Ronan Farrow Engaged to 'Pod Save America' Host Jon Lovett

Appropriate that his fiancé looks like Frank Sinatra, Jr. Girls always want to marry their fathers.

R1 = idiot

Fantastic news! Congratulations to the happy couple.

Both are femme and obese

THIS IS A DUPLICATE. YOUVE BEEN WARRNED

No son of mine will ever be queer!

Who is the top? They both look like ugly butch dykes.

So is the "Ronan Isn't Out" troll going to have an aneurysm over this?

Frank Sinatra, Jr., older brother

They seem like such an unlikely couple, but I wish them all the happiness in the world.

[quote]Ronan proposed by putting the question in an early draft of the book for Jon to read.

This would have been a very embarrassing situation if Jon didn't actually read the book.

Miss R4 is looking in a mirror again

I know the Sinatra speculation has been rampant for a long time and I kinda thought it might be possible, too.

But after seeing photos of Mia's father, Ronan looks more like him than like Sinatra.

Guess open relationships can work after all, huh?

Lovely proposal!

They’re cute and have been together through a lot. Good for them.

R14 who said anything about an open relationship?

Congrats, darling

I like them both. Happy news and congratulations.

I bet it's great to have someone that you're attractive to be also funny and smart and always in your corner. Congrats!

So who got the ring?

I'm glad Ronan found someone shorter than him!

Their relationship is wide-open and has been for some time.

R22 Well they're not open anymore. Til death do us part. How exciting

They are open.

Who cares if they are open...?

Many gay couples are, it is hardly unusual.

Good thing Ronan's fiancee does not already have adopted boys around the age of 11 or 12. Because if Ronan decided one of them was attractive once they hit 20 and he decided to run off with him? Ooooooh! Would Woody Allen have a field day snarking his smug, bitter ass!! Just think of all the Tweets!

Ronan marrying a nerdy, Jewish funnyman? Who could have guessed!

What's the point of getting married if you have an open relationship?

I don’t understand the point of getting married at all unless one is royalty.

Ronan hates Woody Allen with a passion, if Frank Sinatra was his father he would be singing it from the mountains, not denying it. Nothing would make him happier than to be able to say Woody is not his father.

If Sinatra was Ronan's father, wouldn't be happy to let the world know that Woody, who he hates with a passion was not his father?

That is Frank Sinatra’s son. There is not an ounce of Woody Allen in him.

Identical...Ronan has had some work done, you can see he looks like Sinatra much more pre-plastic surgery.

If he was related to Sinatra he would daily be tweeting his 23andMe results. Get real. Next tell me how jet fuel can’t melt steel beams.

He's Woody's son and both he and you will just have to accept it.

R31 r34 That is the one thing that makes me feel that he is Allen's son, despite the resemblance to Frank. He truly loathes Allen and it would be incredibly easy to prove that he wasn't related to him. Nancy Sinatra must loathe Mia for starting this.

Though I sometimes wonder if Dylan /Malone/whatever is Vanessa Bayer's long lost twin.

What is Ronan’s truth?

Let's suppose Ronan Isn't Woody's son and knows it. If he went public with that info, he and/or Mia would be on the hook for every dime Woody ever spent on Ronan. Child support payments, college tuition, etc.

So that's the reason he might keep his mouth shut about his paternity, even though he does hate Woody.

[quote]So is the "Ronan Isn't Out" troll going to have an aneurysm over this?

Not to mention the "Ronan said he was bi" troll.

Kinsey 5 bisexual men can get married to men, too!

Why did several of the Farrow children have multiple first names over the course of their childhood /young adulthood? I can understand one kid really disliking his name and wanting to change it but more than one is so weird.

Cute couple.

Well, aren't you generous, r42.

How so?

I was the first one of her children to have two names r41.

[quote] Why did several of the Farrow children have multiple first names over the course of their childhood /young adulthood?

Because their mother is a psychotic loon.

I cannot imagine marrying someone as utterly fucking irritating as Jon.

R47 Yes, it does seem quite odd. They say that love conquers all, but does love conquer the ramblings of raving buffoon? Perhaps it is a marriage of convenience for one reason or another.

