EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: More Than Friends? Dad Of Courteney Cox's Co-Star: They Make a Good Looking Couple
March 31 2011, Published 9:28 a.m. ET
Courteney Cox and her Cougar Town co-star Josh Hopkins set the romance rumor mill spinning after being photographed frolicking in the French surf together.
Reps for the two are denying they're lovebirds, insisting they are just FRIENDS.
But one person that would give a definite thumbs up to a new romance is Josh's politician dad, who told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview: "I would approve of it."
"They are both very good looking people," the hunky actor's dad, Larry Hopkins, a seven-term U.S. Congressman said.
The Kentucky Congressman said he doesn't know for a fact if his son is dating Cox, but says he always speaks very highly of the older actress.
"I know he likes her and is very fond of her. He's said she's a very nice person," Hopkins said.
"If he approves of her, then I approve of her."
Cox, 46, and Hopkins, 40, play on-screen lovers in the hit show and photos of them walking on the beach together and playing in the Carib