When Larry Met Kathy

(Originally posted 7/10/06)

Just a shout-out to my fellow Kathy Griffin "gays" (and non-gays, too!), the Larry King interview that was set to air last week is being showing this evening... Monday, July 10th (check your local listings/airs multiple times).  CNN pre-empted that show after some rogue nation in southeast Asia decided to fire off some missiles. Go figure?!?

If you haven't heard, in this interview, Griffin accuses her ex(?)-hubby Matt of... to borrow one of Kathy's favorite words... allegedly... stealing $72,000 from her.

Now, okay... I have to admit I am confused as the next gay about this one.  Last October, we saw Kathy live shortly after the "divorce" news broke... she seemed sincerely bummed about the whole thing.  Fast-forward to Season 2 of the D-List and the two appear happy and "reconciled"... now comes word, via this Larry King Live interview, that they were allegedly divorced in May and Matt allegedly just showed up at the house before Bravo camera crews arrived for filming.

But then I got thinking... a) this is reality television and b) this is Kathy Griffin.  So a) reality television is never "real" and, for the most part, totally manufactured and edited for entertainment purposes... and b) Kathy has basically told (or shown us) us time and time again she'll do anything to get attention/media coverage.  So I'll take any futher "developments" in this story with the proverbial grain of salt... and landing a full-hour on the nation's leading "news" channel is certain a coup for Griffin.   

So we'll see how it all shakes out this evening... if warranted, look for an update to this post or a whole new post tomorrow.  I am just looking forward to Kath making Larry chuckle very uncomfortably with her dissing of the A-List celebs that Larry so covets... and hopefully there'll be more on one of Griffin's favorite targets, Star Jones, and her recent appearance on LKL.

UPDATE (7/11/06):  Ok, I really don't know what to believe after watching the show.  Kath didn't appear terribly comfortable talking about herself or the break-up... and it was my least favorite part of the interview.  To add to the rumor mill (get out your salt-shaker, this comes via the Star), our local newspaper reports this morning that Griffin expected Matt to pay half of the household expenses and, with his inability to do that via his computer business, that was the reason he "stole" the money. 

So who the heck knows. I, for one, honestly do not care.  I would have been satisfied with a "we tried, but it's just didn't work out" ...  it is easy to be cynical speculate about motivation (I stand by what I said above).  The rest of the interview was classic Kathy and hilarious... so let's just get back to dissin' celebs and life on the D-list, even it's as a single woman.

If you can't get enough of this story... there is plenty more blogger chatter:

Larry King Live - Interview Transcript

kenneth in the (212): Kathy Griffin: D-List Confessional

towleroad: Kathy Griffin and "The Gays" on Larry King Live

The Malcontent: Life on the Divorced List (includes video highlights)

Comments

[Kenny]

Could you help me. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
I am from Palestinian and also now teach English, give true I wrote the following sentence: "I got married a few weeks ago, all was ok to start with but I had to keep going away to earn money."

THX :o, Kenny.