Although she was thinking about selling out her boss, Eleanore has taken back her job as Lindsay Lohan’s assistant. However, there’s one wrinkle – Lindsay’s not around to tell Eleanore what to do. However, don’t think that means Eleanor gets to go on vacation until her boss is back roaming the streets. According to the New York Post, Lindsay’s mom Dina and sister Ali have decided that while Lindsay is in jail/rehab, Eleanore works for them. A source told the Post that Eleanore is miserable but doesn’t want to quit again and is counting down the moments til Lindsay is out of rehab.
A couple of things are going on here. One: I have no idea why Eleanore went back to work for Lindsay if she was supposedly getting offers eleswhere. I understand that ratting out your former boss for money isn’t the classiest thing to do, but she could have tried to parlay her assistant gig into a chance to work for another celebrity a la Lindsay Ratowsky. Once you have worked as one celebrity’s PA it is a lot easier to work for another celebrity. Two: With all those rumors swirling around about Eleanore possibly selling her story to a tabloid, why would Lindsay take her back at all? I suspect no one else wanted to work for her and Lindsay was desperate.
That said, I don’t like the way that Lindsay’s family expects Eleanore to wait on them while Lindsay’s away. It doesn’t surprise me, since plenty of celebrities and non-celebrities alike end up making their assistants work on personal shit in addition to their actual job duties. My former boss was always making me deal with his kids’ schools and run errands for his wife and, unfortunately, there wasn’t much I could do about it. When you’re hired to be a celebrity assistant that usually means that you are involved in every aspect of their lives. It sucks, but it’s quite typical. And when the family members happen to be terrible people, that makes your job all the more awful.
Lindsay Lohan’s assistant Eleanore quit her job recently. Now, she’s reportedly being offered five-figure deals to sell her story to tabloids. While Eleanore is allegedly not sure what she’s going to do, I thought we could take a nice little trip down memory lane and reflect on what happened to some of Lindsay’s other former assistants.
Lindsay Ratowsky left LiLo to go work for Jessica Biel. LiLo was not happy.
Back when Lindsay had two assistants, the second one (Tarin) quit. Tarin’s mom came to pick her up from Lindsay’s house and as they drove away Lindsay gave chase in her car, and … well… we all remember how that ended.
Kate Major went on to work at Star magazine, have sex with Jon Gosselin, leave her job at Star to be with Jon Gosselin, and then got dumped. She is currently engaged to Lindsay’s dad, Michael Lohan. I think I need to gargle with Listerine after having written this.
Jenni Muro worked for Lindsay for a long time, saved her from drowning, and is still one of her close friends. Also, she is probably qualified for sainthood now.
I don’t know if this answers the question about Eleanore, but I would not be shocked if she says yes. I think it depends on what she wants to do careerwise after this. Lindsay’s a total idiot if she didn’t make Eleanore sign an NDA, especially after all the assistant drama she’s had in the past. If Eleanore really wants to be a PA for another celebrity, talking about Lindsay in the press will not endear her to future celebrity employers. But if she’s more of an Alli Sims type who is just trying to launch her own clothing line or promote her new single, then I predict it’ll be about ten seconds before Eleanore signs on the dotted line and lands herself a photo shoot in Life & Style. Mark my words.
Remember our old friend Kate Major – the one who quit her job at Star magazine because she fell in love with her story subject, Jon “Ick. Nast.” Gosselin and reportedly agreed to work as his personal assistant? Rather than disappear completely, Kate has chosen to stay around and make my life more enjoyable with her wacky antics. Once she and Jon were over, Kate hightailed it over to Jon’s best frenemy, Michael Lohan. Now the gruesome twosome have moved to LA together and are getting married. How can this story possibly get more absurd, you ask? Well, Popeater now claims that Kate used to be Lindsay’s (as in, Michael’s daughter) personal assistant several years ago. Lindsay is reportedly not at all happy to have Kate as her new stepmom and, for once, I totally agree with her. So, let’s see if we can reconstruct the Kate Major timeline…
- Lives in LA
- Works as Lindsay Lohan’s assistant
- Moves to New York
- Works for Star
- Leaves Star, Gosselin fiasco
- Hooks up with Michael Lohan
- Back to LA
- Now.
Something about all of this seems totally off. Now, I like a good conspiracy theory, so here’s mine: this entire thing, start to finish, was planned by Kate and Michael. Maybe they got together when Kate was working for Lindsay, and Lindsay was (rightly) grossed out by her dad hooking up with her assistant and fired Kate. Michael, who has lots of celebrity magazine connections thanks to his career of selling stories about his kid for a living, called in a favor and got Kate a job at Star. They kept seeing each other in secret and when she realized they could make names for themselves by aligning themselves with tabloid magnet Jon Gosselin, they used him as a pawn in their scheme. Man, this is brilliant. And terrifying. I think I need to step away from the computer for awhile.
Jenni Muro, Lindsay Lohan’s long-suffering assistant/manager (who reportedly finally quit this year) has been through a lot: she was there the night that Lindsay’s second assistant quit and LiLo went on a high-speed pursuit, and she once saved her boss from drowning in an overflowing bathtub. Really, the woman should be getting combat pay.
