year her junior. They buried the hatchet when Virginia went into kidney failure and Blanche offered her kidney to her sister. However, their relationship became strained once more after their argument following Big Daddy's death, in which Virginia accused Blanche of being too selfish and self-centered to say goodbye to her own father. The fifth Hollingsworth child (by deduction) is Clayton Hollingsworth (Monte Markham), who appears in season four (1988) and season six (1991). When Clayton tells Blanche that he is gay, she struggles to accept his sexuality, but eventually does after Clayton intends to marry his boyfriend Doug. Blanche also has a promiscuous niece named Lucy (Hallie Todd), who visits her during the first season. Love life Although notoriously man-hungry, Blanche was faithfully married for decades to her husband, George Devereaux. George died (in a car accident) in either 1981 or 1982, three or four years before the start of the series in 1985, and at some point earlier they had moved from Atlanta to Miami. In a 1990 episode, Blanche dreamt that George came back from the dead nine years later (George told her he faked his death to escape criminal prosecution for fraud, for which he was framed by his own business partner). Actress Rue McClanahan has suggested that George was the love of Blanche's life, and that her promiscuity was in fact a desperate search for the next love of her life. During Blanche's senior year in high school, Christmas 1949, when she was 17, she almost eloped with Deck Boughvenlough, the father of her rival at cheerleading with the sole purpose of having the other girl taken off the squad. This establishes Blanche's year of birth as 1932. Blanche is shown to have dated various men, some of them unsavory. She almost married a bigamist in the pilot episode before he was arrested. Another man stole her necklace at her full moon-leap year's party; he was also caught by the police. One boyfriend, Rex was emotionally and verbally abusive, until Dorothy helped Blanche realize his true personality. Another boyfriend, Gary (Jerry Hardin) cheated on her with Rose's sister Holly (Inga Swenson), who was visiting. Yet another, who appears in The Golden Palace, turns out to be a gigolo (Barry Bostwick). Blanche overcame her apprehension of dating Ted, who was in a wheelchair, only to find out he was married, so she terminated the relationship because