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\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Girls<\/em> actor Andrew Rannells<\/strong><\/a> is confirming that he dated CNN anchor Anderson Cooper<\/strong><\/a> years ago.<\/p>\n The 47-year-old Book of Mormon<\/em> star revealed the rumored info during an appearance on a recent episode of Obsessed: The Podcast<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Well, he revealed he was 25 at the time. By the way, Anderson <\/strong>is currently 59 years old.<\/p>\n \u201cI told Lena [Dunham]<\/strong> and [co-creator] Jenni Konner <\/strong>a story about when I was 25 that I had dated Anderson Cooper, and I told them about the experience and what that was like,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n \u201cThen it became the story that Elijah had in the series,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n He shared that they had \u201ca very brief relationship,\u201d and said about the Girls<\/em> co-creators: \u201cBut when I told them that, they were like, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s a fun story.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n In Girls<\/em>, Elijah becomes entangled with a high-powered man named Dill.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the general idea that he\u2019s this powerful, you know,\u00a0adult<\/em>, is what\u2019s important. For my money, his job could have been any number of things. It just represents that he\u2019s very much from the outside of these characters\u2019 world. When we shot that party sequence from Sunday\u2019s episode, it was in this beautiful apartment, in beautiful clothes\u2014it\u2019s probably the best I\u2019ve ever been dressed on the show\u2014and it felt very foreign, like all of a sudden we were shooting this completely different show, because we were in this very grown-up situation. That\u2019s what Dill represents,\u201d Andrew <\/strong>told Elle<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cI just met Lena Dunham at Sundance and she didn\u2019t mention anything to me, but I\u2019d be flattered. Wait\u2014 is that the guy Andrew Rannells\u2019 [character] is dating? I thought he was more of a [Bill] O\u2019Reilly character. I\u2019m a friend of Andrew\u2019s. I should ask him,\u201d he once told the New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Posted To:Anderson Cooper<\/a> Andrew Rannells<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhen did Anderson Cooper and Andrew Rannells date?<\/h3>\n
He previously said the character was NOT based on Anderson<\/strong> Cooper<\/h3>\n
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Anderson Cooper also responded to rumors that the character of Dill was based on him<\/h3>\n
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