The Olive Garden would like it very much if Hugh Hefner's Girlfriend No. 3 would just take her breadsticks and go somewhere else.
Funny story from The Wall Street Journal about how not all businesses welcome celebrity endorsements.
Kendra Wilkinson, one of the trio of blonde babes trailing Hef on the E! reality TV show "The Girls Next Door" - she's wearing the salmon pink dress in the photo to the right - often proclaims her love for the Olive Garden.
But it's unrequited love. Read it here.
The Olive Garden is, apparently, a happening place among reality TV people. I remember on the ABC show "The Bachelor" one of the chicks trying to win serial dater Andrew Firestone's attention also proclaimed her love for the Olive Garden and said it was the best Italian restaurant ever. The look on his face was priceless.
When I interviewed Andrew during a wine tasting he held at the old Columbus Inn - his family owns Firestone Vineyards - a couple years ago, I had to ask him about that Olive Garden line. He started cracking up laughing.
Let's just say loving the Olive Garden wasn't the way to his heart. No word on if his new wife is an Olive Garden fan, but my guess would be a big fat no.
1 comment:
And we the readers of the Dining Out column don't "heart" Eric Ruth either. Please, please, please Eric, whittle down your prolific prose and give us the real dirt on the places you review. We don't need to know, ad nauseum, about "obligatory flirty waitresses", as observed in today's review of Firebirds. C'mon we know every waitress, in every establishment you've ever visited flirts with you. It must be your charm and good looks, as it's certainly not your writing ability. The whole first column in today's review means absolutely nothing to those of us who want to know what a restaurant is really like, what it serves, what those dishes are like. For pete's sake you couldn't even review desserts because you took up so much room trying to impress us with your meaningless blubbering!
PS This comment was culminated from our whole office staff here today. Finally we're all in agreement on something!
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