If we’ve learned anything about celebrities, it’s that having a dog makes them more attractive to the gossip-loving public. Instantly, Bradley Cooper became less milquetoast when he started trucking his rescue pup to interviews. Also quite promising was the canine-centered romance of Amanda Seyfriend and Josh Hartnett when most of the time, those two fail to turn heads (together or separately) without their four-legged sidekicks in tow. So would this work for Ashley Greene? God knows her publicist has tried everything else, and now Ashley is putting the dog-as-publicity-magnet theory to the test by (probably) leaking a story to Star about how she loves her two dogs so much that she can’t bear her time away from them while travelling and living the life of an incredibly famous starlet. So she Skypes with her puppies. Really:
Ashley Greene’s love life is going to the dogs — literally! Despite being one of the hottest starlets in Hollywood, the Twilight Saga beauty prefers face time with her pooches instead of a boyfriend. “Ashley travels a lot for work and misses her dogs,” a friend says. “They’re like her children — she makes her assistant set up a computer so she can video chat with them every day.
The 25-year-old, who dated Joe Jonas and Broadway star Reeve carney, admits that it’s easier to maintain a relationship with her pups, Marlo and Theo, than to find a quality man who isn’t using her for fame. “Sometimes I wish I could just go back to Florida and, like, date my home-town boyfriend,” Ashley moaned to British GQ magazine. At least her doggies’ motives are pure — but their breath may be a different story!
[From Star, print edition, November 27, 2012]
I don’t know — Ashley is generally insufferable for her attitude, but this is kind of cute. I’m totally falling for this story! However, I wonder whether or not her dogs actually realize she’s talking to them through a computer. I’ve got two dogs myself, and if I tried this, I would bet that one of them would actually recognize what was going on, and the other would probably be ignoring me while digging through the house for food. Oh well, it’s probably more for Ashley than for the dogs. Isn’t it odd that she’s got an assistant though? That’s the one part of the story that throws me off the scent.
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I mean I’d get this if you were calling someone at house, a friend or boyfriend or family member, and asked to see the dogs too cause you miss them but skyping JUST the dogs? Kinda dumb. Her time though … she can do what she wants with it but if this was a ploy to get me to like her more it failed.
DUMB. But considering the source, probably not true.
+1
And if it’s true it’s dumb – she’d just confuse the dogs!
it seems dumb. But maybe it’s not and I’m just biased because it’s Ashlee Greene.
you’d have to have fame before a guy could use you for it..
I got no problem with this story, although I believe she’s her own assistant.
my mum phoned to her dog when she’s in holiday and her dog barks when he hears her voice so why not (even if Greene’s probably untrue)
If you check on youtube you can find some videos of people using skype with their dogs. They can hear your voice, they react to it.
As a former owner of two dogs I know they suffer when you’re not there for long period, so my opinion is why not.
I’m living 2,500 miles away from home right now and I always ask my mom to bring my dog to the computer when we skype! I talk like an idiot to the screen and he just acts like a dog. Every now and then I’ll get an ear perk or a “WTF” look, and that’s enough encouragement for me to keep doing it.
Ooh the Wtf doggy look is priceless! 🙂 I usually melt when a puppy does it, it’s too damn cute.
My mom would call her house and talk into the answering machine while she was at work twice a day to her dog, Bijou. Yes, she STILL has an answering machine. Couple of times when I was home and she did this, Bijou would start barking at the machine, wagging his tail like crazy, and tried to jump up on the nightstand. So I can totally see this.
That is the most adorable thing I’ve ever heard.
Why does she need an assistant again? To answer all 5 of the Twilight fan letters she’s gotten in 4 years?
Yeah that was a turnoff, IMO..would have come across better if she said her mom/sibling/friend helped her skype w her dogs…just strange she would “need” an assistant. She should take some tips from Jennifer Lawrence.
Jesus, that top. I can’t get over how she dresses that waistless and boxy torso of hers. She needs to wear more structured clothes to give her the illusion of a waist. What? Something about dogs? I could care less.
I don’t have any pets, but, seeing how my friends treat their pets- I believe this and think a lot more people behave like this than would admit. No problem, it’s harmless and about love. ( If not a little needy).
Where are the Kellan posts?!!
I need some Lutz lolz…
It’s both dumb AND cute.
When I had to board my cat at my vet’s kennel over the Labor Day weekend, I called them everyday to check in on her. And yup, they let me skype her, too. And no, I didn’t tell a soul about this, not even my own husband.
When I had to board my cat at my vet’s kennel over the Labor Day weekend, I called them everyday to check in on her. And yup, they let me skype her, too. And nope, I didn’t tell a soul about this, not even my own husband.
She really annoys me for some reason. A bit full of herself I’d say.
I swear everytime I see this girl I can’t help but to picture 80’s singer Toni Basil singing “Oh Mickey you’re so fine,you’re so fine you blow my mind.Hey Mickey!!” Anybody with me on this one?
It’s stupid, but full disclosure here about myself in that I’m stupid like this, too:
I was in the hospital until yesterday with a gallbladder attack and had to have surgery. I have two cats, one 10 years old and one not yet a year old.
I wasn’t worried about the kitten because she’s a baby and her attention span is limited, but my older cat has gone through a lot in the last three years because we’ve lost another cat and two dogs to old age–you can’t explain to a pet why another pet just suddenly isn’t coming home, so my older cat grieved a lot. Then my brother moved back to California and she was close to him, so she grieved for him, too.
So yeah, I was worried that she would think I’d just disappeared for good, too, and had my mother put the phone up to her ear several times while I wasn’t home.