Radar is reporting this hilarious “eyewitness account” of Salma Hayke having some kind of epic temper tantrum at a restaurant. Apparently, the hostess of this fine establishment either did not recognize Salma’s lovely boobs, or the hostess sincerely did not have any room to seat anyone without a reservation. In either case, the hostess was all “You’ll have to wait, Cleavage.” Thus, Salma “created a scene” by cussing the hostess out… in Spanish! Dios Mio. Radar claims they don’t know exactly what Salma was really yelling at the hostess, but my guess is that involved the words “puta” and “ojete”. By the way, I found a really great Spanish-English dictionary online – you can type in any word or phrase in English or Spanish, and the site will translate. Thus, “I will cut you” is probably “Voy apuñalas.” (My apologies, Spanish-speakers, if I’m wrong about that.) By the way, I took several years of Spanish, and I’m ashamed to admit I never learned how to say “I will cut you, hostess bitch from hell!”
From the celebrities are cranky like the rest of us category.
Salma Hayek rolled up to the Chateau Marmont on Wednesday night and she was hungry. We’re pretty sure she was VERY hungry because she wanted to eat at the restaurant but didn’t have a reservation and the hostess couldn’t seat her.
The beautiful actress was with a couple of girlfriends and when she realized the patio was full and the hostess wouldn’t seat her Salma freaked out! She created a scene, yelling Spanish.
We know because we were there and saw the whole thing with our Radar eyes. Unfortunately we must now admit that we never paid attention during high school Spanish class (yes, three years worth) because we have NO IDEA what Salma was yelling in Spanish. And no one had a Spanish-to-English dictionary handy either.
But we’re pretty sure she wasn’t yelling how happy she was and how much she loved the restaurant. The hostess tried to calm her down and said she could have the first available table. Even her girlfriends tried to calm her down. But Salma was steaming and then switched to complaining in English and didn’t stop until a party left and she was seated.
[From Radar]
If it was someone else, or if it Salma had been somewhere other than a restaurant, I might be more unforgiving. But some of these hostesses are bitches, and they need to be taken down a peg or two. Handing me a menu isn’t that difficult, you don’t have to be that snotty about it. My verdict is that the hostess probably had it coming. But Salma should work on not screaming at strange restaurant employees in the future.
Salma Hayek is shown with her husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, sailing with “the Puma Ocean Racing team sail boat ‘il mostro’ during the first leg of the ‘Boston to Galway’ Volvo Ocean race” on 5/16/09. She’s also shown outside Beso on 2/26/09. Credit: WENN.com
Hubby paid half a billion for each boob.
“the hostess had it coming”
not necessarily. while I love ms. hayek, she’s not necessarily above thinking she’s entitled to a table simply because of who she is.
if there is literally NO table available, and she pulled a star-trip, then the hostess had every right to be bitchy.
however, as the “eyewitness” says, “The hostess tried to calm her down and said she could have the first available table.” and “Even her girlfriends tried to calm her down.”
so, seems that the waitress wasn’t bitchy, but Ms. Hayek was.
Oh, Salma. I thought you were so cool before this bullshit. Welp, outcha go from cool to tool. There is NO excuse for someone with SUCH a charmed life to be a fucker like that. Go home and sob about it and rage in a bathtub full of Cristal champagne and kick the servants or something. Fire somebody!!! Maybe you’ll feel better. Asshole.
I guess it’s one of the biggest humiliations in celeb-world, to be seen waiting for anything. It’s like a giant sign of “B list!” Hence the (rude) panic.
Hey look, this woman is married to a BILLIONAIRE. So she’s probably used to getting everything she wants. Can’t blame her for being used to that lifestyle. Well you can, but what the hell, let her throw a fit every now and then. We ALL have our days like that.
And Kaiser, you were a little off with the I will cut you translation, you actually said “going stabbing”, but it’s ok lol.
A good website to go to as well is altavista.com and click on the babel fish translation right underneath it. They’re pretty good too. And they also translate dozens of other languages as well.
