Meeting the parents can always be intimidating, but when your dad is Bill Gates, well, that can bring extra pressure.
Phoebe Gates, the youngest of Bill and Melinda French Gates‘ three children, opened up on this week’s episode of Call Her Daddy about her experiences over the years with introducing guys to the Microsoft co-founder, 69.
“I think [it’s] terrifying for the guy,” said Phoebe, 22.
“For me, [it’s] hilarious because my dad’s pretty socially awkward,” she added. “It’s so funny. But for guys, I think they they get really wigged out.”
Phoebe, who just launched the free online shopping tool Phia with business partner Sophia Kianni, her fellow guest on the episode, went on to share a particularly mortifying story from high school.
“I’ll never forget early in high school before I had a long-term boyfriend, it was like one of my first dances, maybe my sophomore or junior year, and my mom had signed my dad up to drive me and the boy to the dance together,” she said.
During the drive, which lasted about 30 minutes, her dad made them listen to NPR and stopped for fast food, Phoebe said. He also called the boy by the wrong name.
“[I] literally wanted to die,” she said. “But honestly, I think now, it’s become easier for me because it’s just funny when you introduce a guy to your dad, depending on how he reacts, that’s how you know if he’s gonna be a good guy or not.”
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When it comes to her dad, Phoebe said she’s “way more of a people person.”
“It used to be a joke [that] our family would be so boring if I wasn’t born. I had forced my dad, like at the dad-daughter dances my mom would have us go to, I would force my dad to go talk to all the other dads and daughters there,” she continued. “I was like, ‘No. If we’re here, we’re gonna socialize. We’ve gotta work this room, Bill.’ “
One personality trait they both have in common? They’re “very competitive,” she said.
“You do not want to play a board game with the two of us and that’s actually worse than introducing a guy to my dad,” Phoebe quipped.
As for her own dating life, Phoebe recently opened up to the The New York Times about her relationship with Arthur Donald, a grandson of music legend Paul McCartney.
Phoebe said she met her boyfriend of nearly 2 years when she did a collaboration with designer Stella McCartney, Donald’s aunt — and that although he lives in California, he travels to N.Y.C. to visit on weekends.
Donald, 26, is the eldest son of Mary McCartney and her ex-husband, TV producer Alistair Donald.
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