Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Bravo’s ‘Kell on Earth’ takes devilish look at fashion PR
In 2008 she took her caustic manner as a modern-day Cruella to MTV’s glossy reality hits The Hillsand The City, mentoring stars Lauren Conrad and Whitney Port. “I’ve spent my whole life making people famous,” she says. “Now I want to figure out my own brand.”
Friends such as Nicky Hilton warned against backlash for her TV appearances.
“A lot of the haters came out and said, ‘Kelly Cutrone is a shameless self-promoter,’ ” Cutrone says. “I told everyone in my office, ‘We’re either going to be out of business or we’re going to blow up.’ “
They blew up. Girls in malls began to recognize her. Hollywood came calling. But some brash choices have come back to haunt her. Last year Cutrone was fired, publicly, for placing former call girl Ashley Dupré in the front row at designer Yigal Azrouël’s New York show. “We’re all hookers in one way or another,” she fired back in the press at the time.
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