London, May 30 (IANS) Actor Wilmer Valderrama was happy when tabloids started writing about his love life because it helped launch his acting career.
According to contactmusic.com, Valderrama claims that tabloids allowed him to get rid of his nerdy image when it started talking about him as a Hollywood icon. He had dated celebrity women like Lindsay Lohan, Mandy Moore and Ashlee Simpson.
He says: 'Everybody thought I was Fez until people started to care about who I was dating. If anything, my career blossomed because of the tabloids. Now I am able to make a transition from being a Screech ('Saved By The Bell' character) or Urkel ('Family Matters' character) type into a leading man.
'When was the last time you saw that?'
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