Friday, January 19, 2007
Red Carpet Regrets?
From NY Post
Producers of the Golden Globes telecast were less than pleased Monday night with Maria Menounos' interviews with winners as they walked offstage. A backstage tipster said the producers "were getting antsy" watching Menounos chat with celebs, and one said, "She's just terrible." Another member of the crew responded, "This is who the brass wanted us to hire." Other insiders snickered that Menounos thinks of herself as a celebrity and is more interested in walking the red carpet than in covering it. A rep for Menounos said, "This is not true." Barry Adelman, executive producer of the Golden Globe Awards, said, "We were very pleased to have Maria as a correspondent. She did a great job and was a consummate professional."
However on Tuesday Defamer led with the story "How Maria Menounos Ruined The Greatest Moment Of America Ferrera's Life":
As audience members were still dabbing their tear ducts with linen napkins in response to America Ferrera's moving acceptance speech for her Best Actress In A Television Series - Musical or Comedy win for Ugly Betty, off-camera goons clearly directed the overcome young actress Maria Menounos's way for her mandated, "You just won a Golden Globe! How does that make you feel?" moment of backstage awkwardness. Ferrara stood helplessly as Menounos parroted the prattle fed into the earpiece skillfully hidden beneath her flat-ironed hair, then bravely attempted an escape before tear-gas and tazer-equipped NBC gold coats helpfully ushered her back in front of the camera so she could answer such pressing, big-moment-deflating questions as, "What do you say to all those people out there who did not want you to play Ugly Betty?" before fearfully rejecting her interrogator's insistent demands that she use the compulsory screen time to provide a list of names she might have forgotten to thank in her acceptance speech.
Producers of the Golden Globes telecast were less than pleased Monday night with Maria Menounos' interviews with winners as they walked offstage. A backstage tipster said the producers "were getting antsy" watching Menounos chat with celebs, and one said, "She's just terrible." Another member of the crew responded, "This is who the brass wanted us to hire." Other insiders snickered that Menounos thinks of herself as a celebrity and is more interested in walking the red carpet than in covering it. A rep for Menounos said, "This is not true." Barry Adelman, executive producer of the Golden Globe Awards, said, "We were very pleased to have Maria as a correspondent. She did a great job and was a consummate professional."
However on Tuesday Defamer led with the story "How Maria Menounos Ruined The Greatest Moment Of America Ferrera's Life":
As audience members were still dabbing their tear ducts with linen napkins in response to America Ferrera's moving acceptance speech for her Best Actress In A Television Series - Musical or Comedy win for Ugly Betty, off-camera goons clearly directed the overcome young actress Maria Menounos's way for her mandated, "You just won a Golden Globe! How does that make you feel?" moment of backstage awkwardness. Ferrara stood helplessly as Menounos parroted the prattle fed into the earpiece skillfully hidden beneath her flat-ironed hair, then bravely attempted an escape before tear-gas and tazer-equipped NBC gold coats helpfully ushered her back in front of the camera so she could answer such pressing, big-moment-deflating questions as, "What do you say to all those people out there who did not want you to play Ugly Betty?" before fearfully rejecting her interrogator's insistent demands that she use the compulsory screen time to provide a list of names she might have forgotten to thank in her acceptance speech.
Labels: America Fererra, Defamer, Golden Globes, Maria Menounos, Ugly Betty
