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How wealthy do you need to be to need full time personal assistants?

posted 10 years ago by surf-10
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Of course all big actors surround themselves with assistants and gophers but watching this show just makes me question it a lot. Lindsay is predominantly unemployed and sleeping until noon or later. Why does she need to hire what is clearly a useless girl to unpack her clothes and put racks together when she's just sleeping in the next room? There are several entitled examples throughout her life that show the same problem. Lindsay needs to get the hell out of bed like every other normal person at 9am and get her own *beep* in order. It would be the best therapy to combat her depressive lifestyle.

The woman is bored and spoiled. She has nothing else to do but sit around and devour alcohol and drugs because she won't get off her ass and do something. She doesn't work often and she needs to find a whole grab bag of hobbies, sports, tasks, and wholesome activities that engage her and fill up her schedule. And shopping is not one of them. Sleeping while a dumb blond struggles to put together your IKEA furniture is not one of them. Bored, entitled rich kids are the worst and her addictions are her body's way of slapping that message across her face.

[–] babz12 10 years ago

She doesn't need a personal assistant, and I highly doubt she can really afford it. I know she's had money issues and I kind of doubt they've been fully resolved. The only reason she has a personal assistant is because she thinks she needs one. She, like many other celebs that have grown up in the public eye, have always had people around them taking care of things and not telling them to do anything. Now as adults they don't know what to do and how to handle normal mundane things without being guided along and coddled like a spoiled toddler.

I really wonder how much her assistants get paid, and if they're actually paid well, how she still has this money.

[–] AntiGravityShoes 10 years ago

She isn't paying for her assistant, the show is. They also paid the sober coach, that AJ creature who doesn't know how to cut a pepper, the rent on her apartment, the moving bill from LA to NY, the hotel bill... Ms. Lohan isn't out a dime. Money for nothing and servants for free.

But you're right, she doesn't need any of this. What she needed was to leave rehab and go into sober living, where she would have been required to keep to a house schedule, attend AA meetings, do chores (not pay anyone else to do it), and either seek employment or do community service. In her spare time she should have been sorting through that storage locker and donating or trashing as much as possible. And getting with a financial planner to help her figure out her money mess.

Instead, she found a bunch of enablers (led by Oprah) who will let her go back to her spoiled addict lifestyle in exchange for making a buck off her story. Win/win, I suppose.

We take what we want and leave the rest, just like your salad bar.

[–] ItsEddieHaskellBeyotch 10 years ago

"that AJ creature"

^Don't do that. The show sucks but...don't do that.

'When there's no more room in Hollywood, remakes shall walk the Earth.'

[–] AntiGravityShoes 10 years ago

Since when are crappy life coaches who charge a ton for candle-lit yoga and New Age "advice" sacred? Also, those star spangled banner pants.

p.s. love your username

We take what we want and leave the rest, just like your salad bar.

[–] ItsEddieHaskellBeyotch 10 years ago

The lady has a story. Calling her a 'creature' was alittle unecessary, no matter how BS the crap is she does.

'When there's no more room in Hollywood, remakes shall walk the Earth.'

[–] Kompressor_Fan 10 years ago

I think AJ was the only one that had any real integrity. She tried to be truthful with Lohan, and LiLo just sh!t on her. Instead of taking it and playing 'yes man' to her in order to get a check, AJ walked off instead of playing into the LiLo game.

The bad news is you have houseguests. There is no good news.

[–] shesamazingnyc 10 years ago

Agree 100%.

Oprah used her, just as Lindsay uses everyone.

[–] marioreturns 10 years ago

Of course all big actors surround themselves with assistants and gophers but watching this show just makes me question it a lot. Lindsay is predominantly unemployed and sleeping until noon or later. Why does she need to hire what is clearly a useless girl to unpack her clothes and put racks together when she's just sleeping in the next room? There are several entitled examples throughout her life that show the same problem. Lindsay needs to get the hell out of bed like every other normal person at 9am and get her own *beep* in order. It would be the best therapy to combat her depressive lifestyle.

I really do agree that Lindsey is mostly failing in her attempt at sobriety (maybe not public rehabilitation----she comes off slightly more sympathetic than before)------

But that is unfair what you said that she just needs to get off her ass-----that is generic therapy by people who do not lead a depressive lifestyle. My depression sometimes causes me to sleep till 11:00 Pm. And it is not that I do not try to get up. I just don't give a rip. Depressive people often don't---unfortunately. And guess what------I take medication to try to treat my depression. Even with that, I have a severely cramped and sedentary life----due in part to my depression.

Do not get me wrong------it is also boredom and laziness as well. I admit it. I also take responsibility for the fact that I am responsible for that and for getting out of it. I have to find a way to get out of this. But you seem to have this idea that depression is this easy thing to get out of. If it was, it would be much easier in this world to live with depression than they do.

That is why I don't begrudge her quite that.

Maybe other things, but not that.

[–] hunterofserenity-2 10 years ago

I agree, Lindsay does need to get off her ass. She is very spoiled and that is why she "needs" so many assistants. She is not accustomed to doing anything herself. She is also not accustomed to facing up to any kind of responsibility that she doesn't want to. She is showing that if someone doesn't agree with her or dares confront her with a situation where she is behaving badly, then Lindsay just refuses to see that person ever again.

[–] WhiteHeron 10 years ago

The absolute best cure for depression is not medication but exercise, particularly exercise outside in the sunshine. A psychiatrist told me this. Ask yours.

Get out every day and walk for 30 minutes and you will feel worlds better.

[–] doingresearch 10 years ago

The assisstants are probably working for free just to be on TV

[–] Kompressor_Fan 10 years ago

You really are an idiot. These are working people, not millionaires. Of course none of them are working for free. They get paid, and their job just happens to put them on TV...but they most certainly are not working for free.

I'm starting to think that you're not really this dumb, and are just making these stupid comments because you are trolling for attention.

The bad news is you have houseguests. There is no good news.

[–] doingresearch 10 years ago

I was only half serious. My point is that the free publicity is great for getting them new clients so I wouldn't be surprised if they're working cheap. Ever heard of self-promotion?

[–] SecretS_ChaoS 10 years ago

I agree with you, she does need to get a hobby and at the very least get out of bed on time and do something productive with her day so that she feels accomplished.

I'm guessing that after she made her first big major picture, she's been treated like royalty by those close to her. She's the "talent" and therefore no need for her to do everyday normal people stuff since she's doing greater things with her life such as acting in a big budget movie.

There is a lot of downtime in an actor's career and she's grown spoiled because of it. I also found it very ridicules that she needs assistants to do every day things. I don't see why she needs an assistant to begin with. typically, you might need one if you're so busy that you really don't have time to run errands etc... but she clearly has nothing going on. She can't even handle doing a 6 hour a day, part time job of a documentary. She sleeps till noon or later and complaints that her clothes are not organized and that her apartment is not organized.

Typically, celebrities only have assistants when they're working. These assistants were probably part of the deal for the documentary. Once the documentary ends, she won't be able to pay any of them so she'll be alone, without a camera crew or "assistants".

[–] LetThemEatCake01 8 years ago

You really can't do that when you are dead inside.