Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Charisma Carpenter of "Buffy" Meets The Paparazzi

The Paparazzi were about 18 strong in Malibu this weekend. There were a large proportion of French and German Photographers floating around. They were after no one in particular. It was a beautiful day in LA and all the photographers hoped that the celebs would be on the beach in Malibu.

Towards the end of the day the photographers usually end up at the Malibu shopping center, where they might see a celeb coming to do some grocery shopping or even buy a few items from the many boutiques. In the middle of the shopping center is a playground and eating area. A lot of celebs bring their children there to play.

It was at the eating area where the Paparazzi were hanging out watching each other and watching the families on the playground. The photographers tend to sometime play a game when they are bored. They will watch each other to see who if the competition is getting ready to take any photos. They will try to find out who the competition is photographing and then jump and also take photos.

Well, all of a sudden one photographer spotted Charisma Carpenter, her husband and their son on the playground. Chrisma was an actress from the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" TV series. The interesting thing is Chrisma is not a household name and many people don't recognize her. In fact almost all of the Paparazzi failed to spot her or didn't care to take her photo except for one photographer who started taking photos.

But, Bedlum ensued. One after another photographers whipped out their cameras. The ones that had left their camera in their cars ran to fetch them. From every corner of the playground photographers snapped photos. But, the funny thing is that when asked nobody new who they were photographing! They took the photo because the competition was taking photos and no one wanted to go home empty handed in case this was someone important.

Charisma seemed to not mind. In fact she seemed a little surprised by all the attention. Her son intially started to cry with all the commotion, but he was soon quieted down by Charisma and had fun playing in the sand. Charisma never uttered a word to the photogaphers. She just played with her son. But, it will probably be a long time before she comes back to Malibu on a weekend.


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