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Wit & Attitude Quote by Rachel Hunter

"I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again"

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Status is the whole plot here, and Hunter doesn’t pretend otherwise. The “proviso” isn’t about romance; it’s about control. In one brisk condition - don’t tell anyone - she draws a boundary around her public image, then watches how quickly a teenage boy turns that boundary into a brag. The line “The idiot didn’t keep his mouth shut” lands with the casual cruelty of hindsight, but it also exposes a real asymmetry: for him, being seen with her is social currency; for her, being talked about is risk.

Coming from a model, the subtext is especially sharp. Modeling is a career built on being looked at, yet fiercely curated about who gets access. The quote captures that paradox: visibility is the job, but uncontrolled visibility is the problem. The boy’s mistake isn’t just gossip; it’s treating her as an accessory to his reputation, not a person managing her own.

The abrupt escalation - one breach, immediate dump, then a lifetime rule (“never…again”) - reads like a teenage lesson that calcifies into strategy. It suggests an early encounter with the machinery of fame before she even had full-fledged fame: the way a small social circle becomes a loudspeaker, the way intimacy gets converted into story. Hunter’s punchline isn’t heartbreak; it’s policy. In a culture that trains young women to be “nice,” she narrates herself as decisive, even ruthless, because that’s often what privacy demands when your face is already public property.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hunter, Rachel. (n.d.). I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-went-out-with-this-boy-on-the-proviso-that-he-115911/

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Hunter, Rachel. "I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-went-out-with-this-boy-on-the-proviso-that-he-115911/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-went-out-with-this-boy-on-the-proviso-that-he-115911/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Rachel Hunter (born September 9, 1969) is a Model from New Zealand.

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