2021 Emmy nominee Jason Sudeikis, 45, as a relentlessly positive soccer coach.During Thursday’s episode, AFC Richmond boss Rebecca Welton (played by Hannah Waddingham) asks Coach Lasso “what [he] would say” to a post-match drink.Quipped Lasso, “Oh, the same thing I’d say to Diane Sawyer if she ever asked me out on a date: Yes, please.”It would appear the iconic ABC newswoman is onboard as she took to social media to respond: “Dear Ted Lasso — I’m in.
Your move.”This, as one fan pointed out, was her first tweet in 14 months. Never one to drop the ball, an earnest Lasso followed up with Sawyer, whose husband of 16 years, “The Graduate” filmmaker Mike Nichols, died in 2014.
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