First let me sing Betty White’s praises for her hysterical turn on the second season premiere of one of my top five shows, NBC’s Community. Betty played a smack-talking anthropology professor and she was excellent. Unfortunately she wasn’t on last week’s second episode, but I just checked her IMDB page and she’ll be back this week! Yeah!
Betty is pretty busy lately, and stars in the TV Land series Hot in Cleveland along with the new film You Again, with Jamie Lee Curtis and Sigourney Weaver. As part of promotion for You Again, the stars appear on the cover of AARP Magazine. The accompanying interview has some gems from Betty, including details on her crush on Robert Redford, which she’s mentioned before. Betty talks about sex and says she’d love to get some if she had the right mad. She also has a lot of sweet things to say about her husband, who passed away in 1981.
Betty White scoffs at the question.
“Does desire melt away with age? I’m waiting for that day to come,” the 88-year-old tells AARP Magazine in its November/December issue. “Sexual desire is like aging,” she continues, pointing at her head. “A lot of it is up here.”
White, who shares the magazine’s cover with two of her You Again costars Jamie Lee Curtis and Kristin Bell, tells the magazine that her first marriage was totally physical. “I married my first husband because we wanted to sleep together,” she says. “It lasted six months and we were in bed for six months.”
After a disastrous second marriage, White met game show host Allen Ludden. She says they were a match made in heaven – even though she wasn’t initially interested. “He bought me a beautiful ring and I threw it back at him,” she recalls, “so he wore it on a chain around his neck. He said, ‘I’m going to wear it until you put it on your finger.’ ”
It worked, and the couple walked down the aisle in 1963, and stayed together until his death in 1981. “The secret to our marriage was enthusiasm,” White says. “When I knew Allen was coming home, I would freshen my makeup and put on a new blouse.”
And the sex was apparently great, too. If Ludden were alive today, White thinks they’d still be sleeping together. But if he were unavailable, White has a second choice. “I don’t have a fella,” she says, “but if Allen – or Robert Redford – were around, we’d have a very active sex life.”
[From People]
That’s really sweet! Robert Redford recently married his longterm girlfriend, so he’s out of the running, but Betty could use a hot boyfriend who dotes on her. It must be very hard at her age to meet someone worthy. She’s got a better chance though, now that she’s made it known that she’s looking.
CoverAwards has more quotes from Betty from this interview, and she complains about hanging out with women. This is pretty damn funny:
“I’m still bleeding over losing Ruesy [the late actress and Golden Girls costar Rue McClanahan], who was my dear friend. But as much as I love my friends, I wouldn’t think of going out to lunch with a woman. I can’t think of anything less interesting, except hen parties and showers — and I avoid them like the plague.” Oh Betty, you just need friends who can keep up with you!
Betty is reportedly writing her memoirs and has a two book deal. Her first book is due out next year, and I can’t wait to hear more about her life.
Here’s Betty with her departed husband, Allen Ludden.
