Rita Wilson shares special memories of Rob and Michele Reiner
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The actress and singer tells PEOPLE about how "joyful" they were and how they threw "Bad Showbiz" parties
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Rob and Michele were found dead inside their Los Angeles home in December 2025
Rita Wilsonwill always rememberRobandMichele Singer Reinerfondly.
The actress and singer, who collaborated with Rob inSleepless in Seattle,Mixed NutsandThe Story of Us, which he directed, shares memories of the late couple who were found dead inside their Los Angeles home on Dec. 14, 2025.
Wilson, 69, tells PEOPLE that she will always remember how "joyful" they were.
"The kind of thing that Rob and Michele would do [is], they'd say, 'Okay, we're having a 'Bad Showbiz Party.' You have to bring a clip of your worst performance ever. Doesn't matter what it was from or how far back it went; you have to bring that,'" she recalls.
According to theIf These Walls Could Talkstar, everyone would screen their clips.
"You have to put your worst showbiz moment on screen in front of all of these people, but everybody's in the same boat, so you know you're kind of safe," says Wilson.
TheGirlsactress also recalled a time that Rob and Michele made an event out of screeningThe GodfatherandThe Godfather Part II.
"They started [The Godfather] at maybe 3 p.m., and when that finished, they had a full Italian meal brought in," Wilson recalls. "We would have a full Italian meal and then screenThe Godfather II."
According to the "Your Mother" singer, "everything was a celebration" for Rob and Michele.
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"There wasn't anyone more joyful," Wilson says.
Days after Rob and Michele's death in December,Wilson paid tributeto her late friends in an essay forVariety.
While Wilson wrote that Rob's “films will be there to experience over and over again," she noted that "running into Rob and Michele in the neighborhood and having a great laugh, or having dinner where Michele insists on having only one conversation" would no longer be possible.
In the essay, Wilson also referenced the couple's “Bad Showbiz Night” parties, where they invited their guests to bring their “worst showbiz moment and share it with a room full of luminaries, who also braved exposing their own.”
“They did everything right. They loved. They were loved,” she wrote.
Added Wilson, “It's hard to reconcile the goodness they offered to the world with this ending. It doesn't make sense. But how they lived makes all the sense in the world."
Rob and Michele's son Nick Reiner has beencharged with two counts of first-degree murderin connection with the deaths of his parents and has since pleaded not guilty.
On Dec. 17, the L.A. County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed to PEOPLE that the couple died from "multiple sharp force injuries."
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