Be Careful What You Wish For (Gemma Crisp) by Gemma Crisp

Author:Gemma Crisp
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9781742695631
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2012-11-29T22:00:00+00:00

fourteen

‘So did you end up interviewing Nicolette Rivera the other week? If I remember correctly, you were terribly excited about it the last time we spoke.’

Nina tried to ignore the tinge of condescension in Johan’s voice on the other end of the phone. Yes, she had been excited about the phone interview for Lulu’s cover story, and who could blame her? Nicolette Rivera was the Hollywood celebrity who put the A in A-list, thanks to her famous musician father, her posse of headline-grabbing friends, and a clever stylist who guaranteed she was papped in the hottest designer pieces every time she left her palatial Hollywood Hills mansion. Throw in a wild child past, a former drug problem and a string of famous boyfriends and Nicolette had the public eating out of her Balenciaga-toting hand.

‘God, don’t ask. It was a nightmare,’ she admitted, as she walked home from the office. Immediately, Johan’s attitude morphed from bored to enthralled – he loved nothing more than hearing inside dirt on celebs.

‘Oooh, go on, tell Daddy what happened,’ he begged.

‘So our phoner was scheduled for six on a Monday morning, after I’d hounded her publicist for three weeks to lock in a time. I schlepped into the office before the sun had even come up then waited by the phone for half an hour, watching the seconds tick past, praying that her assistant hadn’t forgotten to tell her about it. Finally, my phone rang . . . but it wasn’t Nicolette.’

‘Was it her publicist?’

‘Nope. It was the assistant, calling to say that Nicolette was too busy to do the interview and asking me to email through the questions. When I told her the issue was going to print at the end of the week, she said she’d make sure Nicolette sent her replies back to me by then.’

‘Oh. So you didn’t interview her?’ Nina could sense Johan’s interest dissipating as he realised she hadn’t swapped style tips with Nicolette.

‘Well I did – kind of. I basically begged her to reschedule the phone interview because it’s always better to talk to the celeb on the phone; you can prompt them to elaborate and ask spin-off questions rather than sticking to the list of questions that’s been previously vetted by the publicist. Anyway, her assistant insisted she was too busy, even though it had been confirmed just the day before, and that the only way Nicolette would do the interview was over email. So I sent the questions off and started praying to the Celebrity Gods that she’d get back to me in time for our print deadline.’

‘And did she?’

‘Just. I’m surprised her assistant didn’t slap me with a restraining order, the amount of times I stalked her. The publicist finally sent through her answers on the morning the cover story was due at the printer.’

‘Phewf – all’s well that ends well, then?’ Johan said.

‘Sort of – out of the thirty questions I sent, guess how many Nicolette bothered to answer?’

‘Um, seventeen?’

‘I wish. Try nine. And none of her answers were what you’d call scintillating – they were no more than five words long.

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