How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Nick Lachey

Through his decades-long career, Nick Lachey has done it each successful Hollywood — he’s acted, he’s released solo albums, he’s led campaigns with brands (including Purina ONE) and he’s reigned connected the world TV circuit, hosting the dating shows “The Ultimatum,” “Perfect Match” and the improvement that is “Love Is Blind,” which wrapped up its ninth U.S.-based play past week.

In Sunday Funday, L.A. radical springiness america a play-by-play of their perfect Sunday astir town. Find ideas and inspiration connected wherever to go, what to devour and however to bask beingness connected the weekends.

But done it all, helium keeps returning to 1 passionateness project: 98 Degrees, the swoon-eliciting lad set that catapulted him to stardom successful the precocious ‘90s.

“I’m truly blessed to beryllium capable to beryllium a portion of immoderate unthinkable shows,” Lachey says. “But genuinely it each comes backmost to the set for me. I inactive proceed to emotion to bash that and execute with those guys, truthful hopefully that volition proceed for a long, agelong time.”

Earlier this year, 98 Degrees released their archetypal non-Christmas medium successful much than a decade, “Full Circle.” It features reworkings of their astir iconic songs — including “I Do (Cherish You)” and “The Hardest Thing” — on with 5 caller tracks.

Outside of work, what’s paramount successful Lachey’s beingness “is being a dada and being contiguous for my kids, and truly being progressive successful their life,” helium says. He and his wife, Vanessa Lachey, who’s besides his “Love Is Blind” co-host, person 3 young children: Camden, Phoenix and Brooklyn.

The Cincinnati autochthonal and die-hard Bengals instrumentality takes america on for his cleanable Sunday successful L.A., wherever he’s lived for much than 20 years. It involves shot (of course), an indulgent brunch with waffles, relaxing astatine a Malibu formation and speechmaking a people transcript of the L.A. Times — an enactment that we tin perfectly get behind.

This interrogation has been lightly edited for magnitude and clarity.

7:30 a.m.: Coffee and the L.A. Times

I usually aftermath up astir 7 oregon 7:30 a.m. I’m conditioned to get up erstwhile the kids do, truthful that’s typically the clip adjacent connected a weekend. The archetypal happening I’m doing connected a Sunday is getting a cupful of coffee. I’m benignant of old-school. I inactive get the people paper. So I’ll locomotion retired of my beforehand doorway and spell drawback my L.A. Times and my cupful of coffee, and hopefully person a fewer moments to myself to work the insubstantial earlier my kids get up and harass me.

9 a.m.: Football clip

Are we successful shot season? That’s a precise important question. If it’s my imagination Sunday past we’re successful shot play truthful astir 8:30 oregon 9 a.m., I’m turning connected “NFL Countdown” and we’re getting acceptable for the Sunday slate of games. The Cincinnati Bengals are my team. I grew up successful Cincinnati truthful I’m benignant of a instrumentality by birth, if you will. Now, the Bengals are beauteous good. For the bulk of my life, they’ve been perfectly horrible and I’ve conscionable been stuck with them, but it’s benignant of amusive present that they’re really competitory [laughs].

12 p.m.: Indulge successful waffles astatine brunch

We’re getting into the day and getting acceptable for lunch. A spot my household and I emotion to person luncheon oregon possibly a precocious brunch is More Than Waffles, which is benignant of an Encino institution, if you will. I usually get a skillet oregon an omelet, past harvester that with a waffle. I don’t devour that great, but if you’re ever gonna devour bad, Sunday is the time to bash it, truthful you gotta get the waffle. You gotta get the whipped pick and the strawberries. Go for broke.

2 p.m.: Hang retired astatine the formation

A bully Sunday is heading retired to the beach. I’d instrumentality the kids to Zuma to spot the water for a small spot adjacent if it’s conscionable a drive. It’s bully to instrumentality the thrust down that way, spot the h2o and consciousness the upwind connected your face. I’m not a large get-in-the-water guy. If I’m successful the Caribbean oregon somewhere, maybe. [laughs] It’s a small chilly for me, truthful I’m much of the lay-on-the-sand, take-in-the-scenery benignant of feline astatine the beach.

5 p.m.: Burritos and margs for meal

Let’s get backmost to the location to instrumentality a ablution and past we’d deed Casa Vega. That’s different 1 of my favorites successful the Valley. My full household loves it. I similar the oven benignant chickenhearted burrito smothered. You gotta get the chips and guac. You gotta get a location margarita blended, nary salt, and you’re bully to go.

8 p.m.: Family gathering

We ever person a household gathering connected Sunday nights to get acceptable for the week and benignant of spell implicit what’s going on. So we’d get the household backmost to the house, beryllium down with the kids, and benignant of spell implicit the expectations for the week and program it out. Then you’re into ablution and bath clip due to the fact that it’s a schoolhouse night.

10 p.m.: Mommy and daddy clip

Once the kids are down, possibly Vanessa and I volition instrumentality successful immoderate amusement we’re watching astatine that time. That’s a bully headdress to a Sunday. I conscionable finished watching “Perfect Match” connected Netflix, which is simply a classic. I emotion each the Taylor Sheridan [shows]. I’ve already watched them all.