Congrasha to 65-year-old Dennis Quaid on his engagement to 26-year-old Laura Savoie. Per UsWeekly, he proposed with a five century old ring, which makes it about 20 times older than her. They have been dating since June of this year. A long time!
Quaid with a dog voiced by Josh Gad. Source: Joe Lederer / Universal Pictures
Elaine Hendrix, the actress that played Meredith Blake in the Parent Trap remake starring Lindsay Lohans, provided her own commentary on the news. Quaid, by the way, is the father of young twins with his most recent ex wife.
I recommend this delightful article about how Hendrix and actress Lisa Ann Walter became best friends while pretending to hate each other on the set of The Parent Trap.
Ms. Savoie previously dated 54-year-old Jeremy Piven, which I guess probably aged her spirit quite a bit. I know next to nothing about her apart from the fact that she’s getting a PhD at the University of Texas. So she is intelligent in certain areas of her life, although, I have personally observed people with PhDs from UT be complete and total idiots. I presume she’s getting what she wants out of the arrangement with the old man, for now at least.
Dennis, well…let’s get into that. This will be his fourth marriage should the happy couple make it down the aisle. He seems like the kind of guy who can’t be alone and always needs a woman around to stroke his ego.
His first marriage was to actresses P.J. Soles. After their split, he was engaged to actress Lea Thompson, but the never married. Thompson had Fun Online when the news of his latest proposal broke.
Dennie Boy’s most high profile relationship was with Meg Ryan, who he married in 2001. Quaid and Ryan agree that her affair with Russell Crowe ended the marriage in 2000, and her career fizzled out in the fallout as she was painted as a home wrecker. However, she alleges (and he denies) that he cheated on her throughout the marriage.
Meg, fortunately, has moved on is engaged to John Cougar Mellencamp. Laura Bush, as always killed a man.
Dennis gave his own post mortem of the relationship to Megyn Kelly back when she still had a TV show:
When we met I was the big deal, We’d go out on the streets of New York and it would be like, ‘Meg! Meg!’ And I have to admit it, I actually did feel like I disappeared. I didn’t think I was that small, but I was. It was a growth opportunity — I learned from that.
Unclear if by “growth” he means humility or simply being more strategic about who he dates to make sure he always feels important. Since that divorce, the women Big Boy Quaid has been linked to have been significantly less famous than him, sticking to primarily to models if they’re in the entertainment industry at all.
His Dinner With Friends co-star, Andie McDowell was his first (known) girlfriend after Meg Ryan. Some blind items on Crazy Days and Nights have alluded to McDowell coaching daughter Margaret Qualley on the ins and outs of celebrity dating based on her experience with Quaid. ALLEGEDLY, she advised her daughter that getting her love life in the tabloids would be a nice career boost (her relationship with Quaid did the trick) but she was adamant that Qualley not bring Pete Davidson as her Emmy date, because there would be too much focus on him.
Qualley has now now graduated from the Brunette Famous Lady School of Briefly Dating Pete Davidson and will no longer be kissing a face that looks suspiciously like her own face.
Thrilled for you, Margaret! (Did u know that her sister is a singer/model who dated Twin Shadow?)
Anyway, Petey is now spending time with a new brunette celebuspawn, Kaia Gerber, who recently turned 18. Her mom is Cindy Crawford and her dad is Randy Gerber, who you may know as George Clooney’s very best friend/tequila biz partner. We can get into that whole deal another time!
BACK 2 QUAID
In addition to his romance with MacDowell in 2001, Quaid dated MY GIRL Shanna Moakler, ex wife of Travis Barker and host of the most psychotic reality show of them all, Bridalplasty.
He had a few more short-lived romances before marrying real estate agent Kimberly Buffington in 2004. She filed for divorce in 2012, but called it off a month later. But then later that year, it was our boy Dennis’s turn to file divorce papers. They got back together in 2013 and managed to make it until 2016 without filing for divorce even once! The last one stuck, and their divorce was finalized in 2018, six years after the initial filing.
Quaid kept busy during his divorce dating model Santa Auzina up until earlier this year, at which point his current fiancee came into the picture.
TRISSUES RECOMENDS
Pang by Caroline Polachek and this essay about the album and woman as machine. Devon Welsh’s new album, True Love, also (predictably) gutted me.
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