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Catherine Townsend
A sex and dating columnist, Catherine Townsend published her first novel Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress in 2007, and followed up with Breaking The Rules: Confessions of a Bad Girl in 2008. She also appeared in How To Have Sex After Marriage on Five, and is now writing a third book. Born in Arkansas, Catherine was a gossip columnist for New York Magazine before moving to London in 2003, since when she has had a very interesting - and pretty public - private life...
The Frisky has a great piece today on Six Cases of Hollywood Baby Daddy Drama, starting with Jude Law's recent paternity snafu. Samantha Burke has given birth to her child, but he's not visiting the baby until a DNA test comes back positive. Jude isn't the only one to ask for a DNA test: Mel Gibson, Eddie Murphy, and Keanu Reeves have all recently submitted samples.
What did these guys do before DNA? I was watching Fatal Attraction the other night, and it seemed so, well, retro to have to go into court and argue paternity. Now they have ironclad proof. So there's no need to talk trash. So why do they still do it?? Don't pull a Stephen Bing and deny the baby. You can't win either way. If the baby is yours, you look like an evil bastard, and the kid has to read about his father making an idiotic statement for the rest of his life. If the baby isn't yours, you look like a total arse. It's just not nice.
One they didn't mention (it's a US website) was David Blunkett. It may have been a messy situation, but it's nice when a guy actually wants to be the father and accept responsibility.
What did these guys do before DNA? I was watching Fatal Attraction the other night, and it seemed so, well, retro to have to go into court and argue paternity. Now they have ironclad proof. So there's no need to talk trash. So why do they still do it?? Don't pull a Stephen Bing and deny the baby. You can't win either way. If the baby is yours, you look like an evil bastard, and the kid has to read about his father making an idiotic statement for the rest of his life. If the baby isn't yours, you look like a total arse. It's just not nice.
One they didn't mention (it's a US website) was David Blunkett. It may have been a messy situation, but it's nice when a guy actually wants to be the father and accept responsibility.
