She may be happily keeping company with agent Jim Toth now, but Reese Witherspoon still remembers her share of bad dates.
Oh, the horror. Here’s a little secret Reese, we’ve all had them. Just because you're famous doesn't mean you're exempt.
"I had someone correct my grammar on a blind date once, and I knew within the first 10 minutes that the date was over," the Walk the Line Oscar winner, 34, said at a press gathering for her new movie, James L. Brooks's How Do You Know, opening Dec. 17.
Damn, damn, damn, guess I don’t have a shot with Reese Witherspoon. My heart is breaking. I so had my sights set on that. Guess I’ll have to go back to hoping for a blind date with anyone else on The List.
Even worse, "I don't even remember what I said – I probably said 'ain't.' " But the lesson she wishes to pass on: "Just don't correct my grammar. I'm from Tennessee. I probably say everything wrong."
I remember getting in a fight with a teacher because she yelled at me for saying “ain’t” and I retorted with, “well, it’s in the dictionary.” I really don’t have a problem with ‘ain’t,’ perhaps because there are so many other things I have bigger issues with, that this one just isn’t worth the rise in my blood pressure.
Furthermore, don't use where you come from as an excuse for bad grammar. I'm from Kentucky and I can't tolerate it. It has nothing to do with where you're from, but rather how educated you are and how you choose to portray yourself.
Onscreen, she's caught in a love triangle with Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson. But off-screen, Witherspoon's life is a lot less complicated.
Of course she’s going to say that. Now, I wouldn’t mind a love triangle with Paul Rudd and Luke Wilson – but Owen Wilson, she can have him.
I wouldn’t mind seeing that movie, though. Probably when it comes out on DVD and I can get it from Netflix, because, unlike her, I have a kid and my life is a little bit more complicated because of it.
The mother of kids Ava, 11, and Deacon, 7 (with ex-husband – they split in 2007 – Ryan Philippe) has been dating Toth since January, and recently brushed off engagement rumors.
Oh, but the engagement rumors are so much fun. You know what’s even more fun? Pregnancy rumors. Come on, let ‘em fly, I LOVE watching stars deny them.
"I have two kids," she said. "I have a very sort of settled down life."
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
Elitist reporter note: Adhering to AP standards, 'settled down' should be hyphenated; settled-down life. Technically, because 'settled-down' is modifying 'life' it should all be hyphenated, but I admit that looks weird. If there's one thing I've learned, AP style doesn't always make sense.
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