Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell reveals she went on a date with John Corbett -- even though her mom hated Aiden

Entertainment Weekly

"I'm never gonna be Team Aidan," Bushnell said on the Bradshaw Boys podcast. "I can't for a variety of reasons but one of the reasons is that my mother hated Aidan. She would watch and she was like, 'I hate that Aidan. He's so wrong for her!' My mother hardly ever watched TV." She added: "I did go to dinner with John Corbett. I kind of went out to dinner with him, it was romantic, (but) all I could think was, 'My mother's gonna kill me!' Then he goes back to L.A. and then like two days later it's like, 'Oh, he's dating Bo Derek.' You cannot compete with Bo Derek, forget it."