To kickstart this summer break, I returned to New York looking forward to seeing a couple more of my favourite celebrities: author Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes, Good in Bed) and actress Lauren Graham (Parenthood).
Though my chats with the famous women were short, the trip was a great way to celebrate graduating from Western! Between shopping at Uniqlo and touring the Big Apple Sex and the City style with On Location tours, I started liking the city much more. Too bad we weren’t one of the lucky groups to run into Sarah Jessica Parker in her ‘hood. Regardless, I’ll definitely consider buying another tour from them, especially because they just launched a new TMZ-themed itinerary – my kind of vacation activity!
Since then, I’ve been organizing everything I moved home from London and waiting until I could attend another celebrity meet and greet during the Victoria Day long weekend. To date, I’ve met the actors who play Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, watched Jared Paledecki from afar at a Live @ Much event and now I can finally say I’ve met Rory’s dad too! David Sutcliffe, who once played Christopher, now stars in CBC’s Cracked, for which he made the transition from rom-com actor to a stern cop.
Until Sutcliffe’s English teacher encouraged him to join the school play, he expected to become a full-time jock. He went on to play varsity basketball at the University of Toronto, without attending a formal theatre school and now that he’s a full-fledged actor, Sutcliffe admits “it’s nice to be the centre of attention.”
Reflecting on how casting agents pegged Sutcliffe as the perfect leading man for romantic roles in film and TV, including the short lived series I’m With Her (which I loved, but few others did), Sutcliffe insists “getting typecast is not a conspiracy [but] it becomes hard to break out of that perception and that’s one of the reasons I came back to do Cracked.” Nevertheless, Sutcliffe grinned and said “it was nice to kiss pretty girls.” On that note, it’s worth mentioning that HELLO! named Sutcliffe one of Canada’s most beautiful Canadians.
