Defamer
As Nip/Tuck's long suffering Julia McNamara, Joely Richardson has for four seasons now been subjected to the bizarre and often sadistic whims of that series' writing staff, including a major arc this season in which we follow the stay-at-home plastic surgeon's wife carry a baby she knew would be born with flippers for hands to term. Richardson now finds herself reluctantly having to abandon her deformed TV child to tend to the needs of her actual child, as the London Daily News is reporting that Richardson has alerted producers that she would need to take leave from the series in order to accompany her teenage daughter back to England for a series of serious medical procedures to treat a circulatory birth defect:
"Surgeons and hospitals have been a big part of our lives. We were always told that she would have to have more surgery when she got older. The time has come," the actress revealed. [...]Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy said: "It was sad, but Joely came before her character." [...]
Miss Richardson... has also dated her co-star John Hensley, who curiously plays her teenage son Matt, despite being only 12 years younger than her. [...]At the age of 24 she embarked on a fling with Scottish landowner Archie Stirling who was more than twice her age and also married to actress Diana Rigg. [...]
In 1992, she married [the teenager's father, Tim] Bevan, co-founder of Working Title, the studio behind Bridget Jones's Diary.[...]
Bevan left her for 24-year-old Amy Gadney and Miss Richardson filed for divorce in 1997. A fling with Robbie Williams...followed.
We're not entirely sure why the Daily Mail chose to end a depressing story about an actress forced to leave the work she loves over her daughter's serious illness with a meanspirited laundry list of her failed and sometimes misguided past affairs. That said...She dated Matt? Seriously? Our TV watching universe hasn't been turned this oedipally upside-down since the soul-scarring day we learned the ugly truth about Greg and Mrs. Brady.
- Joely quits Nip/Tuck to take care of her ill daughter [DailyMail.co.uk]
Comments
Well Jesus, I would certainly hope she would put her child before her acting career. I don't get the point of all this, mothers all over the world have to do this daily. What's so special about her that this should make such headlines.
Going to England voluntarily for major surgery on a minor? Didn't think it's possible, but that makes her more crazy that she is a whore.
Please Ryan Murphy do not let this be an opportunity to extend Rosie's role on the series NONONONONONONO
Plus Gwen (above) bit extreme to call her a whore, no?
OH, yeah and that laundry list of failed love affairs is standard UK tabloid practice they never let you forget anyone you might have shagged however misguidedly...
Seth, darling. Are we still doing that voting thing?
I don't know anything about circulatory disorders - what sort of problem might her daughter have that would require surgery now?
I don't know what it's called technically but it's common when there are bundles of veins knotted around each other to wait until the child has ostensibly stopped growing to attempt to unwind them.
Yes. Watch the older episodes of Nip/Tuck again. This time, imagine the make-up sex they have after their mother-son arguments. It's vomit-inducing in a strangely pleasing way.
I don't see the attraction. I think the Matt guy is heinous. Hung?
'Matt guy', was Michael Jackson's first attempt at a clone back in the 80's.
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