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Entertainment assistants.
HottestHollywoodAssistants.com, where viewers can rate hottie factors for Hollywood’s hardest workers, i.e. entertainment assistants, received so many hits during the week of March 27th that the site’s operators had to change servers because they had already used up their monthly bandwidth allowance, according to show biz gossip blog Defamer.com.
But Defamer also suggested most of the voting public were assistants purposely giving their comrades low points for hotness, perhaps giving payback for poor phone etiquette, resulting in an average rating of 3.5 out of 10.
By the end of March, the Web site had yet to recover from its premature disconnection. However, the site returned in all its hotness this week, thus giving Tinsel Town another opportunity to expand upon its own self worth.
The Naked Truth
Since the music biz is an international industry with major players playing intercontinental phone tag on a daily basis, we couldn’t help notice an odd bit of trivia recently reported by Reuters.
According to research commissioned by Britain’s Post Office, 40 percent of British men admitted to using the phone while naked, compared to 27 percent of women who also like to electronically reach out and touch someone while wearing only what God gave them.
The same research revealed that one in 10 people admitted to wandering away from the phone, thereby leaving callers talking to themselves.
The results were based on a survey of 1,500 phone users.
While we have no way of authenticating the research, we at Pollstar HQ were surprised by the figures. Especially since hardly a day goes by when we’re not on the phone with our London office.
However, that would explain a few things…