I bet her couple of girlfriends was really her boobs…easily mistaken for actual people….
she doesnt have the right to treat anyone like that. the place was full, sorry. and probably full of other entitled hollywood types who would never think of rushing themsleves so ms hayek could have their seat. they might have made room for her at red lobster but not at marmont. what a bitch-she is really thinking she is something since she married her lawn gnome of a husband.
It’s amazing how one’s reputation (average joe or celeb) can be saved when one simply leaves a full restaurant and heads to another restaurant. 😉
If the waitress was the one being rude first, I’d probably leave anyway. I wouldn’t eat at a restaurant that hired rude staff, no matter how delicious their food is (and I do love me some food)! But I guess therein lies the difference between an average joe (josephine?) and a celebrity.
No excuse to scream at someone like that. I actually think higher of celebs who are willing to wait in line or be patient with the rest of us, whether they’re supposed A-listers or not.
Eww, ya, no excusing that behavior. I don’t care WHO you think you are. That’s just gross. It pains me to hear anyone even remotely condoning that.
PS. I was a hostess in high school and let me just tell hungry people can be bitches. I hope at least one of the restaurant staff spit in Salma’s precious food.
As long as she promises to never show up on 30 Rock again. Ever. EVER…
…ever.
i work in a restaurant,no need to be famous to have tantrum ! so she’s a normal people
Salma Hayke is a B-list actress anyway. Either way screaming in a restaurant is not cool, it kills your mood and everyone else’s.
Oh Salma. You’re married to a billionaire and have one of the loveliest racks in Hollywood and you’re going to be bitchy???
Salma is no B list by any stretch of the imagination. She is one of the most succesful female producers in the business right now and she is an accomplished actress as well. So poo on that one.
However, living here in LA, I have on more than one occasion wanted to bitch slap a Sunset Blvd Hostess/Waitress/Bartender. There is a real power trip with some of these bitches. The only other city I have seen the kind of attitude you get here from a hostess is Miami/South Beach. My response to them as they take me to be seated is always “It’s sad you modeling career really didn’t take off, have a nice evening”
Voy a cortarte, maybe? Te voy a cortar?
Also, I’m with Jo. She was so awful on 30 Rock. Its as if having to be a somewhat “normal” character revealed what a terrible actress she is.
Excuse me, the hostess needed to be taken down a peg or two? I find nothing rude in her not seating Hayek. If they had no tables available for her, they had no tables.
Once upon a time, I was a hostess and I was never rude to customers, however customers were rude to me if they didn’t get their way. When you have no table, you have no table. Simple fact. If you don’t make a reservation and show up to a busy place, then expect not to get a table.
I assure you, the few times customers were rude to me, I did not need to be taken down a peg or two. One of the customers was a drunken slob who got taken down a peg or two when he was hauled off by the cops.
does anyone remember when courtney love said, “I don’t even know how he can understand her?” in re: to her ex edward norton dating her. too funny.
that said, I was a hostess in a resturant where many famous peeps would dine and the only one who would pull that “don’t you know who I am” schpeel would be the eternally bloated carol alt. (there was always a wait!!)
Kaiser,
The hostess stands on her feet all night in a crowded restaurant/bar, probably making s*** money and taking crap from hungry, stuck-up LA bimbos (I live in LA, I know) and trying to keep them happy and she “had it coming” from some rich, arrogant, self-important actress who feels like she is entitled to kick out other customers sitting at tables so she can have a seat? Are you serious?
This story falls right in life with the Blind Item Lainey had on Laineygossip a few months ago about Salma. I think it was called “A Bitch To Work For.”
I worked as a hostess, when I was in university. It wasn’t the Chateau or anything, but it meant a lot of the Ginger Rogers routine for me: that is, backwards and in high heels. That’s a profession where it seems like people want you to be just under perfect enough, so that they can take out their stresses on someone who can’t do anything about it.
20-minute wait on a Friday night with no reservation? Hostess is lazy.
