Maybe Will and Jada, Ashton and Demi, and Paris showed up later — a spokesman for The Good Life Experience, the three-day bash that culminated last night at the The Venue, said they were expected. But when I bailed media row (around 12:30) at the red carpet (actually it was white) they hadn't shown yet, nor had many celebrities of particular renown.
To say that the red carpet is an absurd phenomenon would be stating the obvious, but until you've "worked" one, it doesn't really sink in. I mean, I get the red carpet at the Oscar-type things, but at one of a dozen Super Bowl parties around Tampa Bay, the ritual just seems an unnecessary contrivance.
The only legitimate celebs I saw traipse down the other side of the velvet rope were Deion Sanders (one of the hosts with Diddy and Winky Wright) and Jordin Sparks, the bubbly singer and former American Idol winner. Winky is a celeb of sorts, but he lives in St. Pete.
