We haven’t heard from Kirstie Alley in a while, and that’s always a good thing. She was all over the place after her second place finish on Dancing With the Stars, what with the planted rumors about her dating various 20-something Scientologist helpers and the delusional comments about her size. Well Kirstie disappeared for a while, and now she’s back and hautily marched the catwalk for Zang Toi at New York Fashion Week yesterday. Kirstie donned a full length head to toe indigo blue gown. It looked like something Dorothy on the Golden Girls would wear to a night out in Vegas. What’s this designer’s target market, rich octogenarian women?
Kaiser asked me if I thought that Kirstie gained back some of the weight she lost, and I see a little of that in these candids (below), but nothing really striking. Kirstie’s face looks much thinner to me though (see the photo here), and I would hazard a guess that she had something done to get it that way. It could just be her hair and makeup, however, and maybe she did lose more weight.
The real story here is that Kirstie asked for a chartered helicopter to bring her to a charity event for 9/11 on Long Island. She was probably just going there to shill for Scientology’s sauna, vitamins and indoctrination protocol that they used to “help” vulnerable victims after the tragedy. She wanted organizers to hire her a helicopter to get her there, on a day when airspace was necessarily restricted. That’s ridiculous! To be fair, she did show up after being driver there and acted as gracious as is possible for her:
Kirstie Alley never fails to make a dramatic entrance, but the dancing queen rubbed 9/11 memorial organizers the wrong way when she “demanded” a helicopter landing for the Long Island Remembers 10th anniversary tribute on Sunday.
Hundreds of firefighters and police officers gathered on the polo grounds at Bethpage State Park for 9/11 tribute services led by Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano.
Steve Carl, of Carlyle on the Green, offered Alley transportation to the charitable commemoration, but reps for the restaurant told Page Six they were shocked to hear her “demand” for a helicopter landing, showbiz-style, in the middle of the polo field. Alley was informed it wouldn’t be possible to charter a chopper, since it did not comply with airspace restrictions set for Sept. 11.
“She had a set of demands that she wanted met before she made the appearance,” Leslie Gonzalez, an event organizer who reps Carlyle on the Green, told us. But, “She almost canceled the appearance because she couldn’t get a helicopter.”
Another restaurant rep chimed in, “We couldn’t believe it. It’s a memorial service, not a party.”
Alley agreed to arrive by car with fellow “Dancing With the Stars” contestant Nicole Scherzinger. A spy said, “She stayed a few hours, was very friendly and even petted the horses.”
Alley’s rep told us: “Kirstie was coming from Pennsylvania that morning, and was simply exploring all options of transportation, from Amtrak to helicopter, in order to ensure she made it on time to respect those being remembered. At no point was a demand made. Also, she ended up taking an SUV, not a limo.
“Further, at no point did she consider canceling the appearance and was happy to honor the firefighters, police officers and emergency services personnel in remembrance of the 10th anniversary of 9/11.”
[From The NY Post]
At least she went to the event and didn’t cancel on the charity or anything. It’s kind of a half-diva move.
Here’s Kirstie with Jonathan Knight from NKOTB out in NY yesterday. (Thanks Lindsay!) The photo agency lists him as “boyfriend Max.” I guess the other two 20-somethings she was hanging out with decided that a billion year contract was preferable to being photographed with her.
Photo credit: WENN, Fame and Pacific Coast News
That’s not her boyfriend, that’s Jonathan from NKOTB!
If Scientology bans drugs and medications, why are their members allowed to smoke and drink?
I know they have the Scientology stain on them, but saunas and vitamins can actually be very healthy! 😉
Did she borrow that nest on her head from Stacy Keibler?
@Lindsay you’re right! I should have realized. The photo agency is seriously calling him “Max, her boyfriend.” I’ll fix it!
Forget White Oprah, we’ve found our White Andre Leon Talley!
She looks like a drag queen on the catwalk.
Lol. Okay the helicopter doesn’t interest me, but her face does. It looks good. Definitely tightened, but not overly so. Good for her!
And nice paying attention Lindsey! That totally is him, I completely missed it until I read your post.
Zang Toi designs for some of those NYC Housewives like Jill Zarin. Nuff said.
Why would anyone care about Kirstie Alley making it to a 9/11 tribute? What did she have to do with it? Who did she lose?
obviously you’re not from ny if you have no clue about the traffic going into LI. from the eastern most part of PA to bethpage can easily take over 3 hours by car. from manhattan its still over an hour and if there’s traffic you’re looking around 2 hours.
not diva for asking. she gets a pass, especially as there was no demand as stated in your headline.
she bothers me! That is all lol
If it was red…that dress would look like the one Patrick Swayze wore in Too Wong Fu.
Swayze looked better!
What’s with the ace bandage she is wearing on her head?
Am I the only one who read this article and sqeeed a little at the Golden Girls shout out? I still watch it all the time to the shame of my bf.
I am convinced she had a lap band or some such installed, cause there is no way she would keep the weight off now that she’s not dancing. Her hair color and style are ridiculous for her, she needs to go darker again and cut a lot of that straggly mess off. The worst thing about her face is that constant sneer, I guess that is from lip implants gone wrong cause her high school photo shows a much smaller upper lip.
The target market for this is clearly Disney Villainesses.
She’s a celibrity IN HER OWN MIND.
Sure, it’s not the go-to dress for every twiglet out there… but I’m not get the vileness vibe from that gorgeous dress.