Can’t put people in their favourite spot (because floorplans grant different servers different zones and you have to alternate)? Hostess is uncooperative.
Long-discontinued menu item? Hostess must have fucked the manufacturer’s husband, made the wife mad, and THAT’s why you can’t get your disgusting piece of crap that no one wanted, that’s why it’s gone.
The job of a hostess is to do everything in her power and whatever is reasonable to make the experience a good one. Businesses like money. The job of the patron is to give that respect back. If you can’t handle basic human exchanges without flying off of the handle about every arbitrary and uncontrollable little thing (do you know how much people bitch about taxes? Why would they think I had something to do with that?)
If you can’t handle that simple directive, shut up and order a fucking pizza. As if people have nothing better to do with their time than accept unwarranted abuse from some entitled dickslap.
Words of wisdom from similarly-entitled hasbeen Eva Longoria: ‘FUCK…be nice!’
We can do it: we CAN be nice.
Granted, there are a lot of lovely hostesses, but all of you hostess-defenders out there have to admit that there are some nasty, snotty ones out there too!
And as for the claim that being a hostess is such tough work – we’re talking about hostesses, not waitresses or busers. A hostess’s duties are seating people and maybe taking the first drink order. That’s it.
I don’t if Salma was just having a bad day, or if she’s always a piece of work or whatever – all I know is that I really related to this story.
Too high/tightly pinching shoes, hot mess of heavy hair, tightly cinched in uncomfortable itchy designer clothes starving to death ..and you got Mad mad Mad Senorita wanting to sit down and eat! bablefish.com translates..
Tengo hambre. Soy caliente. Estoy lastimando. ¡Quiero comer el damnit!
or maybe not.. heh
Dave Barry said it best.
“The person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.”
Words to live by.
Actually Kaiser, I respectfully disagree with you. I had to bus tables a majority of the time as well as help the bus boys or girls turn a table quickly. I also handled and made up all the carry out orders that went to the offices around our restaurant. I seated people, did the drinks and often, if the place was slammed, served food along side the wait staff. It involved being fast on your feet, good memory and organized. No, it isn’t brain surgery or curing cancer, but it isn’t all picking up a menu and seating people either.
Also, I admit that there are hateful hostesses, but there are hateful people in every work force out there. Hateful retail clerks, grocery clerks, receptionists, people in general. I do not think that hostesses corner the market on being hateful and I certainly do not think that any hostess needs to be treated like a dog because some celeberity with an overly inflated ego walks in an doesn’t immediately get her way. I guarantee that the hateful actress to hostess ratio favors the actress’ being more hateful and spoiled.
“I guarantee that the hateful actress to hostess ratio favors the actress’ being more hateful and spoiled.”
I completely agree.
The hostess had it coming? Are you kidding me? Sigh.
and then she got seated eventually? I hope she likes eating boogers.
Don’t mess with restaurant staff.
Why didn’t she just feed off her boobs? She doesn’t seem to have a problem feeding strange kids with them?
P.S.
THEY’RE FAKE!!!!!! There! I just killed my husband’s fantasy!
SHE LOOKS LIKE RICKI LAKE IN THE HEADER PHOTO!!!! WOW!!
“I hope she likes eating boogers”..
LOL humph!, that’s awesome.
I’m a barista/bartender. It’s my job to be polite and conversant with self-absorbed assholes. I get paid (minimum wage) to put up with high maintenance individuals, in the hopes that they recognize my prompt, courteous service and tip me accordingly. (Or anything. Anything at all.)
It’s not rocket-science (or my private passion, neurology), but it does require an attention to detail, and the ability to smile and take it on the chin when a customer bitches about being charged extra for soy milk. (Because I alone determine the market value and price points of soy milk.)
Perhaps the hostess was your stereotypical LA power-hungry bitch on an ego trip, but the majority of people in food service are just there to make rent. Getting abused by working professionals because they feel superior in their 9-5 routine is just a bonus. (Like a tip! Only, you know, not.)
