Cuban Differs With Osmond On TV Incident
Mark Cuban’s chances of getting a Christmas card from entertainer Marie Osmond plummeted Saturday, when the Mavs owner and former Dancing With The Stars contestant basically called Osmond a fraud. Like Cuban, Osmond was a competitor on the ABC-TV show last fall. At one point during the contest the squeaky-clean Mormon crumpled dramatically to the dance floor after “fainting,” later blaming the episode on a combination of allergies and bad air caused by the California fires. When TMZ, quoting unnamed sources, reported that Osmond had faked the fainting spell–presumably as a sympathy ploy–her representative denied it, calling the charge “ridiculous.” Enter Cuban, pictured here, who told the crowd at this weekend’s Uncle Barky Show at Stratos Greek Taverna: “Let me just say: She did not faint. She did not faint. Are you kidding me? She came [backstage] and had a Red Bull!”
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OK, isn’t caffeine a broncho-dilator? If she was having shortness of breath (which I believe was the claim), could she not be having a highly-caffeinated Red Bull to alleviate some symptoms until she could see a doctor?
So what prompted this latest Cuban schoolyard spew? Did Marie call him petulant sometime last week?
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Isn’t Marie, as a devout Mormon, prohibited from drinking caffeine? Although, taking into consideration Bethany’s observation, if it is for purely medicinal purposes…?
While caffeine may be a broncho-dialator, the faint seemed pretty staged to me when they were showing it ad nauseum on the entertainment shows.
But my opinion on this might be tainted by the fact that Marie and Donny Osmond are on TV all the time now for no apparent reason. Jeez, they are irritating.
If I were going to faint, it would’ve been after that horrific doll number. I still have nightmares about being attacked by a Marie Osmond doll.
Marie took a dive, just like the Mavs are poised to do this year.
The sick and weakened little boy, having just heard Marie Osmond sing ‘Paper Roses’, asked his weeping and remorseful mother ,,,,watching the Osmond 50 Year Anniversary Show: “Mommy, when we get a new president, will the Osmonds will go away?”
As abhorrent and unnatural as it feels, I have to totally agree with Mark Cuban on this one. Kathy Griffin’s new album, “For Your Consideration,” has a very elaborate and very funny bit where she calls BS on Marie’s DWTS fainting.
Mormons are not “prohibited” from doing anything any more than non-Mormons are.
Also, contrary to what seems to be believed by many, although many Mormons choose not to drink caffeinated beverages, there is nothing in their teachings that specifically guides against it.
Why don’t they just change the name to Mormoms? It would be more appropriate.
Based solely on observations of Mormon friends, they (…generalizing, I know…) do not drink coffee (a convert swore it off after converting…) but do drink a s-load of coca-cola.
Plus the occasional sniff of heroin, just in a party situation, no big deal. Also, the average Mormon carries a hip flask of Hornitos. So all the stereotypes are just that: stereotypes.
They’re ok to do whatever as long as they have on their all-powerful Sacred Undies.
Active Mormons are precluded from drinking coffee and tea. Other caffeinated beverages are subject to one’s own interpretation. Does that make sense? Maybe not. But neither do Kosher laws.
And not all Mormons consider Marie Osmond squeaky-clean. In fact, the average Mormon either considers her embarrassing or has (perhaps worse) never heard of her. A very tiny percentage of Mormons, above a certain age and only then again from Utah, even knows who she is.
Who cares? Cuban is still whining? I think Sarah Palin would approve of this maverick’s whining.
Cubes doesn’t look so bad in that picture.
Cubes is a ******.
he looks 20 in that picture
What does the Red Bull have anything to do with it? I have vomited and then had a beer afterwards. Not that I’m arguing the faint was real, but I don’t get how her drinking a Red Bull after she recovered from the faint was proof that the faint was fake. And I’m giving myself tired head.
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I can’t believe it. What - Cuban wasn’t getting enough attention so needs to talk about Marie? Marie dropped like a rock. Her kids were screaming; her partner was panicked. When she got up she could barely stand. So she had a red bull. If I could barely stand, I’d try a red bull, too.