Paula Abdul And Ryan Seacrest Join America In Hating Each Other's Guts
The two most abnormal celebrity byproducts to emerge from American Idol's fame-cultivating laboratories, Hollywood pygmies Paula Abdul and Ryan Seacrest, are either in the midst of a bitter feud or not, depending on whom you ask:
Seacrest told People magazine last week that his relationship with Abdul was "awkward."
"I don't know what the deal is. It's very awkward," he was quoted as saying. [...]
Abdul dismissed reports of off-camera animosity in a statement Tuesday to The Associated Press.
"Reports of a feud are ridiculous," the 43-year-old former pop star said. "We are one funny dysfunctional family. There's nothing but love.
The story claims the bad blood began after some back-and-forth remarks made on successive appearances on The Tonight Show, including Abdul's dismissal of Seacrest's widely publicized oral dry humping of Teri Hatcher. ("Do you think [she] is that desperate of a housewife?" Abdul slurred, venemously.) And while we're sure much of the show's name-calling and gay-baiting is all in good fun, in this instance, we tend to buy Seacrest's version of events—our reasoning being that the host would never distance himself from a heterosexual woman in the pages of a celebrity glossy unless it was absolutely necessary.
