bjjack3
12-16-2004, 04:21 AM
This is from E! Ted Cassablanca's Awful Truth:
Unfunny Business
"There has been no change."
--Press representative for Portia de Rossi, gossiped new honey to Anne Heche's old one, Ellen DeGeneres, regarding de Rossi's stance on her sexuality.
Is that so?
For years, it was a relatively open secret in Hollywood that de Rossi was girlfriend to Francesca Gregorini, step-daughter to music legend Ringo Starr. Her flacks would never confirm it to me (although many a sigh was heaved, many brows arched), and I was asked not to report their affair, and I always respected that decision on de Rossi's part.
Portia has since changed publicists--along with girlfriends, apparently.
The new flack--or at least one of them--said still no changes were occurring, media-wise, even though he never asked me to not print the fact that his semi-famous client was said to be dating a much more celebrated one. A beloved TV gal, in fact, who could offer heaps more ink for Ms. D. than could a semi-relative to a surviving Beatle.
"We don't comment on our clients' personal lives," sniffed the de Rossi flacker, like he was guarding friggin' state secrets or something. Said rep would not reveal:
• If Ellen and Portia have hooked up as girlfriends (my wording, not his).
• If Ellen and Portia had wild, abandoned sex (my kinda nooky!) in the backseat of a limo while still with their respective mates (Gregorini for de Rossi, photographer Alexandra Hedison for DeGeneres).
• Why de Rossi is apparently more open about her relationship with DeGeneres than with Gregorini (again, my wording, not his).
However, Mr. Rep. did break policy and insist the two women were not living together in Ellen's Hollywood Hills abode. I have no idea why he suddenly decided to get all gabby on that one personal sitch.
Reps for DeGeneres said they also do not comment on their clients' personal lives. Others were less guarded with their opinions: "I think this is the crazy side of Ellen," blabbed one pal, "going headstrong for some blonde she's taken with, just like she did with Heche."
"It really takes the bloom off the rose that Ellen's become," observed a colleague to DeGeneres. "Now she becomes that much more human for her audiences."
Now, hold on a lipstick second, here, everybody, somebody who's thisclose to Ms. H. decided to bark a few comebacks: "This thing that was reported in the limo," sighed a perturbed best bud to the fab Ellen. "It never happened. Their publicist was with them at the time--couldn't have happened."
Unless that's one full-service flack, I but I digress...
"Ellen and Portia are absolutely not together," added the comic crony, even though this superknowledgable source revealed that, indeed, Portia and Ellen "had a thing." But this Ellen-camper insists that's all it was--a one-time fling. "[Ellen] and Alex are going through a very difficult breakup. But there is no third party. Ellen told me herself."
Well, maybe not now, there isn't. I'm certain all gals involved will heal, eventually, and find the lip-lockin' love we all so love to witness, n'est-ce pas?
Yuck. That makes me sound like some dirty old straight guy. Better move on to a real one...
Unfunny Business
"There has been no change."
--Press representative for Portia de Rossi, gossiped new honey to Anne Heche's old one, Ellen DeGeneres, regarding de Rossi's stance on her sexuality.
Is that so?
For years, it was a relatively open secret in Hollywood that de Rossi was girlfriend to Francesca Gregorini, step-daughter to music legend Ringo Starr. Her flacks would never confirm it to me (although many a sigh was heaved, many brows arched), and I was asked not to report their affair, and I always respected that decision on de Rossi's part.
Portia has since changed publicists--along with girlfriends, apparently.
The new flack--or at least one of them--said still no changes were occurring, media-wise, even though he never asked me to not print the fact that his semi-famous client was said to be dating a much more celebrated one. A beloved TV gal, in fact, who could offer heaps more ink for Ms. D. than could a semi-relative to a surviving Beatle.
"We don't comment on our clients' personal lives," sniffed the de Rossi flacker, like he was guarding friggin' state secrets or something. Said rep would not reveal:
• If Ellen and Portia have hooked up as girlfriends (my wording, not his).
• If Ellen and Portia had wild, abandoned sex (my kinda nooky!) in the backseat of a limo while still with their respective mates (Gregorini for de Rossi, photographer Alexandra Hedison for DeGeneres).
• Why de Rossi is apparently more open about her relationship with DeGeneres than with Gregorini (again, my wording, not his).
However, Mr. Rep. did break policy and insist the two women were not living together in Ellen's Hollywood Hills abode. I have no idea why he suddenly decided to get all gabby on that one personal sitch.
Reps for DeGeneres said they also do not comment on their clients' personal lives. Others were less guarded with their opinions: "I think this is the crazy side of Ellen," blabbed one pal, "going headstrong for some blonde she's taken with, just like she did with Heche."
"It really takes the bloom off the rose that Ellen's become," observed a colleague to DeGeneres. "Now she becomes that much more human for her audiences."
Now, hold on a lipstick second, here, everybody, somebody who's thisclose to Ms. H. decided to bark a few comebacks: "This thing that was reported in the limo," sighed a perturbed best bud to the fab Ellen. "It never happened. Their publicist was with them at the time--couldn't have happened."
Unless that's one full-service flack, I but I digress...
"Ellen and Portia are absolutely not together," added the comic crony, even though this superknowledgable source revealed that, indeed, Portia and Ellen "had a thing." But this Ellen-camper insists that's all it was--a one-time fling. "[Ellen] and Alex are going through a very difficult breakup. But there is no third party. Ellen told me herself."
Well, maybe not now, there isn't. I'm certain all gals involved will heal, eventually, and find the lip-lockin' love we all so love to witness, n'est-ce pas?
Yuck. That makes me sound like some dirty old straight guy. Better move on to a real one...