One Cingular Sensation

American Idol

By B-Side | Friday, March 24, 2006 | 2:56 pm | 12 Comments

When it comes to celebrity sightings from strangers, we always take them with a grain of salt. That being said, we couldn’t resist this great little Constantine Maroulis story that Defamer published in today’s PrivacyWatch. It involves Connie, sunglasses, and one very bruised ego…

I had a great sighting of Constantine Maroulis (you know, Bo Bice’s inferior from last years American Idol) at the Cingular store on Beverly near the Beverly Center just three hours ago. As you may or may not know, that Cingular store makes you sign in when you walk through the door and wait for someone to call your name. I was in the process of waiting for my name to be called when a guy walked in that looked just like Constantine. He had the long, unwashed brown hair, was carefully unshaven and was wearing those big rocker sunglasses. Of course, that describes about half the guys in LA. He looked so much like Constantine that I figured it couldn’t possibly be him, so I ignored him. Well, he didn’t sign in. He just went and got behind someone else in line. After standing there and looking like a kick ass rocker for about 5 minutes, the Cingular Guy (who was still working with a customer) asks Rocker Guy, “Can I help you, sir?” After wiping the dumb look off his face, Rocker Guy retorts, “I’m waiting for help,” incredulous at the question. And the Cingular Guy patiently, without attitude, said, “Oh, you need to sign in at the front and we’ll call you.”

Well, Rocker Guy looked like someone told him to go f*ck himself in Chinese (you know, confused and angry at the same time). He says, “What?!” The Cingular Guy repeats himself. “Sign in at the front door and we’ll call your name.” Now Rocker Guy just looks perplexed (maybe if he took his sunglasses off inside he’d be able to see and comprehend things better). Rocker Guy: “What else did you say?” Cingular Guy: “Nothing, sir.” Now, I’m ten feet away. The guy didn’t say anything besides the above and was not being snide or snarky. Instead, he was trying to be helpful. Well, Rocker Guy loses it. He points at Cingular Guy, over the customer being helped and says, “Don’t you f*cking condescend to me! You’re the one that f*cking works at Cingular!” No exaggeration. And he says ‘condescend’ just like Brad Pitt did in True Romance with like three extra vowels and two extra n’s. It was hilarious and everyone in the store saw it. Of course, after that craziness, you expect him to storm out. But, no! He goes and signs his name and waits. I figured he would have been tossed for dropping the F-bomb alone, but no one says or does anything. I just tried not to crack up. After the outburst, though, I’m positive it’s not Constantine. No one remotely in the public eye would make that much as of an ass of himself over something so stupid. Not two minutes later, though, Rocker Guy takes off his sunglasses and reveals himself to be, yes, THE Constantine.

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12 Comments

  1. 1
    Donna Martin Graduates!
    Posted March 24, 2006 at 3:30 pm

    wow — what a complete tool.

    any chance someone could post a clip of the scene from True Romance the writer is referring to?

    (didn’t Pitt just giggle like a stoner the whole way through that flick?)

  2. 2
    missmermaid
    Posted March 24, 2006 at 4:03 pm

    Knob.

  3. 3
    nocable
    Posted March 24, 2006 at 4:37 pm

    I knew butt chin in school and personally don’t find anthing surprising about this. That behavior is pretty much what I knew him to be like.

  4. 4
    stella
    Posted March 24, 2006 at 5:06 pm

    I am going to have nightmares about that freaky picture. Geez.

  5. 5
    Shollia
    Posted March 24, 2006 at 9:06 pm

    Is this really all that surprising?
    You could tell what kind of guy he was when he was on the show.
    What surprises me though is that people are actually still fans of his.
    He’s the most hideous man I’ve ever seen and whenever he was on AI I wanted to either puke or jump through my tv to strangle his ugly ass.

  6. 6
    BigMax
    Posted March 25, 2006 at 8:51 am

    You know what is great? It doesn’t seem like Connie’s pulling rank as a celebrity. Instead, it just seems like he is too stupid to understand Cingular’s policy.

    I have to admit that I once made the identical error (not signing in). Still, I didn’t further humiliate myself by ranking out the employee who informed me. I did, however, wish to crawl in a hole and hide as a result of my public failure to notice the ‘uge “sign in here” sign.

  7. 7
    holyterror
    Posted March 25, 2006 at 8:51 am

    Wow. His life must really suck if he sees an affront everywhere like that. Good! AI has got to stop milking him and let him just get bloated and bitter.

    I once saw Alistaire Cooke go off on a cab driver. [Crickets ...]

  8. 8
    eellsinoc
    Posted March 25, 2006 at 10:19 am

    This seems so hard to believe, because right now in the Cingular stores in my area this is this huge AI cross promotion, with posters of Constantine and magazines with his face on the cover plastered everywhere. Strange???

  9. 9
    dredge
    Posted March 25, 2006 at 2:11 pm

    i too have had my moments in a store where I was frustrated with the staff..but to say that stuff and to (try to) intimidate someone like that (“what else did you say??”) is classic bullying. Because if it were in a bar or onthe street, Constantine would have his butt chin (bwahahahaha!!!)..handed to him. This guy really has nothing going for him.

  10. 10
    lill2441
    Posted March 27, 2006 at 5:26 am

    Never liked him. I dont understand why anybody does. He is just gross!

  11. 11
    juddfan
    Posted March 27, 2006 at 1:11 pm

    I actually saw Connie at the Pretenders concert on Wed eve. I didn’t want to talk to him (and had I, I would have asked about Matt Rogers–which I thought would be too tacky), so I just touched his arm and said, “Constantine.” He did say, “Hey man, what’s up” in a friendly and approachable way, but I had nothing to follow up with. His arm felt really marshmellowy . ..

  12. 12
    couchpotato
    Posted March 28, 2006 at 6:50 am

    If you guys don’t stop posting his picture! I’m seriously going go puke!!

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