Manhattan Love Story's Analeigh Tipton
Welcome to Analeigh Tipton’s breakout moment. The America’s Next Top Model alum earned unexpected raves for playing the lovestruck babysitter in Crazy, Stupid, Love a couple of years ago, now she’s headlining two new projects: Two Night Stand, an NYC-based rom-com with Miles Teller, and ABC’s sweet new sitcom Manhattan Love Story. The latter follows two opposites as they try to navigate romance in the age of Tinder. Tipton plays a naïve New York newcomer in a role that is imitating her own life. Like her character, 25-year-old Tipton is adjusting to life in the big city,“I can’t navigate the subway to save my life!” and dealing with the reality of a 5th-floor walkup. Tipton has also found love—dating her co-star Jake McDorman. To top off the New York-ness, she sat on a downtown stoop to talk to Yahoo Beauty, surrounded by construction workers and a guy yelling next to her.
SB: You’re playing a newbie New Yorker on Manhattan Love Story, which is your story, too. How has it been navigating life in New York? Has it been as tricky for you as it is for your character?
Analeigh Tipton with co-star and real life love Jake McDorman promoting
Manhattan Love Story in the New York City subway
AT: I think some of the things she has trouble with are very relatable. Like I can’t navigate the subway to save my life! North, south, east, west doesn’t make sense to me. I live in a 5th floor walk-up and I don’t have a laundry unit in my building, which I thought was a great idea, as far as my buttocks. But it is not a great idea for any part of me after a long day! So I have learned to do what I like to call homeopathic laundry, which is just buying some good old-fashioned Febreeze and letting the wind in your home work its magic.
SB: You just moved from LA to NYC, two cities with seriously different styles. How has your look changed since moving to New York?
AT: In LA I was never a cool dresser. My style is very classic mixed with a kind of chic and simplified tomboy look. I like boy’s jeans, oversized sweaters, long jackets and buttoned-up shirts. But in LA you have to be really cool and trendy so I felt like I didn’t fit in. Whereas in New York every different type of style has this place where it is accepted and appreciated.
Analeigh Tipton and Jake McDorman, the real life couple starring in the new ABC romantic comedy series Manhattan Love Story, have decided to make their own love “story” and share it with their fans!
To help promote the series, the stars have been capturing moments all over the Big Apple and compiled it into one big clip. You can see the exclusive premiere of the video below.
“The whole cast decided from the moment the show was picked up that we wanted to do more. The show and the city of New York have so much to offer that we couldn’t possibly fit all of it into a half hour or even an hour of television,” Jaketold JustJared.com in a statement. “We moved to the city together, we’ve been experiencing the city together, and we wanted to share as much of that experience with people as possible. Making these videos and involving the fans by asking them to send us to the places in New York that they love has been such a priority in addition to our work on the show. There’s an abundance of life here and we hope to continue for as long as we can.”
“We love what we do, we love working on this show. Filming in this city has been one of the greatest adventures of my life,” Analeigh told us. “We began these films in an effort to capture what a commercial or even a show can’t always say. We hope to remind people of the magic, possibility and adventure of love. It’s our ‘behind the scenes’–it’s our effort to put something meaningful and honest in something that is often void of such. This is not just promotion for the show we love making, but hopefully a little message to pass on love, to take creativity into your own hands and go against the grain for something you believe in.”
Analeigh Tipton & Jake McDorman Make Their Own ‘Manhattan Love Story
Tune in for the all new episode of Manhattan Love Story TONIGHT at 8:30/7:30c on ABC!