The Oscars: Sir Elton John’s Goodie Bag’s GONE!
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 at 8:24 pm by Sean Borg
Sir Elton John and David Furnish hosted their annual extravagant Oscar party with a glittering guest list of Brit’ stars who turned up in their finery, including Kate Beckinsale, Zeta Graff, Simon Cowell, Terri Seymour, Gordon Ramsay, Katie Price, Victoria Beckham, oh and me…
Elton’s bashes have become legendary over the years, and this one was no exception, as he arrived at the soirée, Sir Elton said there was “no way” he worried about paring down the party in light of global economic woes. He told reporters, “We give them the best that they can possibly afford.” And yes, the tickets for this lavish ‘do’ are a little bit on the pricey side at $3,500-dollars (that’s £2,400) but there were no visible signs of the credit crunch attacking this fancy fund-raiser held at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, well apart from not having the usual ‘packed to the brim’ goodie bag to take home at end of the night that is, but all in all spirits were high and this 2009 Oscars celebration was as chic and as star-studded as always.
While they watched the televised Oscars ceremony guests enjoyed a cocktail reception and a five-course dinner prepared by Los Angeles chef Wayne Elias, which kicked off with a seasonal salad with smoked scamorza, pomegranate reduction and tarragon vinaigrette. Fiery chef, Gordon Ramsay when asked if he would be checking out the food, Ramsay joked: “You really don’t come here to eat, do you.”
Out of all the stars in attendance I was particularly happy to see model Katie Price, aka Jordan with her ‘hot’ pop star husband Peter Andre in tow, the sexy star appeared looking gorgeous wearing in a long, black Lloyd Klein gown and completely upstaging her nemisis, the pathetically skinny and miserable faced Victoria Beckham.
I spotted the (in my opinion) talentless ‘former’ Spice Girl running around with her ‘lap dog’ minder and I couldn’t resist asking him why his boss needed a security guard at an event such as this, it was a charity do after all and not open to general public, full of respectable people most of which have more money [and class] than Victoria Beckham. Yet there she was swanning around like she was Hollywood royalty with her ‘pug’ nose in air ignoring all reporters – did she even know what this event actually stood for? I wonder! At one point I was so tempted to say “Honey just drop the act and be nice it doesn’t take much!”, but I didn’t and besides I was enjoying Jordan and Peter’s company way too much to be ‘bothered with Beckham’, Jordan and Peter are a much more fun and down to earth couple who I think totally deserve a break in Hollywood and something tells me it could well be on its way.
Simon Cowell’s ex-girlfried, the very tasty Terri Seymour and actress Zeta Graff were deciding whether or not to spend their millions at the auction on two tickets to the Vanity Fair party later that night, the exotic beauties have become best chums of late, or so I’m told and have been spotted out on the town at quite a few parties during Oscar week, I even caught Simon’s suspicious eye scanning the room a few times, wondering where Terri was at, perhaps? Thankfully however, the girls were outbid by a more eager guest, so they didn’t get to waste their hard earned cash on a couple of silly party tickets, I mean, they were already at the best one, how much more could those girls want!
Well I am sure we all agree that Elton John certainly knows how to throw a party, this being my FIFTH ‘EJAF’ event and one in particular that raises awareness for a cause very close to my heart, which is why I like this one more than all the others and I have to say [for me] it was the best I had attended so far.
Elton told me he hoped this year’s would be as successful. He said: “We need that money because we have to give it to people who desperately need it.”
I’m told last year this event raised a record 5.1 million dollars (£3.5 million) and this year wasn’t far behind as David Furnish tells his friends on FACEBOOK he is “absolutely over the moon that we managed to raise $4 million last night!!”.
Well, this event had a fantastic energy so I’m not surprised they did so well, everywhere you looked there was a smile on someone’s face – maybe it had something with Hugh Jackman’s remarkable presentaion at the Oscars or that Sean Penn had won in the ‘Best Actor’ catagory for MILK, but whatever it was this felt like it was somewhere you just wanted to be, even though I was looking forward to the goodie bag and my Elton John candle the end – but then you can’t have everything I suppose, can ya’ loves!
