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Now We Ain’t Sayin’ Ben Cousins Is A Golddigger…

1:23PM Clem Bastow | One would think that, in this notoriety-disguised-as-genuine-fame days we live in, Ben Cousins would be high at the top of any PR lackey’s guest list. After all, if Corey can get an agent and public appearance royalties, surely Mr ‘Such Is Life’ could at least expect a few free drinks and a goodie bag? Well, it appears we may have the freebie industry all wrong, as Cousins only made it into MTV Australia’s Good Vibrations/Kanye West afterparty thanks to the gift of his gab. Management from the music channel MTV – the key media sponsors of the festival – were stunned when the notorious party boy talked his way past security manning the entry and into the exclusive, invitation-only party in the VIP tent. While celebs and rockers including Erika Heynatz, Alex Dimitriades, Cypress Hill and N’fa mingled in the VIP party, Cousins kept a low profile after crashing the event with a mate around 4pm. “He was never invited to our party but obviously used his name to get in,” an MTV spokeswoman said yesterday. “It created a real buzz in the room because he’s such a well-known party boy – everyone was saying ‘did you see Ben Cousins?”‘ Now, correct us if we’re wrong, but if MTV could appreciate the “buzz” Cousins caused once he entered the party, they would’ve thought to invite him in the first place? Or maybe this is ALL just some sort of elaborate, Matrix-esque effort to make us think that the world of guest lists and PR and “don’t you know who I am” still exists and that fame is actually discerning, when we know that the reality is that any nonentity who shows their boobs on Big Brother can be the subject of an ‘In Depth’ profiling just years later. More »