As far as Real Housewives go, I guess Carole Radziwill isn’t so bad. She had a legit job in media/journalism, she was married to Lee Radziwill’s son Anthony (JFK Jr’s cousin) and she’s written a couple of bestsellers after Anthony passed away from cancer (just weeks before after JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette perished in that plane crash). Carole and her fellow Real Housewives already revealed that she dated George Clooney for a bit, probably in the early to mid aughts. Now Carole has revealed that she had some sort of thing with Ralph Fiennes as well. GURL, don’t joke about that.
Add a second handsome Oscar winner to Carole Radziwill’s little black book! The Real Housewives of New York City star — who famously dated George Clooney — also had a summer romance with English actor Ralph Fiennes. On the July 8 episode of the hit Bravo reality show, the author hinted that a passage in her new book, The Widow’s Guide to Sex and Dating, was inspired by her real-life romance with The Grand Budapest Hotel actor.
“It was long ago and far away … over a summer I was living in London,” Radziwill, still striking at 50, tells Us Weekly exclusively of her time with Fiennes. While sending out early copies of her novel on Tuesday’s episode, the Bravo star briefly mentioned a scene in the book which the actor would clearly recognize as a time they had together, “[But] our relationship was not the basis for a storyline in my novel,” she tells Us. “But like most fiction, stories are a pinch of the writer’s experience and a part their imagination.”
The widow of Anthony Radziwill, whose aunt was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, tells Us the scene in her book alluding to Fiennes recounts a time when she met up with the Skyfall actor at a local bookstore.
“I hadn’t seen Ralph for some time and heard he was in town,” she recounts to Us. “I left a note at his hotel. It was a copy of a note that Sam Beckett had once written to a friend. I knew Ralph would get the reference. He’s very intelligent, you know. That note and the subsequent meeting at the bookstore was loosely detailed toward the end of the book. I’m afraid that is all I will say. Wink.”
“I’d forgotten I had used his full name in the show,” the slender brunette concludes to Us, “I saw him a few months ago and he said the book was on his bedside table…He’s an insatiable reader.”
Considering Ralph rarely (if ever) says anything about his romantic life, I’m guessing he won’t bother to confirm or deny this either way. Which means Carole gets to say whatever she wants about him. Maybe they did have a fling. Maybe he doesn’t even remember her. Maybe she’s just promoting a book. Maybe she’s a famewhore. I have no idea. But if I banged Ralph (especially back in the 1990s, when he was so beautiful it caused me physical pain), I would be shouting it from the rooftops.
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