Today's Blind Items
Some of my favorite blind items have come from the accountant and in honor of it being tax day here in the US, I give you the best one he has given me so far for this year. There are plenty more, but this is the best. The very best. It is actually one of the best of all time as far as jaw dropping goes.
This A list actor. 95% of the time film. Single and allegedly never married. This is the first year he used this accountant and when he was reviewing the forms he noticed that he was listed as single on the tax forms. Our actor then proceeded to tell the accountant that the actor has been married for many years. The fact that he has only seen his foreign wife once in the interim did not change the fact that he was married. Our actor apparently does send money sometimes to his wife, but apparently does so in his corporate name. The accountant got the feeling that the wife actually has no idea who she is actually married to. Our actor meanwhile loves the deduction that comes with being married. It apparently is the one thing he really enjoys about being married. He also uses it as an excuse when a woman tries to pressure him into marriage. He explains to prospective future brides that although he would love to get married to them he is unfortunately already married and the process for divorce will take a year or two. In the meantime why not just live together or be girlfriend and boyfriend. Invariably the relationship dies out before the divorce becomes final. The actor never starts the paperwork and has never been challenged by the IRS about being married. They must not read the tabloids.
124 comments:
clooney
Clooney was married once before. There was an article yesterday (british I think) about his anti-marriage shrine.
Sounds like a skeeze.
It's hard to think of someone who hasn't been married before.
George Clooney comes to mind, except he was married for 4 years to a woman named Talia in the 80s. This says never married. What serial-relationship A list, never married actor is there?
Clooney popped into my head, too, but I think a big clue here is that this A lister uses his corporation to send the wife money. So an A-lister who also had a production company was my thought. I'm just blanking on who could fit the bill!
Anthony Hopkins
Keanu
Brad Pitt
Javier Bardem
sir cliff richards
woah.
Anthony Hopkins was married for many years. He divorced the long-time wife and remarried.
This screams Clooney, but that would be too obvious right? I like the Hopkins guess but he's married according to IMDB, what about Keanu Reeves?
Doesn't he have to give the Feds her Social Security #?
If the wife has no idea who she's actually married to, is she in Asia, Africa or the Middle East, in some culture so sequestered that she never sees Western press?
When Javier first came on the radar I could swear he was married but as his popularity rose the wife went away.
It doesn't scream Clooney when the blind says 'single and allegedly never married' when everyone knows Clooney was married to actor Martin Balsam's daughter, Talia.
Clooney was married to Talia Balsam for a stretch; they had a rather nasty divorce, if I remember correctly -- it was well-publicized, anyway.
The accountant got the feeling that the wife actually has no idea who she is actually married to.
This sounds like one of those EL-isms that throws everyone off track and means nothing. I'm not sure we should put much weight into this one.
leonardo dicaprio
Al Pacino?
Pacino is an excellent guess.
Clooney was married to John Slattery's current wife (Carrie Bradshaw's politician who liked water sports/Gabrielle Solis' dead mayor husband).
pardon my adjective "screams", I didn’t realize Clooney had been married guess I don’t keep up on this stuff as diligently as others
Jamie Foxx or Joaquin Phoenix?
leonardo DiCaprio
Djimon Hounsou
Benicio Del Toro
John Cusack. Has a production company called New Crime Productions.
adrien brody
I was just going to say Pacino too. Did a search on Oscar nominees/winners. Per his IMDB page: "One of the few Hollywood stars who has never married."
Still perusing the list though.
c- 95% film eliminates jamie foxx he did lots of TV, clooney too.
I'm voting Clooney and some Italian chick by his villa there...
ykkstuck...oh dear, my post did sound harsh. Sorry about that! I didn't mean to come across as a crab ass....lol.
Adrien Brody
Joaquin Phoenix
Ed Norton
adrien brody was unknown to most til he did the pianist(age 29). he could have been married younger.although an oscar winner, he isn't that well known in many countries. his "wife" thinks she married a nice guy that sends some cash when she needs it.
Didn't Pacino have twins with that actress? You know...
Adrien Brody got engaged in 2006.
Others I found going through Oscar noms (though I know that's not the only A list criteria, but it's an easy quick hit) and checking bios on IMBD are:
Kevin Spacey - they actually mention that not much about his personal life is known at all.
Joaquin Phoenix
I was going to list Jamie Foxx, but his TV work would seem to invalidate that.
have you guys heard of a website called whosdatedwho.com?
Beverly D'Angelo. Yes, twins with her and another child with his acting teacher.
Brit Brit, never heard of that one.
I dunno, but I wanna shake this man's hand, great idea. :)
dig - "engaged" isn't married.
Keanu Reeves.
