Today's Blind Items - The Guru - 90's Limo Driver

This story was the one told the most by the driver to other people, but until now has never been written. The driver had a stripper girlfriend at the time and she would beg him to tell the story whenever they were in the company of others. It was a story better told than written because the driver would always mimic the recently deceased fitness guru’s voice when telling it. The driver was dispatched to the celebrity’s antebellum style mansion on the far end of Hollywood Blvd., and was to take him for an appearance on the popular daytime talk show at the Paramount Lot. The driver arrived and saw a shirtless muscle-bound pretty boy standing on an upstairs balcony. The guy saw the driver and told him he would tell the celebrity to come down. The driver waited for a few moments and watched a mailman walking toward the house. He could hear the guru's iconic voice before he saw him as he greeted the mailman, singing some silly song. And then the celebrity appeared, dressed in the same outfit he always wore on his own show and exercise videos. The guru jumped into the back of the car while talking on his cell phone and they were off. The celebrity continued his phone conversation as they drove, “Oh, I have the most HANDSOME Driver!” he gushed into the phone. He finished his call and directed his attention to the driver. He explained that he spent hours a day talking to morbidly obese people, trying to help them recover from their horrible conditions. That was his life mission, he said and mentioned being very overweight himself as a young man. The driver noted that this was a television personality who was the same in person as his public persona - a genuinely nice person. The two talked and laughed all the way to the Paramount lot. “Promise you’ll wait for me and take me back,” the celebrity said as he exited the car. “I will,” the driver answered, knowing it would not happen. Once the guru was out of the car, the driver called dispatch. “He wants me to wait and take him back.” “Negative, take it down to LAX,” the dispatcher said. “10-4,” the driver said, irritated. He jammed the Lincoln Town Car into drive and squealed the tires out of the Paramount lot.