6 celebrities who have dated politicians

Sheryl Lee Ralph of “Abbott Elementary” and her husband, Pennsylvania state senator Vincent Hughes. MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images Jane Fonda was married to California state senator Tom Hayden for 17 years. US Senator Cory Booker and Rosario Dawson dated for two years.

“Abbott Elementary” star Sheryl Lee Ralph’s husband Vincent Hughes is a Pennsylvania state senator. Elizabeth Taylor and future senator John Warner married in 1976 and remained friends after their divorce. Elizabeth Taylor and John Warner.

Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty ImagesTaylor and Warner met on a blind date at a bicentennial dinner in honor of Queen Elizabeth at the British Embassy in 1976 and were married a few months later. Warner then successfully ran for Congress in 1978 with Taylor drawing large crowds at campaign appearances, The Washington Post reported. The couple divorced in 1982, but remained friendly.

“We never had any real infractions between us — it was just that I became so absorbed in the Senate,” Warner told People magazine in a 2011 interview. “I’d go up every weekend to see her in New York. For a while we just managed married life.

Then she started plays in London and that became a little more difficult, and finally we just said, ‘Hey, let’s always remain good friends but let’s take the legal part and … go our separate ways. And that’s how it happened. “Jane Fonda was married to anti-war activist and California state senator Tom Hayden for 17 years.

Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda. Robin Platzer/IMAGES/Getty ImagesFonda and Hayden first connected when she gave a speech at a Vietnam War protest in 1971. They wed a year later and welcomed a son, Troy, in 1973.

They divorced in 1989, but continued their activist work together at Campaign California, according to the Los Angeles Times. Hayden died in 2016. “I needed someone far wiser and more knowledgeable than I was about movement-building and politics and all of that,” Fonda said of Hayden in a 2018 interview with The New Yorker.

“And he had this depth of knowledge, and he gave me structure and guidance, and I learned so much from him that I am forever grateful for. I miss him so much. “Orange is the New Black” star Kate Mulgrew was married to Tim Hagan, who ran for governor of Ohio.

Kate Mulgrew and Tim Hagan. Brad Barket/Getty ImagesMulgrew married Hagan, a county commissioner in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County, in 1999. He ran for governor of Ohio in 2002, but lost to his Republican challenger.

He announced his retirement from politics in 2010.   The couple divorced in 2014. Mulgrew currently plays Susan Sher, Michelle Obama’s chief of staff, on the Showtime series “The First Lady.

“Celebrity chef Sandra Lee and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo dated for 14 years before their split in 2019. Andrew Cuomo and Sandra Lee. James Devaney/FilmMagic/Getty ImagesLee rose to fame as the host of Food Network’s “Semi-Homemade Cooking With Sandra Lee.

” She met Cuomo in 2005 at a party in the Hamptons, according to Town and Country magazine. They broke up in 2019, though Lee told The New York Times in 2020 that she still spoke to Cuomo every day. Cuomo resigned from office in 2021 after multiple women came forward to say he had harassed and sexually assaulted them while serving as the state’s chief executive.

In his resignation announcement, he apologized for offending women with behavior he described as “outdated. “Senator Cory Booker and Rosario Dawson dated for two years. Senator Cory Booker and Rosario Dawson.

Bonnie Biess/Getty ImagesBooker and Dawson met in 2018 at a political fundraiser. After Booker said in a 2019 radio interview that he had a “boo,” Dawson confirmed their relationship to TMZ when she was spotted at the airport in Washington, DC, and later in an interview with The Washington Post. “He’s so charming and so confident and so capable, but it’s not like that translates to being some super-smooth kind of guy,” she told The Post.

“That’s not his style. What wins me over with him is definitely the dad jokes. “People magazine reported in February that Booker and Dawson had broken up after two years together.

Sheryl Lee Ralph is married to Pennsylvania state senator Vincent Hughes. Sheryl Lee Ralph and Vincent Hughes. MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty ImagesRalph, who has starred in “Moesha,” “Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit,” and currently plays Barbara Howard in “Abbott Elementary,” met Hughes through a mutual friend, according to People magazine.

They wed in 2005. “We believe in each other’s mission and each other’s work, and we’re both very focused on our children and our family,” Hughes told Essence magazine in a 2020 interview. “I think that really is the foundation.

I like what Sheryl’s about. Even when we don’t want to communicate with each other, we do. We pray for the strength to always turn toward each other when we have differences.

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