Minimal TV, famously single, and according to IMDB.com, "Whatever he knows, he's not telling the public--his self-deprecating interview tactics and mysterious private life provide little insight into his artistry."
Thanks TS - have been reading this blog for a while and thought it a strange response.
Anyways, Im thinking about this and am certainly no accountant but wouldnt the "wife" need a social security # or something to be included in some kind of tax reporting? If now ... oh, I forgot to mention Im married to a hot _____ guy and I have 10 children that live with him I need to claim ...
thoughts?
What TV has Pacino ever done?
it ain't Clooney for sure.
i like the John Cusack guess.
I like the Al Pacino guess.
ykk-
I'm guessing that there is no SSN on the wife. Unless she's tried to live in the US in the past it seems unlikely she would have ever had to get a SSN.
ykk, what Flora said. I think they probably have to provide some documentation or proof that the spouse exists and is still married to the person, it just wouldn't be a social security number.
I like the John Cusack guess too
Doubt it's Leo. Sounds like someone older like Pacino.
I think John Cusack is a great guess. I don't remember him from TV at all, but looks like he was in a TV movie once. I looked on his IMDb profile and man, he's dated a lot of famous women...
Although the Cusack guess is a great one, only 1 out of the 56 credits on his IMDB profile is for TV (Jack Bull - I think it was an HBO movie) I'm not sure that qualifies as "95% of the time film", more like 99%.
He was rumored to have married Jodi Lyn O'Keefe (Prison Break) a couple of years ago and she DOES wear a ring on her ring finger. Couldn't tell ya if it's a wedding ring though.
I'm going with Pacino on this one. He did "Angels in America" for HBO. I think that would qualify for TV. I am having a problem figuring out how the wife wouldn't know who she was married to. That doesn't make much sense.
I'm all for the John Cusack guess. The guy's a prick and the extreme opposite of his nice guy characters (sorry ladies). God knows he is selfish enough to use someone else for his benefit.
Tyler Perry?
I would think that during that nasty spat that Al Pacino and Beverly D'Angelo had over custody, if she had a secret like this on him, she would have been to Page Six like she had been shot out of a cannon.
It doesn't say that the 5% is for TV. It could be for NY theater work, which Pacino has done.
I'll vote Pacino.
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I wonder if this is the answer to any of the marriage in peril blinds. From an Aussie Mag
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m143/tonka_04/EP.jpg
They claim Ellen Pompeo's wedding is trouble after only 5 months.
I'm with Brendalove and Merlin d bear on this one - Keanu.
many guesses are not A listers by ENT's definition. i think we're down to 4 possibles.
I hate to say this but why would an A list celebrity care about taking a deduction for a wife when it might be leaked that he has a wife. And if a tabloid found out, they could locate the wife, who could then divorce him for much, much more than the amount of the deduction. But then again, not many hollywood types are that logical.
I like the Cusack guess too, but is he often in the tabloids?
two questions: is SHE signing these joint returns? and is there an undeclared child involved?
shit i totally forgot about the Jodi Lynn O Keefe marriage rumour with Cusack. it was super fishy and i dont think either denied it or what the hell happend.
i think he started dating Neve Campbell after that.
Cap--
If our actor likes the tax break so much that he's remained married, I'd venture to guess he'd report the kidlet(s), too. As for the tax return: does anyone know if she'd have to sign them if he claims head-of-household status, or is she just a "write off"?
Doesn't "allegedly" means something like "apparently"? El is a lawyer and, in terms of gossips, one can get off the law suits if one use the term "allegedly" instead of asserting offensive statements.
My English is shaky... If I am right, Clooney would be a good guess since the press usually implies he never married. This is the general image but not necessary the truth.
Clooney was married. I like the Pacino guess...
Maybe the reason she doesn't know who she is married to is because she does not live in the US and is not familiar with US movies?
Does Pacino go by any other name?
Another unmarried A-lister: Matthew McConaughey
gossipgirl: with Pacino, it might be that he's "married" to someone who is not just far removed from US pop-culture, but she could be considerably younger: someone who wouldn't really be familiar with or interested in his oeuvre. Come to think of it, that would work with Cusack, too. Reeves, less so because kids dig the matrix movies.
omg i love the matthew mccon guess, that boy is always in the tabloids, dating one then another, and i would say he is a list
i cant think of any non-film....at all
Matt is engaged to his babay momma.
engaged aint married, and the blind even says it always dies before marriage
I really like the Keanu Reeves guess. Of course George Clooney was the first name that popped into my head, but he really doesn't fit when you think about it. Keanu, baby. THAT would make my jaw drop.
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It's Appolonia!
Is Keanu still A list?