{"id":5665,"date":"2025-07-07T11:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:23:17","slug":"the-blonde-bikini-bombshell-whatever-happened-to-bo-derek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=5665","title":{"rendered":"The Blonde Bikini Bombshell: Whatever happened to Bo Derek?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"361\"><strong data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"115\">Remember Bo Derek?<\/strong> She became a Hollywood icon after her breakout role in the 1979 film <em data-start=\"185\" data-end=\"189\">10<\/em>, known for her beauty and signature cornrow braids. Born Mary Cathleen Collins in California, Bo got an early start in acting thanks to her mother\u2019s Hollywood connections.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"363\" data-end=\"645\">At 17, she met director John Derek (then 47 and married to actress Linda Evans) while filming in Greece. Their controversial relationship led them to live abroad until she turned 18. They married in 1976, and John cast her in several of his films, though most received poor reviews.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"647\" data-end=\"1018\">Bo remained in the spotlight through the \u201980s and \u201990s, later transitioning to TV roles. Outside of acting, she\u2019s an animal advocate, horse lover, and supporter of veterans\u2014honoring her father and late husband\u2019s military service. Her 2002 romance with actor John Corbett turned into a lasting partnership, and in 2021, they quietly married after nearly 20 years together.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1020\" data-end=\"1142\">Now living in California, Bo leads a quieter life, but remains a beloved and enduring symbol of classic Hollywood glamour.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1020\" data-end=\"1142\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"10  - RUNNING AT THE BEACH\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p8TUWilKb6M?feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Bo Derek? She became a Hollywood icon after her breakout role in the 1979 film 10, known for her beauty and signature cornrow braids. Born Mary Cathleen Collins in California, Bo got an early start in acting thanks to her mother\u2019s Hollywood connections. At 17, she met director John Derek (then 47 and married&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=5665\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Blonde Bikini Bombshell: Whatever happened to Bo Derek?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}