Attitude
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Kelly Osbourne looks like a schoolteacher next to Amy Winehouse as they walk into The Roxy for Perez Hilton's party Friday night. Once inside, both of these bad girls had incidents with security guards. Kelly was caught crouched on the kitchen floor pouring herself drinks from the bar supplies and she was reprimanded. Amy is still having problems with men - she ran up to a guard complaining "That asshole over there keeps bugging me and I want him THROWN OUT now!" The guard asked her to point out the offensive guy. She did and he said "I can't kick him out - that's John Stamos- he's an invited guest!" "John WHO?" she was heard muttering. Oh, and Paris Hilton demanded to have the bathroom blocked off so she could use it alone. The manager wouldn't allow it and - perhaps because of her attitude - no one bothered to tell Paris that there was a private VIP bathroom available upstairs.
Amy Winehouse has little use for Hollywood men! The hot UK singer performed March 19 at the Roxy on Sunset Strip and the male-dominated audience couldn't get enough of her. After the show there was a party for her at the private club upstairs On the Rox. Again, it was mostly men focused on Amy -she barely had a moment to relax. Cisco Adler (son of music mogul Lou Adler and ex-boyfriend of Mischa Barton) turned ON the charm for Amy, who was unimpressed. He insisted on getting her shots - she asked for two Patron shots and said "I"ll be right back" He stood by the two shots on the bar for the LONGEST time before realizing she had NO intention of returning, and looked embarrassed. Many guys tried to hit on her, but Amy resisted. One guy from Warner Brothers went up to her, drunkenly slobbering that he LOVED her music and he gushed "You're HOT!" She responded by SPITTING at him - she turned her back and walked away. Amy left the Hollywood dudes in tatters, and they loved every minute of it.
Michael Jackson took all that money he got from kids in Japan who paid to meet him and flew to London where he checked into the painfully expensive Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel under the name "Ms. Jackson" (We think he hoped to be mistaken for Janet.) He occupied the Presidential Suite (around $5000 per night) with his kids, but took up the entire top floor with his entourage, and brought ten beefy security guards to protect him and make sure no one came up in the elevators. He even brought his own waiter and didn't want any strangers near him. Hotel staffers were terrified of doing the wrong thing. And last we heard, Ms. Jackson didn't leave any tips.
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Innocent people standing in line at Pinkberry in West Hollywood- where there's ALWAYS a line of at least 20 - were taken aback the other night when Paris Hilton descended on the place. They saw her marching across the street followed by a dozen flashing paparazzi and the crowd just stepped BACK and let her walk right to the front of the line! She ordered a number of containers to go and everyone waited with mouths agape while flashbulbs popped around her. She paid and walked out without comment, and NOT ONE person in line complained! No WONDER she has that feeling of entitlement!
Pimp My Ride star Xzibit brought ten people to Arnie Morton's for steak dinners not long ago. He flashed a diamond encrusted watch that looked like it was worth half a million dollars. The group drank and ate their way up to a $1700 tab which Xzibit paid, but he left a shockingly miserly tip of $100 for the hardworking server! Here's a guy who can pimp a car but can't tip a waiter.
Gilmore Girl Lauren Graham is not as sweet as she looks. A source on her show told us the actress is notoriously condescending to background players and she's developed a bad reputation with them. Lauren isn't popular with extras because not only does she avoid them like the plague ("Keep those people away from me!") but she has no regard for their feelings. When she noticed a young female extra wistfully eyeing the craft service table she hissed "Get these maggots away from the food table!" (Hard to believe - but a reliable witness swears it's true!) The girl was humiliated and when another extra expressed shock at Lauren's contemptuous comment - both lost their jobs. Lauren may be the 'boss" but extras whisper that she'll never get a SAG award because she's so disliked.
