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Kaley Cuoco Dumped a Famous Actor Because He Was a Bad Tipper: ‘I Was Horrified’

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Kaley Cuoco has a tip: don’t cheap out on gratuity when you’re trying to impress a girl.

The Big Bang Theory star recently shared a story about breaking up with a “famous” boyfriend because he was the opposite of generous with restaurant staff.

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“Let’s call him John. Because if I tell you his name, you’d know who he is,” the 32-year-old revealed to Vogue as part of their “Sad Hot Girls” video series. The CBS star, who was 19 at the time, was just starting out in Hollywood when she met “a hot guy.” 

And Cuoco quickly convinced herself that “John” was The One.

“I’m going to marry him, he is the father of my children, I’m so in love!” she recalled thinking. “Everyone that met him loved him, too, and we looked cute together.” 

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Then “John” took her on a romantic date. “We had this great dinner, we got along and the conversation was great,” Cuoco said. Then the bill came and she noticed he was studying it “really seriously.” At first, she thought maybe “John” needed glasses. Then he whipped out his phone and began using the calculator function.

“I start to get a little bit hot, cause I think I’m realizing what’s happening,” Cuoco said in the video. “He’s multiplying like an eight percent tip. Oh my god, he’s cheap. He’s cheap. He’s a bad tipper.” 

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The same thing kept happening when they would go out to eat — including a time when offered to pick up a $600 check for her family. Cuoco was convinced he was going to leave $13. “I was horrified,” she admitted. A guilty Cuoco even went back to a restaurant one time to tip a server because she felt so terrible.

It’s easy for Cuoco to look back and laugh. She’s now happily engaged to her boyfriend of two years, Karl Cook. Cuoco told Us Weekly earlier this month that she will start planning the wedding after season 11 of The Big Bang Theory wraps. “I’m very excited,” she gushed. “I’m gonna be a total typical bride.”

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