30 Facts About Blanche Devereaux

Blanche Devereaux is a character from the sitcom television series The Golden Girls, and its spin-off The Golden Palace.

Blanche Devereaux's parents were the late Elizabeth-Ann Margaret Bennett and Curtis "Big Daddy" Hollingsworth, the latter a revered man in his neck of the woods.

Blanche Devereaux is a member of "the Alpha Gams" and attended an unspecified university.

Blanche Devereaux is proud of her status as a Southern debutante, but was shocked to learn, when tracing her family history, that she had a New York-born Jewish great-grandmother which prevented her from joining the Daughters of the Old South.

When it was revealed that the book was about Charmaine and not Blanche Devereaux, they made up and apologized to each other.

However, their relationship became strained once more after their argument following Big Daddy's death, in which Virginia accused Blanche Devereaux of being too selfish and self-centered to say goodbye to their father.

Blanche Devereaux has a promiscuous niece named Lucy Warren, who visits her during the first season.

Blanche Devereaux is shown to have dated various men, some of them unsavory.

Blanche Devereaux almost married a bigamist in the pilot episode before he was arrested.

One boyfriend, Rex, was emotionally and verbally abusive, until Dorothy helped Blanche Devereaux realize his true personality.

Blanche Devereaux overcame her apprehension of dating Ted, who was in a wheelchair, only to find out he was married, so she terminated the relationship because she has never been the "other woman" in extramarital affairs and never wanted to be.

Jake was perfect and wanted to marry her; he was charming and romantic, but Blanche Devereaux found him a little 'rough around the edges' compared to the gentlemanly types she usually dated.

Blanche Devereaux turned down his marriage proposal, to the disgust of her roommates, and regretted it later.

Unlike Blanche Devereaux, who feared commitment and having another man die on her, when Karen heard of Steven's illness, she went right to his side when he needed someone.

Blanche Devereaux dated a blind man, John Quinn and considered breaking up with him because she knew he was not attracted to her physical beauty.

Blanche Devereaux later apologized to him and made plans to see him again, but the relationship apparently ended, as he was never mentioned on the series again.

The one time he was not, Blanche Devereaux assumed he was dead and promptly fell in temporary love with him when she realized he was alive.

When Blanche Devereaux's death was reported mistakenly in a newspaper, Mel sent flowers and a note, saying he went back to his ex-wife.

Blanche Devereaux spends a great deal of her time with men, a source of condemnation from and amusement for her roommates.

Blanche Devereaux was a Republican, and she had a hard time accepting her brother Clayton being gay, especially when he visited her again with his partner Doug whom he intended to marry.

However, in the third-season episode "Bringing Up Baby", when Dorothy questions an impulsive car purchase, Blanche Devereaux says to her: "I have had four children, I have never had a Mercedes".

Blanche Devereaux had a strained relationship with both of her daughters, especially Janet, something that led to some of the most dramatic storylines, as she expressed regrets that she was not there for her children more, and it is loosely implied that she might have even been emotionally abusive to them when they were growing up.

However, Blanche Devereaux slowly rebuilt her relationships with Janet and Rebecca throughout the series.

In each case, they eventually made up again, which was something Blanche Devereaux seems not to have entirely done with Janet.

Besides Aurora, Blanche Devereaux has at least three other grandchildren: David, Melissa, and Sarah, all born to Janet, who married a "yankee".

Blanche Devereaux has her own collection of strange stories which she shares from time to time, often tales of her rivalry with sisters Virginia and Charmaine or of the promiscuous stunts she pulled as a teenager.

Blanche Devereaux considers Sophia as both a mother figure and as a mean old lady.

Rue McClanahan said playing the role of Blanche Devereaux made her "one of the most recognizable women in the world", and resulted in her being named the "Fifth most beloved celebrity over 55" in the world.

Blanche Devereaux said the fame of Blanche Devereaux, on television "week after week for decades", made McClanahan inseparable from Blanche in the public eye.

Outside The Golden Girls and The Golden Palace, Blanche Devereaux appears in the Empty Nest episode "Fatal Attraction" and the Nurses episode "Moon Over Miami".