I'd love to see how
Paula Abdul's publicist, Jeff Ballard, travels because those mighty steel balls he appears to be carrying around with him must set off metal detectors left right and centre. He angrily insists that the former dancer and singer was
NOT drunk when
she slurred her way through '
American Idol' forgetting how many songs had been sung and by whom.
Now here's a man who is earning his money today, and he's up for a fight, safe in the knowledge that Paula doesn't drink. No she doesn't. Certainly not.
"Set the record straight... Paula was NOT drunk yesterday, she did not have a martini yesterday at lunch. It was a sparkling water with lime... she DOES NOT drink!"
All a bit reminiscent of Comical Ali and his protestations of invincibility in the Gulf War when grinning US troops could be seen behind him, waving at the cameras.
One slight problem for Jeff Ballard though – if Paula wasn't drunk then what caused her to be in that state? She's got some problems if she wasn't.
Here's the clip again if you missed it.