I’m about to get super-real: I do not believe that Leonardo DiCaprio is somehow “above” famewhoring a romance for the purposes of an Oscar campaign. If you believe he is “above” it, then God bless. But Leo has been denied an Oscar FIVE times already. He’s already being shortlisted this year by tons of critics who expect him to garner his sixth Oscar nomination for The Revenant. Leo would potentially face heavy competition from the likes of Eddie Redmayne, Michael Fassbender, Bryan Cranston, Matt Damon, maybe Michael Keaton and Johnny Depp. What would make Leo stand out in a crowded field? What could he do to change it up this year? What worked for Benedict Cumberbatch last year? And to a lesser degree – because I don’t believe he famewhored it at all – what worked for Eddie Redmayne? Ah, they both had prominent engagements/weddings during their campaigns. Behold!
Longtime bachelor Leonardo DiCaprio has had a long list of model girlfriends on his arm since he stepped into the spotlight decades ago. But after a four-month romance with model Kelly Rohrbach, the actor is finally ready to make her spot by his side a permanent one! After spontaneously proposing to the model over an intimate dinner, the actor will officially be off the market.
“Kelly’s incredibly smart, and she really understands Leo,” a source told OK! Magazine of how the Georgetown University graduate managed to snag his heart. “She shares his passion for tackling social issues like global warming and world poverty. They connect on an intellectual level, which is new for him. She’s much more than a pretty face.”
Leo proposed to the 25-year-old over dinner at an Italian restaurant on the Upper East Side of New York City on September 26. “It wasn’t planned,” the insider explained. “It just happened. They were enjoying a bottle of red wine and engrossed in conversation as usual – it’s pretty obvious that they’re in love from the way they’re always touching and smiling.”
When The Wolf of Wall Street star confessed that he “wanted to spend the rest of his life with her,” she was “shocked.” The source added, “Leo convinced her that he meant it, and she agreed with a kiss.”
Although the romance has been a whirlwind, the couple is in no rush to tie the knot. “They’ve been discussing wedding plans,” the insider revealed. “Nothing is set in stone.”
While Leo will have a prenup, he doesn’t believe the couple will ever need it. “Leo is unbelievably happy,” the source said. “He tells everyone she’s hot, she’s smart and his mom loves her.”
While, sure, it’s OK! Magazine and they’re usually wrong (except for that time they knew exactly what was going down with Eva Mendes’ pregnancy) and I really don’t believe they have a source inside Leo’s camp, I do wonder if this is a preview of things to come. Leo’s already changing up his usual M.O. He was photographed holding hands openly with Kelly last week – go here to see the photos. And this OK! Mag piece sounds very much like the piece that Kelly’s publicist dropped into the New York Post. It feels… like someone is trying to make Rohrbach happen, but more than that, it feels like there’s an effort underway to ensure that we KNOW Leo really cares for this woman and it’s “different.”
Photos courtesy of WENN.
so sad that marriage is considered to win a golden statue but real, normal people who think marriage actually means something JUST got the ability to marry people the actually like…
what a world. what a country.
He doesn’t need a marriage to get an Oscar. His Oscar time will happen when it happens. I don’t buy that Academy voters care if someone is married or not.
Leo will marry when he meets someone he wants to spend his life with, regardless of what the tabloids say. I don’t know why it bothers some that he is still single. He’s 40. He may marry or he may not. Only time will tell.
It is ok but maybe Rohrback’s camp is messy enough to leak to them? Wouldn’t be the first time. Anyway Fassy is probably winning.
That Kelly Rohrback is one of a kind!
Indeed she is! She’s the Amal Clooney of the bikini world!
Ha, her PR person wallpapered all sorts of sites with that phrasing when she first hooked up with Leo. It still cracks me up!
I can’t believe that they try to sell her as the smart girl he has serious conversations with. All his other exes look smarter than her. I know, I know, looks don’t say much…but who believes that Leo himself is having intellectual conversations? What a joke.
“The source added, “Leo convinced her that he meant it, and she agreed with a kiss.” Puke.
He doesn’t need to for an Oscar. That’s a myth.
Exactly.
