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‘Irresponsible’ photo op?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta attorney Phaedra C. Parks came out swinging Thursday after Tmz.com published a camera-phone image of her client Bobby Brown and ex-wife Whitney Houston taken Tuesday night at Joe’s Crab Shack in Alpharetta and hinted that the pair was high. Tmz.com also sent out a news alert to e-mail subscribers with the headline: “Whitney and Bobby: Livin’ the High Life Again.”
“It’s incredibly irresponsible of Tmz.com to take cheap potshots at people who have experienced problems in their past,” Parks told us. “My phone has been ringing all day. Bobby asked me, ‘What are they saying?’ I had to tell him, ‘They’re saying you were high.’ ‘He replied, ‘Oh my God, that’s terrible.’ “
Parks says that the parents of Bobbi Kristina are in town this week to help their daughter enter high school here.
“They are both sober and they’re both trying to have positive careers,” Parks said. “This is extremely unfair to both of them. She’s a mother. He’s a father. And they’re here trying to be good parents. It was just an easy thing for Tmz to tag them with.”
Brown told Parks that while they were eating at the Haynes Bridge Road restaurant, another patron approached them with a camera phone and started snapping images.
When contacted by Buzz on Thursday, a manager at Joe’s Crab Shack told us that Houston and Brown were cordial and friendly during their visit and that no one working the shift reported either pop star as being impaired.
While the singers maintain ties to Atlanta, the couple’s former residence at Country Club of the South was sold in May for $1.1 million.
Luxury lifestyle launches online
As Tonya Ellerby readies today’s launch of Cliqueatlanta.com, her Atlanta social scene Web site, the businesswoman has assembled quite the advisory board of bold-face names to assist her. The former PaperCity magazine senior account manager has asked Material World creative director Kevin Knaus, A Legendary Event president Tony Conway, Four Seasons Hotel public relations director Marsha Middleton, Aida & Company owner Aida Flamm, charitable fund-raiser Angela Karatassos, Blue Med Spa owner John Stupka and other notable Atlantans to serve on the board. We’re told that the Web site aims to be “Atlanta’s only online social and luxury lifestyle magazine (think Town & Country meets New York Social Diary).” And unlike those slick glossies stacking up on coffee tables throughout the city, Cliqueatlanta can report on and post photos from social functions in mere hours. Or as the site’s tagline assures: “Instant Social Gratification.”
Quote of the day
“I mean, [divorce is] really, really hard. And for both Chris and me, our main focus is, and was [the couple’s 3-year-old son] Ryder. … I love Chris to pieces. … We still talk every day. He still cracks me up. And Ryder feels that.” — Actress Kate Hudson on her ex-husband and former Atlantan, Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson, in Harper’s Bazaar
Celebrity birthdays
Singer Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes is 64. Singer-flutist Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull is 60. Actor Antonio Banderas is 47. Actress Angie Harmon (“Law & Order”) is 35.
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