Now, though, another member of the Lohan family is making Jenni’s life miserable – Lindsay’s famewhore dad, Michael. Michael, who claims to want to help his drug-addled daughter but is happy to collect money from tabloid programs in the meantime, released a voicemail that Jenni left him. In the message, Jenni says, “I get a 5% commission on this entire TV show and it’s sick and disgusting and I’m here and I give up my boyfriend and my dog and my parents and my new place in LA and everything so that your daughter doesn’t kill herself, ok?”
Labor Pains, the straight-to-TV movie that was once heralded as Lindsay Lohan’s big comeback, will be airing on ABC Family, the same network responsible for Secret Life of the American Teenager. I think they’re trying to give Lifetime a run for their “young pregnant chicks” entertainment stronghold.
In the movie, LiLo plays a beleaguered assistant whose boss (Chris Parnell) hates her and wants to fire her, when suddenly she comes up with the ‘brilliant’ idea to fake a pregnancy in order to keep her job. (Hmmm…who else gets knocked up to ensure job security?) The movie also features ex-assistant Cheryl Hines as a concerned coworker.
If anyone ever needed a career makeover, Lindsay Lohan would be a pretty good candidate. Despite her protestations that she’s an actress, these days she’s mostly known for her super-thinness, her alleged drug and alcohol abuse, and her back and forth relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson. The New York Daily News asked several PR experts (including my friend Joe Ciarallo) what advice they’d give LiLo if she were their client. Below, I translate their tips into stuff that could also work for you:
Develop self-discipline. Lindsay needs to throw herself into her acting and be taken seriously again. You can do the same thing by diving headfirst into your work – you’ll only have good accomplishments to show for it. Remember that your actual job performance comes first and all other work stuff (office politics and the like) should be second.
Network well. In this case, it’s not just about going to events and meeting people – it’s about meeting the right people. It is fun to go to parties all weekend and get free drinks, but the thing that will help you most in the long run is actually meeting people in your industry who are potentially good contacts to have if you’re looking for a new gig.
Lindsay Lohan, assistants, and cars are a pretty bad combination. First, Lindsay got a DUI when she was in her car trying to chase down former assistant Tarin when she quit suddently – that incident brought us a whole wave of joyous things, including Lindsay’s mugshot and claiming that she was wearing someone else’s coke-in-the-pockets jeans. Now, Lindsay’s assistant (she wasn’t named in the article, but I assume it’s longsuffering PA Jenni Muro, who reportedly once rescued her boss from drowning in a bathtub) has apparently ran LiLo’s brand new Maserati into a parked car. The car, which Lindsay bought after finally getting her driver’s license back, cost $100,000. Repairing that will probably cost more than Jenni makes in a year.
Hollywood’s most open secret is the relationship between actress Lindsay Lohan and DJ/sibling to major hottie Mark Samantha Ronson. Now, coming from the South, I have heard a lot of euphemisms for a homosexual partner: “roommate,” “best friend,” “business partner,” but never “personal assistant.” However, Defamer Australia recently referred to Samantha as “Lindsay Lohan’s personal assistant/roommate/rough sex partner.” I have never seen either woman refer to Samantha as a PA. In fact, it’s pretty widely known that Lindsay has a longtime PA, Jenni Muro, who once saved LiLo’s life.
I’m not totally clear on whether Defamer’s just making a joke about the fact that Lindsay and Samantha have never publicly defined their relationship, or if LiLo really did once claim that her girlfriend was her assistant. Bottom line, they’re two crazy kids in love.
What would an STA week be if we didn’t end with some kind of Lindsay or Naomi-related post?
Page Six reports that Lindsay Lohan will be starring in Labor Pains, a movie about a girl who pretends to be pregnant so she won’t get fired from her job. While there’s no release date announced yet, we think Lindsay is wise to use office humor to her advantage. I mean…it worked for us.
Word on the street is that perennial assistant-abuser Lindsay Lohan will be appearing on Ugly Betty. Will she be on in the same episode as Naomi Campbell?
Although she was thinking about selling out her boss, Eleanore has taken back her job as Lindsay Lohan’s assistant. However, there’s one wrinkle – Lindsay’s not around to tell Eleanore what to do. However, don’t think that means Eleanor gets to go on vacation until her boss is back roaming the streets. According to the New York Post, Lindsay’s mom Dina and sister Ali have decided that while Lindsay is in jail/rehab, Eleanore works for them. A source told the Post that Eleanore is miserable but doesn’t want to quit again and is counting down the moments til Lindsay is out of rehab.
Jenni Muro, Lindsay Lohan’s long-suffering assistant/manager (who reportedly finally quit this year) has been through a lot: she was there the night that Lindsay’s second assistant quit 
If anyone ever needed a career makeover, Lindsay Lohan would be a pretty good candidate. Despite her protestations that she’s an actress, these days she’s mostly known for her super-thinness, her alleged drug and alcohol abuse, and her back and forth relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson. 