But only someone as irritating as Jon could love someone as irritating as Jon.

Look at the first pic in OP's link and then tell me that's not Frank Sinatra's son.

"What's the point of getting married if you have an open relationship?"

Alimony, darling.

Alimony.

Looks more like a fat Woody than a nerdy Frank Jr. Someone has an inverted kind of oedipal complex.

And that's why this will most likely end in divorce, R51

You gotta go by the Oedipal script, after all--no, not the one where they all die at the end, but the one that our parents wrote, directed, and starred in.

This marriage can't end without a backstabbing, bitter betrayal worthy of only the soapiest of soaps, leading to a devastating divorce that the National Enquirer will lovingly rake through the mud on the international stage.

(And that sweet, sweet alimony)

[quote]Nancy Sinatra must loathe Mia for starting this.

Mia didn't start it. The rumor had been around for years because Ronan looked so much like Mia's ex husband. That's why Vanity Fair took the opportunity to ask when the subject came up.

Mia said "Maybe" and that's it, and was obviously joking. At the time, the Sinatra family issued a nice statement about Ronan always being welcome. Nancy doesn't actually seem to be having a fit about it like some people here say but if she is she might want to be reminded of the Steisand Effect.

R52 was writing that nasty little bit of fanfic with one hand.

Why can’t you assholes just be happy for people once in a while? Would it kill you?

I loved Jon in "the Critic," but that was before it's time and actually required a brain to watch.

Has Woody commented yet?

R17

The lover, I guess.

Ronan needs to get a real job. You just know he’s going to have a #MeToo moment.

R52 Their marriage will last! They have already been together since 2011 and the fact that they are still together and tying the knot shows how committed they are to each other. Congratulations to the both of them. The gay community should be very proud of them on a number of fronts.

Yes, yes, but who gets the diamond?

[quote]The gay community should be very proud of them on a number of fronts.

Of course it should, but have you forgotten where you are?

R59 A Matter Lauer MeToo moment or a Kevin Spacey MeToo moment?

He has Frank’s eyes.

It’s ridiculous how much he looks like Frank Sinatra—as I posted upthread, how can you even doubt it when you look at Ronan before he had plastic surgery?

Oh well, looks aren't everything.

R41, I think it’s a sign of mental instability or deep identity issues.

I have known several people who renamed themselves in their teens, and they all are very troubled people. Especially if their parents still call them their birth name (because it’s not a nickname, it’s a “soft” identity change).

It’s a red flag.

R65, it’s all I can see.

Of course he looks like his mother’s father, too. That’s how genes work.

There is NOTHING Konigsberg about him.

No one else thinks the attractiveness disparity here is a problem? Ronan is hot and hubby to be is not.

A “problem,” R70? To whom?

two bois

He definitely injects his lips, they weren't as puffy before. And is his partner rich? he's so ugly but I guess beauty lies in the eye of beholder...

He's wearing colored contacts!

The guy is a drama queen. Loves all this talk about his dad being Frank instead of pedo Allen.

R71 the pretty one will leave the ugly one for a prettier one

Is his fiance a ftm tranny?

R76, he looks like “It’s Pat” or Cynthia Nixon’s wife (Rojo Caliente).

Maybe his fiancé is a really cool person.

R75, yeah, maybe! But they’ve been together for eight years and the prettier one is the one who proposed, so we’ll see, I guess.

And yes, Lovett may not be as photogenic as Ronan or, apparently, some of you here, but he’s quite adorable in motion, has one of the best laughs, and they’re a good match in the brains department, but God forbid anyone who’s not a ten be worthy.

Where's R77? Did he disappear beneath the opera house in a cloud of smoke?

I see R77, R79.

They both look trans

I went to school with Ronan. I had such a crush on him. He was 2 years older with famous parents, I was too intimidated to even talk to him, but he was in my nightly spank bank...still is

Lucky you, R82. I think he’s beautiful.

What's the tea, R82?

so you know him way back when, R82, did he have blue eyes then?

He even dyes his hair smh!