The prototytpe bad boy Jack Nicholson has more awards & nominations than any other.
The very single Adrien Brody, Jamie Foxx (all playboys older then Leo) have won.
People with criminal accusations or convictions like Penn, Allen and Polanski have won.
I don’t get why the narrative persists that a pristine personal life is somehow demanded of only Leo.
I’ve always thought that with Leo the problem isn’t that he’s a playboy so much as the fact that he doesn’t seem to actually like women outside their roles as sex objects. You can’t really fix that with putting a ring on the latest in your string of interchangeable Victoria’s Secret model girlfriends.
The men don’t need to pimp their personal life nearly the way the women do, though they do need to get out and hustle. They have to get out and work the circuit and really make their case, and while Leo’s personal life doesn’t exactly paint him in the best light anymore, I think he would get way more mileage if he actually climbed off of his high horse and finally showed some humor and personality. I’ve always thought his complete lack of self awareness has been part of his problem. A charm offensive goes a long way on the men’s side.
Make that, a charm offensive and some sort of narrative about how hard they worked.
@Bridget
Agreed.
Leo IMO has no wit nor a sardonic sense of self.
Watching his interviews confirms that for me.
A charm offensive isn’t exactly Leo’s strong suit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMUhaCXPyg8
From 5:40
I would say he has charm and wit.
Was that seriously the best you could find? He talked for like 20 seconds.
That always struck me as more of the issue. He wants to win the game without playing the game. He wants to think he’s above the game.
No, lol.
Leo, get engaged to blonde model n° 217 ? Ah haha ha ha!
Only women here seem bothered by Leo dating models. Why I just can’t figure out why it bothers some here.
Clooney has two Oscars and was dating Wrestlers and waitresses .
Academy voters and SAG members, do not care about who these men date. Only some here seem bothered that he likes models and believe that the Academy or SAG members give a hoot , but they don’t.
It’s the work, the body of work, etc.
Just don’t go full Cumberbatch, you should never go full Cumberbatch.
-Spits out water- at “you should never go full Cumberbatch” 😂
I’m sorry but this didn’t work for Cumberbatch. It was always Redmayne and Keaton. C never scratched the surface.
I think with Eddie Redmayne it was a happy coincidence. He was already engaged and planning a wedding and did not reschedule it to accommodate award season. Now Otter King, I can see Leo pulling that one.
Eddie said that he and his wife wanted a Christmas wedding so they could play the song “In the Bleak Midwinter” which is a favorite of theirs. So yeah, coincidence.
Has this ever worked for anyone? Do the old white guys who make up AMPAS even care? A messy personal life never hurt Nicholson’s chances
I really don’t think it does for men. Now for women? There’s definitely an element of smile, be cute (see Lawrence). Married? Great, just hold it together (see Witherspoon). Pregnant? Quick, get engaged and talk about it a lot (see Portman).
For men? Jean Dujardin didn’t do much. Philip Seymour Hoffman? Forrest Whitaker?
Good point. Over the last 5 years Hathaway, McConaughey, and Portman are the only ones who got married the year they won, but I feel like that had little impact on their campaigns?
Ah well, one has to consider Leo’s reputation as a womanizer. Jack Nicholson maybe similar.
I would agree that a loving relationship would make Leo look better.
But no one would buy his engagement as a loving relationship. See Clooney mess.
Yep, I think if Leo were to have a loving relationship + engagement there would be no more hiding or 10-feet-walking-distance.
Clooney mess isn’t so bad. Many buy it. And if Clooney and wife continue then it will become true.
I know this might be a tough pill for him to swallow, but maybe…just maybe he’s not that great of an actor. I think he is way over the top. Never seems natural. Only film I liked him in was Jango unchained.
Thank you, Gia. I loved Leo in Gilbert Grape but have never thought of him as a leading man or all that great of an actor. His personal life is bizarre. Does he think the Victoria’s Secret catalog is for picking a girlfriend and not lingerie? The guys he hangs with are an odd group. I have rarely made it through watching an entire movie with Leo in it after being stuck in a room full of girls swooning over him in Titanic.
