Sunday, May 15, 2005

Lindsey Lohan is Fed Up with the Paparazzi

Add Lindsey Lohan to a list of celebrities who are getting fed up with the Paparazzi. The 19 year old seemed to like all the attention at first. Now she is getting a little tired of the constant attention. Wherever she goes there are a few photographers right behind her.

Yesterday afternoon she had lunch at the Orso restaurant on Third street in West Hollywood. She was with a few friends. When she exited the restaurant she found out there were 7 photographers waiting for her to go to her car, a V12 Mercedes. When they started snapping away she ran back inside the restaurant and had a friend go to the parking attendant to have her car ready to make a quick getaway.

With her car in front she ran through the gauntlet of photographers all snapping her photo. She seemed a little pissed. But, this was only the start. When she got into her car she couldn't figure out how to get her seatbelt on because she was trying to duck the cameras. She finally put up her purse to block her face from the snapping Paparazzi cursing up a storm at the guys. She managed to get the seatbelt set and pull away from the restaurant with the Paparazzi vehicles on her tail.

She drove around Beverly Hills and West Hollywood trying to shake her pursuers. It was just no use. There were just too many Paparazzi cars following her. At one point she did a quick U-turn to try to get away from the lead cars. That didn't work because there were so many cars following her that the rear cars did a U-turn with her in sync and got in front of her. She then did another U-turn but there were more cars in front of her again. She looked very perplexed as to what to do next. Wherever she turned, there was a Paparazzi in a car.

So she did the next best thing. She found a Beverly Hills boutique with a parking attendant. She jumped out of her Mercedes, threw the attendant the keys on a run and dashed into the boutique to do some shopping and some thinking about how to get away from the photographers. She seemed to be hoping they would all just go away.

To her dismay, they stayed. They photographed her shopping, and trying on clothes. She stayed in the store for quite some time. And, the photographers stayed outside taking picture after picture. Finally, when she was about to leave she got the store personal to go and have the parking attendant bring her car to the rear exit of the store. Now, many celebrities try this trick and all Paparazzi know that the leave from the back exit is being tried on them. And, it never works, but still the celebrities try, maybe out of frustration.

Lindsey's Mercedes was driven to the rear exit along with a few photographers tailing her car. And, to her dismay, they photographed her leaving the store and followed her all the way back to the hotel, where as if to admit defeat she gave them a reluctant photo opportunity by not running into the hotel.


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