Katie Price, AKA Jordan, Is Besotted
I’m just going to admit it…I’m a scent junkie. My name is k, and I am a scentaholic. I loves myself a good perfume. I’m not a scent snob as far as price…I’ll wear both high-end and drugstore perfumes, just as long as I like it.
Now, having said that…perhaps I am a bit of a scent snob in that I’ve made a point not to purchase scent that is celeb-formulated. I’m not talking about Kate Winslet doing ads for Trésor (which I own a bottle of, yum) for example…she didn’t attach her name to it, she didn’t help formulate it, she just is featured in their advertising. I’m talking about scent that a celeb not only endorses, but had some sort of input in putting the whole thing together (although, with some celebs, it varies on how much input they actually have…I think most of the time they walk in, sniff, say yea or nay, and leave for their lunch date). I guess it’s just a quirk, but if someone asks me what I am wearing, I don’t want to reply with something like, “Paris Hilton.” Why would I want to smell like Paris? I say, leave the perfume to the perfumers and leave celebing to the celebs. In fifty, sixty, seventy years, is anyone going to say Curious or Baby Phat are classics, on par with Chanel No. 5 or Joy? Or will they go the way of Electric Youth?
Which brings me, finally, to my story. If you follow any sort of UK celeb news, you recognize the name Katie Price, aka “Jordan”. She’s been on a bit of a self-improvement kick lately, losing the bleached hair and humongous chesticles for darker locks, more manageable lady lumps (for her, anyway), and a spot of lip plumping. She also seems to be on a quest to be taken seriously as a person, and so decided to show us her best side at the recent launch of her new scent, Besotted:
In recent months, Katie Price has been trying to relaunch herself as a class act, maintaining that she’s more than just a glamour model.
But the artist formerly known as Jordan appeared to throw all that out the window today as she launched her second fragrance… while pouting in a tacky lingerie ensemble that left little to the imagination.
The 30-year-old posed for the cameras to promote her scent Besotted at The Paper Club on London’s Regent Street.
In her quest to reinvent herself from a trashy-looking chav to serious human being, she recently hit out at those who kept her from attending the Cartier Polo International tournament, a polo match, because she was too “chavvy” (US translation: trashy, among other things):
The mother-of-three, a keen horsewoman, was told she was ‘not the kind of person they wanted’ when her manager tried to book a £6,000 table in the marquee hosted by nightclub Chinawhite in Windsor Great Park.
According to Chinawhite, it was simply an unfortunate misunderstanding.
Since the model has been learning to play polo she was particularly put out and responded by writing in The Times newspaper’s comment column what she thought of the snub.
‘It’s pure snobbery,’ she wrote. ‘However good a horsewoman I may be, I’m also a glamour model.’
I always wondered about that phrase, “glamour model”. In the UK, if you put a “u” in “glamour”, is that the definition of a person who strips down to their smalls (or less) and rolls around looking properly orgasmic?
Back to the perfume. Stripping down to her undies got Katie some free publicity and her name in the papers, which is, I suspect, what the plan was all along. But if this is the sort of “star” associated with this scent, I’d rather wear Love’s Baby Soft. (and I do, so there)
Click here for video. I’m telling you, she’s just oozing glamour.
Why yes, it is sort of a slow celeb news day. Why do you ask?
UPDATE: Will Kern from worldmeets.us pointed this out in the chat room over at BTR Today:
William Kern:Besotted:infatuate 22: to make dull or stupid ; especially : to muddle with drunkenness
Heh.
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Thanks for the laughs k. Oozing glamour indeed.
And I too remember Loves Baby Soft; I think we may be of the same era. As a child did you buy your father Brut every year like I did?
Comment by Rachel — September 25, 2008 @ 1:32 pm
Nope…Old Spice.
Comment by k — September 25, 2008 @ 2:40 pm