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Okay, it was bound to happen sooner or later. The daggers have been unsheathed, gallon mugs of Hater-ade are being dispensed, and celebrity parasites looking for fresh blood to feast on are drooling on their keyboards. Glamberts around the world are LIVID, because their beautiful dark-haired chameleon superstar prince from Planet Fierce, otherwise named Adam Lambert, is the unfortunate victim.
It started with one celebrity hack named Courtney Hazlett (previously made famous when she referred to Spike Lee as "uppity"), who unfortunately writes for MSNBC (heretoforth to be referred to as BSNBC). Quoting unnamed "sources", she claims that American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert has been rude to everyone from the fans to the lighting guys, on his recent press junket in New York. The internet being what is, with so many pseudo-journalistic sites that make no pretense of following the basic rules that real journalists learned way back in Journalism 101, that story has been re-gurgitated ad nauseum, sometimes verbatim, sometimes with minor embellishments, but all with zero attempt to track down the truth.
Of course, there's a 0.00001% chance that it's remotely true but that's highly unlikely, dear readers. And here's why:
When performing on American Idol, Lambert was the only one among all the contestants who consistently acknowledged the contributions of the musicians. He didn't have to, no one would have noticed if he didn't, but he did. That is not a diva act, correct me if I'm wrong.
Plus, in this age of ubiquitious video-recorders, from the phone camera-toting public to roving TMZ papparazzi, you cannot find one millisecond of an instance when Lambert was anything but gracious, polite and friendly. And this is despite the fact that the boy has been accosted to an inch of his life. The only times he has shown any indication that he isn't shy of fighting back when attacked were when (a) he nicely invited Clay Aiken to ride his coattails during that "bleeding ears" incident, (b) invited us to listen to Gene Simmons' singing (after Simmons said Lambert doesn't have a "rock" voice), and (c) smilingly said "Wow, these yearbook photographers are intense!" when he was hounded outside a nightclub. Meowrr, the cat sure can claw back and good for him. I do suspect that the last incident may be the seed for this growing hostility, because although the papparazzi know deep inside (and are probably proud of the fact) that they are scum-licking bottom-dwellers, God forbid you call them (gasp) "yearbook photographers".
I watched the live Today show appearance he made with Kris Allen, when cameras where consistently following them around for what seemed like five hours. They had to wake up really early, Lambert was looking slightly puffy from exhaustion, his black nailpolish was picked to shreds from anxiety, but both Lambert and Allen were exceedingly accomodating with the fans. They signed autographs, gave out hugs, posed for photos, shook a large number of eager (possibly germy) hands, gamely sang those damned songs for the umpteenth time - and throughout, they were smiling, slightly overwhelmed, but grateful to be there. AND neither jumped up to choke Kathie Lee Gifford who was at her hyper-annoying best that morning. Restraint at a superhuman level, if you asked me.
There are also countless videos and accounts of Lambert visiting the offices of various New York news outlets and being exceedingly friendly to everyone. Makes you wonder, who exactly are these supposed sources, who (if they exist outside of Hazlett's mind), must have been at one of these places? Did Lambert unknowingly miss shaking someone's extended hand, was someone mishandled by one of the organizers... what happened? Then again, maybe nothing happened. My own "sources" said that Ms. Hazlett (snubbed during the New York junket) and Clay Aiken (still bleeding from the ears) plotted this whole thing while polishing off a bottle of cheap merlot together. But I wouldn't believe me if I were you, because like Ms. Hazlett's sources, mine are all unnamed. And just like Ms. Hazlett, I'm not a real journalist.
In conclusion, if the definition of "diva" is a person who is well-mannered, original, generous, confident, interesting, handsome, gracious, exuberant, and stupendously talented, then yes - Adam Lambert is a diva.