Sometimes, you just gotta nip rumors in the bud… especially when the rumor is that you’re a home-wrecker. As talk intensified that she was secretly dating Michael C. Hall shortly after his divorce from Jennifer Carpenter was announced Julia Stiles tackled the gossip head-on. “I have absolutely nothing to do with the split between Michael and Jennifer,” she said firmly in a statement to Us Weekly. “We are good friends and enjoyed working together. This is a personal matter between them, and we should respect their privacy.” Stiles, who secretly eloped with husband Preston Cook in 2017, according to The Cut, added, “Although I too prefer to keep my private life private, I felt compelled to dispel the rumors I was somehow the cause for this matter.”
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As so often happens with salacious celeb gossip, the Stiles rumors originated from less-than-trustworthy sources. According to the Daily Mail, gossip website Hollyscoop claimed Stiles and Hall aroused suspicion due to their on-camera rapport. Reportedly, sources on-set told the outlet that the two actors’ chemistry “was so crazy and so evident to everyone” that their sex scenes were “actually cranked up” by producers. Additionally, insiders claimed that there had been tension between Hall and Carpenter on the “Dexter” set for months by that time.
