President Obama’s chief speechwriter and one of People magazine’s former “most beautiful” people is reportedly giving up the White House for a shot at screenwriting.
The Los Angeles Times reports that young hotshot Jon Favreau, 31, who joined then-Sen. Obama as a speechwriter at just 23, will leave the White House March 1.
He has told friends he wants to pursue screenwriting, following in the footsteps of former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett, who helped pen new NBC comedy “1600 Penn”, the Times reports.
Favreau, not to be confused with the successful “Iron Man” director of the same name, turned heads with his youthful good looks and aviator sunglasses after Obama’s 2008 presidential win. He has been profiled in GQ and Vanity Fair and also appeared in Time magazine’s 2009 Time 100 list.
He has also dated “Parks & Recreation” star Rashida Jones and was in 2010 briefly ensnared in scandal when a photo of him playing beer bong topless in a D.C. bar did the rounds online.