If you've watched "Entertainment Tonight" this week, chances are you heard about Oprah Winfrey's disasterous shopping trip in Paris. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I'll give you a quick recap. Oprah was denied entry into Hermes in Paris. She tried to get into the exclusive boutique but they refused to let her in because she store had been "having trouble with North Africans lately." Can you say "racial profiling", folks? The ACLU would have a field day with that one.
Oprah didn't have her hair styled, so she probably didn't really look like her usual powerful self. So I'm assuming that the store workers had no clue they had just turned away what Forbes magazine says is the richest and most powerful celebrity in the world. Granted, Oprah and her entourage should have gone to the store during its business hours; they went to the store fifteen minutes after it had closed. But that is no excuse for what the store workers told Oprah.
I think it's a safe bet that Oprah won't be buying any Hermes items from now on. A few months ago, she bought a dozen or so Hermes bags, just like the one that Martha Stewart carried during her trial. A spokesperson for Oprah said that after this incident, she cancelled all orders she had placed with Hermes. And I don't think she'll be raving about Hermes on her "Favorite Things" episode, either. If I were her, I'd get in touch with MGM and make sure they edit out any references to a Hermes scarf in "Basic Instinct 2", coming to theaters later this year. If you'll remember, in the original "Basic Instinct" Sharon Stone's character used a white Hermes scarf to tie one of her alleged victims to the bed post.
What Oprah really needs to do is simply buy the Hermes company. Just because she can.
2 comments:
Oprah shouldn't have been spending her hard earned American dollars in a country that is so anti American!!!!
Amen brother or sister!!!................boy the media is up and running with this one isn't it?
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