Today's Blind Items - The Diva
Talk about crash and burn. This singer was A list. Sold out concerts all over the world. Had the entire world at her feet and then lost pretty much all of it. Our singer has always had diva in her. She needed to be the center of attention and when she hit it big that attention was multiplied and she loved it. With that attention came lots of people saying yes. Saying yes has led to lots of alcohol problems for her. That was the start of the decline. She was binge drinking and pretty much never said no to any male or female. At the height of her fame was also the height of her issues. She was sleeping 18 hours a day and barely functioning. She decided to get her life straight and be faithful to one person and she did. Things began to improve. She quit drinking for a long time and started working out. She had another hit album. Then came the tour that nearly destroyed her. Away from her significant other she started getting into bad habits and drinking and sleeping around and this time she was not going to be deterred from being a diva. Her demands became crazier. She would wake up people in the middle of the night just to have them bring her coffee and then go back out for tea and then our diva wouldn't drink any of it. She expected people to be there all the time for her. She loved the power. She was invincible and then it all came crashing down. She refused to listen to producers or her label for her next album and it died. She refused to support it and yelled at everyone and would shoulder none of the blame. With sales declining and no touring, our diva's antics were not as tolerated. People started telling her no. She binged and binged until her significant other dumped her after getting tired of the cheating which she was not even bothering to disguise anymore. Her life is still out of control, but she manages to cope. She goes through periods of sobriety followed by binge drinking. She found someone who lets her be with whoever she wants to be as long as he is well taken care of by her.
Aguilera
ReplyDeleteXtina!
ReplyDeleteGotta be Christina A.
ReplyDeleteSad!!!
ReplyDeleteXtina for the win. Why is it that all these hugely talented people squander it all away. So so sad :(
ReplyDeleteXtina all the way - what a waste she has such a beautiful voice but a nasty personality.
ReplyDeleteThis girl must be oh so very insecure. In interviews, Xtina used to go on about how she was bullied as a kid. Guess she never conquered her demons.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm, it sucks to be bullied but I sometimes wonder if she was bullied because she was an insufferable little snot who thought she was better than everyone out of the gate. Judging by her actions as a judge on The Voice, she is clearly a B***ch! I am so over these stars saying, "I was bullied as a kid, I was a nobody". It's as unbelievable as every pretty girl/model claiming to be an ugly duckling/sea hag. Everyone famous couldn't have been fugly and bullied and some of those that were probably deserved every ounce of bad treatment they got. Think Toddlers and Tiara's. Those beasts probably walk around expecting to be worshipped and like Christina, will probably spin the tale of being bullied to explain why nobody in school liked them.
DeleteI couldnt have said it better. They all say the y were a nerd or bullied. It's not cool to have a normal childhood!
DeleteEnty must have realized that he doesn't have his minimum of 5 xtina reveals for Wed! :)
ReplyDeleteHaha @Cathy, I think you are right!
ReplyDeleteAnd here I was thinking it was Toni Braxton. I suck so hard at these.
ReplyDeleteI'm getting better with the easy ones.
ReplyDeleteThis does sound like Christina, however that would mean the tour that nearly destroyed her was the Back to Basics tour.. She was pregnant on that tour so I find it hard to believe she was out drinking and sleeping around.
ReplyDeleteXtina is the only one I could think of for this one.
ReplyDeleteI wish people would start saying No to celebrities at the height of their fame so they would stop acting like buttholes.
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was Christina but there is no mentioning of her child.
ReplyDeleteSinead O'Connor? (I know she has other problems, but maybe it started with alc).
I thought X-Tina at first but now that you mention Sinead, I don't think she has ever admitted to alcohol but I do remember my mom liking some song of hers that started with the serenity prayer right? Could be her.
DeleteYikes I suck-I was thinking JLo!
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of Mariah just from the last sentence. "She found someone who lets her be with whoever she wants as long as he is well taken care of by her." That easily is Nick Cannon.
ReplyDeleteI want to say Mariah too
DeleteAlthough Nick doesn't have Mariah money he is rather set by his own accord. He basically runs Nick Jr. (I don't have kids but I think that is what it is called) and produced a rather successful sketch show on MTV. I also think he had a radio gig before Mariah as well. He doesn't NEED her like Christina's man NEEDS her.
DeleteJust to be different I'm going with Janet Jackson. Definitely A List with the tours, hit records, etc. Her weight famously fluctuates although the last time I saw her picture she looked healthy again. She also broke up with her longtime boyfriend a while ago, and she has definitely fallen off the radar.