Didn’t they used to call themselves – proudly so – the Pussy Brigade or something like that. He’s toned it down since then, but probably at the core still the same.
His acting style is not out there emoting, but I still think he’s a great actor.
Nah he’s better than most out there. The Departed is one of my favourite ever films!
She’s cute but compared to his past models, she’s not even close. That pic makes her look super rough.
I think she’s got the tomboy thing down pat and that’s actually her appeal. Great body and all, but I think she acts like one of the guys. Low maintenance type.
Revenant sounds like a retelling of Jeramiah Johnson. That was a great movie and it’s still available. Sorry Leo.
If he didn’t propose to Gisele or Bar, doubt he will propose to this one. I can see him legimatizing her by leaking pap shots of the two together and having a greater profile than Erin and Toni, but Leo won’t stop getting blonde model p*ssy for an Oscar I don’t think. Unless he is that desperate, why didn’t anyone give him Elisabetta Canalis or Sarah Larson’s numbers? Lol
ELisabetta is happily married to a lovely Doctor and just had a lovely baby.
Clooney has two Oscars and was dating Wrestlers and waitresses . LOL
Academy voters and SAG members, just do not care about who these men date. Only some here seem bothered that he likes models and believe that the Academy or SAG members give a hoot , but they don’t.
It’s the work, the body of work, etc.
i like leo as an actor, but his personal life is the least interesting thing there is.
also i hate those “she’s not like other girls” . ew.
If Roman Polanski can get an oscar with his history Leo DiCaprio can get one without resorting to a fake engagement.
Polanski is a director who far too many actors hope to work with. It’s not the same.
Early Leo was cute in Gilbert, Romeo and Jack. Then he started getting older, living the life, method acting…..but I still think he’s got it. He’s a nice memory growing up. I’ve noticed there’s not much love for him on this site, so I appoint myself as his official sticker upper for since I highly doubt he will post. Happy Friday CBers! Farewell to Eve, I so hope she finds the answers to her health situation and comes back stronger than ever.
1. We have seen him walking hand in hand with all of his ex girlfriends in the last so how is it unusual that we saw that last week? That was clearly a photo op like 4 days after Bar Refaeli’s wedding. He does this all the time when his exes moving on are featured in the news. So I don’t know how is it unusual?
2. Why would he use such an unreliable source to start this rumor as his Oscar campaign? Who takes OK! seriously?
I’m sure Leo wants that Oscar but I don’t believe his would do this as part of his campaign. Pretty dumb move.
# 1.:
I don’t think the photo ops are unusual. Though Kelly seems to have gotten involved in Leo’s life quite thorouly: not just holidays but also environmental trips etc.
# 2.:
The rumour of Leo’s and Kelly’s engagement is still circulating in the news despite the denial coming out only a few hours after the engagement news.
So Kelly does definitely get a lot of publicity out of this one. Bikini pics of her everywhere. She definitely profits from this. Not so sure about Leo as the story got denied quickly. Perhaps she started the rumour especially as the “source” described her as very smart and very interested in social issues? Well, nobody has heard of Kelly’s interest in social issues before LeoKelly. So wtf?
I will never understand why Leo did not get nominated for his role in “The Departed”….he probably would have won IMO; that was a great performance. The Oscars get so political and after they pass up on great actors/actresses for years (Al Pacino, Denzel Washington, Julianne Moore) they end up giving it to them for a “lesser” performance. Like Pacino won for Scent of a Woman…come on!! He should have won for Michael Corleone in the Godfather movies (I and II, III was not as good). DiCaprio will get it eventually I guess, but I seriously wish the Oscars would simply look at the performance, and not all the campaigning, politics and their personal lives. What does that stuff have to do with the performance in the movie, ya know?
Because he was nominated that year in the same category for The Blood Diamond. You can’t compete against yourself, and Blood Diamond clearly got more votes for the nomination. For what it’s worth I really liked him in the Departed, but no one was beating Forest Whitaker that year.
