Last week, I was very disappointed to hear that Chelsea Handler had gotten Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron into her gnarled clutches. Apparently, Chelsea and her BFF Jennifer Aniston (and Aniston’s boyfriend Justin Theroux) were all hanging out together (re: getting bombed), and Charlize happened by, and Chelsea made a new friend. So Charlize of course got an invitation to Chelsea’s Super Bowl party, and Charlize made sure to bring lots of booze. Now Us Weekly has a little addendum to that story – apparently, A-list women are only cozying up to Chelsea because they’re afraid of her?
Chelsea Handler is the head of Hollywood’s new chick clique!
“She’s the queen bee right now,” an insider says of the acerbic Chelsea Lately host who in the last few years has befriended Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon.
“These A-list women are terrified of her and kiss her ass because they want to stay on her good side.” The insider adds that the E! personality recently “targeted” Charlize Theron to be in the group – and then she attended Handler’s Super Bowl party. Says the source, “They’ve become very close.”
[From Us Weekly, print edition]
Part of me believes this just because so many of these Hollywood ladies are so thin-skinned and they‘ll do anything to avoid being criticized, even if it‘s fake-laughing at Chelsea‘s asinine “jokes”. Another part of me doesn’t believe it because… well, what does Charlize Theron have to prove? If Chelsea wants to make an enemy out of Charlize Theron, who the f–k is Chelsea Handler again? I think it’s hidden option C: these A-listers are hanging out with Chelsea because she’s fashioning herself to be a “professional friend” to the stars – like she’s a really busted, trashy, drugged-up, drunker version of Truman Capote, I guess. I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again – Chelsea is going to crash and burn at some point. It will be a DUI (that hurts somebody) or a drug arrest or maybe she’ll just talk smack about the wrong person, but it will happen. And will all of these celebrities still be “friends” with her?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, WENN.
I can’t wait until she’s been forgotten about.
I’m terrified of her clothing choices but not of her.
I totally agree who ever her stylist is should be sacked so any strips and old lady styles yuck
I’ve heard that Charlize Theron is a really nasty person. Maybe she – *shudders* – just likes hanging out with another really nasty person.
But yeah, Handler’s pathetic.
And she’s dumb too. Viola Davis voice her concerns about being a dark-skinned black actress with limited roles in HW And Charlize Theron responds..” You’re Hot as Sh*T. I totally get the Chelsea friendhip. Dumb late 30-40 something blondes who think all you need to get by in your profession is to be hot.
Newsweek Oscar Roundtable
Their exchange revolved around Davis’s comments on finding work as an African-American actress. Davis, who has won praise for her starring role in The Help, was attempting to explain the difficult plight of being black and female in the movie industry. “I’m a 46-year-old black woman who really doesn’t look like Halle Berry, and Halle Berry is having a hard time,” said Davis.
No doubt hoping to forge a sisterly bond, Theron rushed in to reassure Davis that she was indeed “hot’’ and naively implied that a simple change of attitude would make a world of difference. Her exact words—“You have to stop saying that, because you’re hot as sh*t.’’
How sweet of Theron to say, and how thoroughly misguided and offensive as well. Davis was honestly confronting a number of painful and complicated issues faced by many women of color in Hollywood today—issues Theron (who was born in South Africa to parents of European descent) more than likely has never encountered and would have done well to listen to. The Oscar roundtable was the perfect forum for such a discussion, and yet Theron’s verbal charity managed to downplay the importance of Davis’s point. What difference does it make if Davis stops speaking a truth if the reality remains?
Daily Beast/Washington Post
I read that article, and judging from the comments section people were divided, but for all the wrong reasons. Some insisted that the writer was just insulting Charlize, others argued whether or not Viola had a point in saying roles for women in her demographic were scarce. IMO They are, and everyone knows it.
One of the writer’s points was that when Will Smith was the lead in Hitch, his love interest was Eva Mendez. That even with a black male lead his love interest would be a non-black woman. The whole point of the article was lost on most.
