Isla Fisher (Wedding Crashers) is married to Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) and they just had a baby together. Here’s Isla doing cartwheels on the beach in a red one-piece bathing suit. Fascinating. I hope we can agree that this has been an illuminating experience for all of us. Ultra HQ of header photo here.
Egad. Just who is in charge of wardrobe on the set of Confessions of a Shopaholic?
Check out Isla Fisher’s awful outfit. That shaggy nasty brown thing she is wearing reminds me of a toilet rug! The gloves, the beret, the belt…it’s all too much! Without all the above and adding maybe a sleek pair of black open-toed slingbacks, she could be stylin’. But barf! This looks like something ‘Carrie’ would wear!
Hey remember when Isla Fisher was all like “I just had a baby and all I’m gonna do is motherhood for years and years because nothing else is important at all and who needs films and celebrity and paychecks when you have a baby?”
That was four months ago.
And here’s Isla on the set of her new film, Confessions of a Shopaholic.
Ryan Reynolds might be known for, actually I have no idea what he is known for. Except dating Alanis Morissette, and now Scarlett Johansson, and being really cute. Really cute. He’s also out promoting a new romantic comedy, and is keen to share his romantic credentials.
Ryan said: “It was a few years ago, but I once flew all the way to London to have lunch with this girl I was dating.
“She lived in the UK and I was in the US obviously. We had just started dating and didn’t really get to see as much of each other as we would have like to because of the distance and work. So I just jumped on a plane to be with her.”
Despite his splashing out on the grand romantic gesture, Ryan refused to pick up the tab for lunch.
He added to Britain’s Heart radio station: “I had to leave the very same day so it was pretty romantic but expensive. I made her buy the sandwich though!”
Aw, this is just like in the movies. Which makes me suspect that it might actually just be a clever ploy to get us thinking all lovely and romantic and in the mood to see his latest flick Definitely Maybe. Is this cynical of me? Should we just accept that Ryan Reynolds is an incurable romantic, good, kind and strong, and this is just the kind of thing he’d do? Or should we declare it a shrewd marketing ploy, like how Hollywood is forever creating fictional relationships that ours in reality can’t match?
Ryan indirectly explained how he became such a sensitive guy. He was the youngest of four brothers and empathized with his mother’s plight at dealing with a house full of testosterone:
It didn’t help that Reynolds grew up as the youngest in a family where his father and two of his three brothers are very tall policemen. Maybe they could help out if he ever gets into trouble?
“I doubt that. If I ever get into trouble I’m f—ed. Those guys will see to it. I think their dream is to arrest me. They’re my brothers - it’s their job to some degree to make my life hell. I would never give them that satisfaction.”
How did he live with all that testosterone and turn out to be such a sensitive guy? “I have no idea. I think it was having empathy for my mother, who was dealing with these five horrific ogres in our house all the time. Having that empathy for her has fostered a sensitivity in me.”
Under that romantic exterior he’s got some testosterone in his system, and he probably picked up some of his brother’s naughty tricks. And like every good tough guy, he won’t stand a word against his mother.
Ryan must be doing something right. He’s going home at night to Scarlett Johansson.
Picture note by Celebitchy: Here are stills from Definitely, Maybe thanks to Allmoviephoto. Ryan’s costars Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz, Isla Fisher and Abigail Breslin are also shown. Definitely Maybe is out in US theaters on February 14. Here’s the trailer, it looks cute:
The details were initially hazy about the birth of Sacha Baron Cohen and his fiance Isla Fisher’s first baby last month. Reports in Fisher’s native Australia declared correctly that the pair had a girl, but the exact date and place of the birth was unknown. Later rumors had their baby a boy, with the name incorrectly given as “Sandler James.”
It turns out that the Borat comedian and his fiance did have a girl last month, and that her name is Olive. Instead of opting for a high-paid magazine reveal, the hilarious impersonator and his lovely girlfriend decided to let the paparazzi take pictures yesterday as they stood outside a hotel. They looked happy and relaxed, smiling and showing the baby. Their good friends Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber also decided to debut their newborn by letting photographers have unpaid access to pictures. Naomi showed off little Alexander Pete Schreiber to paparazzi when he was two weeks old.
Isla looks incredible, and their baby is so cute! Babies are so adorable at that age. I remember an elderly woman coming up to my husband and me when our son was a month old and telling us how fast it all went. Now that he’s three I realize how right she was.
Baron Cohen will next appear in the film Bruno, in which he dupes people with his alter ego, a flaming Austrian talk show host. Fisher says she intends to be a stay-at-home mom.
Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen are the proud parents of a baby girl, according to reports in Fisher’s native Australia. Not much more is known other than the sex of the baby and it is unclear when the baby was born. Fisher’s rep claims to know nothing about it, so maybe she just hasn’t talked to the happy couple yet.
Australian actress Isla Fisher has reportedly given birth to a baby girl.
Sources said Fisher, who is married to English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen - the creator Borat and Ali G, has given birth. However, a spokeswoman from her agent, Shanahan Management, said they knew nothing about it, Fairfax reported.
