Brooke Shields consulted former President George HW Bush for dating advice

Brooke Shields considered erstwhile President George H.W. Bush specified a adjacent "confidant" that she would inquire him conscionable astir anything.

Shields, 59, admitted that she considered the precocious person her substitute gramps during an lawsuit to enactment the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy's New York Celebration of Reading lawsuit astatine the Lotos Club.

The histrion and author, who volition soon people her new book, "Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old," adjacent had a nickname for the 41st president of the United States.

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Brooke Shields had her ain nickname for her "confidant," erstwhile President George H.W. Bush. (Getty Images)

"I telephone him Papa Bush. I was dating idiosyncratic [whose father] was an ambassador successful Bermuda … He was my confidant astir this boyfriend," she said, per Page Six. 

Lauren Bush Lauren, Bush's granddaughter and big of the event, laughed arsenic she recalled, "He loved immoderate bully gossip."

Shields dated Kelly Gaines successful the aboriginal '90s. His father, Eb Gaines, was the caput of the U.S. consulate successful Bermuda nether Bush. Shields erstwhile told Redbook successful 1991 that Kelly was a amended kisser than John F. Kennedy Jr.

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"When I kissed him I got a tingly feeling successful my tummy that I didn’t erstwhile I kissed John Junior," she said.

Brooke Shields and then-President George H.W. Bush shook hands astatine the USO 50th day TV peculiar successful 1991. (Dirck Halstead)

Now joined to movie manager Chris Henchy, "Papa Bush" approved of her husband. She erstwhile received a telephone from Bush successful 2010 portion she was shooting a movie 2 hours distant from the Bush household compound successful Maine.

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"I prime up the telephone — nary instauration oregon nothing. ‘Rumor has it, you’re adjacent to Kennebunkport’ if you bash not travel and sojourn maine young lady, you’re successful large trouble,'" Shields recalled. "I said, ‘OK sir, convey you. I’ll beryllium determination arsenic soon arsenic I can.’ I telephone my husband, and I’m like, ‘We’ve got to spell to Kennebunkport.’

She added, "My hubby arrives late, and I go, ‘You person to play golf.’ I deliberation helium played 3 times successful his life. We get there, we get retired and, of course, he’s playing with the sports commentator [Jim Nantz]. Papa Bush gave him his clubs carved with each country, carved with monuments."

Soon, Bush was asking for the gossip from Shields.

Former President George H.W. Bush would trust connected Brooke Shields for juicy gossip done the years, according to the actress. (Dirck Halstead)

Brooke Shields considered Barbara and George Bush arsenic her ain grandparents. (Diana Walker)

"I hear, ‘You’re successful this cart with me, young lady.’ He’s driving the cart," she said of Bush. "We’re driving around, and he’s like, ‘So, archer maine however the narration is. Good kids. I similar the guy’ … My hubby indispensable person mislaid 40 pounds conscionable from nerves."

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The "Blue Lagoon" histrion said that some George and Barbara Bush felt similar "grandparents" to her.

"I don’t person truly galore relatives. He was that awesome to me. I looked up to her truthful overmuch … Your grandparents for maine were precise important successful my younker and successful my beingness and successful my dating days," Shields said.