Their breakup haunted me personally for ten years.

Strangely enough, Jimmy Fallon and I also — a new Asian girl from the contrary shore — share a random commonality: a love for Gilmore Girls’ Jess Mariano. The night time television host proclaimed his Team Jess allegiance as he interviewed Alexis Bledel from the Tonight Show. A devotee of Rory (Bledel) and Jess’s (Milo Ventimiglia) onscreen romance that seeped into real life whereas Fallon admitted he had gotten into the series later than most (he asked Bledel to remain mum about spoilers nine years after the show ended, after all), I, on the other hand, have been a longtime devotee of the mother-daughter dramedy — and, in extension. It is real: Bledel and Ventimiglia dated for almost four years regardless of the deterioration of the TV love. These people were, nonetheless, extremely personal — the afternoon we discovered that their relationship had ended ended up being additionally the afternoon that we discovered that the actors have been in a relationship at all. (more…)