Charles Barkley, Gnarls Barkley. Potato, Potahto.

by Carmen Van Kerckhove

Funny item from yesterday’s Page Six:

Models are not known for their brain power, but one catwalker showed amazing dim-wittedness at Tenjune the other night. Former NBA star Charles Barkley was relaxing at a table when a blond model approached him “seductively while the song ‘Crazy’ was playing,” our spy giggled. The model “whispered in his ear, ‘Get up and dance, baby – this is your song.’ ” The ditz thought he was Gnarls Barkley, a band comprised of two people – Danger Mouse and Cee-lo. Charles was not impressed.

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S wrote:

O.K. I am cracking up on this one!

Posted 07 Dec 2006 at 3:21 pm ¶
Kenda wrote:

hilarious. next time i feel bad about not looking like a model, i’ll remember this.

Posted 07 Dec 2006 at 11:45 pm ¶

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