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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Hadley Freeman

Hillary begs for a date. And gets one. Maybe

Poor Hillary. It's not easy being married to a man who would probably shag a donut (if he didn't eat it first, 'course.) Probably doesn't help that her long-nurtured Lady Macbethish ambitions are getting stomped all over by a hot young guy with almost no experience, and a not so hot older guy with a bank account the size of the Third World's deficit. No matter how much botox, how extensive the makeovers or how many new blazers a woman gets, sometimes she just needs a little something extra to give one's deflating souffle of an ego a bit of a bolster - a bit of action with a (semi) hot pop star, say.

Which was presumably the thinking behind her worryingly desperate move this week when she phoned up the radio station KMXB in Las Vegas literally begging Adam Levine from Maroon 5 for a date. Rules, Hillary! Have you never read The Rules?

"Hillary said next time you're in DC she'd like to take you out to dinner," the radio show's producer told a not exactly palpably enthused Levine. "I love it, I will be there," he monotoned. Oh Hilary! We've all used some pathetic ploys in our time but this one takes the Hobnob! "I'm gonna dress classy for her, she's a classy lady," Levine kindly continued, adding that he would go for "YSL" although then fretted that this made him sound "gay."

Dear oh dear, Hils. Back to the drawing board, eh?

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