Brooke Shields relied on her close 'confidant,' former President George H.W. Bush, for dating advice and had her own nickname for the former president of the United States.
Brooke Shields considered former President George H.W. Bush such a close 'confidant' that she would ask him just about anything. Shields, 59, admitted that she considered the late politician her substitute grandfather during an event to support the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy's New York Celebration of Reading event at the Lotos Club.
call him Papa Bush. I was dating somebody was an ambassador in Bermuda … He was my confidant about this boyfriend,' she said, per Page Six. Lauren Bush Lauren, Bush's granddaughter and host of the event, laughed as she recalled, 'He loved some good gossip.' Shields dated Kelly Gaines in the early '90s. His father, Eb Gaines, was the head of the U.S. consulate in Bermuda under Bush. Shields once told Redbook in 1991 that Kelly was a better kisser than John F. Kennedy Jr.
When I kissed him I got a tingly feeling in my tummy that I didn’t when I kissed John Junior,' she said. Now married to film director Chris Henchy, 'Papa Bush' approved of her husband. She once received a call from Bush in 2010 while she was shooting a movie two hours away from the Bush family compound in Maine.
pick up the phone — no introduction or nothing. ‘Rumor has it, you’re close to Kennebunkport’ if you do not come and visit me young lady, you’re in big trouble,'' Shields recalled. 'I said, ‘OK sir, thank you. I’ll be there as soon as I can.’ I call my husband, and I’m like, ‘We’ve got to go to Kennebunkport.’ She added, 'My husband arrives late, and I go, ‘You have to play golf.’ I think he played three times in his life.
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