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What’s happening with Chelsea Handler and Ralph Fiennes?
The comic, 50, and the actor, 62, sparked romance rumors after they had been noticed leaving Self-importance Truthful’s Oscar get together arm-in-arm on Sunday, March 2. In images printed by People on Monday, March 3, Handler wore a strapless silver robe and her blond hair lengthy and wavy. Fiennes sported a black tuxedo with the jacket buttoned.
Us Weekly has reached out to reps for Handler and Fiennes for remark.
Earlier Sunday, Fiennes attended the Academy Awards, the place he was among the many Greatest Actor nominees for his function within the movie Conclave. He lost the trophy to The Brutalist star Adrien Brody.
Handler teased Fiennes whereas she hosted the Critics Selection Awards in Los Angeles final month. She stood subsequent to him within the viewers for a staged bit, joking that he “performed a ruthless Nazi, an evil lord and a celibate cardinal, and in some way you’ve made me need to have intercourse with you in all roles. … I’m begging you by no means play Vladimir Putin. I can’t try this once more.”
Handler had additionally included Fiennes in one other bit the place she referenced Nicole Kidman’s infamous milk-drinking scene in Babygirl. That movie “impressed me to rent a brand new horny intern,” Handler quipped, consuming a glass of milk. “Good lady. Good lady. Good lady,” Fiennes, taking part in alongside, mentioned encouragingly.
The Harry Potter star was beforehand married to actress Alex Kingston from 1993 to 1997, and later moved on with actress Francesca Annis. Handler beforehand dated fellow comic Jo Koy and now has a brand new man in her life.
“I’m courting. Courting is fantastic,” she told Us Weekly exclusively final month, with out naming her beau. “Now, I perceive what sort of date I’m. I would like lovers all world wide. I would like lovers throughout the globe.”
Handler told Us that she’s “very sincere and upfront with anybody who I’m courting, that you could be not be the one one. And if it is advisable to know, I’ll let you recognize, however I’m simply letting you recognize. Hopefully you don’t have to ask any additional questions.”
Handler mentioned she doesn’t “thrive with dependency,” particularly in a romantic relationship.
“I feel a lovely high quality in a person — essentially the most enticing high quality — which is difficult to return by, is to seek out small egos on males. Males who don’t have any egos,” Handler defined to Us. “Proper now, I’m courting somebody who has no ego. He’s superb at a whole lot of issues, however he’ll by no means ever present you. He doesn’t want that form of validation. He doesn’t have to be good at one thing. He doesn’t want to point out off.”
She additionally described a pleasant second they shared not too long ago.
“The opposite day, he goes, ‘God, you know the way fortunate I’m to be waking up subsequent to you. Have you learnt what number of males would die to get up subsequent to you?’ I needed to go, ‘Have you learnt what number of males would by no means in 1,000,000 years even take into consideration that?’ Nevermind, say it,” Handler mentioned. “What a candy factor to even assume. Then a sweeter factor to even say, as a result of simply by advantage of claiming that to somebody signifies that you don’t have an enormous ego.”