Beauty has lonely life

Press, 16 May 1985, Page 11

Beauty has lonely life

Few men who take time out to watch Television Two’s “Dynasty” would deny they find the soap’s blonde star, Linda Evans, an attractive and alluring — although totally unattainable — woman. Even fewer of them, one suspects, would turn down the opportunity of getting to know the lady at closer quarters than by weekly appointment on the living room television. But those who have been captivated by this queen of soaps may yet have reason to take heart - she is apparently on the look-out for Mr Right and says she would quit the “Dynasty” set forever just to be with him. That is no mean offer as she picks up a cool ?U565,000 (NZ143.000) and episode and seems to have a cast iron hold on her place in the cast list. She has also recently renegotiated her contract with “Dynasty" for four rather than two more years. She already has a deal with the television network C.B.S. to appear exclusively for them in anything but another television series and when “Dynasty” ends will be given her own show to star in. But as the saying goes money can’t buy you love, and Linda Evans apparently views herself as the loneliest woman in Hollywood. She either goes out alone at night or with someone who is just a friend. Those who do ask her out are either gold diggers or gays. The really eligible bachelors are too frightened to approach her because she is rich and famous. “I feel like a Cinderella whose Prince Charming is

never going to show up,” she allegedly confessed to a friend. At 42, with two failed marriages behind her, rumour has it she is getting desperate, even going as far as asking friends to arrange

dates for her. She married her first husband, John Derek, at 21 and 10 years later was dumped for the teen-ager who became known as Bo Derek. Her second marriage to the millionaire real estate

dealer, Stan Herman, also ended in divorce. The couple fought ail the time. There will, however, be no shortage of male company for her character, Krystle Carrington, in “Dynasty” screening at 8.30 p.m.