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arrie Fisher has claimed she had an “intense” affair with Harrison Ford during the making of Star Wars. The actress said she had a three-month romance with the Han Solo star - a married father-of-two at the time which she kept secret for 40 years. Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy, told People magazine: “It was so intense. It was Han and Leia during the week, and Carrie and Harrison during the weekend.” Fisher was 19 at the time of the alleged affair in 1976, 14 years younger than Ford, then 33. In an excerpt from her memoir, The Princess Diarist, Fisher said she and Ford spent their first night together following a birthday party for Star Wars director George Lucas. “I looked over at Harrison. A hero’s face - a few strands of hair fell over his noble, slightly furrowed brow,” she wrote. “How could you ask such a shining specimen of a man to be satisfied with the likes
Fisher, Ford ‘had affair’ during Star Wars of me? “I was so inexperienced, but I trusted something about him. He was kind.” Fisher and Ford reunited on screen in 2015’s Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. In the course of
the original Star Wars trilogy, Fisher and Ford’s characters fall in love. Ford, 74, has been married three times, divorcing his first wife Mary Marquardt in 1979. He separated from his second wife, screenwriter Melissa
Mathison, in 2001 and the couple later divorced. Ford has been married to Ally McBeal actress Calista Flockhart since 2010. Fisher, 60, was previously married to musician Paul Simon.
DYLAN SHUNS NOBEL AWARD CEREMONY B ob Dylan won’t be coming to Stockholm to pick up his 2016 Nobel Prize for literature at the December 10 prize ceremony, the Swedish Academy says. The Academy said on Wednesday that Dylan has told them “he wishes he could receive the prize personally, but other commitments make it
unfortunately impossible”, The 75-year-old American singer-songwriter was awarded the prize on October 13 “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. The literature prize and five other Nobel Prizes will be officially conferred upon winners in Stockholm next month on the anniversary
of award founder Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896. The Academy said it “respects Bon Dylan’s decision”, adding it not travelling to the Swedish capital to personally pick up the prestigious award was “unusual, but not exceptional”. Literature laureates have skipped the ceremony before. In 2004, Austrian
playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek stayed home, citing a social phobia. “The award is still theirs, as it now belongs to Bob Dylan,” the Academy said. “We are looking forward to Bob Dylan’s Nobel lecture, which he must hold, according to the requirements, within six months” from December 10.