Kristen Bell and Dax Shephard ink deal with NBC to host new game show Family Fight Night

Kristen Bell and Dax Shephard have an exciting new venture together.

The celebrity couple have done a deal with NBC to host Family Game Night, a new competition with families of four as contestants.

Bell said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Wednesday that she’s ‘very excited’, and added the caveat: ‘As long as we leave this show still married, I think it’s going to be great.’

Bell, 40, and Shephard, 46, have been married since 2013 and have two daughters.

NBC has commissioned 10 episodes of the new game show in which the stars will be ‘adopted’ by the teams and so compete against each other to win their team the top $100,000 prize. 

Family Game Night is based on the couple’s past antics on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, including their fun game of Taste Buds in 2019.

In a statement tied to the announcement, Bell recalled: ‘For one of our first dates, I invited Dax over for a game night at my house with a bunch of friends. He said he fell in love with me there because I was a very tiny person bossing everyone around. 

‘I fell in love with him too because he’s a very large person who could boss everyone around, but chooses not to.’

She continued: ‘I’m so excited to host ‘Family Game Fight’ and play all day with my best friend.”

For his part, Shephard stated: ‘Kristen is my favorite human to work with. She’s the most consistently funny, playful and joyful scene partner I’ve ever had. She’s also incredibly fun to look at.’