People: Her diet? No bones about it
As she does most every weekend, “Bones” star Emily Deschanel is spending her Sunday morning shopping at a Hollywood farmers’ market near her home.
A strict vegan, the 31-year-old actress has avoided all animal products for 15 years, ever since watching a documentary about the meat industry.
Her lifestyle extends to avoiding leather clothing or consuming even honey because “sometimes,” she says, “they kill the bees.”
But Deschanel’s icy character, forensic anthropologist Temperance “Bones” Brennan, has no problem interacting with freshly butchered bodies on the Fox crime drama (Mondays at 8 p.m.).
With two episodes remaining in the third season, Deschanel hints that viewers will soon learn the shocking identity of cannibalistic serial killer Gormogon’s apprentice.
She and her on-screen crime-solving partner, David Boreanaz (FBI Agent Booth), were named producers on the show this season, which has upped their creative input.
“David had it in his contract, and I think they wanted to do something to make me feel equal with him, which is nice,” she explains.
“We’re definitely more involved in the show and where it goes if there are story lines or plot points we feel aren’t right for the characters.”
But Deschanel insists she had nothing to do with tonight’s episode, which finds her providing some comic relief.
Former “American Idol” finalists Ace Young and Brandon Rogers guest-star in a story line that culminates with Deschanel singing a Cyndi Lauper standard.
Though she can carry a tune, she hasn’t performed much before an audience since grade school.
Back at the market, reaching her favorite vegan soul food stand, Deschanel orders a to-go plate of veggie pot roast, greens, cornbread and black-eyed peas.
She’ll take it home to the duplex she shares with her vegetarian kid sister, Zooey, 28, also an actress (“Elf”) and singer.
Later in the afternoon, she and her boyfriend are taking a Jewish food cooking class. She declines to name her beau, explaining: “The last time I talked about (a) boyfriend, we had broken up by the time the article came out.”
She’s far more comfortable discussing her relationship with Boreanaz.
“We drive each other crazy,” Deschanel says. “I’m such a nosy person that I need to get in there when he’s having a conversation with the director. But we laugh about it.”
He’s “like a kid,” she adds. “He’ll take down his pants and moon people.”
And, “He’ll try to kiss me and stuff, and I’ll be like, ‘Uhhhh!’ “
Having a co-worker kiss you? For Deschanel, that’s worse than a bloody body any day.
The birthday bunch
Composer Burt Bacharach is 80. Comedian George Carlin is 71. Actress Linda Dano is 65. Singer Steve Winwood is 60. Actress Lindsay Crouse is 60. Actor Bruce Boxleitner is 58. Singer Billy Squier is 58. Actor Gabriel Byrne is 58. Country singer Kix Brooks (Brooks and Dunn) is 53. Actor Ving Rhames is 49. Actor Emilio Estevez is 46. Actor Stephen Baldwin is 42. Actress Kim Fields is 39. Actor Jason Biggs is 30. Actor Malcolm David Kelley (“Lost”) is 16. Actors Sullivan and Sawyer Sweeten (“Everybody Loves Raymond”) are 13.