We need to talk about the Josh Radnor “Vows” column
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Every once in a while a piece of reporting simply blows you away. I will always remember where I was when I clicked on the following barnburner by The New York Times’ Katherine Rosman:
It is, as the headline and dek suggest, a “Vows” column featuring How I Met Your Mother star Josh Radnor and his random new psychologist wife. Maybe you’re thinking, But I don’t care about How I Met Your Mother star Josh Radnor and his random new psychologist wife? WRONG. You do. Let’s discuss.
Radnor, 49, is not a typical tabloid target, even though he is undoubtedly rich and also famous to anyone who watched CBS between 2005 and 2014. He has mostly kept his personal life quiet over the years, with the exception of dating the serial celebrity monogamist Minka Kelly in 2016. But now, Radnor is ready to go public with his love by unwittingly embarrassing himself in the Styles section, as so many have done before.
Rosman is at the peak of her powers with this story; I recommend reading it in full here. But the highlights:
Radnor and his 36-year-old bride, Dr. Jordana Jacobs, got married in upstate New York on the third anniversary of the insurrection at the Capitol. “We decided we would rebrand Jan. 6,” he told Rosman. HAHA.
The couple held the ceremony 1) outdoors, 2) in a major snowstorm they knew was coming, 3) which ultimately forced everyone to stay overnight, even the band and the caterers and Rosman (HERO)
“Guests received welcome bags containing incense sticks, an incense dish, CBD tincture and an ‘intention kit’ with paper and a pen. ‘We find that setting an intention can be a helpful way to drop in and calibrate your internal compass to true north,’ the instructions read.”
Radnor and Jacobs met for the first time tripping on mushrooms at a “sound meditation retreat” duhhhh
Despite being interested in Jacobs, Radnor bitched out after their first date, telling Jacobs he had a “vulnerability hangover” and his “walls had gone up.”
But it all worked out in the end. They got engaged in — say it with me — Joshua Tree :)
Here’s how one of the friends they deputized to talk to The New York Times about them described their relationship: “They are in a perpetual ‘college-dorm-go-deep’ mode that most adults abandon after graduation.”
Hahahaha I wish these two a long, contemplative life together.
In more exciting relationship news, Tom Brady and Irina Shayk are back together. The 46-year-old retired quarterback and the 38-year-old model were spotted at Brasserie Fouquet in New York last week, and according to Us Weekly, they have been on many other “private” dates recently.
The pair see each other “several times a week,” a source reveals. And they “are into each other,” another source adds. Nice!
Shayk’s ex Bradley Cooper, meanwhile, is committing to the Gigi Hadid bit. The two were photographed HOLDING HANDS FOR THE FIRST TIME in London yesterday. And Cooper was still wearing that dang hat. Sadly, the public nature of this relationship was not enough to earn him a Best Director nod from the Academy.
STUFF BY HILARY DUFF: Just four short years after the onset of the global coronavirus pandemic, Hilary Duff has started making sourdough bread. She loves it!
Finally, I’ll leave you with the news that Sofia Richie is with child:
For those keeping score, that’s one Vogue wedding story and one Vogue pregnancy announcement in less than a year. Congrats!
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I love remembering that Minka Kelly and the Imagine Dragons guy are together because out of all her public serial monogamies (lol), it feels like the best match yet?? Like of COURSE the ID guy gets swole and dates Minka Kelly, that’s the trying-to-be-a-hunk pipeline, but they both seem really into it therefore I am 😂
Side note, I am deceased at the Gigi/BC pap walk body language. They look like Roblox characters
OBSESSED with that vows column. So much low-key shade. Her original byline for this was: “Katherine Rosman was stranded in a snowstorm at the wedding venue and spent the night in a top bunk in a cabin with some of the bride’s friends from high school.”