{"id":140,"date":"2009-08-21T10:23:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T10:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/everydayethics\/2009\/08\/failure-friday-i-ratted-out-penelope-cruz-javier-bardem-to-a-paparazzi.html"},"modified":"2009-08-21T10:23:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T10:23:42","slug":"failure-friday-i-ratted-out-penelope-cruz-javier-bardem-to-a-paparazzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayethics\/2009\/08\/failure-friday-i-ratted-out-penelope-cruz-javier-bardem-to-a-paparazzi.html","title":{"rendered":"Failure Friday: I Ratted Out Penelope Cruz & Javier Bardem To A Paparazzi"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\"P<\/span><\/p>\n

As a Native New Yorker, I pride myself on being cool when I
\nhave a celebrity sighting. But there was no being cool yesterday as I
\nsashayed past Penny Cruz and her beau Javier Bardem on a Manhattan sidewalk. Not because I was so
\nimpressed (though I secretly was) — but because it was so effing hot out yesterday
\nthat you could have fried an egg on my red, sweaty face. <\/p>\n

Anyhow, I saw the two of them, leaning casually against a
\nbuilding, as I was dragging my broken Roomba back to Hammacher Schlemmer<\/a> to
\nexchange it for a new one. (Amazingly, they didn’t give me a hassle, so ethical yays for
\nthem.) I didn’t make a moron of myself, just smiled a tiny smile and kept going, though I did text
\nmessage a pal to mention the sighting on my way home.  <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>“Tell Gawker<\/a>,” she texted back. (Joking, I’m sure.)<\/p>\n

And I was tempted. But that’d be unethical, I decided.
\nCelebs deserve their privacy.<\/p>\n

When I got back to my apartment building, even sweatier and redder in the puss,
\nI paused in my lobby to mop off and share the gossip with my door folk, with
\nwhom I share a close rapport. However, as it turns out, one of my neighbors is
\na freelance photog for the gossip rags about town, and she overheard the story.<\/p>\n

I should have shut my yap the moment I learned from the
\ndoorman what she did for a living, but I couldn’t resist a bit of a brag. I pretty much told her exactly when and where I saw them, and how they looked. Why? I dunno. I guess I wasn’t busy, and man, the two of them really are attractive in person (if far scruffier than when they’re properly coiffed).<\/p>\n

Hopefully, it was too late for her to make use of the news and bug the happy
\ncouple (whom she told me were expecting a babe<\/a> and hiding out from the press). <\/span>Rumors differ<\/a>, but if it’s not too unethical to share, I’ll just say… I didn’t get a glimpse
\nbelow the waist.<\/p>\n

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