"What? The Queen of Hip-Hop can't get a glass of water?!"
Last night, Mary J. Blige got a tickle in her throat on the Home Shopping Network. After bending over and singing her heart out with reckless abandon, the vocalist sat down to sell her latest fragrance, Blossom, in the My Life Collection. Ahem. What no one seemed prepared for, ahem, was the amount of unproductive throat clearing that, ahem, followed. One ahem after another.
Having stumbled upon the mini-concert, it was not clear whether the segment had commercials. But, without a Ricola in sight, no producer cut to one.
As far as I could tell, no one offered our sweet, humble Mary so much as a drippy Dixie cup of tap water to soothe her dry, overworked throat. Hey, is that any way to treat the Queen of Hip-Hop?
By the looks on their faces, the Grammy winner was not alone in her distress. Though perhaps not from the same fountain, clearly she and the lady host needed a drink.
