Rosie O’Donnell’s ‘Screaming Match’ With Wife Destined To Leak
Julia Allison caught some flack for tweeting yesterday about Rosie O’Donnell’s “knock-down drag out” fight with her wife Kelli, but O’Donnell probably didn’t expect to keep the incident secret. She’s neighbours with Allison, after all.
Allison, an internet protocelebrity whose haters watch her as closely as her fans, has written publicly about sharing an apartment building with O’Donnell before, including this tweet about Rosie leaving her door open, which we picked up. The bit of trivia has also popped up in the comments sections of various blogs and newspapers.
And Allison is notoriously chatty about her neighbours’ business. In one instance she posted to the Web a complaint about the sex moans coming from next door.
Still, she seems to regret Wednesday’s Twitter post about the fight, which she has since deleted:
Then again, with Allison it’s hard to know where sincerity ends and the posing begins. After recently losing hold of both a Bravo reality show and one of two partners at her NonSociety “lifestreaming” startup, Allison publicly stroked the thighs of Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler before leaving a nightclub with him. After someone leaked word of the encounter to Page Six, Allison’s Google fame shot through the roof.
So Allison’s decision to call out O’Donnell by her full name could well have been more strategic than impulsive. Another round in the tabloids means more of the attention Allison craves — and increasingly banks on.
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After Hedda Hopper tried to rat out Spencer Tracy, he ran into her in a resturant and kicked her in the butt. Fair warning.
belltolls
Wait, Julia Allison lives next to Rosie O'Donnell? Doesn't Rosie live in some really exclusive UWS building with an insane board and the whole nine yards? How does JA afford this?
Ok Owen, but what about the FB fan boost she created over the past few days? Evidently she converted her unknown friend requests to "fans". She now has more than 2,500 "fans".
I guess whoever sent the request asked for it, but do marketing depts know that?
Beckysharpstick
@Beckysharpstick: I think if you put in a friend request for a celebrity, you should definitely be o.k. with being changed to fan status. I've only put in one friend request to a celebrity(Carla from Top Chef, a.k.a Hootie!). She accepted, which pretty much made my day during the last season of the show.
mfnher
Rosie is famous for starting brawls in dyke bars, a two-fisted drinker, she.
dell123
Rosie looks like my alcoholic cousin Matthew. No shit. Full on doppelganger style.
stanhalen
@Almostbanned [jezebel took away my star]: She used to have a cushy gig at Star and a column in Time Out. Plus her apartment is super tiny.
lesbians brawling? never.
The Boulevard of Broken Queens
Here's the exact conversation Ryan & I had before he posted this:
Ryan: You wrote something about Rosie?
Me: Yeah but I shouldn't have. It was an invasion of her privacy. Misjudgment on my part.
Julia Allison
Allison has a history of the TMI post, followed by fauxgret. Remember her pronouncement about then-boyfriend Jakob Lodwick? (I actually don't and am too disinterested to research it.)
I'm proud to say that I have never deleted one blog posting, ever. Even the truly insipid crap.
Do the conferences that hire her to speak about being tech-savvy know she doesn't understand the basics of not being able to truly delete something from the internet (especially on twitter/tumblr, which live on reblogs)
dotcomdotnet
@momo: remember when she posted JL's bipolar on her tumblr, deleted it when someone called her out on it, then brought it up the next day in Gawker livechat?
fauxgret not once, but twice!
dotcomdotnet
Another reason not to have a twitter account. I'd be tweeting all day long about the cigarette smoke from my shut-in downstairs neighbor wafting up into my apartment all. day. long. Which would only be interesting if it were Katherine Heigl living below me I suppose.
cmd
"Then again, with Allison it's hard to know where sincerity ends and the posing begins "
The Boulevard of Broken Queens
@Julia Allison: Not sorry enough to admit this on twitter?
@vanka-vstanka: I'm pretty sure she never made more than $150k at either of those. Which isn't a lot at all for NYC.
@mfnher: she's. not. a. celebrity. (And neither is anyone who was on Top Chef, but whatever, that's pretty benign compared with anything to do with Julia Allison.)
@dotcomdotnet: Dude, that was a year and a half ago.
Julia Allison
@RoosiDesi:
Not sorry at all, apparently. "Misjudgment" does not an apology make.
Ugh, ugh, ugh. I hope she's ashamed of herself.
harperpitt
@[gawker.com]
@Julia Allison: Yeah. That totally means that it didn't happen.
