Ina Garten reveals the time when husband Jeffrey Garten mistakenly sent a sexy text to her publicist

Apparently the romance sparks are still flying between Ina Garten and her husband Jeffrey Garten, even after nearly 54 years of marriage.

During an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, which airs next Monday, Food Network show host Barefoot Contessa confessed that her husband still sends her sexy text messages, but that he “sometimes goes the wrong way.”

She then went on to tell me how on one occasion he accidentally sent one of his racy texts to “the wrong person,” who happened to be her boyfriend and publicist.

Open book: Ina Gerten revealed the time her husband Jeffrey Garten accidentally sent a sexy text to the wrong person, on an upcoming episode of The Drew Barrymore Show; they are pictured in Hollywood in November 2018

Garten was chatting with Barrymore about her husband when the subject of his snappy texting accident with her friend and publicist Kristina Felix came up, according to Entertainment tonight.

“My best friend, who is also my publicist, he texted her, and he meant it to me, and he said, ‘You’ll be lovely tonight,’ and it went to her,” Garten, 74, revealed. while laughing.

“She was like, ‘Woah’. She sent back, “I don’t think this was meant for me.”

When Barrymore then asked if Felix “turned bright red” when she saw the raunchy text, Garten replied, “I didn’t see it, but I imagine.”

Steamy texting accident: Jeffrey Garten, 76, thought he was texting his wife Ina when he wrote, “You’re going to be lovely tonight,” but it went to her publicist by accident; her husband is pictured in an Instagram post dated September 14

Oops: The Barefoot Contessa host said her publicist and friend, Kristina Felix, responded to Jeffrey Garten’s racy text, “I don’t think this was meant for me”; the couple is seen in February

In an interview with Page six Earlier this year, the television personality opened up her relationship with the 76-year-old economist who currently works as the emeritus dean at Yale School of Management.

“He’s pretty fantastic,” she gushed, before sharing some of his many attributes. “He’s ordinary, he’s extraordinary. He is positive and supportive and happy and smart and has the biggest heart of anyone I have ever known. He’s just cute. So I’ve been really lucky.’

Ina’s resume includes working in the government, starting as a low-level aide and then moving up the political ladder to work in the White House as part of the Office of Management and Budget.

Still going strong: The couple, who tied the knot in 1968, will celebrate their 54th wedding anniversary on December 22; this wedding day photo is from december 1968

Jeffrey also has government experience with the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations, both in the White House and the State Department. He eventually moved to Wall Street and became managing director of Lehman Brothers and Blackstone Group.

The couple, who tied the knot in 1968, celebrate their 54th wedding anniversary on December 22.

Fans can watch the full conversation on the episode of The Drew Barrymore Show with Ina Gerten starts next Monday, November 7th.

Foodie: Along with her Food Network show, the New York City native has written more than a dozen Barefoot Contessa cookbooks, dating back to 1999