Andrew Rannells Reveals He Dated Anderson Cooper, Confirms Their Romance Inspired ‘Girls’ Storyline

Getty Images Girls actor Andrew Rannells is confirming that he dated CNN anchor Anderson Cooper years ago. The 47-year-old Book of Mormon star revealed the rumored info during an appearance on a recent episode of Obsessed: The Podcast . When did Anderson Cooper and Andrew Rannells date? Well, he revealed he was 25 at the time. By the way, Anderson is currently 59 years old. “I told Lena [Dunham] and [co-creator] Jenni Konner a story about when I was 25 that I had dated Anderson Cooper, and I told them about the experience and what that was like,” he explained. “Then it became the story that Elijah had in the series,” he added. He shared that they had “a very brief relationship,” and said about the Girls co-creators: “But when I told them that, they were like, ‘Oh, that’s a fun story.’” In Girls , Elijah becomes entangled with a high-powered man named Dill. He previously said the character was NOT based on Anderson Cooper “I think the general idea that he’s this powerful, you know, adult , is what’s important. For my money, his job could have been any number of things. It just represents that he’s very much from the outside of these characters’ world. When we shot that party sequence from Sunday’s episode, it was in this beautiful apartment, in beautiful clothes—it’s probably the best I’ve ever been dressed on the show—and it felt very foreign, like all of a sudden we were shooting this completely different show, because we were in this very grown-up situation. That’s what Dill represents,” Andrew told Elle in 2016. Anderson Cooper also responded to rumors that the character of Dill was based on him “I just met Lena Dunham at Sundance and she didn’t mention anything to me, but I’d be flattered. Wait— is that the guy Andrew Rannells’ [character] is dating? I thought he was more of a [Bill] O’Reilly character. I’m a friend of Andrew’s. I should ask him,” he once told the New York Post . The post Andrew Rannells Reveals He Dated Anderson Cooper, Confirms Their Romance Inspired ‘Girls’ Storyline appeared first on Just Jared - Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment .