lick pet person JOHN BARRYMORE and DANIEL DICRISCIO
DD: Hi John! Since you have this beautiful dog named Jasmine, have you always been a Dog person? JB: When I was a child I had dogs and other members of my family also had them. My dog was a Miniature Schnauzer named Shakespeare and my older sister Cathy had a champagne colored German Shepherd named Tempest. As an adult I had always had cats, because they’re lower maintenance and don’t really care when you’re not home. DD: What kind of breed is Jasmine? JB: She’s a Japanese Chin, also called a Japanese Spaniel or Japanese Chin Spaniel. It’s a 400 year old breed; they’re palace dogs from the era of the Shogun in Japan, the 17th century. DD: How did you get Jasmine? You brought Jasmine with you recently to my birthday celebration at Catch, and she was very well mannered! Is she trained or is that just innately her way? JB: This is the only reason I got a pure bred dog instead of a rescue. I had a girlfriend up in Monterey and she had one of these dogs. I was amazed at how incredibly chill the animal was – this was her second Japanese Chin, her first had lived to be seventeen or eighteen years. I took my girlfriend’s dog around with me quite a bit up there (The Monterey peninsula, particularly Carmel where my girlfriend was living, is a very dog-friendly place) and trained her to loose leash walk in one day (you can do that with just about any dog if you know what you’re doing). Well, after the girlfriend and I split up, I really missed her dog. So I went looking for breeders and found only three; the one in Indiana (or maybe Idaho? Iowa? I’m bad at names) where my girlfriend had gotten hers, one in Texas and one in San Diego, who turned out to be the daughter of the breeder in Texas. The San Diego one was the one I chose, of course, because I wanted to go pick the dog up, not have her air shipped, I figured even under the best circumstances that experience has to be a little traumatic for a dog, plus I wanted to get a look at the breeder’s operation (which I did when I went to pick Jasmine up)
I have known John Barrymore since 2009 and consider him a good friend. He is charming, friendly, a great conversationalist, funny, articulate and possesses a love for animals which, for me, is a big “check mark” in my list of things I look for in people. John Barrymore, also known as John Blythe Barrymore III, comes from Hollywood Royalty: The Barrymore family. His father was legendary actor John Drew Barrymore and his mother was actress Cara Williams. His grandfather was John Barrymore. His half sister is actress Drew Barrymore (they share the same father) and he is the grandnephew of Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore. What a Family Tree! John shares the famous John Barrymore moniker as his father and grandfather and he is also the father of three children from his previous marriage. John has been in and out of “The Biz” but has an impressive list of credits that include “Kung Fu” starring the late David Carradine to playing “Hamlet” to a recent viral internet web show “Lasagna Cat” a parody about the Garfield the Cat comic strip, to “Fake News” starring alongside Eric Roberts. He’s also appeared on “Lou Grant” and did voice work on “Cry Baby”. Fun Fact: John was tapped on the shoulder to play Eddie Munster on the television series “The Munsters” but his mom declined the role on his behalf and John is thankful to her for not allowing him to be a child actor. John has been a guest at many of my past birthday parties from Sur Lounge (that RHOBH’s Lisa Vanderpump and nightclub impresario Jeffrey Sanker hosted) to my Chateau Marmont birthday bash to my recent bday celebration at celeb hotspot “Catch” with his pooch in hand! John recently made a celebrity cameo in my new dance music video “X Sex”. Wherever John goes whether it’s red carpets, filmings, my video shoot, events, he brings his pup with him. I spoke with John ...and as always he’s enlightening, funny, and full of knowledge..even about hair color, lol... but mostly we chatted and got to know more about his main lady friend in his life, his sweet pup named Jasmine!
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