The longtime Higher West Sider recalled first making a transfer on Stewart in 1997 when he interviewed her for his Meals Community present “Invoice Boggs’ Nook Desk” at Jean-Georges restaurant.

“I stated, ‘By the best way, I do know you’ve been married earlier than. Would you think about getting married once more?’” he defined of the flirty trade, which can be found on YouTube.

Stewart replied that it must be a “actually particular particular person.”

“And so I stated, ‘Wouldn’t it should be a mogul such as you?’” Boggs remembered.

“And he or she stated, ‘No, it could possibly be someone so simple as the gardener.’ And I stated, ‘Oh, might or not it’s like a man with a very good present on cable tv?’ And he or she provides me this side-eye look and says, ‘Invoice, are you proposing to me at lunch?’ I stated, ‘Effectively I don’t do gardening.’”

Boggs, who has been married 4 occasions, till now has by no means actually pursued Stewart, who’s value $400 million.

“I feel I used to be most likely a tiny bit intimidated by her large success,” he admitted. “Each time I noticed her, I might really feel it, this little tingle that you simply get typically should you’re a man. However I by no means acted on it.”

Stewart made headlines in 2020 for her pool selfie, which Boggs known as “a little bit of a turn-on to a sure age of fellow.”

Stewart’s rep informed The Submit, “We are going to let you realize if there’s a remark right here.”