Jon Favreau and Ali Campoverdi: is it romance?

The fruits of public office have indeed been plentiful for Jon Favreau (right), Barack Obama's 27-year-old chief speechwriter. In addition to his plum job, the US gossip website Gawker claims that he has begun dating a White House aide called Ali Campoverdi (left), a former model who once posed for Maxim magazine.
While it is hard to imagine how Favreau, or ‘Favs’ as he is known to his friends, has time for such diversions – he is said to work 16 hours a day – Gawker is adamant that he and twenty-something Campoverdi are an item. A native Californian and graduate of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Campoverdi comes with a colourful CV. As well as appearing in Maxim, she has been a contestant on the American reality show, For Love or Money, and even had a bit part in the 2005 movie Constantine, in which she played a vampire being hunted by Keanu Reeves.
She would certainly mark a turnaround for Favreau, who lamented in an interview with the New York Times last year, that "the rigours of this campaign have prevented any sort of serious relationship".
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And the boy wonder can be reassured that Campoverdi, who reportedly works as assistant to a White House deputy chief of staff, is not dazzled by his closeness to Obama. In the interview that accompanied her Maxim appearance, she said: "I don't care if it's your job or your hobby or your shoes… something has to make you tick; something has to make you move."
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