Don’t Let Michael Bolton Babysit the Kids
Crooner? Yes. Nicolette-Sheridan-dating musician? Yes. Babysitter? Not so much, according to Paula Abdul. Michael Bolton may be good at many things (like, say, growing his hair out), but babysitting doesn’t seem to be one of them.
On VH1’s blog, everyone’s favorite train wreck, Paula Abdul, revealed that Michael Bolton was her babysitter way back in the day. Apparently, she doesn’t have fond memories…
He used to babysit me. I couldn’t stand him.
Forgive me, but when I was a Brownie — you know, before you’re a Girl Scout, at first you’re a Brownie — I remember coming home from Brownies, doing my homework with a pencil on my L-shaped couch. Michael was babysitting me. He never took care of me, he’d just do jam sessions outside in our condos. In the condos where we lived, the Tower of Power horn section lived across the pool area, and the Porcaro brothers from Toto lived two doors down, and the drummer from the Jackson 5 lived there too. I have such a documentary musical of my life in the making. You’d never believe it! This was the normal, everyday, after-school thing.
Anyway, I remember [Michael saying], “Yep, yep, kid, I’m just going to be out there. I’ll be back in an hour, whatever.” I remember running on my knees to walk him out of the house. When I ran, my pencil was sticking straight up in one of the cushions and went right into my knee. Now I had a pencil in my knee. I’m screaming and screaming, and it was all because of him. He had to [skip] rehearsal, which he hated, and I had to get to the hospital. And that’s my experience of Michael Bolton.
And here’s a little flashback photo, just for funsies.
April 11th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
So how long ago did he take care of you? Is he old now or does he look the same as in the picture?
Wow what an irresponsible person and still he gets paid for that