The last person you'd expect to find creating a nuisance at the Equinox gym in
West Hollywood is the star of Bravo's "Workout" series Jackie Warner. But, according to a gym source, Jackie (who is sort of a muscular Scarlett Johansson type) likes to arrive LATE at the busiest 7 AM spin class (featuring lots of celebs like Nicole Kidman) and naturally she creates a stir getting herself settled in. (She seems to enjoy having all eyes upon her ) That's NOT good gym etiquette. Jackie then proceeds to TALK to her friends during the class and ignore the instructor. To top it off she usually leaves early and disrupts the class again. Other gym members are surprised by her bad manners - especially since she has her OWN gym in Beverly Hills, AND she charges $400 per hour for personal training!
For YEARS Larry King has taped his TV show at the CNN building on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood. But if you ask other people who work in the building what Larry's like, they say they have never encountered him. How is that possible? It was explained that when Larry arrives every day, his "assistants" (usually eager-to-please young women) run ahead of him and shoo everyone OUT of the elevator SO HE CAN RIDE ALONE - both coming and going. Apparently Larry feels he's above making small talk with strangers in the elevator.
An innocent visitor from England (who also happens to be hot looking) told us this amusing story. Recently an LA friend took him to a birthday party at Guy's. The Brit knew nothing about celebrity karaoke. They had a few drinks and his mate pointed to a group of girls, one of them had her back to them. He said "There's my friend Lindsay - go get her attention. The English guy strolled up behind "Lindsay," tapped her on the shoulder and said hello. She turned around and the guy was horrified to realize it was fierce looking Lindsay Lohan. (He said "I had a People magazine cover flash in my mind!") Lohan gave him a snort and a contemptuous side glance and bolted RIGHT away, leaving her friends slack-jawed. The girlfriends looked the guy up and down like he had just walked out of a high school science class, and one said in a thick valley girl accent "EWWW- YOU'RE WEARING A SWEATER!" The embarrassed stranger shrank back and punched his friend for setting him up. SO high school.
Girls outnumbered guys by around 4 to 1 at Hugh Hefner's Halloween bash at the mansion Saturday night. Hef held court at the main table by the dancefloor where he had a constant assortment of people lined up to greet him. Paris Hilton noticed that Hef and his three girlfriends Holly, Bridget, and Kendra (The Girls Next Door) were the center of partygoers attention, and THAT would never do! She leaped up on a nearby table and started dancing above the crowd in her skimpy white costume. Eyes swiveled in HER direction (just the way Paris likes it) and Hef's girlfriends looked askance at Paris's antics. Moments later, a Playboy security guard "helped" Paris DOWN from the tabletop, despite her protestations, and she reluctantly drifted back into the crowd. Hef's girlfriends just smiled.
Innocent bystanders in Starbucks in Beverly Hills couldn't HELP but notice Janice Dickinson was in the house because she's SO loud on her cellphone. Even though she was very casually dressed in Ed Hardy sweats, Ugg boots, no makeup, and tousled hair, Janice just HAD to have all eyes upon her. She loudly proclaimed into the phone "Darling, I told you, I AM the first Supermodel!" ( We always wonder what Twiggy thinks when she hears Janice makes that claim. Of course she does get the last laugh - Twiggy replaced Janice on America's Top Model. ) Janice looked around to see if she was being noticed, and continued with her top volume self - promoting conversation about the fact that she's now filming the SECOND season of her own reality series The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency. Now EVERYBODY knows.
When the employees at Whole Foods in West Hollywod see Faye Dunaway walk in the door they "scatter like cockroaches" one of them told us. Nobody wants to wait on her. Faye is VERY demanding -especially at the deli case. Here's an example: When a server waiting on her was wrapping up an item he turned to another employee to tell him something and Faye ferociously snapped her FINGERS in the air scolding "I NEED YOUR FULL ATTENTION!" She asked her deli person for a pound of turkey breast. Sliced medium. After all the meat was cut she examined it and frowned "NO - that's too THICK " and wouldn't buy it! THAT"S why the help runs for cover.