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ReplyDeleteExcept Mariah IS A list.
ReplyDeleteI had been thinking Rhianna, but she doesn't have a boyfriend that dumped her. Hmmm...
ReplyDeleteAs much as I hate to say it, she's probably A-list.
Deletegee you posted a picture of christina aguilera on your twitter this morning and now you're writing a fake blind about her. you're long blind items are so obviously fake it's pathetic. btw she's the one who filed for divorce from jordan, so how could he have dumped her when she dumped him?
ReplyDeleteOh damn, I never thought of Christina. She still has her voice, but her sh*tty personality is going to be her downfall.
ReplyDeleteHaven't these famous people learned anything from the deaths of Elvis and Michael Jackson?
I guess if you have enough money, you can make people tell you whatever you want to hear. So sad really.
I'd rather have real friends who call me out when I'm being a bitch and let me know when it's time to cut the crap.
What about Pink?
ReplyDeleteMy first thoughts were Mariah or Katy Perry, but I don't think Katy has had a flop album. Xtina is probably the right answer.
ReplyDeleteTo throw another name out I was thinking Avril Lavigne. She was extremely successful and now I don't hear about her. But I checked wikipedia and it looks like she did a tour to support her latest and least successful album so it doesn't work. That Sum 41 dude being the significant other who dumped her.
ReplyDeleteBut it's probably christina.
Pink was my first thought too.
ReplyDeleteBeing the one to file for divorce just means you filed papers first. It has NOTHING to do with who dumped who.
ReplyDeleteEven I got this one.
ReplyDeleteReading this I thought it was Tony Braxton, but Xtina might fit too.
ReplyDeleteJust to be different (and not because I want it to be true) but how about Tina Turner. I doubt it is her, but she does have very expensive tastes which might stem from diva behaviour.
duh.
ReplyDeletePink is healthy and together and her husband has his own significant income, no need for hers.
ReplyDeleteAguilera (documented drinking problem) - has the kept boyfriend, was openly cheating on her nice guy husband. Failed album, etc.
Sad.
I don't know if I am feeling Christina for this, I can see why people think that, but I just dont' think its her. However, I of course don't have a better guess.
ReplyDeleteRhianna
ReplyDeleteJennifer why are you angry. This blind could be about Mariah, Janet or someone else because I personally think Janet would be a better option since Xtina still has "the voice" so most people would still tell her yes.
ReplyDelete@Kim'sWorld... She's a troll. Ignore her & she'll twat off.
Delete@karrots,
ReplyDeleteAguilera has four tours, but two and three are sort of combined.
Christina Aguilera in concert
justified/stripped tour
stripped live on tour
back to basics
so she could still be the person as her third tour was solo.
While I was reading this, I kept thinking Christina, but then I read the comments and saw that she was pregnant while on tour.
ReplyDeleteNow, I'm thinking Avril.
I think this is Aguilera too, with "Back To Basics" being the albums she released while still with her husband, and "Bi-On-Ic" the album that she wouldn't do anything to support, and it died.
ReplyDeletei'm thinking Avril...
ReplyDeleteLeanne Rimes?
ReplyDelete@ kltx
ReplyDeleteThe timing doesn't add up though. It said she got together with her SO, then had another hit album and went on tour to support it. If it was Aguilera she didn't meet Bratman until after the "Stripped" era. That would meat her new hit and the tour to support it would be Back to Basics.
Definately not Pink. She has been on the straight and narrow for awhile. Really besides her and Cary breaking up and her making out with what's her name from painkiller Jane or the latest terminator(depending on how big a sci-fi lover you are like me) she really hasn't done anything that scandalous or bad.
ReplyDeleteI dunno. Back to Basics sold well by today's standards, but not anything like Stripped did. It was an excellent album, btw.
ReplyDeleteAlso of note, Enty said she was dumped by her significant other, not husband. No mention of a child. Just not sure it's xTina, but it could be.
Drinking then leads to the cocaina. Judgement goes out the window.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather go with Lauryn Hill here.
ReplyDeleteWith her history of sexual abuse as a child from family members...are you at all surprised? She's messed up.
ReplyDeleteWhy does anyone assume a known parties/alcoholic/who knows what else would quit cold turkey just bc she's carrying a baby?
ReplyDeleteThrowing Alanis into the mix...
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the title and 'singer' first thought was Xtina.. More I read, the more I'm convinced xD
ReplyDeleteI grew up with Pink, and while I can't claim her as a personal friend, I do still know some people who do. Unequivocally, this isn't her. I don't think Alanis fits this, and I think Enty would describe her as a musician, or "foreign born musician", not just as a singer.