Did I mention I have a BA in pre-law and psychology from one of the top public schools in the nation? Fucking economy.
It was probably a case of an entitled actress thinking she deserved the best table who was up against a bitchy entitled hostess who could have cared less about Salma in the first place. Vicious cycle.
Another ex-hostess here, one who also cleared tables to turn them faster, checked reservations, took orders, brought drinks, acted as messenger between staff etc. . .all on just above minimum wage, with no tips, when expected to dress as if I had Rachel Zoe on my speed dial.
I’m sorry to hear this about Salma H., and I’m not too impressed with you either, Celebitchy. Multi millionaire who flips out because they have to–gasp!– actually phone to say they’re coming = Asshole. And you should know that.
I don’t think anyone was saying that it’s an intellectually demanding job. Heck, I have two university degrees, a college diploma and another degree on the way. Not all restaurant workers are the aspiring actresses or mouth-breathing troglodyes that some of the more troublesome patrons would like them to be. You’re there to benefit from people’s services, not disapprovingly dare them to justify their existences.
Serf, poursuivant, hostess, yeoman, layman… come on with the social hierarchy. You can’t dismiss people or be outright rude to them because you decided that they’re not working hard enough or aren’t important enough.
What is hard is when self-satisfied patrons size you up and fabricate a resume with a job description in their own minds based on nothing. Because who would know the most about a person’s duties? Someone who has never met that person, of course. Jerks abound in everything, and it’s a huge, royal pain. Misinformed jerks? Oof.
Generally, if people are tired, it is because they’ve been doing something tiring. I can’t think of a restaurant in which a hostess’s only job is to put people in seats and then stare blank-eyed in the void. They have a lot of the same duties as do servers, especially if it’s a small place. There is a lot of overlap, and of course, no wants to pay you to do nothing. If you have have nothing to do, someone will always find something for you, or just fire you.
Public politeness: what’s the conumdrum? This doesn’t have to be the domain of Canadians solely.
Wow, Kaiser. I always love what you write even when I disagree 100%, but in this case…yikes. I can’t believe you would defend this behaviour – you seem much more with it than that. Very disheartening.
P.S. Jo Mama Besser & jaundice – very very well put. 🙂
P.P.S. I won’t be viewing any more of Miss Hayek’s projects! The boycott is ON… 😛
I really enjoyed reading this thread. My sister worked at a fast food restaurant and a guy came through the drive through calling the ladies some nasty names. He ordered a cheeseburger; the staff made him a “special burger” for such a special person. They hoarked into the ketchup, mixed it in well. “Have a nice day, sir”
If Salma Hayek was that much of a beyotch, she deserved some special sauce.
Also for those working in retail, restaurant,etc I learned a great way to be polite to people who are acting like Salma Hayek from my co-worker – maam is b*tch, sir is a$$hole.
SHE sits on the toilet and shits like everyone else. I don’t care if it’s a solid gold toilet seat. That said, she’s only flesh and blood and no better than anyone else. Of course, these types think that by reason of money they are entitled to act like absolute “i’m better than you are bitches”. I’m just glad Ed Norton is free of her sorry no acting ass.
I worked in restaurants for several years and ran into some real human garbage during that time. Never once did it ever occur to me or anyone else I ever worked with to do something nasty to people’s food. I know it’s done, but no way would I ever be on board with acting out my suppressed anger in such a fashion.
The writers on this website are DUMB F*CKS.
Oh leave her alone, she was probably having an occasional bad day, just like the rest of us (and restaurant hostesses too).
Gosh, she sure does favor Rikki Lake in that first pic, though…
“I will cut you, hostess bitch from hell!” can be translated by “Te voy a rajar, puta anfitriona del diablo!” or something like that
Kaiser, in between what lines did you read that the hostess had this coming to her? Really, if true, Salma’s behavior was that of an entitled toddler. Shame on you for defending it!
