Celebitchy got its hands on an advance copy of Claire Danes’s hugely hypocritical interview with BlackBook Magazine, and I don’t know how I went so long without knowing that the erstwhile Angela Chase is such an insufferable windbag.
She really loves to hear herself talk about relationships:
While she’s had several serious relationships in the past—she dated Australian indie-pop star Ben Lee for six years and was with [Billy] Crudup for two, just prior to [fiancé Hugh] Dancy—marriage, she says, was never something for which she yearned. “I’ve always wanted to be in a partnership, I’ve always wanted to have that kind of intimacy and collaborate with someone in such a deep way. But I think that can be achieved in a lot of ways. I was talking to my friend recently about monogamy—is it feasible, is it realistic? I resolved that there isn’t really a better model. We just can’t shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it’s also fun.”
Hmmm. If you haven’t been following Claire Danes’s love life over the past decade — and really, why would you — you might have missed the time Billy Crudup left then-7-months-pregnant Mary Louise Parker for her. That was most certainly a display of rigor and discipline and selflessness for the ages.
Then later, she hooked up with Hugh Dancy while she was still in a relationship with Crudup, which sort of serves Crudup right for ditching his pregnant partner of seven years.
This is some juicy stuff right here — I can’t wait until she gets hers in the third act.
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Wait. I missed something. Since when does marriage not involve a partnership and intimacy and collaboration?
I feel this is stretching it a bit – the opposite of monogamy isn’t necessarily cheating, it’s polyamory/gamy, which is kind of a hot topic lately. You can still be a cheating jerk in a polyamorous relationship.
Honestly, after reading just the quote and glancing at the picture briefly I thought this was another Gweneth article. Egads, it seems that the snobbish, know-it-all blonds that used to be decent actresses ten years ago are multiplying!
I just realized that I never know who in the Hell any of the people mentioned in those interviews are. I know OF Claire Danes, but Ben Lee? Billy Crudup? It sounds made up. Like some 1930’s writer from England needed a name for a pick pocket, or dashing coal oil thief.
“Sir we shant defeat the dastardly Mussolini without Billy Crudup!”
“We must place him in the barristers chambers within a fortnight with the poison tea, and biscuit tins now fetch me my vitamin C you poshy toodle!”
You get the picture.
I guess it all depends on who you talk to and how their leanings on relationships go. It seems some female starlets believe that people forget who they were dating after a few years. Or that there would be photos, film and interviews stored of what they did and said. Disconnect much? lol
I have always found her to be a strikingly beautiful woman so I’d be willing to give it to her “in the third act”.
I think a lot of the people here forget what they themselves have said or done. We all do. But,as Aleric pointed out, we do it off camera and we don’t give interviews.
If it wasn’t for the article I’d think that was a picture of whatsername from Desperate Housewives. She dated Michael Bolton. You know… that one. And I’ll tell that guy the same thing my grandfather used to tell me. “Here’s a quarter, go get yourself a razor”. Then he’d give me a “kick in the pants” and I’d have to hear stories about the kamikazes hitting his ship for the rest of the day.
Damn, she is engaged to Hugh Dancy? I have lost all respect for him. I thought he had more brains than to hook up with someone like her.
And just as a point –
Attended Ranger boot camp at Fort Benning, Georgia for a week with the rest of the Black Hawk Down (2001) cast. Dancy, who portrays Ranger medic Kurt “Doc” Schmid, worked with Ranger medics in combat scenarios.
Pasta wins.
Pasta owns this one….LOL
You know, this is just the gal’s way of saying she likes to cat around……..
While it is nice to hear someone being supportive of monogamy, it would be nice if the supporter of monogamy wasn’t a cheater or cheater-dater. She irritates me. I remember when she was on SNL several years ago, and they were doing a fake q and z about her getting into Yale (implying she only got in because of her celebrity status), and I honestly thought it was real. I was jet-lagged, but I really thought that she was serious about not knowing you needed SAT or ACT scores to apply to college. So I guess she can act. Maybe.
LOL.
Claire Danes is the celebrity equivalent of circus peanuts. Not tasteful, not interesting, rather on the bland and plain side, not something you’d choose if given the option, just…always there.
Has anyone ever heard of a sissier name than Hugh Dancy? I think I’d rather be known as Percival Fauntleroy Twinkletoes.
…and she needs some salt too Beige.
LOL, great comments everyone!
Beyond the whole hypocrisy angle, the way Ms. Danes talks about monogamy makes it sound like staying up late to work on a compound for an anti-cancer drug. “Rigor and discipline and selflessness”? Way to sell marriage there, Claire.
Just saw Billy Crudup as Dr. Manhattan in ‘Watchmen.’ He was mostly large and blue and naked, but it saved him from having to try to act.
Hey, this article made the Big Board at Big Hollywood! Congratulations!
“I was talking to my friend recently about monogamy—is it feasible, is it realistic? I resolved that there isn’t really a better model. We just can’t shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it’s also fun.”
This reads as if it’s more of philosophical discussion than a plan for the future. And her decision that “there isn’t really a better model” and “We just can’t shake monogamy” sounds like resignation rather than choice.
In other words, I don’t see hypocrisy here. She’s still being her, just resigned to the fact that there’s not a “better “model.”
She’ll get married and cheat.
On re-reading this article, one thing strikes me: Claire Danes has A friend.
I’d show her monogamy for an hour or two…
Well, what goes around comes around, so she’ll get a big kick in the ass eventually. Shame that she doesn’t have enough tits to hold her dress up on one side though, cause that was a pretty dress.
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