Kate Hudson, Owen Wilson Admit to Struggling with Nickname
Sep 22, 2006, 10:00
HOLLYWOOD - Like all new Hollywood couples, Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson understand the public relations value of a good nickname. That sobering realization, say friends, is why the blond-on-blond newlybeds have been playing it on the down low since they started doing bong hits together in his trailer on the set of You, Me and Dupree.
"They're obviously in love," says a friend of the golden couple. "When they're together, you could cut the electricity with a knife."
Yet without a killer nickname Ms. Hudson, 27, and Mr. Wilson, 37, worry that they're just another one-off, like Jessica Simpson and John Mayer, or Paris Hilton and Matt Leinart.
"That's not where we're coming from," said Mr. Wilson. "Hell, Kate's balled half her costars and key grips, but she never left her old man for any of them. If we're going to make this thing work, we need a nickname worthy of us."
TomKat and Brangelina, of course, are the gold standard among nicknames in Tinseltown; but even less obvious trademarks like WinKing (Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King) or TimberCam (Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz) have a cachet all their own, making them larger than the sums of their parts.
Trouble is, the names Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson don't provide a lot of wiggle room.
HudWil? KateWen? OwKate? KateOw?
"They really don't lift my skirt, not the way Owen does, anyway," laughed Ms. Hudson. "Owen's known as the Butterscotch Stallion, maybe we'll call ourselves KateButter."
Until they come up with the right nickname, expect more public coyness from Ms. Hudson and Mr. Wilson. Last Sunday, for example, when they were spotted in a patio booth at the Polo Lounge in the Beverly Hills Hotel, they requested that a bamboo divider be placed around their table.
In other news, in his latest attempt to deflect attention from his insult to Muslims, Pope Benedict XVI has attacked Madonna, calling her a "worthless, thousand-lire whore who ought to be raped on a cross for embodying all that's tawdry about decadent Western culture."
