Johnny Depp favourite star for second year in a row

Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 21/01/2012 (5337 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

JOHNNY Depp is America’s favourite movie star, according to a new poll of 2,237 adults conducted by the polling firm Harris Interactive. It’s the second year in a row Depp, who appeared in three movies in 2011, has landed atop the chart.

Depp appeared in The Rum Diary and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and loaned his voice to the animated film Rango. Which is enough to make him the favourite of women; Republicans and independents; baby boomers, Gen X-ers and echo boomers; Easterners, Midwesterners and Westerners.

Clint Eastwood was tops in the South; George Clooney was a favourite of grandparents and moderates; and Democrats love Denzel Washington.

The rest of the top five are: Clint Eastwood and Denzel Washington tied for No. 2, Tom Hanks and, incredibly, John Wayne. Wayne, who hasn’t made a movie or done a talk show or had a messy tabloid breakup since his death in 1979, has been on the Harris list every year since 1994.

And yes, the list was open to both men and women, although only one woman was listed in the Top 10: Sandra Bullock came in at No. 7.

Meanwhile, according to this week’s People magazine cover story, Depp and Vanessa Paradis, who have been together for 14 years, may have split up.

Depp, 48, and Paradis, 39, are parents to Lily-Rose, 12, and Jack, 9, but have never married, choosing to live their life outside of the spotlight in the picturesque French hamlet of Plan-de-la-Tour. But People reports they now mostly reside in Los Angeles and lead separate lives.

Neither party has officially confirmed the split, though the pair hasn’t appeared together in public in over a year.

— Los Angeles Times