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Al Gore Keeps It Local at Hotel Vintage Park
If you watched "30 Rock" last night then you may have seen former Vice President Al Gore make a confusing cameo as an eco-concerned janitor for Rockefeller Center (above.) But if you were dining at Tulio Ristorante inside the Hotel Vintage Park in Seattle the other night, then you would have seen Al Gore live, in person.
The veep was in town for a town hall meeting to promote his new book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. He stopped in at Tulio which serves authentic Italian cuisine, for some halibut washed down with cabernet. According to the hotel peeps, he was very gracious to the staff and shook everyone's hand who came by to said hi. Some girls also said he was quite handsome. Hmm, he did look slimmer on "30 Rock" last night.
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Barry Sternlicht Surfaces With Molly Sims On His Arm at The Postcard Inn
Barry Sternlicht, chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, celebrates the opening of Postcard Inn on The Beach in St. Pete Beach, FL with model/actress Molly Sims.
We're not sure what's happening with 1 Hotels but it looks like Barry Sternlicht has set his sights on more low-key projects.
Last weekend, he showed up for the opening of the Postcard Inn on The Beach which is a joint venture between him and Stephen Hanson, the founder of BR Guest Restaurants. Looking good BS! It doesn't look like the recession has aged you one bit.
As you can see, Molly Sims was there to celebrate the opening but she was also celebrate her new HSN jewelry line, Grace. While she dined at Wildwood BBQ & Burger with her family, new boyfriend Aaron Eckhart was not there.
The Postcard Inn on the Beach opened last month and its surf culture-inspired rooms start at $99 a night.
Photo: Peter Richardson/Red Eye Photo
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Dennis Rodman Strikes Again, This Time in Germany
Dennis Rodman, the worst hotel guests in the world, was up to his bad boy behavior again--this time at the Park Plaza Hotel in Trier, Germany.
Apparently, Rodman threw an impromptu party at the hotel and charged up to $5,000 for drinks. Since he had played in a "USA Legends of Basketball" exhibition game earlier that night, and the game organizers were picking up his hotel room, he just assumed they would pick up the party costs too. Oh no, no, no.
Associated Press reports:
When Rodman left the hotel Monday morning without paying the tab, the hotel director contacted the police, [prosecutor Juergen] Bauer said. Police found Rodman's stretch limo on the highway and detained the star. Rodman then paid the outstanding bill along with an additional 1,700 Euros to dismiss possible legal proceedings, the prosecutor said.
Well, at least he didn't pull Randy and Evie Quaid. And as far as we know, no female hotel workers were sexually harassed. So...keep up the good work?
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Jean Paul Gaultier Probably Flashed The High Line
Smoking cigarettes! Robbery! Voyeurs! Hotels in Bad Conditions! Crazy Comedians!
It always seems that no matter how much Celebrity Scoop we write about in a given week, there's also lots more that we didn't have time to get to. So from now on, every Friday we'll be rounding up the week's Infamous Hotels. This weekly list will include hotels that celebrities visited (and it made the news) but also hotels that really up the "Eww" factor. This can easily be done with a guest who attacks the housekeeper.
· Four Seasons Los Angeles: K-stew lights up on the balcony of her hotel room. At least she went outside to smoke?
· Ritz-Carlton San Juan, Puerto Rico: A businessman is tied-up in his hotel room and robbed.
· Standard NYC: Man sexually attacks a housekeeper while Jean Paul Gaultier gets giddy about putting on a nudie show in his hotel room.
· Holiday Inns: 300 of these hotels need to shape-up or they will lose their status with Holiday Inn.
· The Four Seasons Atlanta: C(K)razy c(k)omedian Katt Williams was kicked out of the hotel after causing a "disturbance." He says he bought a penthouse from the hotel and rented out seven rooms for seven nights. He thinks the dismissal may have something to do with his burglary arrest earlier this week. Meanwhile, the hotel says they have no record of Williams staying at the hotel.
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Where The Real Celebrities Stay in London
The unassuming Gore Hotel in Kensington isn’t the first place you’d associate with celebs in London. In fact, reading the tabloids, we sometimes forget that it’s legal to stay anywhere than the May Fair or the Dorchester if you’re pappable.
Last night, though, the Gore taught us the error of our ways with its celeb haul. After the Children in Need charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall (performers included Take That, Robbie Williams, Lily Allen, Leona Lewis and – gasp – Paul McCartney singing Hey Jude), the party moved on to the Gore – conveniently a couple of blocks away. Or, when we say "the party" we mean at least Take That and Katherine Jenkins. Leona and Lily were staying at the hotel, too, but we're not sure whether they joined in the fun. Knowing Leona, she probably went straight to bed.
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'Twilight' Stars Forced to Face the Sunlight at The Dorchester
What if we told you that you had to guess the one hotel in London where "Twilight" stars (and lovers) Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, along with fellow co-start Taylor Lautner were forced to evacuate because of a fire alarm? C'mon it isn't that hard. It's the hotel where everyone goes to have a meltdown.
Yes! You got it! The Dorchester Hotel in Knightsbridge Mayfair. E! Online reports:
A fire alarm went off Wednesday at The Dorchester hotel in central London, completely evacuating the premises where—surprise!—Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and New Moon director Chris Weitz were giving press interviews.
An eyewitness said the swanky hotel was completely cleared around lunchtime and that "everyone was out on the street" after the alarm sounded.
