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...second stop on Liza Minnelli and David Gest's world tour to explain why VH1 canceled their reality show after the first week of taping--and to try to sell that same concept to another channel. I am happy to be an audience member. It's a really good show...
...kind of insulting. Their next stops were Larry King and Entertainment Tonight, which didn't make me feel much better. Basically, the highlight of the traveling show is the two of them telling this story about how Rob Weiss, VH1's vice president of East Coast programming, kept poking Gest while Minnelli was singing at a dinner party in their apartment, demanding that Gest get some younger guests to perform. It cannot be underestimated how rude they found this. I began to understand when they made me walk to the exact place in the apartment where this took place...
...Weiss was ruder than rude to my wife," says Gest, post poking. "Forty people watched in horror. Who leaves their cell phone on? He looks at the message, doesn't turn it off. It rings again. He checks the message...
...fifth time he said, 'If you don't put Kelly Rowland and Michelle Branch on, we're canceling the show.'" Gest is doing a voice to imitate Weiss...
...part, stands behind Weiss and says it canceled because of "uncooperation and lack of access." Gest and Minnelli's main complaint, besides all the camera equipment in their apartment, and of course the poking, was that VH1 wasn't as interested in their friends and parties as they think the network should have been. "They didn't want to do our reality," he said, as she nodded. "If we were going to do something that's not us, it would look weird." I thought about that last sentence a long time before it made sense...