What does Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have in frequent with The Golden Bachelor?

According to Federal Election Commission information, the longshot presidential candidate shared the identical stylist as Gerry Turner of the favored ABC courting collection.

In Kennedy’s most recent financial filing with the FEC posted final week, his marketing campaign disclosed that it had paid stylist and costume designer Tom Soluri $6,178 for model consulting again in October. On his Instagram last June, Soluri introduced his work with Kennedy, sharing a picture of the candidate wearing a darkish blue go well with and matching tie alongside his spouse, Cheryl Hines.

“I had the privilege of working with Robert F. Kennedy Jr on his Presidential announcement and run,” Soluri mentioned on Instagram. It was an incredible expertise to model such an influential determine in American politics.”

Weeks later, Soluri posted a photo of Turner, writing that he had additionally helped model the oldest Bachelor star within the historical past of the collection. A spokesperson for Disney confirmed that Soluri styled Turner in promotional materials for the present. Soluri didn’t reply to a request for remark from WIRED.

Soluri’s costuming portfolio touts work on movies like Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and the TV collection Gossip Girl, dressing each Blake Lively and Leighton Meester all through the years 2007 and 2008.

Kennedy’s foray into movie star styling comes as the vaccine skeptic has seemingly ramped up efforts to leverage his title recognition and Hollywood connections to bolster his presidential bid. In the previous couple of weeks alone, Kennedy has posted photographs and movies with well-known figures like life coach Tony Robbins and professional surfer Kelly Slater. Still, many politicians have ventured into skilled styling all through historical past, typically spending way over Kennedy for the assistance. While working as John McCain’s vice chairman in 2008, Sarah Palin’s team hired stylist Lisa A. Kline and spent $150,000 on a model new wardrobe (a lot of which Kline mentioned was returned).

The Kennedy marketing campaign can be going through some robust headwinds in the case of even getting on the final election poll. After asserting his bid for president as a Democrat in April, Kennedy determined to run as an Independent in October. The necessities for Independent candidates to achieve poll entry fluctuate throughout states, making it troublesome for anybody exterior of the Democratic and Republican events to run a promising normal election marketing campaign. Kennedy’s crew is reportedly struggling to seek out all of the signatures essential to get on state ballots and has thought of launching its personal “We the People” occasion or linking arms with the Libertarian occasion to prop up his probabilities.

Even if Kennedy’s marketing campaign faces an uphill battle on poll entry, his crew and pro-Kennedy super PACs are persevering with to develop his community of supporters. In latest months, he’s travelled throughout the nation, holding galas and assembly influencers with each giant and small followings to maintain his candidacy afloat.