Gillovny timeline 2017 part 1

I couldn’t decently make the kind of timeline I made last year, with sightings and rumors, but even if we felt like Gillovny wasn’t very active this semester, there’s still quite a few things that shows the unconditional love between David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson…

Gillovny timeline 2016 part 1 –  part 2 


January 10th: David is at the New Orleans Wizard World with Mitch Pileggi.

It took him 8 minutes to talk about Gillian when no one asked him to (video) : Question: “Mitch what’s the favorite scene that you did with David and David what’s the favorite scene you did with Mitch?” David: “That would have been a great question if it was: Mitch what’s your favorite scene to do with David, David what’s your favorite scene to do with Gillian. That would have made me laugh. I thought it was coming. It didn’t come.”

 He talked about Gillian being a horrible a driver and told the now famous neck-brace prank (video): David: “Gillian’s a terrible driver. She had car accidents with nothing. Like the world was empty. There was nothing on the street. I was so relaxed. And she hit something. Hard. Backing up into it. So we had a little whiplash. She hit the nothing that was there. Hard.” Mitch: “Gillian is a horrible driver.” David: “But she thinks, she is good. That’s the hard part. So please don’t tell her.”

Gillian answered a week later with a tweet (source) : “Excellent driver on both land and sea.”

January 22nd: David was obviously scrolling though Gillian’s tag on Twitter and liked this tweet. 

February 8th: David was on a podcast. The interviewer said “Give your girl, Gillian a call! Get her on that.” He answered “Okay.

February 9th: During a podcast, David was asked about Gillian in the Fall and he said she was “very very very good. Very great” (podcast – starts at 26:50 min)

February 13th: During a Facebook Live, the interviewed ask David is they can call “Scully”. He answered “yeah, when we’re not rolling!” (source)

February 14th: 

Variety shipped them for Valentine’s Day. (source) 

Tv Guide shipped them too. (source)

 During an interview for his music tour, David remembered Gillian being on stage with him at The Cutting Room. (source) : That was my first performance in New York. That was really the album release performance. I remember being nervous at that, and I think we had just said we were going to do more X Files, and we were going to do the Television Critics Association Awards. Gillian was in town to do that the next day. I just thought it would be fun if she came up and sang a song. She didn’t know any of my songs, but we were going to do a cover of “Helpless” by Neil Young. I got her on the phone and she rehearsed over the phone with the band to get the key she could sing it at. That was that.

April 10th: After the official announcement of The X-Files season 11, Gillian tweeted (source): “You ready for more of this @davidduchovny?  #TheXFiles.” David answered (source): “Oh yes, Been ready since ‘93″

April 22nd: Gillian follows David on Instagram. 

May 11th: I cannot not mention Orlando Jones and this fuckery: (source) “It’s going to happen. They don’t understand what’s going on. David just finished touring, he and Tea are no longer together — which is horrible, I love Tea. They have beautiful kids. But Gillian’s beautiful, she’s sort of amazing — I don’t really understand what the problem is. Here’s the thing, I get that they want to take a slow roll, they want to walk in the sand for a little while, they don’t want to commit too soon. But in 20 years they’re going to be on Golden Pond together if I have to break both their fucking legs and put them there.”

May 15th: The Upfronts & The Webby Awards

David and Gillian appeared at The Fox Upfronts with matching injuries. Only two pictures were released (1st pic2nd pic), and a few interviews ( David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Explain Their Matching Injuries Talk XFiles  –  David Duchovny Gillian Anderson on X Files Revival)

Gillian was awarded for her role in The Fall, and David surprised her (or not), with a funny and memorable speech to give her the award. (video). They left the stage together and shared a cute moment (video)

May 16th: Gillian did a panel conversation for Buzfeed. She said “after seeing the playback from last night’s Webby Awards, David and I walking together, me in crutches and him in sling: That makes me think that may be an old idea. Maybe we should just fucking retire.”

May 17th: Gillian commented on the Webby Awards in an interview (source)“It was hilarious. The whole thing was hilarious,” said Anderson of Duchovny’s presentation. “The fact that we’re both crippled right now is so f—ing funny. And we’re about to start five and a half months of filming, so we’re going to have to heal really quickly. It was just hilarious between that clip and his speech and us both being invalids, it made my year so far.”

She also tweeted the Alien Baby Baby Mama fan art. (source)

May 18th: Gillian thanked David for The Webby Awards on Twitter (source)I would like to thank… @davidduchovny. Thanks @TheWebbyAwards!

June 1st: David finally started to follow Gillian on Instagram.

June 12th: David was asked how his relationship with Gillian has changed. He said: “It is deeper because of all those years that have passed. The respect and trust we feel towards each other are obvious! I think we are also both better actors today!” (source)


As usual, please tell me if I missed something! I’m sure the next semester will spoil us with loads of Gillovny!

To be continued…

The only thing that seemed off to me, aside from the awkwardness that came from two crutches and a sling added to the mix, was how David was when being interviewed at the upfronts. He seemed very abrupt at times and completely unfocused, kept glancing away. I now wonder though if it was because he knew time was short for him to get to the webbys in time to present the award? The upfronts were strange. The webbys were amazing.

Compared to the premiere red carpet last year, their interviews at the Upfronts weren’t that good, but for both of them. You can say when they don’t want to be there and are not into what they’re doing, and I think it was the case at the Upfronts. But their mood was clearly different at the Webbys!

About this lack of interaction at the upfronts, I was wondering if it actually had to do with D and G’s choice and not FOX’s. I mean, if they’re taking a ‘slow roll’ and want ppl to take their relationship seriously (and not a ‘showmance’ or a ‘PR boost’), wouldn’t it make sense they avoided being all flirty or posing together to reinforce this idea? The Webby was different, tho. That was purely D and G in their truest form: relaxed, happy and giddy 🙄 What do you think? Am I making sense? lol

I didn’t think about that and you do make sense. It’s possible I guess, but still I think it goes against their appearance at The Webbys. With them doing one more season, this ceremony, even if it was for another show, could be taken as a PR boost like the Cutting Room was taken by some. Sadly, as long as the show continues, each of their joint appearance will be seen as PR strategy by some people. They can’t do anything against that. 

I do think those footage of them together at the Upfronts exist somewhere. We only saw a glimpse of them, and this is what I don’t understand. Someone is holding them back and I don’t get why. 

Do you think dd and ga’s lack of… um… togetherness at the upfronts has anything to do with pm? I don’t have an opinion on it either way. Just asking an honest question. I’m wondering what everyone thinks. Can we open it up to discussion? It was pretty bizarre, we can all agree to that. The only time we saw them together that day at all was onstage at the Webby’s. Seems weird to me. I honestly don’t see how it could’ve benefited fox at all. I think it could be something else. Don’t know what

We can always open discussion, anon! If not the Webbys, I would have find it weird that they didn’t appear more together, didn’t do the photocall together, and didn’t give any interview together. It is weird. But then, they went to Webbys, and the magic operated. There’s no doubt David and Gillian are fine with each other, that nothing has changed between them since the last time we saw them together. I really do think it happened like that not because it was their request, but because Fox had planned it this way. 

Even if you assume she’s dating someone else, which I don’t but anyway, what would be the point of asking your network to make separate appearances with your costar for one business event, and then show up together being all giddy and cute at a totally non-business related (at least for David) event, and finally spend 6 months on the other side of the world 24/7 with this other man? It makes no sense. 

So if it isn’t their choice, if it isn’t due to their schedule, it has to come from their publicist or from Fox. It has to be a communication strategy. A weird one, but still…