Monday, July 11, 2016

Today's Blind Items - Bearding Ruined Her Career

Fighting my way through a horde of tourists unloaded from filled to capacity buses at The Grove a couple of weeks ago, I found sanctuary in the Barnes & Noble there. Apparently the tourists never go in there. I still haven't figured it out. Honestly I'm not sure where they go after they pile off the buses. I think they wander around aimlessly wondering where the Farmer's Market is. Around and around in circles they go until someone points out it used to be a Farmer's Market, and now, with the exception of a couple places is just food truck food minus the trucks. I digress. Anyway, in the bookstore, standing by the 4,000 magazines, some of which must have circulations measured in the hundreds, was this former A- list singer. She is the one person in the group who could sing.Is it wrong to think I didn't expect her to be in a bookstore? She was actually reading some kind of kayak magazine. Apparently she wanted to see some reviews on a paddle board.

This is always tough. 99% of the time I see, but don't engage. 1% of the time I do engage though. The problem with engaging is that you can't say to much. You have to be a fan, but not a psycho fan. Even if I/'m not a fan, which is the case, you have to come off as one because how else would just a random person know all this stuff about the celebrity. How else unless they are more than a fan. You also have to consider that if they tell you a couple or three things and they end up here, then they will search back in their memory for a fat guy asking too many questions and look for you again. It is all a delicate balance. No way do you ever want to say, "Hey, it's me Enty and I wanted to ask you a couple of things." Knees and high heels to the balls are not fun. Oh, I'm sure there are guys out there who pay extra for that type of service, but it isn't me.

Even though I know nothing about paddle boards or kayaks I started talking about them. Not riding them, because one look at me and people know I am full of crap if I act like I am doing that activity.

At first i was not 100% sure it was her. I thought it was, but wasn't quite sure but I asked a couple of questions about travel and knew where she had been and what she had been doing so, yeah, it was her. I didn't let on like I knew her. I couldn't because of the way I went with the travel questions. Instead of a fan, now I was the guy in the bookstore hitting on the woman. Yeah, not my best hope of success. It was hot. An afternoon and I had eaten lunch. That means sweaty with food somewhere on my clothes. Possibly items in my teeth. But, I will say that i can talk. They might not be interested in me, but I can keep them around talking. i knew where I anted the conversation to go. She probably thought I was going to hit on her and expected questions like that. What I was going for was dirt on her current employer. I wanted it first hand from her. I just didn't know how to get it there without giving it away that I knew her.

Some how though we ended up talking about the Orlando shootings and then we started talking about Pride and the next thing you know she was telling me that she used to be a big singer and performer and had a deal with a record company that was about to happen when she met a celebrity she fell madly in love with who turned out to be gay. He just didn't tell her that when she was falling in love with him. She said she followed him all over the world and did his beck and call and blew off the record deal and concerts and her entire career for the guy, only to find out he was gay. She said she was crushed but he offered her hope. He said they should still be together and it would be great for both of them. She says, it was only good for him because it helped him with endorsements and to have a pretty woman on his arm and she was so in love with him that she stayed. She is telling me all of this in the bookstore 30 minutes after we met. She says it ruined her career and that she managed to get lucky when someone bailed on a hosting gig and she got it and at least manages to earn a living. We talked for a few more minutes and she actually gave me her number. She did give me her first name, but never her last. It is a real number by the way.

 


27 comments:

  1. And all of the sudden she talked about such things with a complete stranger who is more than willing to sell her out and all.

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  2. Sheepskin3:30 AM

    And she gave you her number, a random stranger. I think this elaborate story is just to counteract people saying Entys blind are fake.

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  3. #Facts3:31 AM

    From small talk to an all out confession about things so personal and intimate within minutes.

    Seems legit..

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  4. sandybrook3:34 AM

    no clue but none of the fake girl groups really fit as women with talent.
    The only 2 or 3 that possibly fit are Nicole Scherzinger and Aubrey O'Day and they aren't talented one bit.

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  5. Chubber Lang3:38 AM

    Not sure how real this is but clearly meant to be Scherzinger/Hamilton.