Granted. I have spent a lot of summers in full wench kit and leather corsets working the Ren Faires – so I’m willing to concede my own style might be a bit odd. But beyond that… I just don’t get the hate Kirstie gets. She might get a bit odd at times, and I wish she would just love her shape as is without trying to grab numbers, but she’s a decent actress and a pretty lady. A bit oddball at times, but I don’t get the hate.
Her makeup is horrible.
they once featured a zang toi trunk show on RHONYC and you’re right, that’s EXACTLY who this designer caters to. and his clothing is awful.
NOOOOOO thanks!!
@Mamat I’ve been stuck on the LAX for 4 hours before, I guess I get it. She can’t be expected to take the train now can she?
FERGILICIOUS! LOL!!
i think she looks bloody fantastic on the catwalk! it’s amazing at her age!
Huh.
Does anyone else notice that she looks like a grown up version of the little “Toddler and Tiera” kiddo on “People”?
Love that dress!!! Also, I love her handbag in that last picture!
Still a size 3 eh, Kirsty?
she is sixty isn’t she? she looks amazigly stunning. maybe because she has some meat on her bones.:-)
I bet Jill Zarin wants to cutta b*tch.
She looks fabulous!
She has scary hands…
That first pic looks like one of those “special edition” Barbies. (More specifically Blue Fergie Barbie!)
Dorothy would never wear anything that fitted in waist and arms. The arms would have to be loose enough for her to push up somewhere between elbow and shoulder, and it would be a long, long, almost knee-length sparkle-laden or gold lame tunic (possibly with a turtleneck underneath) that would be paired with a straight skirt that was long, was not long enough to hide the bunchiest part of some slouchy grey boots. On her arm would be some wine bag-shaped purse that had recently been oversqueezed in forest death green, or something or more lame via clutch. There would probably be some big chunky silver bangles, and Sophia would make fun of her love life.
Next time I’ll be covering Maude and the reversal of faces of Vivian. And who was worse? The Italian-Ethiopian sponsor grownup who grew up in Ethiopia, but had a physiology that remembered the continent so strongly he sounded like Marcello Mastroianni (down to the, ugh, ‘mamma mia’), or Arthur’s smartass/dumbass/lameass/jackass grandson from Canada who someone didn’t know that a hamster would freeze if you put him in an unheated car trunk and drove to New York. I don’t remember what province he was from, but if his father suggested it and grandfather didn’t question, I can see the idiot doesn’t fall far the simp. And was all of that ‘I want my Hinkie’ garbage? Is he two? When he kept screeching for it, you would think one of the adults in the house would think to ask what he was whining about, but they probably just wanted him to shut up. Your grandfather isn’t a malicious liar who offed your pet with malice forethought, your killed him with your inane pre-kindergarten babble and pre-fetus stage lack of knowledge that winter kills. For the love of Pete, you’re supposed to be from Canada. Forget the hamster, what he needs is for someone to teach him what nouns are, or a lot of people are going to die.
Disney villainesses! Stacey Keibler’s hair! haha you guys are killing me!
Oh where to begin:
(1) I hate her hair – too long, too snarly – brush, cut and style please
(2) I hate her makeup – she looks old in it
(3) I hat the dress – makes her look very fat
(4) I hate her attitude – quite the prima donna attitude it seems to me
@Mia I always notice him, a girl never forgets her first gay crush!
Wait, what? Kirstie demanded a helicopter?
Wasn’t Xenu’s spaceship available to her then?
Must suck pretty bad to be a second-tier member of that totalitarian cult!
I’m inclined to believe the organizers over Kirstie’s rep, even if the whole thing appeared in a Murdoch paper.
I thought once you reached like OT 6 or 7 you could fly in. Screw her. People died there and she is worried about being flown in by a helicopter. She is crazy as a loon with the Dwarf Lord TC. If she had worn that dress she could have used it as a parachute and dropped over. I use to like her but seems older these COS people get the crazier (I know that seems redundant) but really.
Kirstie has a little crazy goin’ on, but she looks good for her age I think. About the helicopter request? Asked and denied. No big deal. But weight wise? I think she looks a heck of a lot better than before she lost the weight.
Don’t care for the big blue dress tho. Waaaaay too much. Doesn’t do her any favors.
She looks regal in the blue. However I don’t believe she is a size 4. Maybe a size 8 or 10.
that blue dress looks like a gliyzy version of Felicity’s (Historical American Girl Doll) christmas gown
Wow, Mr Knight got kind of handsome, didn’t he? I bet the dudes think so.
That pimped up hair looks like those freaky toddlers and tiara babies. Creepy and fug.
That catwalk hair is disgusting! It looks like someone made a wig out of wood, it’s so flat and shiny. Ugh. I bet if you tried to bend it, it would crack, not bend. And who exactly thought blue raccoon makeup was a good look on a 60yo? If it looks like shit on Taylor Momsen, it’s gonna look worse on Kirstie.
she totally looks like shes gainin the weight back 🙁
She is still fat. Look at those legs. That’s why she’s covered head to toe. If she had taken this more seriously and done the work needed she’d have been a healthy and attractive weight way before now.
Now she’s just using tricks to mimic a big weight loss. I’ll give her that she’s not as humongous but it’s faint praise.
I don’t want to hear another word from her about her weight until she really does it. Her age is not an excuse. Now Jennifer Hudson should be proud of herself – she did the work and it paid off as it can for anyone.
Her hair reminds me of taffy in that one photo 🙂 Ribbons of taffy.
I thought she was Fergie…