ReplyDeleteThis is Xtina. No doubt.
ReplyDeleteX- teen
ReplyDeleteIt's either Grace Slick or Karen Carpenter. I wouldn't rule out Chrissie Hynde or Siouxsie Sioux.
ReplyDeleteI think it's Christina. Enty may not be referring to her SO as "husband", or mentioning her son, because it would be giving too much away.
ReplyDeleteNot convinced this is about Xtina because the blind says she crashed and burned for the second time with no mention of a resurgence to the top again which is where Xtina currently is with both a recent #1 hit record and a hit show.
ReplyDeleteIf it is her, I had no idea she'd gone that far off the rails, omg
What about Jessica Simpson?
ReplyDeletehow is this even blind? J Simpson has never had a decently good song let alone album. This is so very obviously Xtina.
ReplyDelete@katsm0711-exactly what I was thinking. Especially someone like the person described in this blind, who never hears no and feels like she can do literally WHATEVER she wants, I feel like it would be more likely that she WOULDN'T stop "just because" she's pregnant. It's disgusting, but not at all surprising if true.
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one thinking Britney?
ReplyDeleteObviously Christina. What kind of person would go for fame and celebrity? I understand if someone has talent,looks, a stage mom and comes from a poor family. But it's just too big of a price to pay. All that glitters is not gold. Her biggest hit was I am beautiful, which was also her most honest, with herself and us. She'll hit rock bottom. She was raised in an abusive home, so there's alot of issues that would have been there were she famous or not.
ReplyDeleteIt Is KELLY CLARKSON
ReplyDeleteIt's not Toni because she's not divorced. Not Mariah because Nick is making his OWN money. With being an executive at Nickelodeon. It's either Xtina or Avril
ReplyDeleteLauryn Hill.
ReplyDeleteKelly Clarkson likes the sauce, but she's on a comeback. Her boyfriend is her manager's son, so I don't think it's her. Her dating history isn't as public, but I can't see her being a rampant cheat or diva.
ReplyDeleteXtina also likes the sauce. I don't know much about xTina's boyfriend. She also seems to be on a comeback. I don't see getting paid 10 million a season as "coping" really. That's another thing that throws me.
And Clarkson is definitely into taking the 5 finger trolley to Tuna town
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ReplyDelete@caralw, that's why I question the Xtina guess. Career wise, she's doing a lot better than merely 'coping' at present.
ReplyDeleteChristina for sure. She is a big ol' bloated mess. And I don't believe any of her sob stories about being bullied, because other people who went to school with her have told the press that she was a snob who bragged all the time about being on TV, and *that's* why she wasn't popular. (I believe it since I have heard plenty of stories about Christina acting like a diva and a snot.)
ReplyDeleteI'ma gonna call her Miss Ross. As in Diana Ross.
ReplyDeleteSure sounds like her, anyway. One of the original rock/pop era divas.
My first thought was Diana Ross...but like the Lauryn Hill guess too.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like Mariah to me--she has been a mess on and off for many years. This doesn't work for Christina. Yes, she was pregnant during her back to basics tour and was wearing a heart rate monitor during performances to make sure she wasn't putting too much strain on her body for the baby.
ReplyDeleteWhy aren't any of us guessing Britney?
ReplyDeleteI feel weird sometimes when I read this blinds that seem to suggest that a superwealthy person is acting strangely by having people get them things 24/7. I mean, they're called servants. Many people have them. They do things, and their working conditions sometimes require them to be on call 24/7. Was this not explained to them? I can't fault someone for asking for a cup of coffee and then not finishing it. Really, this is hardly the insane behaviour it is being sold as.
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was Xtina because -- well, duh. She's a bloated mess who hates pants. But why would it say "Significant Other" instead of "Spouse?" She was married to...some guy I can't recall. That and the kid she had are noticeably absent.
ReplyDeleteThen again, who knows; I'm a n00b.
Lauryn Hill
ReplyDeleteYou guessers "throwing out names to be different" are forgetting the word DIVA. Mariah, Whitney, Xtina, Britney was never known as a diva or alcoholic, Miss Ross? Chaka Kahn? DIVA! Who else? This is so Xtina though. She is barely surviving on the show. There have been "blinds" about her showing up drunk. It's so her. Madonna is a diva but she's probably too much of a control freak to get drunk.
ReplyDeleteStraight up now tell me it's gonna be Paula Abdul.
