Name dropping tends to be crass at the best of times but when you’re an A list Hollywood megastar it should, in anyone's opinion, be considered a criminal offence.
Jamie Foxx, the man who has pushed the envelope of musical sodomy further even than Aqua, The Vengaboys and Posh Spice put together has, yet again, been sullying the good name of celebrity by bragging about all the exciting hard-core fun he’s been having with his Hollywood chums.
In an interview with Jayne Middlemiss on ITV1’s Orange Playlist, Jamie Foxx regaled us with the tale of how Whitney Houston sang I Will Always Love You to him and a brigade of Hollywood halfwits who were round his place for a karaoke night:
"The highlight though was when I came back in to the main room I heard someone on the mic saying 'I don't do this for everyone you know' and it's Whitney, she's taken the mic and just starts singing 'I Will Always Love You'. Everyone just went crazy, all the stars were holding their phones out recording it, cause it was so amazing."
Other guests included Bobby Brown, the Backstreet Boys and Justin Timberlake. Over the course of the interview, Jamie managed to cram in a few more names while offering advice about budget celebrity catering:
"It doesn't matter how much you spent putting the party on. I remember one of my parties where Puff Daddy came in and I said welcome to my party. All I had out were these little Styrofoam cups with coca-cola in them but at that party was Jay Z, Mia, Missy Elliot, loads of people."
Personally we're mortified. We like to imagine that behind closed doors celebrities are downing magnums of over-priced champagne, inhaling dustbin-loads of white powder through $1,000 bills and conducting dangerous and exciting sexual experiments with 9 volt batteries and the house boy – you know – like super stars are supposed to.
But singing karaoke and drinking Coca-Cola barely passes for entertainment at the birthday party of an eight-year-old girl – and we should know. The next thing we know, The Sun will be carrying a picture of 50 Cent braiding Snoop Dogg's hair in some sort of French Plat Shocker. It’s sick and it’s wrong and it’s got to be stopped, after all, what do we pay our taxes for?
If hecklerspray was an international superstar – and trust us, we're not, we would be very wary of Mr Jamie Foxx. For starters he is about as rock ‘n’ roll as Miss Marple – he forces his guests to sing karaoke whilst enduring the company of the Backstreet Boys and afterwards he tells the world all about it on obscure and pointless TV shows. Heed our warning – if something is not done soon the world will become a darker place.
Right we're off for a game of Monopoly with Richard Hammond… cheers!
Read more:
Whitney Gives Foxx Exclusive Performance – DigitalSpy
[story by Ian Grose]