Sex and the City’s Candace Bushnell shares her dating secrets
Lock up your sons — and grandpa, too.
Candace Bushnell, 64, proved age really is just a number with the revelation she once dated both a 21-year-old and a 91-year-old in the same week.
The “Sex and the City” scribe dished the eyebrow-raising detail during an interview with Us Weekly on Monday, confirming a Page Six report about her colorful love life that ran in May of last year.
“You know, I have so many crazy dating adventures. I mean, one week I dated a guy who was 21 and a guy who was 91,” Bushnell declared. “Nobody tells you this is gonna happen. Like, that the age range is going to be 60 years.”
The sexed-up sexagenarian — who is currently single — says the reason she doesn’t rule out any potential paramours based on age is because “nobody knows” how a couple’s chemistry will play out.
“That’s why I’ll go out with a 21-year-old and a 91-year-old,” she explained. “I’m like, ‘I don’t know, nobody knows.’ I’m divorced, so I don’t have all the answers. [But] that’s kind of [my] attitude toward dating. That you never know.”
In May last year, one of Bushnell’s buddies spilled to Page Six that the best-selling author was seeing a male model born in the early 2000s.
Bushnell purportedly met her “dark-eyed, tousle-haired boy toy” at a Fashion Week show in the spring of that year and subsequently started “taking him everywhere,” according to the socialite source.
The insider additionally revealed that the author was also “being pursued by a 91-year-old suitor.”
However, her romances with the college-age stud and the senior citizen both fizzled — Bushnell is now back on the market.
Elsewhere in her interview with Us Weekly, Bushnell spoke out about the constant comparisons made between her and her fictional heroine, Carrie Bradshaw.
In the 1990’s, the New Yorker notably wrote a column for the New York Observer that’s typically cited as the real-life inspiration for the “Sex and the City” protagonist.
But she told a reporter that they don’t actually share many similarities.
“I don’t feel like the character is me. I didn’t marry a rich man,” Bushnell stated. “I didn’t marry Mr. Big. But I’m single again. I’m dating, I have been for a while. And I’m always working and coming up with new ideas. I’m about being your own Mr. Big as I like to say.”
Bushnell was married to ballet dancer Charles Askegard from 2002-2012.
She has also dated Spin publisher and Penthouse heir Bob Guccione Jr., Sen. Al D’Amato, model Michael Bergin and Talk magazine co-founder, Ron Galotti, who purportedly served as the inspiration for the on-screen Mr. Big.
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