ReplyDeleteSo it's not Bette Midler ?!
ReplyDeleteSade ?
ReplyDeleteWho keeps insisting Lauryn Hill??! DURF !
ReplyDeleteJust like Maja with a J said-- Aguilera had a CD released AFTER "Back to Basics." It was "Bionic" and it failed because she did nothing to promote it, including tour.
ReplyDelete@Barton Fink, uh, methinks you've been watching too much "Downton Abbey." Human beings employed to do tedious tasks for the rich aren't called "servants" anymore. I think a more apt term would be "personal assistant" or "employee." Totally agree with the point you were making though!
Oh nononononoooo, just re-read my post. I have officially become my mother--chiding people on their un-PC terminology. Fuck me.
first i was thinking madonna, but she prob dosen't drink-"my body is a temple"...then i thought of whitney houston.
ReplyDeleteWasn't Christina's last album some sort of Target exclusive or something like that? The only ads i remember for it were ones by Target.
ReplyDeleteI thought Xtina then I thought Janet.
ReplyDelete'invincible' sticks out to me - I think Michael had an album of the same name?
@Jcool - a lot of times artists will give Target a deluxe edition exclusive (meaning you get bonus tracks that aren't available on the CD from other outlets). That may be what you are recalling, though I don't know for sure if she did that for them. She did have a greatest hits CD that was originally a Target exclusive, but that was released before Bionic and I believe is now available elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteI believe Ent sometimes omits clues that would make the blind too obvious for him to get away with, which is likely why he didn't mention Xtina's kid or ex-husband. Also, I don't know if any of them were about her but I know he has had a couple of blinds in the past about celebs who drink while pregnant so her being pregnant on tour (or even having a heart monitor) would not necessarily eliminate her as a guess.
Re: the 'servants' who bring her tea. If your boss called you at 3 in the morning just to ask you to go into the office and pull a file for him, only to not even need the file once you took it to his house, I would think you'd find that pretty assholish and pointless. This is a similar situation. This person is their boss, not their owner. Waiting until they're asleep to wake them up, make them get her something to drink, and then not even touching the drink is pure ego tripping and abuse of authority.
The Kelly Clarkson guess above does not fit; Kelly in fact had the opposite issue at her peak - her management at the time wanted her to be an A-list star/diva and she didn't. In retrospect she was clearly not handling the pressure of being at the top very well, but had the sense to recognize it and basically kneed her own career to save her sanity. Some people think My December was the lowest point/biggest mistake of her career but she said in an old interview from that time that 2007 was probably the best year she'd had b/c she figured out who was really in her corner, and has said in recent interviews that the first four years of her career were "miserable" because she had no one really looking out for her or trying to give her any advice. Definitely the opposite of the person in this blind, who won't even listen to anyone's advice. Kelly does like the sauce, that cannot be denied lol. But she seems to be a friendly drunk as opposed to a mean one like Christina, and is quite content with being comfortably B-list.
I think Ent does not count Christina on The Voice as a genuine comeback because let's face it, her music career at the moment is still MIA and I'm pretty sure she'd rather have another hit album than have to rely on judging other talent on a tv show to remain relevant to the public. Xtina has yet to capitalize on The Voice by releasing any music while the show is on (Maroon 5, meanwhile, has cashed in on that both seasons now, and Cee-Lo and Blake had current albums out during season 1). The #1 song she had wasn't her song, it was M5's and she was just featured on it, so it's hard to say that really proves anything for her. She still has A-list name recognition, but her actual career is not there anymore. She needs to do something of her own to really re-establish herself as a current hit-making singer, and not just someone whose peak was over seven + years ago.
A friend of mine and I are convinced that the main reason she hasn't put out any new music yet is because after the mess that was Bionic, the label is refusing to even deal with her until she gets her shit together - who wants to invest in an album that the act may not even work to promote? - but if this blind is any indication that may be never. :( She's not doing herself any favors here; with Kelly and P!nk on the same label and both still being decent female-pop sellers, RCA may eventually decide Christina is expendable and drop her.
SIMPLE....Melissa Etheridge, grammys, Oscar, etc. The S.O. (s) comments...
ReplyDelete@MLE, I think I do read too many Victorian novels! Now that I think about it, I'm probably the only person who uses the word....it does sound quaint now that I say it.
ReplyDeleteStevie Nicks
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was also Diana Ross --you know Enty loves the old blinds-- but I'm intrigued by the Melissa E idea. She's had a hard go of it.
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