Stranger Things star David Harbour has said he "needed" to marry Lily Allen after her eldest daughter referred to him as "just some guy in our lives".
Harbour and Allen, who married in September 2021, had been planning a longer engagement but decided to tie the knot sooner after a chat he had with her two daughters, Marnie, 8, and Ethel, 9.
Speaking on US chat show Jimmy Kimmel Live! Harbour explained: "We were riding around at the beginning of the pandemic. She has two kids, these beautiful daughters, 8 and 9.
"And we were riding bikes out in the country trying to figure out what we were gonna do for the next year or however long it was going to take [to get married]," Harbour continued.
"And the little one was riding along, and she was going like, 'David, Dad, David, Dad.' Because the 'D' got her confused.
"And the older one got very upset with that, which I understand, and was like, ‘He’s not our dad! He’s not our dad!’
"And the younger one was like, 'Well, what is he? He's kind of our dad.’
"She's like, 'No, he’s not. He’s kind of our stepdad.’ ‘No, he’s not.’ And she goes, ‘What is he?’ And she goes, ‘He’s just some guy in our lives!’
"I was like, 'I need to marry this woman, because of the emotional fallout.
Even after the wedding, Harbour joked that the girls still call him "some guy in our lives." But now it's his "favourite thing [he's] ever been called."
Harbour also revealed that the new season of Stranger Things will be wrapped in August.