Fisher, who is finding success in Hollywood, told The Daily Mail on Tuesday that she was happy to take a break from her career to concentrate on being a mum.
Isla was seen out last week and looked healthy and ready to have her baby. She has no plans to work in the near future and says she is not going to worry about losing weight or missing out on work.
Congratulations to Isla and Sacha and hopefully they picked a decent name for their little one.
Update: Celebrity Baby Blog is reporting that they had a boy, not a girl, and that he was born on Wednesday morning at 11 and his name is Sadler James.
I applaud this kind of common sense attitude, for all mothers not just Hollywood types. Isla also says she plans on focusing on parenthood and colouring books “for the next few years”. Still, according to IMDB.com Isla has at least one movie scheduled for next year. And I had forgotten, but she wrote two novels before going on to act in Australian soap opera Home and Away. Maybe she could write colouring books?
She still gets recognised for her role as nymphomaniac Gloria in the movie Wedding Crashers.
“Recently I was in the supermarket when this guy must have recognised me as Gloria,” she said.
“He just kind of screamed and ran away from me in the cheese section.
“It was absolutely brilliant. But I do like to think that some people might actually have liked Gloria.”
Isla is in a new movie called Hot Rod, in which she plays a stuntman’s dream girl.
Picture note by Celebitchy: Here is Isla at the Hot Rod movie premiere on 7/26/07. According to IMDB, she has three movies coming out next year: Definitely, Maybe, the animated movie Horton Hears a Who, and Groupies. All but Groupies are finished filming, so she won’t have a lot on her plate. Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures.
Sascha Baron Cohen’s fiancé Isla Fisher is reportedly pregnant with their first child. She announced it at Los Angeles’ the Cat and Fiddle pub where she downed a couple of Vodka shots in celebratory bliss. The Daily Star says
“Isla called everyone to a toast and gushed, ‘We have got good news. I am pregnant.’”
Isla’s rep refused to confirm and told everyone that Cohen and Fisher will decide if an announcement is necessary. Ok rep, you’re totally useless. Four dads sounds pretty cool though and that’s what this kid is gonna get. Sascha Cohen, Ali G, Borat, Bruno. Holy crap, this kid might grow up to be the best impersonator ever or end up being a really hairy gay wigger Kazakh. Ver nice!
Here’s Isla at the premiere of “The Lookout” which sparked the pregnancy rumors.
Page Six reports that Sacha Baron Cohen, better known as Borat, Ali G and Bruno, didn’t pose for pictures at a pre Golden Globes party. He looks a bit reluctant posing with his Globe at the Paramount after party in these pictures. They say he wants to stay out of the spotlight and it could be so that he can continue pulling the wool over people’s eyes while in character. He’s about to film a new movie as another one of his alter egos, flaming Austrian fashion commentor Bruno, and doesn’t want to be recognized.
Stardom seems to have gone to the head of Sacha Baron Cohen, who attended HBO’s pre-Golden Globes party at the Chateau Marmont, but refused to pose for photos. “He needs to stop being so recognizable,” laughed one spy.
Cohen - who seems more comfortable when he stays in character as Ali G or Borat - is said to be “shunning publicity” to prepare for his next movie, where he’ll star as his third character, the flamboyant Austrian fashion reporter Bruno.
My favorite Bruno bit is when he interviews a Miami club owner and asks him how he makes sure undesirables - like people in wheelchairs - can’t get in. The guy answers all serious-like that he just puts people off to the side and makes them wait. (At least that’s how I remember it.)
I’ve read this before about Cohen, and it seems like he wants to keep his personal life private and is only comfortable being in the spotlight when he’s in character. He’s dedicated to the Jewish faith and keeps the Sabbath, which seems like a wild contrast to the misogynistic Kazakh who sang “throw the Jew down the well” to a room full of cheering yokels.
I wonder what kind of psychological issues that can create in a person. There was a story in mid November about Hugh Laurie saving Cohen from getting beaten up by an angry guy on the street who was the victim of one of Borat’s pranks. Commentors said at that time that Cohen is a lot like Andy Kaufman of Taxi fame. Poor Boopie said “This is a guy who does not like to be out of character and blurs the line between character and reality.” (Andy Kaufman was so good at character-based comedy, that some fans still doubt that Kaufman is dead, calling it an elaborate hoax. Kaufman was said to have died in 1984 of renal failure caused by a rare form of lung cancer. Kaufman was a non-smoker and told people that he waunted to fake his death.)
There seems to be a difference between playing a role for years, like on a long-running soap opera, and pretending you actually are that character when you meet other people IRL. Maybe Cohen just doesn’t want fans to know who he is so they’ll be more convinced by his obnoxious characters. It’s got to affect him, thogh, and his kind of apologetic look here suggests that the “real” Cohen isn’t that comfortable in the spotlight.
Here’s Cohen’s Golden Globe acceptance speech. He seems all serious in the beginning, and then cracks a joke about having his costar sit on his face:
Update: pictures removed due to end of subscription agreement with photo agency.