{"id":4369,"date":"2018-10-22T02:15:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T09:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2018-10-22T02:15:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T09:15:23","slug":"billy-meets-brigitte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/10\/22\/billy-meets-brigitte\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Meets Brigitte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opening night of <em>Sell\/Buy\/Date<\/em> was hosted by Lily Tomlin and&nbsp;<strong>Laverne Cox<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Rashida Jones&nbsp;<\/strong>(no relation) was also listed as a host but, to the best of my knowledge, she showed up, took some photos, and presumably had better places to be.&nbsp; Afterwards, my play mama,&nbsp;<strong>Jenifer Lewis<\/strong>, went backstage to congratulate Sarah.&nbsp; I was walking into the lobby with&nbsp;<strong>Debra Messing&nbsp;<\/strong>when, right in front of me, I saw her\u2026<strong>Brigitte Nielsen<\/strong>.&nbsp; Believe it or not, I would (and did) knock people over to get to Nielsen.&nbsp; Most remember Gitte from her marriage to&nbsp;<strong>Sylvester Stallone<\/strong>, her various other romantic entanglements, and her tabloid headlines.&nbsp; But if you were in the UK when she did&nbsp;<strong><em>Celebrity Big Brother<\/em><\/strong>, you saw another side of Gitte \u2013 a human side and a real person capable of great love and compassion.&nbsp; She\u2019s smarter than you think, wickedly funny, brutally honest, and a nurturer.<\/p>\n<p>When I came upon her (you can\u2019t miss her \u2013 she\u2019s like 9 feet tall), she was chatting with a group of women, led by comedian&nbsp;<strong>Whitney Cummings<\/strong>!&nbsp; The topic?&nbsp; Fertility, IVF, and older women giving birth.&nbsp; Cummings was asking Brigitte everything about her landmark pregnancy at 54.&nbsp; Whit may be only 36, but she\u2019s obviously thinking about having children \u2013 and, more importantly, when.&nbsp; She even said, \u201cYou know, they should tell girls when they\u2019re young that they should freeze their eggs so that they have them\u2026just in case.\u201d&nbsp; What a brilliant idea \u2013 and it came from Whitney Cummings!&nbsp; Nielsen spoke with them endlessly and even offered to stay in touch and be of service.&nbsp; It was surely anticlimactic when I engaged her in conversation about her time on&nbsp;<em>CBB<\/em>, dished about&nbsp;<strong>Jackie Stallone<\/strong>, spoke Italian with her husband, and perhaps drooled a bit over her model son,&nbsp;<strong>Douglas Aaron Meyer&nbsp;<\/strong>(picture a male version of Gitte).&nbsp; Photos will follow on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening night of Sell\/Buy\/Date was hosted by Lily Tomlin and&nbsp;Laverne Cox.&nbsp;&nbsp;Rashida Jones&nbsp;(no relation) was also listed as a host but, to the best of my knowledge, she showed up, took some photos, and presumably had better places to be.&nbsp; Afterwards, my play mama,&nbsp;Jenifer Lewis, went backstage to congratulate Sarah.&nbsp; I was walking into the lobby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}