David Gest sweeps away Liza’s TV show
Liza Minnelli won’t become another Ozzy Osbourne.
VH1 has pulled the plug on the singer’s planned reality TV show, complaining that her husband, David Gest, was impossible to work with.
“We weren’t given the kind of access and cooperation we needed to make the show work,†VH1 spokeswoman Laura Nelson said Wednesday.
Gest would repeatedly cancel production meetings and shooting schedules, and restricted VH1’s access to his wife, according to an official at VH1 who spoke on condition of anonymity. He was also a “neat freak†who ordered a VH1 staff member to stand duty with a vacuum cleaner while a hole was drilled in a wall, the source said. The New York Post said Gest required VH1 crew members to wear surgical booties while in their apartment.
A spokesman for Minnelli declined to comment Wednesday.
When plans were announced this summer, the show was supposed to start in October. But it got pushed back to December and then January. Only one episode has been filmed.
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