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It's so disappointing that Emily Brill and Kristian Laliberte (second from right and second from left, respectively) won't be appearing together after all in the planned Manhattan version of The Hills: the two empty socialites are already stabbing each other in the back like reality television pros. Brill, the publishing heiress, says she dropped out of Stick Figure Production's show because she wanted respect. "My writing is my priority. Not fame, not parties, not glamour. No short cuts. I'm going to earn respect through good, err, excellent writing." That's an option unavailable to her supposed friend, language-mangling fashion publicist Laliberte, who remains involved with the horrific reality show, according to Brill. But that's not the end of the story.
Brill began hanging out with shallow socialites like Laliberte, as well as Devorah Rose and Annabel Vartanian, when she launched her newly svelte body onto Facebook and the Manhattan social scene. The Brill family misfit, daughter of the founder of American Lawyer and Brill's Content, wrote on her new blog about the "substance" of her new friends, and catalogued the parties and fashion shows at which she met them. "Kristian and I were having a pretty good heart-to-heart, not to mention the fact that he was giving me pretty good business advice and even contacts (for all of that non-existent work I do during the day)," she wrote on her site, Essentially Emily.
By exposing Laliberte's participation in a project that she's too good for, Brill may have their budding friendship. Laliberte responds to Brill's post in a chilly email to Gawker: "I know Emily socially, I have never spent any one on one time with her. Half the time I am not sure what she is saying, she speaks very quietly... I am not involved in a reality TV project in ANY capacity with Emily Brill. I have no idea what Emily is referring to, nor am I involved in any project with her. I would suggest that she employs a fact checker in the future."
So, whom to believe? Well, Emily Brill wrote us, when we ran an item on the reality show: "I don't know what you're hearing. I'm not part of any show." So she's not a reliable witness. But nor, on past performance, is Laliberte. Our working hypothesis: they were both involved in the show; they're both panicking; they're both lying; and they're both equally awful. This would have made fabulous television. (Oh, and by the way, does anybody still maintain that Emily Brill is a private individual off-limits for this website?)
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Doesn't this reality show thing take valuable time away from Kristian's international diplomacy activities?
The other douchebags in that photo prevent us from determining whether, as usual, Kristian looks stuffed into his clothes like an unpalatable sausage.
Who wrote that email for Laliberte? I could actually understand it.
On another note. What's with the ads disguised vaguely as posts. I thought there was a previous revolt on these sorts of things.
@TheHonJudgeSmails: A real Laliberte email would read:
"Hi Nick I'm at the super uber dooper chic place with all the rainbows, you know it right? Anyway! TV is what everyone's talking about, even down at the Port Authority. "Beep boop teevee beep" is what those people are saying. I don't know about any reality show! What does that even mean?? Can eyelids itch on the insides? Oh look, a bagel. Kristian out. PS I found the cat. It was in the hamper like I thought."
He and Tinsley are very similar that way.
@LolCait: Yeah, but since Our Kris is usually photographed making those ridiculous faux-gang symbols, you can probably omit every second and third letter.
Is there some know of correlation between losing a massive amount of weight and looking about 25 years older than you actually are? (I'm looking at you Brill)
@TheHonJudgeSmails:
Denton.
Isn't the real scandal here the (unintentional?) failure by Kris TheFreedom to use the subjunctive in the last sentence of his e-mail? It sounds more like an accusation. Perhaps when one is rich enough and thin enough, one can, indeed, time-travel.
Oh, and by the way, does anybody still maintain that Emily Brill is a private individual off-limits for this website?
fine, mr. denton. you were right, I was wrong. if you require me, just bellow; I'll be out back cutting a switch from the dwarf tree - the whipping is scheduled for half seven, correct?
@bodreeyard: Ha! Last time I saw TheFreedom it was wearing that same awful forest green blazer.
Almost feel bad for Laliberte ("Lally"), he's like an awkward gay teen who's chosen to air his grandiose pretensions and fashion faux pas in public. (Mine are rueful memories and safely in the Vault.)
But he's not a teen, and his gobbling, puppyish seeking of media attention..
there I go feeling sorry for him again. I don't know why. Oh yeah, the laughter.
He seems prickishly confident in his friendships with the Tinsleys, and seems to think that's the universe. And that no press is bad press. Dreadfully wrong, there.
If Emily Brill is "second from left," does that means she's the slightly shaven guy in the green leprechaun jacket?
Somewhere in afghanastan this photo is giving inspiration to dozens of young men where it is blown up and posted everywhere to demonstrate just how evil us infadels are. Thanks a lot you socialite harpies!
What's the deal with the kickline in the photo? I almost expect them to break out into song: Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay! Seriously, are all the new socialites just dorks in disguise?
Did Emily Brill just get back from a lengthy sojourn with a tribe of head shrinkers or is she just "differently be-meloned?"
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