As an aspiring singer, SmackDown Diva Maria Kanellis no doubt looked up to Grammy-award winning singer, Cyndi Lauper — that is until she met her. Kanellis, who will co-star with Lauper on The Celebrity Apprentice, told an Arizona radio station that Lauper was ‘mean’ according to the Wrestling Globe Newsletter:
“It was more like, girls just wanna be mean, than girls just wanna have fun… I still like [Cyndi], I just don’t want to work with her again… EVER!”
Excuse me while I get the obvious pun out of the way: I guess Maria can see Cyndi’s true colours shining through.
The Celebrity Apprentice begins on March 16th on NBC.
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February 9, 2010 at 2:15 pm
yeah sometimes meeting your fave celebs isn’t all its cracked up to be, especially if they turn out to be a douche bag
good of her to have the guts to say it
February 9, 2010 at 2:51 pm
The problem with celebrities is that some of them start acting like their superior just because of their fame. However Cyndi probably wondered who the hell was Maria, so maybe that’s why she wasn’t so nice.
Anyways, this might be an tactic to promote the show. I just think that even if Cyndi was the baddest person she ever met, Maria shouldn’t say things like this. Its not wise. It might have bad consequences on her career, even though she has honest and I fancy people with guts to saying the truth.
February 9, 2010 at 5:15 pm
That’s gotta be a hurtful feeling to meet someone you admire and it turn out to be a bad experience. I hope Maria is someone who is nice to her fans. And I would hope that the few celebrities I do have an interest in are nice in real life, but who knows?
February 9, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Forgot to say that I’ve never understood why people get snotty when they’re famous. Just because more people know them doesn’t mean they’re better than anyone else, especially in this age of the reality star.
February 9, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Just like went I met Chyna she was a real bitch to me
February 9, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Maria is one of the NICEST PEOPLE YOU WILL EVER MEET, if she’s saying this it must be true. My cousin actually met Maria at a WWE autograph signing once and he said she was so sweet and nice that she let the handicaped children get their autographs first and she was taking like 50 pictures with them each
February 9, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Some snobby Celebs are just plain Nuts and don’t have single sane rational thought in their head or extremely arrogant.
February 9, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Maybe Maria is just bitter that Cyndi actually has talent. I would be “mean” too if I had to work with someone who dresses like a muppet in the red light district.
Sorry, but Cyndi is one of my favorite artists of all time.
February 9, 2010 at 6:30 pm
The most snobby WWE guy (at least when they came here to Portugal) was Batista. I wasn’t there, but they show footage of the autograph session on TV and he looked rather bored, like he didn’t even wan’t to be there. I don’t know if he is like this in the USA, or if he was like that because Portugal is a small country, but it was a big slap in the face to some fans of him, that I know.
Most of the Divas were nice to the crowd, and people like Mysterio and Cena, who know how to work with the fans, were also great.
Its a fact that female wrestlers are more nice to the fans, you know. They aren’t arrogant and even if they don’t want to be there, they know how to don’t show that.
February 9, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Ive heard all about him and Rick Flair who I’m not sure mumbled:Stupid Son of a B**** when I met him and I didn’t say really anything I just told him my name after he asked and then I asked if I could take a picture with him which half the fans did the exact same thing.
February 9, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Maybe she’s seen her wrestle before.
February 9, 2010 at 6:56 pm
Maybe he said that because you’re a guy. I was told that the few times Batista was a little nice (btw nice = little casanova smile) was when good looking girls talked to him xD.
February 9, 2010 at 7:36 pm
As some said above, some celebrities believe they are superiors when they aren’t. I’m not surprised Maria had the guts to say it.
February 9, 2010 at 8:14 pm
some of them are actually more mestup upstairs than what the paparazzi shows Like Britney spears I really don’t think I wanna know what goes on in her head.
February 9, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Well,she might just be talking about Cyndi in reference to the show.
February 10, 2010 at 3:57 am
Given Cyndi’s had past experience with WW(F)E, one might think she would be more inclined to be nice. Maybe it was in the context of the show; also, we don’t know the fullness of what happened.
Yeah, I wonder about Batista (and w/the women thing – looking for a new prospect, maybe
). Probably that’s why they worked it into a storyline. Never forget the fans; they pay for all the bling the celebrities enjoy. At least Maria said it as civilly as she could.
February 10, 2010 at 4:37 am
I really think this whole thing might be a ‘work’ for the upcoming ‘The Apprentice’. While filming the program, both Cyndi and Sharon Osbourne went on ‘The Howard Stern Show’ to do some promotion on it. Cyndi seemed to have nothing bad to say about Maria. She even called her ‘one of the most beautiful women in the world’. In the same interview Cyndi even started to tear up at the story of how deeply moved Sharon and her husband Ozzy were to watch their daughter dance on ‘Dancing With The Stars’. That doesn’t sound like a very mean person to me! Who knows…
February 10, 2010 at 5:45 pm
That might be true but you got to remember they are the Osbournes of course she’s going to be nice to them the second she’s rude to them they’re probably one of the most famous families in the world they could make or break celebs if they really wanted too so that really proves nothing.
February 11, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Cyndi Lauper was a complete asshole when I saw her during the 1990′s when she was performing at a small place called The Chestnut Club, in West Philaelphia. (Guitarist was the gal who has been playing with Letterman’s band.) A fan was waiting forever for her with a bouquet of flowers outside. When she arrived before the concert, the young female fan tried to hand her the flowers, and Lauper looked at her with boredom and disgust. It was not crowded at all, and Cyndi came in slowly and leisurely. She had time to acknowledge this fan and did not. It was a bit of a turn-off. She could have at least just smiled at the fan.