REUTERS: Casey Brumels Discovers Abominable Snowman?

We woke up this morning to find the deadly serious REUTERS news agency reporting worldwide on TheCHIMP.net's very own Casey Brumels. And he didnt even do anything bad! Casey (Michigan State'98, SuperNanny '05) and his partner Brad Kuhlman (Jerry Springer '96, One Bad Trip '04) returned from Mt. Everest this morning with some big news. REUTERS:

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A U.S.-based television channel investigating the existence of the legendary Yeti in Nepal has found footprints similar to those said to be that of the abominable snowman, the company said on Friday.

A team of nine producers from Destination Truth, armed with infrared cameras...

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Adrien Grenier Purchases a Hair Drier

Crank this photo by clicking on the blue button above, then hitting "save" & "publish" when done. You too, can make funny.

Vinne Chase Adrian Grenier (LaGuardia H.S. - NYC '94, Bard College '98) shows off in an odd way last night at the Bang and Olufsen party last night (Wednesday 11.29).

Meanwhile Mike "The Miz" Mizanin (Real World NYC Racist '00, WWE Wrestling Champion 'current) continued his run for "most successful post reality career" title, by bringing his championship belt title to show off to Stacy Kiebler, who was oddly not totally uninterested.

High Fives to blogging buddy "Sticky Patrick" for pinch hitting at this event.

$3700 buys Paris a XXX Good Time

Milo Ventimiglia (El Modena H.S. - CA '95, Heroes 'current) hosted the big Nissan/Matchbox 20 party last night, but was Paris paid to be there?

CHIMP.net EXCLUSIVE:
A CHIMP.net operative just sent a shopping spree sighting: "Paris Hilton Alone" at Fred Segal Fun (No Paparazzi, no correctional officer entourage, yes blackberry, yes pout)

The funtimer (DwightSchool-NY '99, Cantebury Prep '99, GED 'unknown) casually slipped in to the Santa Monica branch this afternoon (Wed 11.28, 4PM) to drop $3700.00 in 34 minutes.

She bought backless bras from a company called "Nu Bras", and several T-shirts designed by AFI frontman Davey Havok's line Paden called "The XXX".
Paris & XXX...hmmm, sounds about right.

Milo and Paris Photo NO DUH Courtesy of WireImage/JS.

David Walton Continues Prep School Hotstreak

Get lost, Playboy, MTV, William Morris' mailroom, and other traditional incubators of "the next big thing". New England prep schools' Hollywood hotstreak continues.
Smokeless tobacco and tribal chants are in order for David Walton (St. Paul's 97, Brown '01). NBC took the groundbreaking step of promoting the Walton starring web show Quarterlife from "http:" to "httPRIMETIME", in an announcement yesterday (Mon. 11.19). The "angtsy, 20-something" TV series will debut on that other screen in your living room in spring 2008.
How does TV's David Walton celebrate? "The web's David Walton celebrated with a text book blackout," said Dave in a TheCHIMP.net exclusive today. Congrats.

Above: Walton celebrates a friend's 2007 marriage by kissing the bride.

Trump Eats Fear Factor's Leftovers for "Almost Famous" Apprentice

Today, NBC announced the surprising list of participants for "Celebrity Apprentice"

Leftover: Jennie Finch
In 2002, she wanted to be on Fear Factor, but demanded to be on a celebrity edition. Nobody had a clue who she was and her repeated calls became a running joke in the office. Softball pitcher Jennie (La Mirada H.S. (CA) ’99, Arizona ’03, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model ‘05) has since won a gold medal and showed class by naming her newborn “Ace”. Yet we still need 73 words to tell you who she is.

Leftover: Stephen Baldwin
Reality staple Stephen (Usual Suspects ’95, Celebrity Mole '02) and his agent are toasting today. The fall from "Usual Suspects" glory began with what brother Alec called a “career stomping” decision – working with Pauly Shore (Biodome ’96). The career spiral has since tornado’ed through Celebrity Fear Factor (actual photo from the set with his talent escort, above) and now touches down in the boardroom.

"You Can't Say That With a Straight Face" Casting:Nely Galan.
I nearly rented production office space in Marina Del Rey from her for a version of Deal or No Deal just last year. As you definitely don’t know, Nely (People in Espanol’s “50 Most Beautiful” ’05, Producer of “The Swan” ’05) is primarily a TV executive and receiver of home tape submissions (see above). Not anymore…now she is a celebrity apprentice.

Was NBC’s in house rockstar not available for this show he resuscitated himself?

Who Was Out Where (Weekend Wrap 11.18.07)

Kind of a different post, but figured "If I lost my phone today and someone read my text messages, this is what they would learn about who was out where this weekend". No. I was at almost none of these.

South Beach: Kim Kardashian hosting a party at The Fifth on Friday night. A local says “it’s wicked urban in there”.

Hollywood Blvd: Michael Copon (Deep Creek H.S. Virginia ’00, One Tree Hill ’05) ignores Bella, the Les Deux guys’ Italian eatery he “part owns” of to bring an 8 pack of girls to the newly minted VICE on Hollywood Blvd. A Chimp.net big mouth reports “Didn’t have a single guy with him. All girls. All night.”

Vegas: Opening of the Planet Hollywood Resort (formerly Aladdin). A Chimp.net bigmouth reports: "Howie D. (Backstreet Boys ’99, Bachelor ’07) organized a party bus from Hollywood to Vegas for Friday afternoon. Was supposed to be the whole band." Only A.J. Mclean (Rehab ’03) showed up for the bus. Nick Carter and Brian Litrell took a plane and said “meet you there”.While you were living your life for the past 4 years, the 5th member dropped out of the band. (Kevin Richardson). Cooler? Eva Longoria (Roy Miller H.S., (TX), Texas A&M-Kingsville) DJ'ing at PURE on Saturday.



