Friday, 18th September pm, Sunset: love E! dovey
One of the things which I get crap from my husband for is my deep love of US trashy magazines. Every week, I delight in buying People Magazine and US Weekly. As Mike says often, this habit rots my brain. But very occasionally it has its advantages: when it comes to US celebrity, there’s nothing I don’t know. So when Mike’s mate Brett said that he was going out with Catt Sadler, from E! Entertainment’s Daily 10, I was starstruck. Mike, ever the bloke, had no idea who he was referring to.
Catt, it turns out, is totally wonderful. A genuinely warm, lovely person and mother of two boys despite being reed thin. She and Brett have a fabulous love story and agreed to share it with us. They are four months in, and they are completely smitten, so we got them as an example of the “limerance” phase, when lust and passion still burn strong (oh how we yearn for those days).
They met on a plane. Both had been working out at the Indy 500 races in Indiana, and were heading back to LA. Brett, whose company sponsors one of the teams, had had a great week of high octane schmoozing, and Catt had been hosting an E! special engagement out there. Brett had been assigned the same seat as a large, hostile woman who immediately attacked him when he asked if that was her seat. To avoid her onslaught, he then moved to stand at the side (beside Catt’s seat). Catt, seeing him standing like a lemon, said that he was welcome to sit beside her until the problem was solved and he got a seat. He ended up staying there, the two of them clicked immediately, and they talked for the duration of the 5 hour flight.
The next day, Brett sent Catt a large parcel of goodies for her and her boys with a note saying “Here’s my phone number, but without the last number…”. He heard nothing for a week, and was thinking that Catt was not only not interested but actually rude, so he called a week later with hostile tones and left a message on her machine. At the exact moment that he was leaving his terse message, Catt had headed down to the shipping department at E! to collect a package from friend of hers and found, to her simultaneous delight (huge package for her from Brett) and horror (she realised that it was likely that it had been there for a while without anyone informing her about it), that she had received something from Brett. A tense phonecall between the two ensued, until the issue had been cleared up. And the rest is history. And it’s all in Catt’s blog – it just so happened that she had been asked to write a blog about relationships (how Carrie Bradshaw) for the summer. www.944.com/blog/personalities/cattsadler, so Brett became the “APG”, airplane guy – and she tells their story much better than I do.
It was fun to be around early love. Brett and Catt are still totally smitten, and they giggle, finish each others’ sentences, laugh playfully and flirtily with each other. I asked how it was for her being a known face – does she get approached by guys for the wrong reason? – and she said that she has had some guys just want her for arm candy, but refreshingly, Brett didn’t know who she was when they met. The other thing she said was that in her job, she reports Hollywood breakups and relationship scandals day in day out, so it’s easy to feel jaded – and yet here she was totally in love. It was wonderful to see.
