THE GROW-UP
LEGALLY Blonde star Matthew Davis looks totally different from his slippery wannabe lawyer character Warner Huntington 21 years on from the film's release.
Matt played Elle Woods' (Reese Witherspoon) love interest Warner Huntington III in the cult comedy drama. Stuck up and shallow, he ditched Elle for Selma Blair's character Vivian Kensington, believing the ditzy blonde isn't good enough for his serious Harvard Law School ambitions.
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Since then, Matt has become best known for playing Alaric Saltzman in The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017) and its spin-off Legacies.
In the latter Matthew sports a big bushy beard, a completely different look to the clean-shaven Warner.
Matt became a father for the second time in January to Dorothy, two years after welcoming his first daughter, Ripley.
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Following the birth of his firstborn, Matt wrote on Twitter: "Ripley Nightingale Davis. Born March 31st 9:51pm. 7lbs, Blond hair Blue eyes Moms beautiful face. Thank you everyone for all your love and support."
During a virtual reunion with the Legally Blonde cast, Matt revealed his role in the film caused some grief.
"For years and years people would say ‘You’re that a**hole from Legally Blonde!’” he said.
Co-star Reese defended him, saying: “I’m here to tell people Matthew Davis is the nicest person. He was just playing a character."
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Matt deleted all of his tweets and Instagram posts following a social media spat with Vampire Diaries co-star Paul Wesley about the Vice Presidential debate prior to the last US election.
He endorsed Donald Trump's running mate Mike Pence, which didn't go down well with some of the Legacies fanbase, who launched a petition to replace him.
Meanwhile Reese's place among the Hollywood elite was cemented thanks to her role of Elle in Legally Blonde.
She went on to win the Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in Walk The Line in 2005.
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And more recently, she picked up more awards for the HBO series she produced and starred in, Big Little Lies (2017-2019), and her most recent show Little Fires Everywhere (2020) became the most watched drama on Hulu in the streaming platform's history.
She also founded a media company, Hello Sunshine, and is now worth an estimated $200million.
After separating from Cruel Intentions actor Ryan Phillippe, the father of her first two kids, Witherspoon married talent agent Jim Toth in 2011 and they had a son together a year later.
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