Monday, October 13, 2008

from Shelby Hodges


GARY FOUNTAIN FOR THE CHRONICLE

Bob Devlin, from left, Melissa Mithoff and Monsour Taghdisi at the Legacy Community Health Services luncheon. Mithoff was the luncheon chair, and Devlin and Taghdisi were honorees.

Shame, shame
What's up with Ivana Trump? She signed on months ago to be guest speaker at the Legacy Community Health Services annual luncheon and was unruffled when the date had to be changed because of Hurricane Ike.

But on Tuesday she was a no show. First she cancelled on the swank cocktail reception that her pal and bridesmaid Joan Schnitzer-Levy had planned for Monday night in her River Oaks home. Trump, however, assured organizers she would be in Houston Tuesday morning in time for the event at Wortham Theater Center.

She kept her word and caught a 6:30 a.m. flight out of New York. But once the plane landed, she called to whine that she wasn't feeling well and was getting on a return flight within the hour.

The funny thing is — she wasn't really missed. The show went on with luncheon chair Melissa Mithoff, Channel 2 news anchor Jerome Gray serving as emcee and Legacy Community Health Services executive director Katy Caldwell not skipping a beat.

Legacy Leadership awards were presented to honorees Monsour Taghdisi and Neiman Marcus' Bob Devlin — two men so charming that Ivana's fading grace wasn't needed.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good for Shelby. Shame on Ivana.
It was surely a great event without the withering old thing.

"Tommy" said...

Trump truly is a vanishing grace...let her vanish back up North.

A Girl From Texas said...

Oh, was Ivana supposed to be there? I didn't even notice she was absent....

Blair said...

It was her loss and shame on her. I enjoy reading your blogs and I think you're cute.