Stars in a near miss
HOPEFUL CELEBS WHO WERE REBUFFED
Nicole Kidman: The Aussie actress was ignored by US talk show host Jimmy Fallon after the pair were introduced by a mutual friend. Kidman thought she was going to Fallon’s apartment for a business meeting, but it turned out to be a blind date that didn’t go anywhere. In 2015, Kidman appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and told him: “I just remember I liked you.” Awkward... Aziz Ansari: The comedian claims that he was ghosted by Blake Lively in 2011. When the Master Of None star appeared on The Howard Stern Show, he said they switched numbers after hitting it off at an event – but a series of text messages he sent her went unanswered. Lively went on to get hitched to Ryan Reynolds a year later.
Emma Watson: As a teen playing Hermione Grainger in the Harry Potter films, she took a shine to Tom Felton who starred as Harry Potter’s nemesis Draco Malfoy. “I had a really big crush on him, to the extent that I would go into work in the morning and look at the call sheet to see if he was going to be in,” she recalls. But it wasn’t reciprocated, with Felton saying he saw Watson in a “younger sisterly way”.
JULIA Roberts hit on Happy Mondays dancer Bez – but he turned her down.
As we reported yesterday, the actress chatted him up in the upmarket Los Angeles Viper Room nightclub, but the Madchester maracas player blew it by not recognising who she was. Bez now claims he could have been living a “different life” as an LA A-lister had he taken her on a date. But Roberts isn’t the only celeb to be turned down by another famous person.
Here, takes a look at some others…
Taylor Swift: After the singer asked actress pal Jennifer Lawrence to introduce her to Bradley Cooper at a Golden Globes party in 2013, she was rebuffed by the actor. He told a reporter: “I could literally be her father.” There’s a 15-year age gap between Swift and Cooper – but he wasn’t so bothered by age differences when he dated 20-year-old Suki Waterhouse at the age of 37.
Leonardo Dicaprio: The actor has dated several models – but not all of them fall at his feet. In 2013, he reportedly hit on Brit model Cara Delevingne at a Cannes film festival afterparty, but she was having none of it. According to a source “he tried every trick in the book and apparently kept lunging for her but she kept dodging them. She thought he was too forward and too old.” Drake: He was once good friends with fellow rapper Nicki Minaj and wanted to take that to another level. But in 2010 he claimed she had just used him to get food, telling MTV that he’d offered to get a takeaway from a deli for her so they could eat it together, but when he arrived at her house she took the meal “and shut the door in my face”. Drake later said he felt Minaj had always looked at him like he was “her little brother”.