Note: Yes, all these tiny grainy photos were "right clicked" from the internet.

Deerfield Walks the Catwalk on "Project Runway"

Marcia Mitchell (Deerfield '01, Tufts '05) debuted as one of the new models on Bravo's smash fashion designer competition, Project Runway, last night. (Thurs, 11.15).

Marcia consistently mentions D.A. in her press, saying she credits Deerfield for "giving her the steely reserve required to make it in the fashion industry."

Marcia, welcome to the newest Deerfield extra-curricular: Hit TV Show Club. Other members? The Deerfield duo killing it as adversaries on LOST, Nestor Carbonell (Deerfield '86, CBS's Cane 'current) and Matthew Fox (Deerfield '85, Party of Five '98). Coincidentally, they also worked together on "Smoking Aces".

Lebron James Parties Before Game Day

Can you party at boutique Hollywood nightclub SHAG late on Saturday night and wake up and beat the Clippers on Sunday? Lebron James answers that question today. [UPDATE: Yes. 22 pts. , 6 steals, Cavs 103-Clippers 95.]
DJ Mark Da Spot (Timberlake touring DJ 'current, Shag host Saturdays 'current) and the king Lebron James (St. Vincent - St. Mary's H.S. (OH) '03, Cavaliers 'current) at SHAG last night (Sat. 11.10).

Video girl Melyssa Ford (York Univ, Canada '98, Big Pimpin Video '00, "Yeah" video '04) right, and (unknown scenestress).

Good luck to Mark Da Spot on his upcoming UK club tour beginning tonight (Sunday 11.11). Stay up on all the club news at our sister publication, written by TheCHIMP.net staff. "A Shout from Mikey".

PC Magazine Gives a Shout Out -

A geeky, weekly, technology podcast wins the "Most Off-Topic" AND "Most Intellectual" thing to hit the pages of TheCHIMP.net. My secret fandom for PC Magazine has been exposed.

Check out the shout out I got from PC Magazine by clicking the video above.

Motorola's 9th Anniversary Party - Kelly Clarkson Performs

The November Motorola party in Hollywood always ranks among the top 3-4 parties of the year. Last night (Thurs 11.8) was no exception. What we learned:

Headliner Kelly Clarkson beat Ryan Starr (American Idol 'season 1)back in 2002 on TV. Last night as Kelly performed for Hollywood's elite, Ryan stood outside on the stairs alone sulkily texting someone and pondering the skinny ends of the bell curve of fame and possibility - ouch.

When you are a pair of E! Personalities, Catt Sadler (The Daily 10) and Michael Yo (Yo on E!) , you get prime dance floor real estate for the night, right next to comrades Debbie Matenopolous (not pictured) and Ananda Lewis (VJ '00).

Ran in to Audrina Patridge (Yorba Linda H.S. (CA) '03, The Hills 'current) who was coming from the People's Choice Award Nominations. She said "Like, who even has a motorola phone?". When I told her that at one time Motorola ruled the world with the StarTAC ('98), she said "Yeah, my publicist said the same thing."

DJ Steve Aoki (Benihana Founder's son '80, UCSB 'late 90s) continues stealing the snickers out of DJ AM's lunchbox, giving a fresh take at every big party in recent memory.

Ian Ziering continues to go out every night. He succeeded in not breaking anything of mine last night.


Awesome Surprise of the Night: Thirsty, hungry, and tipsy, Daddy Motorola bought an IN-N-OUT truck to block everyone's path from party to parking garage. Thank you, David Pinsky .(Motorola entertainment marketing boss)

Published in The LA Times' Metromix Today:

Please enjoy the latest piece I wrote for the LA Times’ METROMIX - “Dive Bar Chemistry”.

I visited legendary LA dive bars to perform pseudo-scientific experiments on their cocktails, looking for the strongest, cheapest, coldest, and blowing in to a breathalyzer to quality check each drink etc.

It published today over here, and based on the results, they just commissioned “Hangover Chemistry”, a follow up piece. If anyone wants to come on the “field tests”, there are always openings for “lab assistants”.

Thanks for the congratulatory shout out from striking writer Nora Zuckerman (Deerfield '94, USC Film School '98), who checked in from the picket line in front of the Fox lot. The CHIMP.net stands with my writing brethren and sistren (?) on the strike. If you like The Office (UK '02, USA 'current), you will love this.

Perez Hilton's Backfat Close Up

TheCHIMP.net nearly got sweat sprayed by Perez Hilton's backfat at a red carpet event last week. I got drawn into Perez's orbit (Star Magazine grunt '04). Here's what I learned:

• Mostpopular person in the 800 person room. Current TV stars, household name rockstars, and tabloid faces - all ignored. The guy did not a get a break from a steady flow of dude-bros wanting to talk in his ear, girlfriends wanting sandwich photos, and industry types passing business cards. He had to keep waddling to avoid being tied down.
  

• Guy has absolutely no leg to stand on for stuff like this or that.

Did you Know? Mario Lavandeira's search for the spotlight, before he was Perez, was a 2001 VH1 show "Flab to Fab", a weight loss makeover show. From the look of this VH1 photo, he was skinnier before that show than now! (ed. note: Logging off internet now to go work out)