I’m a casual fan of both Bill Maher and Arianna Huffington, but I’m not buying this story from the National Enquirer. The Enquirer claims that Arianna and Bill are something of a hot new couple out in LA, and that Bill has “sworn off leggy models” et cetera. They make a big point about how Arianna is five years older than Bill, and that the love match is probably based on intelligence rather than sex, I guess. The gist is that Bill and Arianna were at a party and they were deep in conversation, it seems. Does this make them a couple?
Bill Maher has sworn off leggy models half his age and is getting serious with a brainy babe five year his senior – media queen Arianna Huffington.
Maher has fallen hard for Huffington, says sources. Maher and Arianna have been friends for years, but now the pair have started what seems to be a serious romance, say their pals.
“It’s love,” revealed an insider. “Bill has done his share of running around with ‘Playboy’ cuties and girls half his age, but now he feels like he’s found his soul mate.”
The hot new media couple first went public with their romance at a Hollywood party thrown recently by British film director Henry Jaglom.
“They were glued to each other most of the night,” said the insider. “The talk of the party was that they were an item.”
Another source at the bash revealed friends were stunned to see Bill and Arianna had become a couple, but she told them in her Greek accent: “Darling, the man is smart!”
[From The National Enquirer. print edition, February 22, 2010]
Reasons why I don’t believe it: Bill can “swear off” as many 20-something models as he wants, but the man has a type, and Arianna isn’t it. Also, I don’t believe it because they would make too much sense together. It just seems too perfect. Like, of course Maher would eventually come to his senses and realize the perfect woman for him is a woman with brains and attitude, like Arianna (who, by the way, I think is sexier than twenty Playboy models). And of course she would love him too, et cetera. The real world doesn’t work like that. Anyway, I think this whole story was based on the Enquirer getting a photo of the two of them together. That’s basically it.
I guess that explains why the Huffington Post has not had one comment on Bill’s HBO special Saturday. It was his weakest performance ever, and was just a lazy rehash of his old material. He did get a few zingers in, but it was not up to his standards. HP has a review of the movie that Claire Danes did on HBO, but not a mention of Bill’s special, except for a preview intended to get people to watch it. The HP is all over every high profile show every day – The Daily Show, Colbert, Olbermann and Maddow, Fox, Beck, Limbaugh, etc. but not one word pro or con about his special. His delivery was crude and vulgar – and I am NOT a prude by any means – and, mostly, not very funny, with a few exceptions. Usually, a show this controversial would get some attention on HP, but here it is, 48 hours later, and not one word. Maybe Arianna’s motto is, “If you can’t say something nice about the guy you’re sleeping with, then don’t says anything at all”. What am I saying, she was married to Michael Huffington, and we know how well THAT worked out. I’m just saying …….
Wow she is waaaaay to good for him…. DANG!
Mentok the Mind Taker says:
When he was trying to get famous, he dated my brother’s ex-girlfriend. She looked more like Ariana than a leggy 20-something model, so you never know…
I guess that explains why the Huffington Post has not had one comment on Bill’s HBO special Saturday. It was his weakest performance ever, and was just a lazy rehash of his old material. He did get a few zingers in, but it was not up to his standards. HP has a review of the movie that Claire Danes did on HBO, but not a mention of Bill’s special, except for a preview intended to get people to watch it. The HP is all over every high profile show every day – The Daily Show, Colbert, Olbermann and Maddow, Fox, Beck, Limbaugh, etc. but not one word pro or con about his special. His delivery was crude and vulgar – and I am NOT a prude by any means – and, mostly, not very funny, with a few exceptions. Usually, a show this controversial would get some attention on HP, but here it is, 48 hours later, and not one word. Maybe Arianna’s motto is, “If you can’t say something nice about the guy you’re sleeping with, then don’t says anything at all”. What am I saying, she was married to Michael Huffington, and we know how well THAT worked out. I’m just saying …….
Wow she is waaaaay to good for him…. DANG!
Mentok the Mind Taker says:
When he was trying to get famous, he dated my brother’s ex-girlfriend. She looked more like Ariana than a leggy 20-something model, so you never know…