AB - River Cree (CASINO) Resort “Fatigued Carmen snubs casino”
Fatigued Carmen snubs casino
By GRAHAM HICKS
Sun, June 3, 2007, Edmonton Sun
TEMPERAMENTAL CELEBRITIES
Not too pleased with Carmen Electra is the Touch Ultra-Lounge and River Cree Resort.
In town for the filming of Christmas In Wonderland, Carmen was contractually obligated to show up Friday night at the soft opening of the new Touch Ultra-Lounge in the resort and casino.
Carmen never showed up. Media photographers and fans hung around until almost 2 a.m. before giving up on her.
The River Cree people were furious, given it was a promotional appearance she had been paid for, quite independent of the film.
So mad that they talked Friday night of punishing the entire film cast for Electra’s transgressions by kicking them out of the River Cree Marriott before filming ends by mid-week. (Cooler heads did prevail.)
Nobody on the film side was commenting, given that Carmen’s deal was independent of the film.
But her excuse, apparently, was that she was too tired after filming late into the evening. Poor baby.
WHO NEEDS ELECTRA?
To heck with Carmen, says new club operator Allen Ladd, in from Las Vegas to make the former Mystic Ultra-Lounge into the far more happening, see-and-be-seen Touch Ultra-Lounge.
“When we have our grand opening, we’ll have people far more famous than Carmen Electra,” he promises.
Ladd expects to have (not fully confirmed yet) socialite Kim Kardashian and Aubrey O’Day (of the band Danity Kane and Making The Band TV show fame) showing up this coming Friday. And there’s talk of Timbaland coming by after a concert in the by-then open River Cree Auditorium on Aug. 5.
