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Celebrity Apprentice Party Planner Speaks Out About Joan Rivers

Spicy — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:14:48 +0000

Barbara Walters spoke with the celebrity party planner who walked out on the season finale of the Celebrity Apprentice on her Sirius radio show, Here’s Barbara.

Barbara and her co-host Bill Geddie spoke with David Tutera who went on the show to talk about the reason why he left so abruptly. And yes, the reason was Joan. Not only was she condescending towards him, she also had absolutely no direction with her final task and expected him to take control of the situation. Read on..

BARBARA WALTERS: You were supposed to do a beautiful room for Joan, and also a room for Annie Duke, right?

DAVID TUTERA: That’s correct. Yes

BARBARA WALTERS: OK. And then you quit, and people said, ‘How could he walk out?’ And Joan was furious. She was on television this morning. She said you didn’t have a hissy fit, you had a sissy fit. Twelve hours before they were supposed to show the rooms, you, David Tutera, walk out. Why?

DAVID TUTERA: Let me just start by saying that in twenty-three years of being in business, I have never left anyone, no matter how difficult they are to work with, in such a situation as that. Her behavior towards any human being was so unacceptable to me.

BARBARA WALTERS: Joan?

DAVID TUTERA: Joan Rivers.

BARBARA WALTERS: Really?

DAVID TUTERA: Such a monster I cannot begin to even explain.

BARBARA WALTERS: Wow.

DAVID TUTERA: The way it unfolded was, I was to go into the “War Room” and meet with Joan and her team, including her daughter, and get as much information from them that they needed to explain to me on how to execute a concept, the party….well, Joan and Melissa [Rivers] were completely incapable of giving me their insight on how the party should look. They had zero direction. The rules of the show were, that the producers said to us, that we cannot, me as the person executing the challenge, give the celebrities ideas.

BILL GEDDIE: Ah, that explains so much.

David Tutera on being manipulated by the producers during the “Celebrity Apprentice”:

BARBARA WALTERS: Do you think you were set up? By the producers?

DAVID TUTERA: Yes. I think I was manipulated by the producers. Not set up, but manipulated.

David Tutera on working with Joan Rivers on the “Celebrity Apprentice”:

BARBARA WALTERS: You feel, at that point, that those conversations, in which she complained and you said, OK, I quit, you feel that that all was a set up by the producers?

DAVID TUTERA: Manipulated…they got me there, they got me to do what they told me to do and then when I got into the room and they gave me no ideas, I was left to sort of stand there and defend myself.

BARBARA WALTERS: And do you think that Joan did it just cause it made for a good show? Or do you really think that she thought you were no good?

DAVID TUTERA: Absolutely. I think she did it because…she doesn’t know me. How does she know if I’m no good? She’s never seen an event that I’ve ever done. I think she did it because it made for better television.

David Tutera on working for Joan Rivers again:

BARBARA WALTERS: If she said to you, tomorrow, would you come to my house, I’m having a big party, would you do the party? What would you say?

DAVID TUTERA: Absolutely over my dead body.

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Hmm..the whole thing is just fishy. It was either fixed or Donald Trump simply chose Joan for reasons unknown – but not because she deserved it.

Check out David’s site HERE.

[Source: SIRIUS XM Radio PR]

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Spicy — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:41:26 +0000

The world’s first pregnant man is pregnant once again! Thomas Beatie, a transgender, gave birth to a healthy baby girl last June and now he and wife Nancy are doing it again.

Beatie is currently in his first trimester and says he did not go back on male hormones after the birth of his daughter so that he and his wife might have another child.

“I feel good,” he said. “I had my checkups with my hormone level, as far as the HCG. And everything is right on track.”

Baby #2 is due June 12th.

Watch “What Is a Man, What Is a Woman? Journey of a Pregnant Man” Friday at 10 p.m.

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Celebrity Quote of the Day – Star Jones

Spicy — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:55:19 +0000

“It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character.”

- Star Jones on Barbara Walters new memoir, Audition.

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Kathy Griffin Dishes on the Stars During Stand-Up Show

Spicy — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:46:49 +0000

Celebrity Smack reader ‘Lala’ attended a Kathy Griffin stand-up show a few days ago and says it was a blast.

As Lala tells it,

“First of all, it was packed with drunk queens – and of course, insane women like myself.
Kathy dished on everything. She’s met lots of stars, shared dressing rooms with them, etc.”

So what juice did Kathy share with her audience?

*She said Paris Hilton is retarded – and watching her type was like watching a bad video of a cat playing the piano. No shocker there.

*Barbara Walters said she “prefers Astroglide” when Kathy told her she plans on using KY jelly when her puss gets all menopausal. Who knew Babs preferred Astroglide?

*Paula Abdul is the new Whitney – on so many drugs, but she thinks Oxycontin is the main drug in her system, followed by several layers of other painkillers.

*At the Larry King 50th anniversary show, she saw Dr.Phil (she hates his ass) groping Jane Fonda. she almost came to Jane’s rescue , but she thought she could handle him herself. She was right – Jane told his ass off – something about hating republicans.

*She ripped Oprah a new one. Talked about how she ’s gaining her wait back, and how somewhere Gayle is shivering in the corner with a shiner. HA!

Thanks for sending those in Lala!

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Celebrity Quote of the Day – Kathy Griffin

Spicy — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:00:12 +0000

“I’ll just say that Barbara Walters is a very complicated woman. I like her but she doesn’t get me at all. She doesn’t even have any pretense of getting me.

I don’t play up to her or anybody because I don’t know how. My mother is always yelling at me to kiss ass! I’m really trying to learn. I wish I could tell you, ‘I know how to get Barbara Walters into the palm of my hand.’ But I just don’t have that ability. That’s why I always get into trouble.”

-Kathy Griffin on her relationship with Barbara Walters

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Paris Hilton Seeks Attention Even While Incarcerated

Spicy — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:14:47 +0000

Paris Hilton called Barbara Walters from jail on Sunday, saying she is a changed person.

Walters said on this morning’s ‘The View’ that the heiress "sounded tired but totally aware of what she was saying."

Paris told Walters, "I feel as if I’m a different person. I used to act dumb. That act is no longer cute. Now,I would like to make a difference. God has given me this new chance."

Hilton says that she has taken up an interest in charity work, children, spirituality and even humility. "I haven’t looked in a mirror since I got here."

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