My take on it was that Charlize, unintentionally, interrupted Viola’s turn to speak. Viola deserved to speak and and have her say regarding her own career. I really wished that Viola had been able to make her point because she has a valid one, and considering she’s nominated for an Oscar, she had the right to take the floor, and have her say, without being interrupted.
She’s very intelligent. Because someone mispoke at the wrong time to pay a compliment, you’re going to judge them as dumb? Everyone has done that. Viola just happened to be in the middle of making a point and Charlize was being nice and only responding to Viola putting down on her own looks. Big deal. Viola still continued to make her point and she wasn’t bothered at all. There was nothing offensive about it. It was just a long conversation and Viola had not finished making her point. People blew that out of proportion. That’s why it sucks for a celebrity to do press because so many judgmental people twisting what you say even if you’re being nice!
Where have you heard it from? Probably gossip bloggers like Lainey and this one who don’t even know her. Everyone who works with her has nothing but good things to say about her and talk about how down to earth, funny, and professional she is. They say she’s beautiful inside and out. She has the cool personality like one of the guys.
Don’t talk about Chelsea Handler like that. That is America’s Sweetheart’s(Witherspoon)BFF! LMAO!
every chick clique needs an ugly chick so the others appear more beautiful.
LOL!
Exactly!
LOL! So true! It certainly works for Witherspoon and Aniston lol.
Word!
Chelsea Handler is scum, but she’s not stupid; She’s always talking about how she uses a car service when she goes out drinking. As for why these stars are her friends, I think they (some of them) are probably as nasty as she is, but aren’t able to say it all out loud like C.H. does. I think Handler gets off on the ego trip of being friends with Alisters, AND gets herself put into their crappy films. *cough* Reese Witherspoon. -Who by the way was on C.H.’s show last night and might be the most boring woman in Hollywood.
I think you hit the nail on the head. On some level, they enjoy be around the cattiness.
Who the hell is Chelsea Handler? Seriously, I have no idea who this broad is and why she’s so famous? From what I’ve gathered from other posts is that she a terrible bully and a drunk….
Well, that’s pretty much it — a drunk (and now somewhat powerful) bully who f*cked her way to a talk show.
How do I put this nicely,
She is an old, drunk, sperm-gurgling gutter-slut from Exit 6, who couldn’t cut it on the comedy circuit,then she screwed her way thru Hollyweird and all but blackmailed a married man into giving her a show on his network.
I think you’re right … but there is something about C. H. that screams “lesbian” to me. She just has that “male” vibe going on.
Hey, I’m just wondering because I’m curious about why women react to other women in certain ways: would you like CH better if she were just as bitchy but young, sober, and pure instead of ‘old drunk, and slutty’ as you put it?
Crash and burn, her real age comes out and no one wants to hang out with her just like Madonnna
I don’t think it’s Madonna’s age that’s the problem, more like she tends to hang with egotistical people who like to be No1 when Madonna herself is egotistical and the Queen of Pop, so in the end they get bored of playing 2nd fiddle and ditch her for some lessor.
… (cough) Gwynnie Paltrow!
I don’t think this is anything new. Anyone with a brain knows they are friends with her because she will not rag on them otherwise. Look at the history
Not friends.. she rags
Friends… they are safe.
She is such a wannabe.. and Birds of a feather flock together. You gravitate to what is most like you.
case closed.
Same reason Perez Hilton has celebrity “friends”….I like the celebs better who just don’t care.
I agree with you both lisa and Diane. Well said.
“busted, trashy, drugged-up, drunker version of Truman Capote” – PERFECTION, except Truman Capote was actually good at something (writing), while CH is talent-less, unless you count knowing who to sleep with in order to be famous.
Thank you for writing that – Truman was a celebrated American author. A literary genius, witty, super smart and yes insecure and ego-driven (which became his downfall) but he left a legacy and is a source of inspiration to many.
Chelsea is a mean drunk with one big yellow foot stuck in her mouth and the other up her a**.
And she smells like Creamy Ranch Doritos and Binaca.
I hope she really does smell like that. You just made me snort at my desk, and then pretend it was a cough so my coworkers wouldn’t notice.
