‘Parks And Rec’ Character Was Inspired By Real Politician | EUROtoday

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) was the inspiration for one sex-crazed political character on “Parks and Recreation.”

Mike Schur, the creator of the America sitcom that ran from 2009 to 2015, stated on Friday’s episode of “Pablo Torre Finds Out” that the character Councilman Bill Dexhart was impressed by Sanford.

“[Dexhart] was based entirely on Sanford, who at the time we thought was the funniest version of those guys because the lie was so outrageous and just so egregious,” Schur stated.

On “Parks and Rec,” the Dexhart character is a metropolis councilman who is continually admitting to intercourse scandals with no guilt.

“All I can say is, I wasn’t just having sex,” the Dexhart character says in a single “Parks and Recreation” episode. “I was making love to a beautiful woman. And her boyfriend. And a third person whose name I never learned. Furthermore, it was wrong of me to say I was building houses for the underprivileged when I was actually having four-way sex in a cave in Brazil.”

Schur added that the present casted actor Kevin Symons to play Dexhart due to Symons’ resemblance to Sanford.

Sanford didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Schur’s revelation on the podcast comes as Sanford has entered the information for an alleged affair as soon as once more. Sanford’s first newsworthy affair occurred in 2009, when he disappeared from his spouse, workers and the general public for six days. While he informed his workers he could be mountain climbing the Appalachian Trail, he later admitted throughout a information convention that he had met up with a lady to hold out an affair. He additionally admitted that in his 20 years of marriage, he had “crossed the lines” many instances.

But this week, a second alleged affair was delivered to mild when Ryan Lizza, a political reporter, wrote in a Substack that his then-fiancée and fellow political reporter Olivia Nuzzi had an affair with Sanford in 2020. Lizza’s revelation comes as Nuzzi is gearing as much as launch her memoir, “American Canto,” detailing her affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

On “Pablo Torre Finds Out,” Schur and podcaster Jessica Smetana broke down the story surrounding Nuzzi, Lizza, Sanford and Kennedy that The New York Times referred to as “a media scandal drenched in sex, politics, secrets and self-dramatization.” After Nuzzi’s affair with RFK Jr. broke final yr, Nuzzi left her job at New York Magazine as its White House correspondent, however at the moment, she works as an editor at Vanity Fair.

Vanity Fair informed The New York Times on Friday that they’re reviewing the allegations that Nuzzi had an affair with Sanford.