Who Is the ‘Hot Actor’ Kaley Cuoco Dumped in 2004 for Being a Bad Tipper?

This video is a few days old and Kaley Cuoco has no business taking precedence over the likes of Nicki Minaj and Rihanna (who appear later in today’s Dirt Bag) but I honestly can’t stop thinking about it, so guess what, she gets the top spot! The five-minute clip features Cuoco telling Vogue that when she was 19 (in 2004/2005) she dumped a boyfriend for being a bad tipper.

Normally this would not interest me in the slightest, but Cuoco refused to name the dumpee, instead referring to him as a “hot” actor. “Let’s call him John,” she says after a long pause. “If I told you his name, you’d know who he is.”

The bad tipper story goes something like this:

“He wanted to take me on a really nice romantic dinner date. It was kind of a surprise and I was so excited because we hadn’t really done this yet. We had this great dinner, we got along and the conversation was great. The bill comes, and [I asked to split it with him], and he says, ‘Absolutely not. I’m taking you on the date. Absolutely not.’

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So he takes the bill out and he’s looking at it really seriously…He goes to the calculator on his phone, and he’s multiplying like an 8% tip. ‘Oh my god, he’s cheap. He’s a bad tipper.’”

The Daily Mail had a few guesses based on dudes she publicly dated around the time—Kevin Zegers (I sort of know her), Thad Luckinbill (I don’t know her but he’s a soap opera star), and Jaron Lowenstein (I don’t know her and also he’s not an actor)—of whom I think only Zegers fits the bill. But is he famous enough to warrant such a description? I don’t think so!