Truman is one of my favorite writers.
It’s very tragic to think of his descent into an alcohol-fueled mess. Still Handler wishes she’d have anything close to his legacy.
As nuts as he was, Capote had real talent. I think he is a brilliant writer. I still haven’t gotten over In Cold Blood and I read it over 15 years ago.
I watched Chelsea Lately, and i think the panel like Heather McDonald or Sarah Colonna are funnier the her.
Too right! The panelists were the only reason I ever watched. But it got to a point that they just weren’t enough to get me past the awful monologue.
I think Charlize has too much personnality to be”terrified” by her.She’s not that kind of girl.She was in a long term relationship, she just wants to have fun and party now that she’s single.
Why are they giving this boozehound so much power?
is she wearing short rain boots with that black dress? good lord. then again, not sure there is much to be done for her…
Eh, I like Chelsea. Maybe they’re all friends because they like each other. They’re definitely all the same type. High-strung LA bitches gotta stick together.
Yup, mean girls need a click to make the mean girling work.
Why!!?? she made it by sleeping with the comcast CEO she’s not even funny or good-looking I can’t stand her and the worst part is she’s everywhere fml I wish she just desapear.
I really cannot believe I ever found her funny… I used to watch her show and think it was a laugh but her close to the bone jokes about race or sexuality used to make me really uncomfortable, thank god I’m over her.
The one thing all the women she has strung together have in common is that they are known to be hardcore beytoches, especially Reese and Charlize. You know they love that Chelsea slams a bunch of people they can’t stand.
Middle-school drama.
Honestly, if I had to sit and fake-laugh with all of those women I’d get a headache in no time.
Does she snort predominately out of the left nostril? It’s flared far more than the right.
Chelsea Handler is a hideous unfunny scumbag. The end.
I think Jen A. likes her because Chelsea kisses her ***, as evidenced every time Jen is on Chelsea’s show.
Yes, AFTER Jen invited Chelsea to her birthday party & then Chelsea signed with her PR rep. Before that, Chelsea made Jen a big target of very cruel jokes about her looserness, old maid stuff, dating John Mayer, etc. Also, when Chelsea dropped the being awful to Jen stuff, she REALLY increased the Jolie & Jolie-Pitt kids trash-talk. And the “jokes” were it FAR MORE awful than anything she had been saying previously- not a coincidcence.
I think she’s got her alphabet wrong. More like C or D list friends. Must be fun at all those stitch and bitch drunken parties. I never considered Jen A list, Reese’s career has taken a nose dive and Chelsea’s just plain nasty.
Always kind of liked Charlize but since birds of a feather flock together she’s right at the bottom of the pile too.
I believe it. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to hang out with that POS otherwise.
Oh please! Kathy Griffin, Joan Rivers etc bag on celebrities and are more famous than Chelsea and Reese & Jenn arent clamoring for their affection. Tabloids print worse things about celebs everyday. No one is afraid of Chelsea.
When it comes to being funny:
Kathy & Joan 9 out of 10x
Chelsea 0 out of 10x
Pah, so much hate for Chelsea. Do you all think she’s the first woman to sleep with a guy for self-leverage? Not ALL of those women get successful gigs out of it. In fact I’d be willing to bet that 99% get nothing other than a self esteem complex and no glittery career afterwards.
I, for one, think Chelsea is actually pretty funny. Maybe Charlize likes hanging around a woman who isn’t intimidated by her..?
I don’t get all the hate for Chelsea either. If you don’t like her comic sense, don’t watch. Jay Leno sets my teeth on edge, but I can recognize his skill at what he does. Like all comics, sometimes Chelsea is very funny and other times she misses. She runs the round table quite well, I think. She’s not a great interviewer but is improving (I would be happy with all round table myself).
Would she bother people so much if she were a guy? As far as “sleeping her way to the top” is concerned- geez, aren’t we past that kind of thinking now? Is it so hard to believe they actually liked each other? She’s no longer with him but I don’t see any downhill slide.