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  6. Tricia133:38 AM

    Chili/TLC and Usher

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  7. Nicole Scherzinger/ Lewis Hamilton

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  8. Heather Chandler3:41 AM

    Nicole Scherzinger
    The Sing Off
    Lewis Hamilton

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  9. Nicole Scherzinger/Lewis Hamilton? She was the only real singer in a group, dated a guy for years who sends my gaydar into a frenzy & was a replacement host on X-Factor for a while...

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  10. Heather Chandler3:46 AM

    If it is her, I would say The Sing Off fits better. It was her first hosting gig and it was completely random that she was paired with Shawn Stockman and Ben Folds. From the first episode she seemed like a last minute replacement.

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  11. crystalmeh3:54 AM

    Enty has the written form of what my old dear dad would call "diarrhea of the mouth"

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  12. Not surprised by this.
    I have run into celebrities at various casinos, struck up a similar type of conversation with them; and, then after their comfort level with me is re-assured, they give me their contact info so they could receive information about LV CRE properties.
    (If I say celebrities have very little actual knowledge about investment properties, you shouldn't be surprised.)

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  13. Gully4:08 AM

    My first thought was that Russian pop star who was dating a MN Timber wolf, but it looks like they are married.

    Maybe this is meant to be Nic, but seems to obvious, & she is well known enough that she would have body guards with her & most likely wouldn't be in a Barnes & Noble in LA. Nic also did have a solo career, just didn't pan out too well, which is why she went bashing the industry in interviews & did hosting, following around her bf, etc.

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  14. S.D.AUNTIE4:11 AM

    I have had conversations with people who have told me things that i really do not want to know about. Yes a celebrity should be more cautious but it does happen.

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  15. Guesser4:21 AM

    If this is true, either she wanted a story planted, or like so many others,is drunk or stoned. Nicole is still pretty marketable ,at least in Britain.Now she's linked to Calvin Harris. If any of it is true, he changed location, type of store,type of mag.etc.She would hear this. I think it's someone less known, at least now, A has been making a comeback on a less well known show.

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  16. GroovieMann5:08 AM

    No way was Nicole A list, even in enty's screwy system.

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  17. I totally believe this happened to Enty. It happened to me too quite a few times when I was still in the resto biz.

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  18. Mooshki6:40 AM

    I guess that's subjective - I think Nicole is a very talented singer.

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  19. There are always famous people in that Barnes and noble

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  20. NoseyNeighbor11:49 AM

    You would be amazed at the things people will tell you within 15 minutes of meeting them. Some people have no filter or inner bodyguard. Everything just flows out of their mouth.

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  21. dream closet2:50 PM

    interesting timing enty...

    Nicole was just spotted with Calvin today.

    I wonder if swift fans will ever connect the dots...and see what all these people have in common....

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  22. scorchy2:42 AM

    Seriously. All this could have been told in one paragraph. I call the story out as BS and just space filler.

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  23. Clarisse McClellan7:58 AM

    Yep, sounds like Nicole.

    I once had a man I just met tell me about his awful relationship growing up with his mother and how he screwed up all his relationships with women and then his mom died and he wrote a book about it. He shared a few juicy personal tidbits with me. I looked him up after he left. Turns out his is a bestselling author and that book made it in the NY Times.

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  24. Hot Cola9:21 AM

    People open up to compleat strangers. Heppens to me all the time & I do too.

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  25. Hot Cola9:23 AM

    She was A list for a brief moment.

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  26. Prunella8:23 AM

    Some people just have that kind of face that you feel safe around them and want to tell them stuff. Enty apparently is one of those people. Non-threatening, friendly ... pity he's basically a sleazy paparazzo in disguise and exploited this woman for a one-off piece on his web site.

    If I ever needed an entertainment lawyer? And I knew Enty's real name? I'd avoid him like the plague. Assuming he even exists that is.

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  27. LucidDreams11:23 AM

    This ranks right up there with the BI about Beyonce's surrogate being accidentally murdered

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