I can’t believe you guys believe this! I speak Spanish as well as English…and when I opt to speak Spanish in public people in a line will often eye me funny or suspiciously. It’s very possible that she lost her temper or she may have been upset about something else entirely or just talking with her friends about something altogether different.
People are racist/prejudice as it is. You all know that debate on how many (White) Americans want to practically “outlaw” Spanish.
If in fact hostesses in LA are as snotty as someone cited than she also may have exaggerated Salma’s reaction by reporting it to be worse than it was (or the bystanders who sold the story) too. It could be a case of the two divas with the hostess being just as bad if not worse.
It could be that I’m biased of course because I’m kinda of a fan of Salma’s, I don’t hear to many stories about her that sound like this and we all know people can be racist.
Just my opinion.
I’ve read your comment a few times, Lily. I don’t think I know what you’re talking about. I’ll give you this, I’ve never been to the States, so I don’t know what L.A. hostesses are like (if work personality is determined by geography, which–judging by this thread–it seems to be).
I’m Canadian, so it’s all English and French here. I’m also a minority, so I know from racism. But I don’t know, if I’m working, I have enough to think about without the pressure of having to call in a translator to discern for me whether the ‘outside voice’ is being directed at me, or not. If you are with a group of people who all speak the same language, that’s one thing. But if you have an altercation with a person, and that person immediately switches tongues and starts going off, I don’t have any proof that I’m being badmouthed, but it’s not an illogical conclusion. I’m thinking of an episode of 30 Rock, in which Tracy Jordan and Liz Lemon were having a disagreement, and out of nowhere, he pulls out a yellow piece of paper with ‘RACE CARD’ written in block letters, flings it at her, and walks away. It’s damned funny stuff, and it points out the way that both sides sometimes premeditate venturing into a ‘no-fly zone’, so that the opposing side is deflated without any kind of resolution being reached, or any kind of compromise having to be made.
And again, I was pretty neutral on Hayek until 30 Rock, but Sweet Fancy Moses, did she ever crap all over a good half-season of that show. Not that her character was the most captivating (many facets of her character just didn’t make sense, and that’s not Hayek’s fault), but augh. SOOO obnoxious! Before this, I would’ve though: Oh, yeah: she was crap on 30 Rock, but whatever.
I guess the rule should be amended to: never work with animals, children or Hayeks.
I know the ettiquette changes from region to region, but in my particular culture–well, that of my mother’s– (and I’m sure this has a lot to do with my current response) it’s considered very exclusionary to do so.
We’ve got to meet each other halfway. I HATE hearing people complain about immigrants in a way that just comes off as narrow-minded and ill-informed sour grapes. But coming from a family of immgrants, I also think it’s rather bad form to carry a cricket bat to the baseball game, and then lie in wait for the first sign of confusion, just so I can call ‘shenanigans’.
I think we all should try to be more sensitive to each other, because a great amount of shit-fits can be avoided if we leave our indignations at the door.
I was at the Chateau Marmont for drinks in August and the hostess was one of the rudest, most incompetent people…ever.
She left us standing there while she chit chatted with a waiter for 20 minutes about people hooking up after work. When we finally got tired of staring at her waiting to be recognized we walked into the courtyard to grab an open side seat and she freaked out and was super snippy and bitchy. I now may actually warm to Salma (who is super annoying) based solely on this lashout to that HORRIBLE HOSTESS.
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Salma Hayek needs to get divorced from her husband because he is a jerk who doesn’t have any morals. It is impossible to understand how he could have abandoned his own son until the court ordered him to start supporting his son. Salma hayek isn’t a feminist if she continues to be married to a deadbeat dad who also happens to be a billionaire because this is extremely inexcusable.
The hostess forgot their place they represent that restaurant and with a billion plus backing you. Salma Hayek and her husband could very well end that restaurants business quickly. Wealthy people know wealthy people. 9 times out of 10 the hostess knew who she was and was jealous and decided to disrespect Salma. The hostess thus the restaurant was in the wrong.