Truffle Xclusive INTERVIEW: Tyler Shields (photog) & Francesca Fisher Eastwood (Star of E!’s New Reality Show ‘Mrs. Eastwood & Company’)

Tyler and Francesca at a gallery opening of Tyler's last show 'Imitate Modern'

He is a 29-year-old photographer known to snap young Hollywood stars, she is the 18-year-old daughter of Clint Eastwood and Titanic star Frances Fisher, USC student, and star of new E! reality show Mrs. Eastwood & Co.

“Mrs. Eastwood & Co. is a 10 episode reality show that focuses on Clint Eastwood’s wife Dina Eastwood, her daughter Morgan, the South African boy-band Overtone whom Dina relocated to the States to give them a chance to break into the American market, and Dina’s step-daughter Francesca Eastwood who is dating celebrity photographer Tyler Shields.” — per E! Network

Tyler Shields & Francesca Fisher Eastwood met on a shoot via a mutual friend who introduced them. “She blew me away I just wanted to know her. I had to have her in my life, then it turned into something more” said Tyler of his girlfriend of now two years. When we asked Francesca about their first meeting, she corroborated the story saying, “He said the moment I walked in the door, he knew I would be his girlfriend.”

The couple have some exciting projects in the works with her new reality show and his upcoming photography exhibit at Ace Gallery — and get this the show airs on the same day the exhibit opens. Continue reading

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