Hayden Panettiere dined at trendy West Hollywood sushi joint Katsu-ya with her mom yesterday.
I love sushi. Love it. I could eat salmon skin and spicy tuna for breakfast.
But it seems like Hayden should have steered clear if she was going to be faithful to her boycott of all things Japanese. As spokesperson for the Save the Whales Again campaign, that’s a pretty significant goof. Remember this?
“We call on consumers worldwide to not buy any Japanese made products until Japan stops needlessly killing dolphins and whales and we also call on the US Government to levy economic sanctions against Japan until they end this cruel and needless slaughter.”
Sushi counts, m’dear.
I mean, check out the menu. It seems crazily ironic for her to eat at a restaurant that keeps all those Japanese fishermen that she hates in business.
Hint: An annual dolphin hunt doesn’t pay the bills the rest of the year.
(Thanks to hottie reader Kate for the tip — I’ll buy you sushi anytime.)
If you’re the type of person who reads books (BOR-ing!), you might remember a little lady by the name of Laura Albert. No? How about JT LeRoy? That one rings a bell, doesn’t it? LeRoy was a former teenage transvestite male prostitute who became a literary sensation by writing about, well, being a former teenage transvestite male prostitute. Except it was all a bunch of horse-leavin’s. Albert (born 1965) concocted the stories under the LeRoy name and hired a young woman named Savannah Knoop to play LeRoy during public appearances. Blonde wig + sunglasses = verisimilitude! Everybody fell for it, until New York Magazine did some digging and revealed that the whole thing was a hoax.
Then it gets weird.
Knoop has now written a book about her experiences called Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy. And guess who’s not happy?
“I am not in any way connected with this book and it disgusts me. Just because you play a writer doesn’t mean you are a writer,” Albert, 42, told Page Six. “I think Savannah is being motivated by money and attention. Now that she’s had to go back to being a civilian, this is her way of getting back to it. It’s sad and it’s sleazy. She’s really stepping on my feelings.”
Yep, the woman who became a success by making up a bunch of stories and saying they were real is now angry at the girl she hired to play the kid who it supposedly happened to, because that girl just wrote a book about how it all really happened. Oh yeah, and Knoop is the sleazy attention whore. Got all that?
Unless… Say, could this be part of the hoax too?
Steven Tyler took a page from the Kirsten Dunst playbook and came up with this bullcrap excuse for his recent rehab stay: his feet hurt.
No, seriously.
“The doctors told me the pain in my feet could be corrected but it would require a few surgeries over time,” Tyler says in a statement released Thursday. “The ‘foot repair’ pain was intense, greater than I’d anticipated. The months of rehabilitative care and the painful strain of physical therapy were traumatic. I really needed a safe environment to recuperate where I could shut off my phone and get back on my feet. Make no mistake, Aerosmith has no plans to stop rocking. There’s a new album to record, then another tour.”
According to the statement, Tyler was treated at the center after a series of surgeries and post-operative physical therapy “to correct long-time foot injuries resulting from his trademark athletic performance onstage.”
He checked into the Las Encinas Hospital drug clinic in Pasadena two weeks ago. The clinic is where VH1’s Celebrity Rehab’s psychiatrist Dr. Drew Pinsky works.
In an ironic twist, Dr. Drew was the one who taught me that you can’t go to rehab without being an addict. To wit:
“You cannot be admitted to a chemical dependency center in California without meeting the criteria, without being chemically dependent.”
And really, when you’re Steven Effing Tyler, you don’t get the benefit of the doubt.
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