Add a Real Housewife of Orange County to the list of people unimpressed by Miss California Carrie Prejean’s antigay rhetoric.
“I have a lot of dear friends within the community, and I think they’re wonderful, great people,” Gretchen Rossi told us Friday at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s gala benefiting its women's services. “They’re the most talented, friendly, outgoing friends to have, so I think everybody should be OK with everybody having the same rights.”
Rossi, of course, wasn’t the only person at the event who had something to say about the beauty pageant queen’s stance on gay marriage...
“That whore!” hissed new Young and the Restless star Clementine Ford, who came out as gay earlier this year. “I mean, I think everyone is entitled to their own opinion, whether or not it goes against what I believe or not. But I think if you want to be [Miss USA], don’t be such a d--k.”
Ford’s mom, Cybill Shepherd, who was crowned Miss Teenage Memphis in 1966 when she was 16, added, “I think her stupidity lost her the crown.”
Candis Cayne, the transgendered New York City entertainer who was a series regular on ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money as a politico’s secret transgendered mistress, has a warning for Prejean. “Every person who does her hair and makeup or picks out her clothes, for the rest of her life, is going to be gay,” Cayne said. “You better be careful, girl.”
It’s people like Prejean that have Dita Von Teese thinking about packing her bags and relocating to Europe. “I think it’s pretty pathetic that people think that not everyone deserves to have the same rights,” the glamorama burlesque performer said. “It’s really sad, and it makes me want to move.”
As for the celebrity blogger who started it all, Perez Hilton? He said Prejean still hasn’t responded to his invitation to have coffee. “I’ve gotten a message from Carrie Prejean through the press,” he said. “I’ve heard that she is praying for me, and I thank her. And I’ve heard that she feels sorry for me. I’m not sure why, because I’m one of the happiest gays I know.”
—Additional reporting by Dahvi Shira