@harperpitt: That's misjudgment on my part then. I wish I could delete my previous comment.
@Julia Allison: And thus it never happened!
It must be nice to have short term memory so you don't have to remember when you've hurt other people.
i feel the responses to this post are really understated considering the magnitude of what we've just learned. rosie o'donnel and julia allison live next door to each other!?!
this is such a dream on so many levels. especially since rosie has one of the original crazy blogs of the interweb.
i really hope these ridiculous folk get in some kind of feud, kiss n' make up, and then collaborate on a web-only sequel to rosie's totally ridiculous, uber-offensive and delusional tour de force (i own it) known as RIDING THE BUS WITH MY SISTER.
yupisaidit
If I were Julia I wouldn't worry so much about her post being an invasion of privacy as I would about a chubby lesbian fist to the face.
gladys_kravitz
Calling NonSociety a "startup" is like Google still saying Gmail's in beta.
@Ryan Tate: LIFECASTING, not LIFESTREAMING, Ryan. Life is more than just a stream.
People who are actually getting laid do not complain about other people getting laid. They either laugh about it or ignore it.
Julia, what are you saving it for, a rainy day?
@gladys_kravitz: Methinks Julia will be closing the door to the hallway very quietly for a while. She'd snap Julia in two.
@BookishLookish: Or make it a competition. "I heard that, upstairs neighbor people, now it's our turn. Nice try, but that music isn't drown it out."
@Almostbanned [jezebel took away my star]: I noticed the careful use of "neighbor" and not "next door neighbor" - I live in an apt. building w/ a celebrity: the celeb has, I'm assuming, a huge place; mine, on the other hand, is a studio. Sounds impressive; is not.
once
@Julia Allison: A year and a half ago. Yet you haven't learned from your tactless mistakes.
Julia Allison is the Queen of Fauxgretty Blog Deletions.
That way, she gets to have her (cup)cake and eat it, too!
UnintendedConsequences
@BookishLookish: (Resists urge to refer to Smails in this post.)
@Aaron Altman: lol
Why is it even relevant that it was "a year and a half ago?" What kind of logic is that? What a weirdo.
@Aaron Altman: Boo hoo, where is the good judge? Did they really ban him. This is unjust!
How long until the Julia Allison/Arthur Kade relationship begins?
ohgee
@BookishLookish: Banned for calling Megan McCain fat, or something similar.
@CaptainFantastic: Body-snark terror creep from Jez to Gawker? What gives, people?
@CaptainFantastic: Gasp, when did that happen?
Eve Ensler used to live in my building and she never once asked me about my vagina.
18PercentGrey
@The Boulevard of Broken Queens: Ha! That's pretty much what I was thinking. I can't believe that long-time married women yell at each other. I never would have believed it if JA hadn't said it was happening....
Jinx
After doing or saying something that I immediately after realize is mean-spirited, cruel or thoughtless, I worry that it means I'm not a good person. I feel knots in my stomach, apologize profusely to those I believe I've hurt and generally let my Catholic guilt eat away at me.
And while there's no sliding scale of goodness, in those anxiety ridden moments, I realize it could always be worse.
PrincessKashmir
@Almostbanned [jezebel took away my star]: I can guarantee you she didn't make 150k for mailing in her weekly columns to TONY.
bittergreen
@Julia Allison: Nobody here likes you.
@Julia Allison: You know, I barely know who you are (I'm relatively new here, having spent most of my time at Deadspin), but, uhm, that probably wasn't the smartest thing to say.
@Mary Mouse: Maybe not anymore, but she was during the time the show was on the air. You could hear people shouting Hootie Hoo all over the place.
mfnher
@dell123: er, "amy." Although "amy" might work too.
dell123
@gladys_kravitz: I've suffered one of those, and am still seeing stars. Straight or gay, don't always believe a "new friend" who tells you she does not have a significant other. She well amy.
dell123
Now I'm supposed to bleed for one of the biggest ( oops ) self-promoters in recent memory? This is getting painful to even glimpse ...
moraliste
Oh god. Sorry about that weird, barely English post. I'm exhausted tonight. I'll do better next time.
squeakel
Huh. I've actually wondered what Rosie's relationship with Kelly because Rosie just seems like the classic scary raging spouse. You can't rage at the world and not have it spill over into your relationship.
squeakel