'The Simpsons' star Yeardley Smith marries former detective hired to protect her
16.07.2022 - 00:45
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"The Simpsons" star Yeardley Smith is married! Smith, who has voiced Lisa Simpson in the famous adult cartoon since 1989, married former detective Dan Grice in June. Grice was hired to work security at a "Simpsons" event in 2014, which is where they first met.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Smith, 58, did not want to attend the event amid security concerns as she was stalked in the past. Smith had to be sure proper security measures would be in place "because my vision of it would be me on an apple box with the first person in the front row literally an arm's length away," she told the outlet.
Yeardley Smith, who voices Lisa Simpson in the sitcom, is married! (Photo by Vivien Killilea) Once she agreed to the event, Smith was told that a man from the Springfield Police Department would be assigned to be her private security detail. "That was Dan," she said. Grice, 47, also did not want to work the event because he "just knew it probably wouldn't be any fun." When he was approached for the job, Grice told the Hollywood Reporter, "I looked around the room at the other detectives, including my brother.
It was summertime and I thought, let these guys have time with the families since they all have children. I'm single and I don't have any children, I thought I can do this." Smith married a former police detective that was hired to protect her in 2014.
(Photo by Tommaso Boddi) Grice shared that he recognized Smith from "The Legend of Billie Jean" and "Maximum Overdrive," but admitted he did not know she voiced Lisa Simpson. Grice met Smith at the airport gate in Oregon and spent the rest of the day with her, which Smith remembers as "the best day." Once Smith’s time in Oregon concluded, Grice was eager to show her a
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