“Sex and the City” author Candace Bushnell theorized that men love the TV show more than women because men recognize other “assholes.”
Bushnell, who wrote the famed New York Observer column the hit show was based on, exclusively told Page Six that men “always watched” the show.
“The men loved it, because men know other men are assholes!” she told Page Six while laughing at the American Ballet Theatre’s Fall Gala at the Lincoln Center in New York City on Wednesday. “That’s my theory!”
Bushnell wrote the New York Observer column from 1994 to 1996 before shifting her career to write three novels based off the column that were released from 1996 to 2011.
“They [men] always actually read the column,” she added. “The the audience of the New York Observer [column] was 60, 65 percent men.”
The books later inspired the beloved “Sex and the City” TV show that followed fictional friends Carrie Bradshaw, Samantha Jones, Charlotte York and Miranda Hobbes as they navigate their love lives in the Big Apple.
The series aired on HBO from 1998 to 2004, but even 20 years after it ended, people are still rewatching the show and even binging it for the first time.
“It’s really about a certain kind of woman at a certain time in her life, and I think that it gives women freedom to think about their lives in a different way,” Bushnell said as to how the show continues to be popular all these years later.
Bushnell, 65, suggested that the main reason the show is still relevant is because it gives “other women advice” with friendships, dating and “real life.”
“It’s about something that’s very real,” she said, before adding that she believes “it’s more popular than it ever has been.”
In addition to fans rewatching the older episodes, they’re also able to see what the four beloved characters are up to currently with the spin-off, “And Just Like That,” which is currently filming Season 3 and stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.
Bushnell is not involved in the creation of the newer franchise, but she told us that the women “look fantastic” in the photos she’s seen from the upcoming season.
“I think they all look great, and I can’t wait to see it,” she gushed.
Fashion from the upcoming season has already been making headlines. Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays Carrie Bradshaw, has been seen wearing a 24-year-old Chanel top, a sheer coat and corset dress, and an oversized gingham bonnet.
Bushnell spoke to Page Six while attending the ABT’s annual Fall Gala among a slew of other celebrities including Chelsea Clinton, Michael Imperioli and Coco Rocha to celebrate the organization and honor legendary ballerina Natalia Makarova.
“I love the ballet,” Bushnell told us. “It’s always such a treat to come to this. It’s always so New York. Dance is so important in New York City, and it’s something that New York does beautifully in all its different forms.”
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