Freelance journalist Ben Westhoff (pictured top left), 30, who writes for the
Village Voice,
New York magazine’s Vulture blog and the
LA Weekly, has found an odd way to amuse himself in his spare time. He posts entries
on his blog that falsely purport to be written by former
Sex and the City actor John Corbett (pictured bottom left).
In his most recent posting under Corbett’s byline on Wednesday titled "
Hold On To Your Hats", Westhoff wrote an extended post accusing
Sex and the City creator Darren Star of editing Corbett out of the forthcoming
Sex and the City movie directed by Michael Patrick King.
Westhoff, writing as Corbett, went so far as to invent a phony role played by Corbett’s character, Aidan, in the
SATC
movie – in which his character saves the life of a subway jumper, and
is invited by former flame Carrie Bradshaw for coffee. As Corbett,
Westhoff then claims that Star (the movie’s executive producer) forced
King to remove him from the finished film.
Westhoff-as-Corbett then threatens to reveal the entire plot of the movie on the Internet unless Star restores his role.
"...I am fucking pissed, nonetheless, because I cleared a big WHOLE in my schedule to do this shit, even passed up a part on Bones.
And that's why I've decided to give Darren an ultimative and say that
if he doesn't put me back in there, I'm going to spoil the whole movie.
That's righty. I'm going to give out ALL the plot ALL over the
internet, including right here at my bro-dawg Ben's site the Healthiest
Mutherfucking Pimp in Park Slope."
That’s a reference to Westhoff’s blog, “
The Healthiest Man in Park Slope,” where Westhoff has been posting as Corbett, off and on, for more than two weeks.
"It's not John Corbett. It's me posting as John Corbett," the Hoboken,
New Jersey-based Westhoff acknowledged in a telephone interview.
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