October 05, 2024
2021-2023 Public Events

Hi Drew Barrymore Fans! I have been busy adding Drew’s Public Events from 2021-2023! Enjoy viewing them❤️


Red Carpet Appearances and Events

 





September 29, 2024
Ditzy, unfiltered: why Drew Barrymore is Hollywood’s great survivor


The troubled child actor turned chatshow host faces flak for her toe-curling interview with Kamala Harris. But oversharing is all part of her shtick

An office-style desk was once the key prop on a television chatshow – a standard piece of kit beloved of Johnny Carson and David Letterman, not to mention Britain’s Jonathan Ross. Then the comfy sofa took over and guests began to scooch along, making room for each other. Now, though, under the auspices of Drew Barrymore, host of a daytime show on CBS, it’s the lowly rug that is taking centre stage.

Barrymore, who is still best known internationally for her childhood role as the little girl in ET, likes to interact with her guests on a fluffy rug in the middle of her set in New York’s Broadcast Center. She has prostrated herself upon it more than once in front of her studio audience and prefers it to the show’s pink satin armchairs.

Last week, however, the 49-year-old star found the unconventional informality of her style being debated across America. Barrymore had pulled off a coup and booked the vice president, Kamala Harris, as a guest, and was pretty happy about it. Backstage clips show her shrieking as she urges a game, slightly ambushed-looking Harris to recount the moment she heard she was elected to office, as if it was a juicy detail from a high school prom. More notably, Barrymore had picked up on Harris’s admission that her family nickname is Momala. Sliding up close to the veep on the couch and clasping her hands, the host begged her to be “Momala of the country”.

In the aftermath of this cloying interview, the US media personality Meghan McCain took Barrymore to task for being intimate with so distinguished a guest. “Not everything you do is a therapy session, and some of this stuff is just not appropriate,” McCain said on her podcast, suggesting someone ought to have a word. Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly also levelled her sights at the episode, expressing annoyance at how closely the pair were sitting. Most seriously, Barrymore has been accused by some of being complicit with the “nannyfication” of black women by projecting a stereotype on to Harris. Writing in the New York Times, Charles M Blow argued that black women still spend their lives fighting a society “insistent on forcing them to fit broad generalisations” including the role “of the mammy – the caretaker, the bosom in which all can rest, the apron on which we have a right to hang”.

Barrymore’s chatshow, which was launched during Covid, had already been roundly lampooned on Saturday Night Live, the popular sketch show which Barrymore herself has hosted six times (once as a child star of seven). A skit had comedian Chloe Fineman appear as Barrymore sporting a big blouse and a lispy Valley girl voice.

And last year Barrymore was the object of a less playful sort of derision when she was forced to retract a plan to air her chatshow in the middle of a Hollywood talent strike. The incident briefly made her a showbiz pariah, and the taint of strike breaker has yet to be quite dispelled no matter how many on-set love-ins she has staged.

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September 29, 2024
2024 Public Events

Hi all, apologies for slacking on the site lately! I have been busy with a new Job. I have added Drew’s 2024 Public Events to our gallery! Enjoy!


Red Carpet Appearances and Events > 2024

 





January 15, 2024
Gallery Update & New Owner!

Hi all, I am David I am the new owner of Drew Barrymore Fan! I’ve been a fan of Drew for years and have always wanted a site on her! I am glad I was able to adopt this site from Sam. I hope to bring you latest updates and more! I have added missing photoshoots from 2023 & 2020 to our gallery, enjoy! ❤️


 





October 21, 2023
2021-2023 Magazine Scans & Photo Sessions Update

I’ve added over 100+ photos from magazine scans and photo sessions 2021-2023! I will be catching events up next!

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August 28, 2023
New Layout at ‘Drew Barrymore Fan’

I’ve put a new design up at Drew Barrymore Fan. I wanted to make the site feel more like my own. I hope you guys love it as much as I do. The header was designed by the very talented Megan and the coding is by KaciElizabeth!

Now we will have regular updates. I have been collecting photos and I have a TON to sort through and add thanks to Jay!!! Be sure to keep checking back here and follow us on twitter for news and updates.





August 06, 2023
Photos: And Just Like That… 2×07 – February 14th HD Screencaps

I’ve added HD screencaps of Drew in And Just Like That… 2×07 – February 14th to the gallery. She plays herself in an episode of her talk show. Check the episode out on Max!

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July 22, 2023
Press: Drew Barrymore Lights Up Daytime

Drew Barrymore is barreling barefoot down the hallway to make it to the studio on time. It’s a Wednesday morning in April, and this is the first of today’s two episode tapings for The Drew Barrymore Show. The screams from audience members at Studio 41 get louder as the emcee whips them into a frenzy — Drew is right there! She can hear you! — before leading them in an increasingly rapid call-and-response: “Are you ready?” “Yeah!”

Her costume designer, Lee Harris, is waiting at the threshold with chunky beige platform heels. This is a variation of her daytime uniform: a pantsuit with legs so wide you could strap a child to each calf, a silk blouse with a pussy bow, and thick pumps. “Feel that,” she tells Harris, lifting the leg of her pants to reveal smooth, hairless skin. (She finally had time to shave.) “Ooh, once in a lifetime,” he replies as he buckles her shoe. “Rossy!” she yells, and the hilarious Ross Mathews, her co-anchor on “Drew’s News,” appears by her side. As she wets a Q-tip with her tongue to do a final check on her eyeliner in the mirror, she launches into a thought about his New York apartment, which she redesigned as part of “Designed by Drew,” an interior-decorating segment on the show. “I’m questioning the mirror I got you for the dining room,” she says. The size is right, but she feels the cream-and-gold frame is fighting with the floral wallpaper. So maybe something grassy? Anyway, 20 seconds! They dive into the crowd.

The major event of the day is an interview with Jennifer Garner, whose birthday Barrymore wants to celebrate. She describes Garner as a woman who “really saved” her. In 2016, soon after Barrymore divorced Will Kopelman, her husband of four years and the father of her two children, Garner began her separation from Ben Affleck. Barrymore saw her as a model of how to comport yourself in public, and she and her producers have pulled out all the stops: Here’s a key to your hometown of Charleston, West Virginia, with a video message from the mayor declaring April 17 Jennifer Garner Day! Here’s a $250,000 donation to the charity Save the Children! A chocolate cake! A balloon drop!

“I certainly am!” Barrymore whispers back.

After Garner leaves and the crew resets the stage for the next segment, Barrymore has a private chat with the audience — no cameras rolling. She has some things she wants to confess, like maybe she screwed up the interview they just watched. “I will just be totally honest with you guys,” she says. “Making this show makes me have these personal whirlwinds. Like, I really want to make a very personal show, and I totally fucking spiraled after Jennifer Garner.”

Negative voices started whirring around in her head, she explains, telling her she was making a mess of everything because she’s a messy person: Bad Drew Barrymore! Meanwhile, Garner is this poised 51-year-old woman who made it through a painful divorce with grace and dignity and fantastic posture. Then Barrymore started thinking if she focused too much on how she’d fucked it up, she would want to run away and cry, but she couldn’t do that because she’s at work! So she would feel her feelings here, come what may. “Like, there’s nothing I can do but just walk through it and feel my own discomfort,” she says. “And hope I didn’t put anyone else in an uncomfortable situation.”

The shouts start coming: No, Drew! We love you! You’re awesome! You’re awesome!

She takes it in. “Does anyone ever have those episodes where, like, all of a sudden nothing they can do is right and everything is just more evidence about what a crazy weirdo you are?” she asks.

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