Celebrity Happenstance

So I’m gettin’ this in just under the gun. It’s 9:30pm PST meaning depending on which time zone this gets published in I may just make it on time. I really hope I don’t miss another day…So Britney lost her kids. You know, I was never that big Britney fan.

My friend Michelle was Britney obsessed. She thought she was soooo hot. And she even loved her music in that sort of pop obsessed way. The same way that my friend Jordan who is from London was obsessed with The Spice Girls.But that was more of an identity thing. You’re in the U.S. and a British pop all girl group makes it HUGE and you have to buy into the awesomeness of it. You have to get the track pants with “Spice Girls” down the side.

At the time I was an assistant in Hollywood and I remember my boss had to take his nine year old daughter to a Spice Girls concert. If you knew my boss you would understand the humor of him standing amid thousands of screaming young girls.

What’s really interesting is how Posh Spice has emerged as a true celebrity and even a fashion icon. Well, not on her own… I mean Becks certainly played a big role in that.

But what’s even more interesting is that Scary Spice is making a comeback. She’s on DANCING WITH THE STARS. And she’s GOOD. I told you that I can’t give you a thumbs up or down on the show yet, but on the episode that I did catch Scary was a remarkable dancer.

Now to come full circle in a rather scary (not spice) way, the boss that I worked for who had to go to the Spice Girls concert was the founding partner of a company for which Samantha Harris worked – she’s co-host of DANCING WITH THE STARS, though she’s on maternity leave right now. I was an assistant and she worked in the accounting department. Weird, huh? Now I own a clothing store and she co-hosts E! News Daily and DANCING WITH THE STARS.

So wanna get even stranger? Drew Lachey won DANCING WITH THE STARS last season. Well he and I went to school together for 4th – 10th grade together. You might think it not so strange if we went to school in Los Angeles, but we didn’t. We went to school together in Cincinnati, Ohio. And since I went to school with Drew, I also went to school with Nick Lachey. Meaning I’m connected a la Kevin Bacon to another young pop star Jessica Simpson. Now she’s dropped off the radar since the divorce. But I have to admit, I was addicted to THE NEWLYWEDS.

Which brings us to the follow-up show: TILL DEATH DO US PART. Remember when Carmen and Dave were still an item? Well the coincidence there is that I also went to high school with Carmen Electra (aka Tara Patrick). So back to back MTV shows about celebrity marriages that ended in divorce featured celebs that grew up and went to school with me in Cincinnati, Ohio. Now that’s a strange coincidence.

Which brings me to the next, albeit far fetched, coincidence. Dave Navarro (Carmen’s ex) was obviously in The Red Hot Chili Peppers for a minute with Anthony Kiedis. And I had another boss at one point who was best friends with Anthony. So today I’m standing on the sidewalk in Beverly Hills waiting for my car and I’m being accosted by a homeless man (I gave him $1 and he had the nerve to say, “can’t you give me $20 or $40? I got a $100 from another lady over on Beverly) and I was feeling very uncomfortable when Anthony came walking down the street giving me the perfect excuse to turn away from the homeless man and say hi to Anthony.

From Britney Spears to Anthony Kiedis. Hmmm…. I guess that’s what you get when you’re under the gun.