Blocked by Elvis

Duran, not Presley. Here's how that came about.

Elvis Duran hosts a morning radio show called Elvis Duran and the Morning Show. I've listened to them for years and found them very entertaining, with my favorite cast member being Danielle Monaro. She's great! Anyway, I followed them on Twitter, and sometimes they would like my tweets or even respond. Nice!

Several years ago my friend Patty Mayonnaise (R.I.P. my friend) had a daughter who had somehow met one of the new young employees of the Elvis show, and they started dating. I remember how lucky I thought she was, as she would have access to the crew. It would be a blast to meet those people, but I wasn't dating any of them, haha. Anyway, things seemed to be going well for the young couple.

But as happens: they hit a bump in the road and were having a rocky time. Patty had told Brie (they worked together) and Brie mentioned it to me. I felt bad, so I sent a tweet to the Elvis show and only said, "I hope Jake and his girlfriend can work out their problems." Imagine my surprise when I got a direct message from Elvis Duran himself: "What do you know about Jake?" Thinking nothing of it, I said, "I know that he and his girl G are going through a rough patch right now." A few minutes later, another response: "We don't want news of this going out to the press." 

I thought he was kidding. I responded with, "I'm not the press." "Then how did you come across this information?" Well now things were getting interesting... "Someone relayed this to me." "WHO??" "I'm not giving out names." Another few minutes passed. "Oh, I see you're a blogger. Look: Jake is young and we protect our own. Who gave you this information?!" "Look, I only wanted to express my hope that they work out their problems. I wasn't looking to start anything. And I don't want the person who told me, to get into trouble. I'm sorry but I wouldn't go to the press with something like this." I mean really: Jake wasn't famous or anything, wasn't part of the actual crew, so I didn't know there'd be such a stink about it. Then came the kicker from Elvis: "You are going to be blocked on all of our sites." And he did block me!

I was nonplussed. Little old me, from a little town in upstate New York, had intimidated Elvis Duran to the point where he had to block me! I felt bad, but actually found it funny. I was happy for the acknowledgement that I was a blogger, and that he thought I had enough power to put Jake's business out in the entertainment streets. However, the reason why I didn't tell him it was Patty Mayonnaise was because I didn't want her daughter, or even Jake, to get mad at her for sharing that information.

 So there you have it: my story of how a famous person felt he had to block me. Elvis, if you're reading this, just know that I actually wasn't blocked. Maxxtopher was, but not Rita! I still had access to the show cast and the show itself. So the joke's on you!