{"id":270211,"date":"2013-07-04T20:45:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T20:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/04\/darwigs-i-knew-i-had-to-date-him-that-was-it\/"},"modified":"2018-10-15T15:53:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:53:26","slug":"darwigs-i-knew-i-had-to-date-him-that-was-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/04\/darwigs-i-knew-i-had-to-date-him-that-was-it\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-270211 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/04\/darwigs-i-knew-i-had-to-date-him-that-was-it\/attachment\/270212\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mpe5xjsr581sqmc2ro1_500-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mpe5xjsr581sqmc2ro1_500-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mpe5xjsr581sqmc2ro1_500-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/04\/darwigs-i-knew-i-had-to-date-him-that-was-it\/attachment\/270213\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mpe5xjsr581sqmc2ro2_500-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mpe5xjsr581sqmc2ro2_500-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mpe5xjsr581sqmc2ro2_500-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/04\/darwigs-i-knew-i-had-to-date-him-that-was-it\/attachment\/270214\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mpe5xjsr581sqmc2ro3_500-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mpe5xjsr581sqmc2ro3_500-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mpe5xjsr581sqmc2ro3_500-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/04\/darwigs-i-knew-i-had-to-date-him-that-was-it\/attachment\/270215\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mpe5xjsr581sqmc2ro4_500-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mpe5xjsr581sqmc2ro4_500-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tumblr_mpe5xjsr581sqmc2ro4_500-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/darwigs.tumblr.com\/post\/54564347909\" target=\"_blank\">darwigs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;I knew I had to date him, that was it. So I made a date with Scott later. [But] Cher had just been to see Sunset Boulevard. And she hunted me down the next day through management, people, whatever.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They said, \u2018Cher wants to have dinner with you.\u2019 And I said: \u2018I can\u2019t\u2026 have dinner with her.\u2019 And there was a dead silence at the end of the phone: \u2018What?!\u2019 \u2018I can\u2019t have dinner with Cher because I have a date tonight with Scott.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They went: \u2018Right, hold on.\u2019 Click. On hold. Over to the other line. Apparently they were going to ask her: \u2018He\u2019s got a date, and he doesn\u2019t want to break it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That was the chance of a lifetime for me. I\u2019m not talking about having dinner with Cher, but my date with Scott. The management came back to me and said: \u2018Fine, she says, bring him.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201d[\u2026] And we all met up and had dinner with Cher and we had a fab time. At the end of the evening, she said to me: \u2018Walk me to my car, you\u2019ll love it.\u2019 As we were walking to the car arm-in-arm, the photographers came out of the bushes, you name it.[\u2026] And the next day in the tabloids, I was her new toyboy.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But little did they know, the boy with the bicycle that walked out after us went and unhooked his bike. I put her in the car, went off, got my Jag, opened the trunk, put his bike in the trunk, and took<em> I<\/em> took <em>him<\/em> home. And he stayed. For eighteen years now.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; John Barrowman on his first date with husband Scott Gill in 1994<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>darwigs: &ldquo;I knew I had to date him, that was it. So I made a date with Scott later. [But] Cher had just been to see Sunset Boulevard. And she hunted me down the next day through management, people, whatever. &quot;They said, \u2018Cher wants to have dinner with you.\u2019 And I said: \u2018I can\u2019t\u2026 have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/04\/darwigs-i-knew-i-had-to-date-him-that-was-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[219,552,1480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270216,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270211\/revisions\/270216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}