Everyone?
"There [Rob] was with his entourage, including Kristen," said the source.
We totally believe some "Twihards" forced the situation here but the Dorchester has said that it was a minor incident and everything is under control. Well, at least until the next celebrity disaster comes into town.
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Get Free Carrie Underwood Tickets When Booking a Room at Atlantis
Carrie Underwood fans should pack their bags for the Bahamas. If you stay at the Atlantis, Paradise Island on December 5, you'll get free tickets to see the American Idol winner rock the stage at the hotel.
The event will mark the country crooner's first concert following the release of her new album Play On. Underwood, a four-time Grammy winner and the Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year, will perform outside the hotel on the gorgeous beach.
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Kevin Connolly Flies in Playmates To Spice Up His Stay at The Driskill
If you play a guy on TV that's always used to having an "entourage" of hot girls around you, giggling and agreeing with everything you say, we guess it must be hard to go anywhere without these fembots. How else to explain Kevin Connolly's (aka "E" from Entourage) BYO-Playboy Playmates incident at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas?
Kevin Connolly knows poker and Playmates go together. For a poker tournament the "Entourage" star and a group of buddies organized at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas, a couple of dozen Playboy Playmates were flown in just to keep things lively.
Hmm...we've heard of people bringing their own pillows and toiletries with them to their hotels but never their own Playmates. Maybe Playboy should start offering this service to hotels then?
Rooms at The Driskill start at $309 for a room with two queen beds. The suites, which include the Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson Presidential Suite, start at $414 a night.
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Who Did What and Where in This Week's Infamous Hotels
Strippers! Sex! Tell-All Interviews! Dead Bodies! Bad Rap Music Videos!
It always seems that no matter how much Celebrity Scoop we write about in a given week, there's also lots more that we didn't have time to get to. So from now on, every Friday we'll be rounding up the week's Infamous Hotels. This weekly list will include hotels that celebrities visited (and it made the news) but also hotels that really up the "Eww" factor. This can easily be done by have a decaying body in your hotel. Welcome to the dark side.
· St. Regis Atlanta: A stripper claims that she had "lots of sex" with actor Josh Duhamel in an $830-a-night suite here. The problem? He's married to Fergie of The Black-Eyed Peas. Both say the allegations are "absurd" but the pole-dancer passed two polygraph tests.
· The Gramercy Park Hotel: Rihanna has spoken out for the first-time about the horrible beating she suffered at the hands of Chris Brown last February. She did her sit-down interview with Diane Sawyer in a suite at the GPH.
· Gansevoort South: Someone keep Rick Ross away from Miami hotels for his rap videos. Here's the latest one, featuring Clipse.
· Radisson Paper Valley Hotel: Former hometown hero Brett Favre returned to Wisconsin with his new team, the Minnesota Vikings, and had to shack up in a so-so room in downtown Appleton like the rest of them.
· The Jane Hotel: Another reason to avoid hotels with SRO residents inside. A body at the Jane was left decaying for days, disrupting the um, sensory experience of one hotel guest.
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Days Inn Lincoln Park Has a Secret, Star-Studded Rock 'n' Roll Past
Tucked away in a strip with an independent movie theater and chain stores like Jamba Juice is an unassuming hotel with a bad-boy rock 'n' rolla past. The Days Inn Lincoln Park is nicknamed the Rock & Roll Days Inn for its musician clientele, which includes Sean Lennon, Twisted Sister, Nelly Furtado, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dave Matthews, KRS One and the Foo Fighters.
It's rumored to be the place where Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain conceived their child, says Stefanie Hrejsa, general manager of the hotel. Years later, Love allegedly walked out of the hotel and said she couldn't stay there because of the painful memories, Hrejsa says.
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Where is Finn Hudson Staying in New York?
Can anyone guess the hotel where Finn Hudson aka Corey Monteith from Glee was Twitpic-ing from recently during the GLEE press trip through NYC. He writes:
sitting on the roof of my hotel in NYC... Love this city...
It looks like Midtown to us but he just tweeted that he was at Columbus Circle. Could he be at Six Columbus or are they staying at the Empire Hotel? Either way, your guesses have to be a hotel with a rooftop. Corey also mentioned that he went running through Central Park so it has to be a hotel close to there as well. And no, we have no idea which hotel it is. Put Your Guesses in Comments Below.
More of when celebrities and hotels collide on Twitter:
· Lindsay Lohan's BFF/stylist/paid sycophant is an a-hole to hotel operators. [@PAufdenkamp]
· Martha Stewart apparently did H'ween at the Waldorf [@MarthaStewart]
· Even Lauren Conrad has to wait for the hotel valet [@LaurenConrad]
· Aubrey O'Day is a serial Tweeter from Planet Hollywood in Vegas (She's in PeepShow there) [@AubreyODay]
· Britney Rides V Australia! Ok, not hotel news but we're still excited. [@BritneySpears]
[Photo: Frankenteen]
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Lady Gaga Gets Her Game On Underground at Andaz London
Our first thought when we saw these pictures from Lady Gaga’s latest photoshoot: ah, the rapier wit strikes again.
But when we looked beyond the blinding symbolism of a Hello Kitty chastity belt covering her bitsies, we spied something rather familiar. “Why, isn’t that the underground Masonic Temple in the bowels of Andaz London?” we asked ourselves.
So we asked the folk at Andaz. And yes, it is.
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