Dawn O’Porter tells about life as a red carpet wife
She was on the red carpet with her future husband, The IT Crowd actor Chris O’Dowd (they married in 2012). He was suddenly fêted by Hollywood after the success of the movie Bridesmaids in which he played the shaggy, sweet police officer.
Meanwhile O’Porter (she acquired the O’ when she married O’Dowd) was, she admits, in a “spiral” career-wise. She made her name with candid, first-person TV documentaries presented with a wide-eyed spirit of enquiry. They included Super Slim Me, about slimming to a Hollywood size zero, and My Breasts Could Kill Me, about breast cancer, which killed her mother Carol. But she had stopped being commissioned.
