Compromised

It could be the ultimate honey trap. The trap part though generally requires the person to feel some type of guilt they were trapped. That is the part that gives the blackmailing person or government the leverage. In this case though, this permanent A list celebrity in his area of the country was happy to be honey trapped as much as companies or governments wanted. He has an understanding with his wife, so he wasn't going to be shamed or blackmailed.

These two people are complete opposites on the political spectrum.

I mean it isn't like the WWI Christmas Day truce, but I think if you went up to random people and asked if these two people would ever get along, you would laugh until you started crying. These two people are complete opposites on the political spectrum. One is way way over on the left and one is way way over on the right. There is one thing that brings them together. One. It is what makes them very unlikely bedfellows.