Friday, July 30, 2004
Stalking A.A.Gill
Just 3 months after my last encounter with A.A. Gill, I sat next to him last night at the theatre. We had both gone to see The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?, by Edward Albee. It's a play about a successful architect who is forced to admit to his family that he's in love with a goat (called Sylvia). It's funny, shocking, and very sad. Great script, great production, inspired central performance from Jonathon Pryce. Anyway enough about the play. Gill was accompanied by his former supermodel girlfriend Nicola Formby. She was rather disappointing in real life, but I was struck by what an unlikely couple they make. In his linen suit with a giant matted beard Gill looks like a scruffy university lecturer, hardly the supermodel squiring type (qv Har Mar Superstar). They are not the world's oddest couple: Kelly Hoppen and Sol Campbell spring to mind, as do Juliette Lewis and Steve Alba. I am led to believe that the "pressures of fame" are such that celebs are only able to date other celebs, no matter how disparate their ages/careers/interests may be. With no particular prize in mind, I should like to suggest a small competition for submitting the oddest celebrity couple. Scoring will be based on the above criteria, with bonus marks for couples with low Bacon numbers, or excess plastic surgery. Let battle commence.
Just 3 months after my last encounter with A.A. Gill, I sat next to him last night at the theatre. We had both gone to see The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?, by Edward Albee. It's a play about a successful architect who is forced to admit to his family that he's in love with a goat (called Sylvia). It's funny, shocking, and very sad. Great script, great production, inspired central performance from Jonathon Pryce. Anyway enough about the play. Gill was accompanied by his former supermodel girlfriend Nicola Formby. She was rather disappointing in real life, but I was struck by what an unlikely couple they make. In his linen suit with a giant matted beard Gill looks like a scruffy university lecturer, hardly the supermodel squiring type (qv Har Mar Superstar). They are not the world's oddest couple: Kelly Hoppen and Sol Campbell spring to mind, as do Juliette Lewis and Steve Alba. I am led to believe that the "pressures of fame" are such that celebs are only able to date other celebs, no matter how disparate their ages/careers/interests may be. With no particular prize in mind, I should like to suggest a small competition for submitting the oddest celebrity couple. Scoring will be based on the above criteria, with bonus marks for couples with low Bacon numbers, or excess plastic surgery. Let battle commence.
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