Shilpa sweetheart, don’t let fame rule your head. You are already in deep shit with all these rumours of you and Raj Kundra. And now this, that Max Clifford, UK’s biggest and best known publicist, the veteran PR who represents Gerald Ratner, Gillian Mc Keith, Peter Jones and Simon Cowell has “dump†you.
I reckon you are on wrong track now, don’t act like Jade Goody. Nobody likes her, remember!
What went wrong…?
1) An extremely affable Clifford confirmed, “It was becoming impossible! We had a six month contract and it came to an end.
“But I will say that it was a waste of our time. We had the opportunity to do a lot. I was hoping to make her the first real international Bollywood celebrity. There was a serious breakdown of communication. Considering we were her official representatives, we found it incredibly difficult to get in touch with her! When we did, the response time was as long as a week.”
Clifford narrated, “She had a bunch of three or four people around her (Is Raj Kundra one of them) who invariably came back with conflicting answers.
“We tried hard to build her profile but I think her priorities were different. It was hard enough persuading her to go on the Jonathan Ross show. I had set up a meeting for her with Simon Cowell, which she didn’t seem interested in either. And yet she had the time to make routine appearances in a Leicester, Uxbridge and Southall. It was a real pity. Anyway, she is a nice girl and I wish her the best.”
2) A security company called CTR services is sueing Shilpa on non-payment of bill £3000 as they had provided security services to Shilpa in the UK sometime back.
3) London law firm Carter Ruck — which gave her legal guidance is sueing her management company Cine Entertainment for about £10,000.
4) Interference of her agent Farhat Hussain.
5) Sterling Media, Shilpa’s new PR company recently did the national PR campaign for the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards in Yorkshire this year (Shilpa your new PR company don’t even have a proper website).
Managing director Natasha Mudhar said: “We are delighted to have won the account, and look forward to propelling Shilpa across an international and mainstream platform. Shilpa has some very interesting projects lined up which we are sure will generate extensive talkability.”
The company will be handling publicity for Ms Shetty’s newly launched S2 perfume, her forthcoming Bollywood musical and other projects in the pipeline.
Shilpa Shetty dismissed the various claims:
“As far as my agent Farhat Hussain is concerned and the report of him not paying up his bills, I am led to believe there were some discrepancies which are being sorted out,” she said.
She also insisted that Mr Kundra had split from his wife months before meeting Shetty (so you “are†dating Raj Kundra)
She said: “As for the reports about me being ‘dumped’ by Max Clifford, I just want to say I have respect for Max and all he has achieved and while we worked together recently, it was good while we were together and as Max himself has stated our 6 month term was over and we parted ways mutually so there is no question of being dumped! When a contract ends, it ends, it’s not one party disowning the other.”
She added: “As a result of all these recent pot-shots at me and attempted maligning of my image, it is very evident there is some vested interest from people who are seriously trying to damage my image (made by Max Clifford) but my conscience is clear and those who have taken this very hectic journey with me recently know how hard I have worked.”
