Girls star Andrew Rannells revealed one of many present’s longest-kept secrets and techniques on Obsessed: The Podcast practically a decade after HBO’s Emmy-winning millennial comedy-drama ended. When the suit-wearing, clean-cut, charming information anchor Dill Harcourt swept Rannells’ character, Elijah, off his toes within the fifth season of Lena Dunham’s Girls, followers instantly started speculating that the fictional TV host, performed by Corey Stoll, was primarily based on a sure particular NCS information anchor. Now, the actor is revealing the character’s true origin.“I told Lena and [co-creator] Jenni Konner a story about when I was 25 that I had dated Anderson Cooper, and I told them about the experience and what that was like. And, then it became the story that Elijah had in the series,” Rannells, 47, admitted on Obsessed: The Podcast after being pressed about his “horrified” expression at an earlier query. “That’s what I thought you were gonna ask about.”