Kelly Clarkson has finally learned how her name made it into that iconic 40-Year-Old Virgin scene. In the memorable scene,Steve Carell’s character is getting his chest waxed, and as the peel comes away he shouts in agony, “Aah ... Kelly Clarkson!”
Clarkson chatted with director Judd Apatow during a remote episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show and got to the bottom of her name being used. “I”m gonna blame that Seth Rogen,” explained Apatow. “There's a picture I think you have with a piece of paper with all the curses that we gave Steve to scream when he gets waxed and in the middle the column says ‘clean words’ — right in the middle, it says ‘Kelly Clarkson’.” The show then revealed that list, with the real swears blurred out. (The clean words were used so when the film showed up on television they could replace the non to clean words and make it suitable for broadcast.)