![]() Then, in season two, during a period when he was trying to stay faithful to Betty, he was coerced into sex by Bobbie, the wife of the comedian who controlled the Utz account. When it came to cheating, Don didn’t discriminate: he slept with clients and secretaries, but also with beatniks, his daughter’s teacher, slinky jetsetters, and so on. (Think of this as a maternal variation on “The Girlfriend Experience.”) But of course, Anna-that stoned blonde angel of California-was also living off his money, and serving his needs, if only for acceptance and forgiveness. You know that?” he spat at his wife Betty during their biggest fight, the one in which he also memorably sneered at her “little white nose in the air.” He’d spent years privately comparing bad Betty to his angelic “other” wife, Anna, the one who was never critical and who always forgave. He is still that “whore’s son,” the abused child of a prostitute who died in childbirth, who changed identities in order to escape that history, but managed to recreate it again and again. Don Draper, né Whitman, might look like the world’s fantasy of a man who doesn’t need to pay for sex, but over five seasons, he’s been both a whore and a pimp, as well as both an actual and a metaphorical john. The theme was the one that has dominated the show from the beginning: prostitution as a metaphor for the relationship between men, women, creatives, and clients (in every combination). As has been generally true of this season of “Mad Men,” it was also surreal, beautifully performed, and extremely tense. The pair often talked about their happy union – but at the end of last year Christina and Geoffrey, 42, were divorced.Īnnouncing their separation two months earlier, the actress said on Instagram : “We will always be grateful for the love we’ve shared and will always work together to raise our two beautiful dogs.And my, that was one queasy hour of TV. There’s people who have kids and people who don’t have kids. They tied the knot there in 2009 and Geoffrey later bought the chandelier as a gift for his wife.Ĭhristina has been open about not wanting children, saying: “I really don’t understand the hullabaloo around it. They dated for two years until Geoffrey proposed under a chandelier in New York’s Il Buco restaurant. “Of course, I went home immediately and Googled him.” I got his number that night under the pretence of, ‘We could just be friends.’ But in real life, Christina was introduced to her actor husband Geoffrey Arend in 2007 by Vincent Kartheiser, Mad Men’s Pete Campbell.ĭescribing that first meeting, Christina later said: “He was just charming, funny and very magnetic. “They decide the best solution is to rob a grocery store that just so happens to be secretly laundering money for a crime ring. “Together these three women find themselves in a situation where they need money just to survive,” said Christina. ![]() In the new season she tries to start her own criminal empire with Annie Marks and Ruby Hill, played by Mae Whitman and Retta. Her character, Beth, was last seen gunning down her crime boss lover, Rio. We’ll be friends forever.”Ĭhristina, 45, is speaking ahead of yet another hit series – the third run of Good Girls, which returns to Netflix later this month. We went through something very special together. “I see January Jones, Jon Hamm, John Slattery and some of the others. Mad Men, the smash-hit series about the tangled, torrid and cocktail-fuelled lives of staff at a 1960s Manhattan advertising agency, launched Christina’s career and ran for seven seasons.Īnd the friendships she made with fellow cast members remain as strong as one of ad man Don Draper’s infamous whiskies. Katie Price gives recovery update on Harvey after he's moved out of intensive care
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