"It slows down grocery shopping, because so many women at the store watch the show. I always end up talking to two or three people every time I go to Ralphs. It's fun"
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Celebrity is rarely glamorous in the places where life actually happens. James Denton drops that irony into a mundane setting: the grocery store aisle. By choosing Ralphs, not a red carpet, he frames fame as something that interrupts the most ordinary choreography of adulthood: get in, get out, remember the milk. The comic bite is in the phrasing "It slows down grocery shopping" - a small inconvenience treated like a weather report, as if recognition is just another factor in the weekly routine.
The line also smuggles in a gendered reality of TV stardom. "So many women at the store watch the show" signals the demographic logic of network hits, where audiences are imagined, marketed to, and then encountered in the wild. Denton isn't simply noting who recognizes him; he's acknowledging how fame is routed through domestic spaces and habits often coded as feminine. The grocery store becomes a kind of informal fan convention, powered by shared viewing rather than publicity campaigns.
His subtext is careful: approachable, not besieged. "I always end up talking to two or three people" is modest enough to sound believable, specific enough to feel lived-in, and "It's fun" converts what could be read as intrusion into a social perk. This is the likable-star persona doing quiet work: recognition as community, not entitlement. He makes celebrity feel neighborly, which is exactly the kind of brand insulation an actor benefits from when the cameras are off.
The line also smuggles in a gendered reality of TV stardom. "So many women at the store watch the show" signals the demographic logic of network hits, where audiences are imagined, marketed to, and then encountered in the wild. Denton isn't simply noting who recognizes him; he's acknowledging how fame is routed through domestic spaces and habits often coded as feminine. The grocery store becomes a kind of informal fan convention, powered by shared viewing rather than publicity campaigns.
His subtext is careful: approachable, not besieged. "I always end up talking to two or three people" is modest enough to sound believable, specific enough to feel lived-in, and "It's fun" converts what could be read as intrusion into a social perk. This is the likable-star persona doing quiet work: recognition as community, not entitlement. He makes celebrity feel neighborly, which is exactly the kind of brand insulation an actor benefits from when the cameras are off.
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