Oh noes! If you read Page Six magazine in Sunday's Post, you would have found it impossible to ignore the item warning us about the possible upcoming reality show... starring Star magazine talking head Julia Allison, her bestfriend, handbag designer Mary Rambin, plus their other friend, former hedgefunder/current techblogger and "heiress to the Sun Microsystems fortune" Megan Asha.
Total class: Vimeo founder Jakob Lodwick explains about "this girl Mary [Rambin]," the handbag designer-or-whatever and Julia Allison bestfriend (whose seventeen-year-old sister he shagged), revealing why he's named his moustache after her. It's because she said he "looked like an idiot" via a deleted blogpost... (She wasn't wrong, but later apologized.) "Since she's not currently well-known, if my readers later hear her name in a legitimate context, they'll think of my moustache. I'm diluting her name and her brand..."
New York Times city reporter and author of new book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles Jennifer 8. Lee is sad. As she notes in her blog, "Someone added my Chinese name to my Wikipedia entry in simplified :( form." Oh, the perils of fame! "I have never in my life used the simplified character," Lee adds, "even when I was in Mainland China, I always wrote my name out with the traditional character... In case you are wonderig, my Chinese name means competitive. It's an unusual name for girls, and very striking. In traditional character it looks like two men running side by side (competition, get it?). You lose that in the simplified, sadly." Sad! (Click for offending entry.)
We take it all back: yesterday, we sniped at handbag designer Mary Rambin (also BFF of Star talking head Julia Allison, and older sister of jailbait soap star Leven) for getting the cosmetic filler Restylane in her face. After all, we said, she's only 26 — and vanity is a sin! But then we watched the before-and-after video, which could just as easily serve as a paid advertisement for a.) the celeb dermatologist Dr. Bobby, or b.) Restylane. (For all we know, she's under contract with both!) The video hit a little too close to home. Actually, it put the fear of God into us: Rambin got her nasolabial folds — aka "marionette" or smile lines — injected, 'cause hers were quite prominent... as are mine, I've been noticing for the past year. Now, instead of scolding other people for public vanity, all I can think is a.) How much? and b.) Where do I sign up? Bring it on! (Click for the video.)
"It never occurred to me that at the ripe old age of 26 that I would need a 'filler,' but apparently I did," blogs Mary Rambin, the handbag-designing beta chimp to the blogging-retired Star talking head Julia Allison's alpha. You might remember Mary as the older sister of Leven, the jailbait soap actress who a.) stole Julia's last boyfriend, and b.) is currently dating Mens' Vogue's Hud Morgan, who recently got slapped by the NYO's Spencer Morgan at the Beatrice. Now Mary is seeing Julia's dermatologist, who has convinced her to plump up her lips (or possibly her nonexistent wrinkles, we're not sure yet) with injections at the tender age of 26! (Video coming soon; we're waiting with bated breath.) Honey, that's not the thing that ladies are supposed to admit to! You're supposed to take a "nice vacation to Florida" for facelifts, or a "long lunch meeting" for chemical peels. Also? Rambin outed Allison as having hair extensions. (Guess that wasn't actually a secret; we knew there was something a little too shiny about that girl's weave!)
Say what you will about fired Vimeo person and College Humor millionaire-boy Jakob Lodwick: He has strategies for staying in the limelight, even after his highly self-publicized breakup and co-blog dissolution with Star editor-at-large Julia Allison. Such as: Appearing half (or possibly fully!) nude on some other girl's Tumblelog!
For some inscrutable Hitchensian reason, Observer party boy Spencer Morgan tried on a pair of Spanx, the cinching plastic panties so supposedly trendy they've been deemed worthy of this week's cover. His verdict? "In a nutshell—no pun intended—Spanx on a dude are no good." Also, "A fart in a pair of Spanx has no where to go. The gaseous beast is forced to put up a great trashing fight to escape, so much so that one can't help but take note of its struggles." How does Oprah tolerate this? [NYO]
Hot on the heels of the news that Patrick "NYGirlOfMyDreams" Moberg is in talks to sell movie rights to the story of his whirlwind fake romance with BlackBook intern Camille Hayton, the original most annoying couple-brand of the Internet has upped the ante. Yes: Vimeo/College Humor moneyman Jakob Lodwick and Star Editor at Large Julia Allison have made of their hearts one heart and of their websites, one website.
After last weeks's orgy of coverage of the on-again relationship between Star Editor at Large Julia Allison and College Humor founder and boy-millionaire Jakob Lodwick, we had promised ourselves we'd abstain for a while. But today they posted a video of a teary argument on Jakob's video-sharing site, Vimeo, and once again we found ourselves unable to turn away. Why? WHY?