Supernova drummer Tommy Lee was catching a smoke, sitting outside an airline building at the Burbank airport deep in conversation with a pretty young girlfriend and his pushy assistant. A steady stream of people came outside to light up and each time the protective assistant jumped up and blocked Tommy, presumptuously waving the outsiders away, insisting "No autographs!" The smokers were irked and finally after a number of them had been shooed away from Tommy, one informed the overzealous assistant "Excuse me but this is the airport employees smoking area - we come here to SMOKE, not to get anybody's autograph!" and Tommy's assistant FINALLY shut up. Is Rockstar Supernova giving the usually down-to-earth rocker a big head?
( click here to find out which Rockstar Supernova contestant Tommy's band prefers )
Yuppie looking Andy Dick invaded Tiny's K.O. - a punk rock dive bar on Hollywood Blvd., and his behavior was decidedly WEST Hollywood. Fortified by many substances, Andy proceeded to squeal "Oh, you're SOOO cute! Wanna drink?" and he bought drinks for anyone who looked at him. Boozed up Andy hit on the skinheads, mohawked rockers, and a few girls. Incredibly, he started groping and tryng to KISS the fiercely tattooed skinheads. One roared "There's not enough booze in the world to make me kiss YOU! - grab me again and I'll WHACK you" Andy chirped "I LOVE to get hit!" Randy Andy topped off his rampage by giving unwanted lapdances to outraged rockers. Nobody got seriously mad because Andy WAS paying for all the drinks. When he collected his credit card before leaving, Andy announced "I'm coming back to BUY this bar!"
We LAUGHED at the scene in The Devil Wears Prada where Meryl Streep's character Miranda is about to arrive at the office and it's like a presidential high security maneuver. People are stationed on cell phones reporting her exact location minute by minute so the foam on her cappucino will be fluffy. It seemed ridiculous until we were told that absurd countdown is repeated every day for Viacom exec Les Moonves! "His car is two minutes away - butter his bagel!" An intruder into his inner sanctum told us that it takes at least eight people stationed everywhere to coordinate his arrivals. Each person is connected by phone - someone is at every door to open it and confirm progress, as the countdown to his walking in the office door proceeds. "Everybody is nervous - adjusting the room temperature and fretting over whether the shades should be up higher. It's overkill and it's WORSE than Prada!"
"In real life, Dr. Phil is NOT the compassionate sensitive man you see on TV!" So says an insider who was present for his son Jay McGraw's wedding to playmate Erica Dahm. "Phil is turning his son's wedding into a TV show and he walked around with cameras filming the rehearsal dinner and wedding preparations etc. ( Doesn't that mean the wedding is a total write-off?) Phil micromanaged every detail of the event. He butted into everyone's work to interview them - about the flowers, lighting, music, decor, food, etc - it was like a giant commercial. And he wasn't charming about it. "
"Phil made comments about all the wedding details but ne never complimented or thanked anyone or acknowledged their work in a nice way."
"And during the wedding festivities Phil was a big HAM and repeatedly stood up and made corny speeches." Said our snitch. "His manners are brusque - during the reheasal dinner at Republic he impatiently ''dismissed" hovering waiters. And he doesn't watch HIS diet - he requested bowls of mac and cheese on the table. The surprised wedding guests all had to surrender their cameras at the reception at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Is Phil selling the photos?
The parting gift for guests was not from Tiffany's - it was a little set of measuring spoons with each inscribed with corny things like "a pinch of love."
One more reason for Oprah NOT to show up!
Nick Carter has packed on a few pounds since he dated Paris Hilton so no one was surprised to see him working out at 24 Hour Fitness in West Hollywood. The former Backstreet Boy DID sense lot of eyes upon him however, and seemed uncomfortable, according to our source. A guy walked up to Nick and said "Hey remember me? I was the friend of a girl you used to date." He named the girl, and moody Nick snarled "I remember you - and she's a f------ BITCH!" All the noisy machines seemed to stop at the same time and everyone heard his comment. There was an awkward silence and Nick left the gym shortly after .
