The Chelsea news is amusing. What are the chances she'll ever find out what real life is like? Speaking of presidential daughters:
PATTI Davis, the daughter of 40th President Ronald Reagan, is developing a TV show about the rebellious daughter of a U.S. president. She's titled the show "Ribbon," which was the actual code name she was given by the Secret Service during Reagan's two terms in the White House.
Davis - whose manager, Judy Coppage, is packaging and selling the show through the William Morris agency - is placing the action in the present day to incorporate issues "ripped from the headlines." But the title character, age 23, is obviously based on Davis herself, who was a struggling actress living in Topanga Canyon with Bernie Leadon, one of the original Eagles, when her father was elected.
"The show is half-fiction, half-fact, with a lot of embellishment" Davis told PAGE SIX. "People will wonder, 'Did she really do that?' "
Asked if there would be pot-smoking and sex, Davis said, "I push the envelope as far as I can for network TV. She [Ribbon] definitely has to clean up her act for the White House."
Ribbon will have a very responsible, dutiful older sister much like her late sibling Maureen Reagan, who campaigned for her father and forged a career in public service. The rebel daughter will also have a best friend, a fellow wannabe actress, who is her partner in crime. And there will be the omnipresent Secret Service agents. "It's a complicated thing," Davis said. "These guys are following you, they know everything about you, everything you do, and some of them are cute. You resent them. But there's a kind of Stockholm Syndrome."
Davis was referring to the tendency of helpless hostages to fall in love with their powerful captors. But she denies she ever had a fling with a Secret Service agent. "That's the biggest no-no," she said. "But some of my friends would say, 'If you can't date them, why can't I?' There might be something like that in one episode."
Davis - who wrote an eye-opening memoir, "The Way I See It," while Reagan was still president - embarrassed her more prudish relatives in 1994 when she posed nude in Playboy. While her dad at 92 suffers with Alzheimer's, her mother Nancy Davis is as sharp as a tack. "My mother has read it ["Ribbon"] and really likes it," Patti said. Page Six
You're so adorable. :-)