A friend of mine knew him when he was Satchel. We used to laugh about the name, but he said Satchel was smart.

Satchel sounds like a non-binary name. She definitely looks it.

^^Idiot. He was named after Satchel Paige, a baseball Hall-of-Famer. I think that was Woody's idea.

Unless you are willing to believe that fully 20 years after she was married to him, and when she was already involved and had kids with Woody Allen, that for some reason Mia slept with her ex husband when he was over 70 years old...

Never mind, it's too ridiculous to even contemplate any further.

He's Woody's.

Mia used artificial insemination to get pregnant. Woody shoots blanks. Crimes and Misdemeanors explains it all, years before anybody even thought to wonder.

This also explains her playful "maybe" when asked whether Sinatra is Ronan's father.

R89, that absolutely makes sense. If Ronan is Woody’s biological child, then his not looking at all like Woody and looking exactly like Frank is the biggest coincidence in the history of coincidences.

R75 Yes.

He looks like Mia! when she's younger! he dyes his hair and wears contacts to look like someone else coz he hates woody..who can blame him?

As many posters have already said, Ronan looks a lot like Mia's late father, not Frank Sinatra.

[quote]Why did several of the Farrow children have multiple first names over the course of their childhood /young adulthood? I can understand one kid really disliking his name and wanting to change it but more than one is so weird.

In Ronan's case, he wanted to distance himself from his father whose favorite player was "Satchel" Paige. He went by Harmon then Seamus and finally Ronan.

As for the others ...

Summer became Daisy.

Dylan became Eliza and then Malone Farrow. It seems like she goes by Dylan in the press.

Gabriel became Thaddeus Wilk Farrow.

Bailey's name was changed to Kaeli-Shea and then changed to Quincy Farrow.

To their credit: their name changes mostly all happened when they were adopted or when they were very young (before 18.) I'm not sure that's a sign of anything. How many people would change their names if their parents were open to it, they knew it was an option and they could have before 18? Although, I think it's clear in some of their cases it was Mia's decision.

R81 what's the dirt? Did he have any "girlfriends" at school like the unnamed source (read: nonexistent) said he did?

Once this look was discovered, why did he ever veer from it ever again?? He looks like a younger, twink-ier Mr. Smith-era Brad Pitt

He has blue eyes, and wears blue contacts, that doesn't make sense.

Doesn't he wear glasses? Maybe they're contact lenses for his bad eyesight

@R97

R89 After the Allen/Farrow split a read something in a gossip rag in the mid to late 90s (this was prior to the internet) that the Allen/Farrow relationship began to thaw in the mid 1980s. Mia was desperate to hold it together so she got pregnant - there was no assumption made that Allen was the father in the gossip I read.

But the thought of a 'sperm donor' so to speak is plausible I suppose, however I can't help but dismiss it because as odious as I think Woody Allen is it cannot be denied that he is an extremely bright and intelligent person. I also suspect Mia, despite having something of a 'bat shit crazy' reputation by some is also rather bright but not at the level of Allen or Ronan.

Ronan has Mia's looks but Woody's intellect. What are the chances of getting a sperm donor with Allen's smarts - very remote I would say.

Mia said in the court case that Woody wanted a blonde child which is why they adopted Dylan, and that also has caused some speculation that they also used a donor for Ronan for the same reason. It is odd that they went to the trouble of adopting Dylan if they could conceive naturally, given Woody's comments about adopted kids.

They (he) wanted a girl. And they could only guarantee that by adopting.

[quote] Is his fiance a ftm tranny?

Don’t you mean Ronan?

Ronan is typical. I could see him being slapped around.

Is the fiance related to DL fave Lens? He looks a bit like her.

He put the engagement in a draft of his book? That seems like a narcissistic, self-involved move to me.

I remember during the Mia & Woody fiasco, reading that Satchel was given some sort of treatment because he was exhibiting feminine traits. No I am not trolling, does anyone else remember reading this? Vanity Fair seemed to have a new story every month about the Woody/Mia/Soon-Yi story and there was quite a lot of information about very private details of their lives.