Please, Charlize would annihilate her, I’ve heard stuff about her being a bitch and it put me off her but I’m back on her side now because I fucking loathe Chelsea. I bet you they will fall out at some point and the bitch fight will be spectacular, (or maybe I’m indulging my imagination here). Why does that picture of her remind me of Beetlejuice? It’s something about the stripey top and smile.
AMEN!!! YOU said it RIGHT…so well! I have been wondering about this shit myself for days. Ha ha, glad you brought it up and said it blunty,lol
AMEN!!! YOU said it RIGHT…so well! I have been wondering about this shit myself for days. Ha ha, glad you brought it up and said it blunty,lol
Chelsea Handler has all the charm of hangover diarrhea and a voice like the Emergency Alert System. Smileface.
I’m still dry-heaving over her getting chopped down by 50-Cent. Eeeeeewwwww. I’ll bet the room smelled like feet, bad breath, stale beer and hot raw booty.
I can see Handler appealing to bitter, insecure women. She can say all the nasty, vile sh*t other women don’t have the guts to say and yet she’s clearly no threat in the looks department.
They are all using each other. She is trying to clean up her image. She wants to be accepted in the mainstream. So she has befriended the mainstream actresses.. Aniston, Reese and such. They want to be seen as edgy. They want the people outside the mainstream to see them as having a “edge” that they hang out with the “bad girl” and are not all sugar and sweet. An image I note they played for years. now that they are all either approaching or over 40 they are all being pushed out by the likes of Emma Stone, Rachel M and others that are getting the “girl next door” roles.
Aniston herself has said she is being offered the roles of mother. Reese wants to be seen as sexy and dangerous. They really should have thought about career options years ago. Made a plan. Choose different roles. Changed it up.
Handler is a wanna be and so are her Friends. all wanting to be what they are not.
>>>>>>>> DISGUSTING DOG <<<<<<<<<<<<
I feel like Chelsea is probably genuine friends with the actresses, and the actresses are more using her for their image. I could see Aniston ditching her in a heart-beat.
Ok, Chelsea Handler’s show does suck, but her books are really quite funny, so I would not say that she is talentless. Mean, yes. A drunk, yes. But I don’t understand why people hate her that much…its sort of provoking the reaction that she wants.
Huh. I live overseas and don’t have the ability to catch her show regularly, but if the photos are anything to go by, I think she needs to lay off the booze.
Chelsea’s the only person a big Name can hang out with and GET DRUNK without being judged, because Chelsea really does drink like a fish herself. Any of their other friends would be counting calories and saying, “Do you really think you should?” and crap like that. They can relax and be total messes with Chelsea, even if she’s a bitch. THAT’s why they hang out with her, IMO.
Maybe they are just fun girls who met and enjoyed each other’s company. Chelsea Handler just has her persona she plays up in public, but she is said to be really sweet and cool in person. She’s close friends with Diablo Cody who Charlize just made a film with. They met and realized they both have the same dry sense of humor and love to have fun. Sorry these women aren’t like your precious Angelina Jolie who doesn’t like to support other women or have female friends because she likes to be queen bee and assumes everyone is jealous of her. These women are fun girl’s girls.
Honestly, I don’t understand everyone talking about how ‘busted’, ‘old’, and ‘ugly’ CH is. I don’t particularly like her, but I still see a woman who is far more attractive than the majority. Why is it such a crime for a woman on TV to not be attractive and young and fresh anyways?? That sounds so sexist. No-one goes around trash talking male comedians for being ugly. And then there are people saying she is manly. Why? Women STILL get stigmatized for talking openly about their sexuality. Yes, she’s promiscuous and not ashamed. Is that still so offensive in this day and age???
I’ve had one of those before, the woman who is such a ball breaking diva she makes your life hell, and expects you to eat her dirt. Teena, my upstairs neighbor in Richmond a decade ago fit this description. She had a few arrests, one for solicitation that she swore up and down was simply her working at a strip club. Her boyfriend had his pals over all the time. Thanks to thin walls I could write a porno novel about her antics with them. I finally had to move to get rid of her! I’m so glad I won’t ever see her again in this life. Will that happen with Chelsea Handler and these A list actresses?