Lessons in Not-So-Blind Items
We were going to run a guessing game on the following blind item from yesterday's Page Six:
Which celebrity magazine editor supposedly on leave won't be coming back? Right before he left to "write his book," an attractive young female staffer complained he had sexually harassed her and "touched her inappropriately."
But then we read today's Page Six:
Bonnie Fuller, Todd Gold and several others who have worked with Us Weekly West Coast editor Ken Baker in the past should take a real close look at Baker's new novel, "Hollywood Hussein." One character, Tom Peppers, a "cocky, arrogant and, um, sexual" guy, is based on Gold, insiders say. Bobby Lesser, editor in chief of "Them Weekly," is said to be based on Fuller and is described as a "ball-buster [not interested] in the truth."
Well, it sounds like Ken Baker wasn't planning on heading back to Us anyhow. Now editor Janice Min gets all the inappropriate touching to herself. We smoke crack and dropped the wrong name in that above item. But damn if we can't wait to read Todd Gold's book about managing idiot staffers when he wasn't too busy wooing them.