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“I pushed send, and you know when your heart drops to your feet…? It said, ‘Mom’ (as the recipient) and I was like, ‘Oh no, no, no, no!’”

Moore soon heard from his mum, Marilyn, who gave him a playful scolding.

“She called me and… she loves to say, ‘You’re just like your father,’ and when I’m really being a pain, she goes, ‘You’re such a jacka–,’ so she texted me back, ‘You’re such a jacka–!’,” he laughed.

The actor admits mom is used to hearing all about her son’s love life, as he is always candid about the women he is dating.

He explained, “I love my mother to death, and when I get to talking, I’m like, ‘Ma, I met this girl, she got this and she got that,’ and she goes, ‘Oh Shemar, you’re just like your father!’”

However, Moore reveals that, as a 48-year-old bachelor, his mum is impatiently waiting for him to give her a grandchild: “She’s like, ‘I’m gonna be the oldest grandmother in the world. Can you stop practising already and just make me a grandmama?’”

The TV hunk is actively looking for ‘The One’, and he has a clear checklist for the kind of woman he is hoping to settle down with.

“I’m a man, so… it takes both: physically and what you’ve got on the inside,” The Bounce Back star said. “Physically, my top three things are eyes, mouth, and that booty. My mother has raised the bar so high, because in her day and still to this day – she just turned 75 years old – but she’ll tell you in her younger days, ‘I had the best backside…!’

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“But my mother was also highly educated… so she’s so smart and she always said, ‘Whoever you end up with, make sure she has an education, because you wanna make sure your children have the right inspiration to get a good education’.”