It also seems quite controlling. A shit test if there ever was one. How awkward would it have been if Jon had lied about reading it?

R: So, how did you like the proof? J: It was great! What a powerful moment in social justice! So hot. What do you want to have for dinner? R: ...

R106 That was the scorned woman seminal classic, "What Falls Away", I think

For what it is worth Ronan refers to Woody Allen in his book Catch and Kill as his father in his first mention of Woody Allen. Thereafter it's Allen.

But he refers to a lot of people via there surname after having already mentioned them fully - including victims.

Mia must have some dominant ass genes for ronan to have come out looking identicle to her, it's like a male version clone of her, even the craziness aura he emits.

Of course he's Allen's. Do you think given his disdain for Woody that if there were ANY CHANCE he could prove through DNA that he wasn't his son that he wouldn't have done it by now?

Come on.

R111 but if he did that, then Woody could sue for all that child support

Until death do us part. Or someone really hot.

I can't picture them having sex.

pretty unconventional . Ronan is not shallow. I have new found respect

he on the corbet chat show now, looks totally m to female in transition.....is wearing a dyke shirt and has zero! hint of facial hair. if he put on a dress he could ho as a woman immed. . unreal.

Stephen acts like he cant stand mr farrow. , who does have a odd vibe.

I would not pass up fucking his pink ass hole, bet his ass is big white and hungry.

Prob a total nasty dog in bed.

Jon seems to be a bit of a slob while Ronan seems prissy. Guess opposites attract

Two bossy bottoms in search of a top

....

Sinatra had a vasectomy years before the boy was born, so none of the showgirls he banged could get knocked-up and take his money.

It's possible that Satchel is neither Sinatra's nor Allen's. He was given the Farrow last name at birth, so..

He is Woody Allen's son. Say what you will about Woody (who I think is a deplorable) but the guy is smart as is Ronan. Also, Ronan has Woody's hair colour as a teenager and Woody's nose.

As my Nana used to say, "Every pot has a cover."

Congratulations Jon and Ronan.

Good God R116, at least put a on shirt before going out into the world wide web. Were you drunk when you wrote that? For the sake of the human race, I hope you were

Yes, very odd R117 RF seems like he cares more about how his story sounds than what actually happened in that story.

He comes across to me as power hungry, the kind of guy who would leave his husband for a woman if it suited his career. Blegh.

Congrats I guess. Fingers crossed, Jon.

Farrow will be a guest host on Lovett's show tonight.

R122 I heard that too. I think he looks like his mother's side of the family.

Anyway, good luck to them both! I like Ronan.

Don't you all wish you were me ?

R129 that photo is over 5 years old, Ronan. You don't look like that anymore. Let's try to be a bit more realistic, shall we?

This short segment below is the most either of them have disclosed about their relationship but something doesn't seem right with the dynamic. Why does Ronan call him Jonathan? He has gone by Jon since at least the first Obama term - it sounds like he is a parent scolding a child. What an odd relationship - seems like they are both extremely repressed. I know he has issues stemming from living in the public spotlight, especially after Woody and the daughter started fucking and Mia went nuts but you would think he would actually disclose his coming out story or just address his sexuality in an essay for the New Yorker or even just a blog - he is quite famous and accomplished and that could be helpful for the youths. Or even just publically advocate for gay rights, etc - he isn't shy about his feminist motivations for MeToo etc. so it just seems like he still isn't very comfortable with his sexuality.

Jesus, R131, get a hold of yourself.

Just listened to Jon's latest show. My god, that was one of the most adorable things I've ever heard. Glad it's available in video form as well. They're hilarious together and I'm happy for Jon. I had always assumed Ronan was humourless for some reason, but that's not the case at all.

[quote]Why does Ronan call him Jonathan?

Chasten calls Pete "Peter." It's just how it is sometimes. I agree with r132 – your reaction is a bit much.

With many celebrities overusing "right", "like", "hum" etc...when interviewed, it is refreshing to hear someone like Farrow. Ronan was quite eloquent on Bill Maher's show last night. He can actually string long sentences together in a coherent and intelligent manner. That's a rare gift today.