Was Blood Diamond and The Departed the same year? I think he should have gotten it for Blood Diamond. Then again he was amazing in The Aviator too, so… I completely agree that only the performance should be considered, but when you read the Oscar voter interviews (on The Hollywood Reporter) you realise that most of the voters are biased morons anyway. Then you realise the Oscars mean nothing. Then you are disgusted with the world. *sigh*
He needs to win in 2016. Poor Leo! It’s his time.
She looks like a young Jessica Simpson… I think the story is bogus, but at least it’s an interesting deviation of the usual ‘Leo with a dozen models on a yacht’ .
Er – it didn’t work for Benedict Cumberbatch. He lost every award he was nominated for and TIG was mostly shut out the entire awards season. If anything, his engagement JUST as the awards season began shifted attention from Cumberbatch the Actor to Oh No Dorkybatch Is Taken And Who Is Sophie Hunter? Then the attention shifted to Oh Cumberbatch Knocked Her Up This Is A Shotgun! Then the attention shifted to Oh A Not So Secret Valentine Wedding Just Before The Oscars (although voting had ended already)! Then to the Bora Bora Honeymoon With Bikini Photos Proving She Is Really Pregnant And He Is Really Hetero . . . then on to the Cumberbirh – it was nearly a year before “Hamlet” finally returned focus to Cumberbatch Oh Yeah He’s An Actor, Too – and even then the Actor had to compete with the Celebrity with pap sights of babies, prams, stage door hysteria. . .
Don’t do it, Leo. It didn’t work for Cumbers, Redmayne was seeing Hannah for a long time and the engagement was announced before Oscar season started, and no one will believe you, anyway.
Don’t do it.
seesittellsit, I agree with you.
I don’t think you could bargain anything to make Leo bend over backwards for an Oscar. He’s not desperate. Him dating models hasn’t stopped one iota of his career. Some chase Oscar. Leo has never chased Oscar and at some points rejected and been angry at the awards process. Also, when you look at a guy who’d rather date a hoard of women vs getting married when they know they have no interest in marriage. I say, go with what he shows you he is. I have no issue with Leo dating around. Because at least he’s honest about it. BEN AFFLECK I’m looking at you. And others like you. Some guys aren’t mature enough or dedicated enough and you know what, take them at their word. It shouldn’t be a judgement or lack of.
No one cares if Leo has a fiancee. I’ve never even read anything to do with Oscar chasing and a wife and great stable relationship or personal life, no demons, needed for it except on here, a gossip site. It makes me roll my eyes. The people that have won over the years prove that. Giving great interviews, being engaging, pushing the movie, thus Oscar chances during award season? Yes. But even then, not always. Need some great fiancee or wife on your arm? No.
Exactly. I totally agree with you on the Ben Affleck point. Leo doesn’t care and he’s not pimping it out either way.
I have never cared about anything to do with Leo, and just clicked on the link to see what this girl looked like… I can’t get passed her face….. Yikes.
MAN, THIS WAS SO FUNNY THOUGH!!!
LMFAO
I LOVE YOU, LEO! Best move EVER! lol (soooooo funny!)
I just want to know how Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander will deal with this Leonardo Dicaprio engaged rumor. Yeah… the “it couple” have to be more creative from now on…
LMFAO
Anyway, LEONARDO DICAPRIO “it’s a wrap” for you babe! Go, man! It’s your time!
Even now all o can see in the lead photo is Nathan from South Park. He looks so pasty for someone who’s often on a yacht.
I think for winning an Oscar or just generally being perceived as special and different being a “tortured artist” persona is much better a squeaky clean one.
Too bad, Leo doesn’t seem to be tortured or phased by anything. He looks like a happy Mr. Piggy.
But in the end I think Leo is a Great actor and deserves an Oscar because every time I watch one of his movies I forget just how much I dislike Leo the person. I completely forget about Leo, the person.
come on Leo, you are smarter than this. Hit it and quit it!
I don’t care that leonardo sleeps with numerous women. I prefer him being honest about it. However it bothers me how he doesn’t seem to respect women and chooses girls under 25 (most of the time.) Young I can understand but once you hit 25 you don’t suddenly look old. I can hardly tell the difference between most 23 -29 year olds. Just depends on your genetics. I say this as a 23 year old. He’s just gross and his acting is vastly overrated.