Finally Out of Beta — Kat Giantis

Published on June 17th, 2005

Nicole K. — Also out of Beta and none too pleased with things!

MSN – News – Gossip — Apparently every American likes gossip, especially about dipshit celebritiies. I think this is because we’re idiots. That said I have to admit (as a fellow idiot) that the writings of MSN gossip maven Kat Giantis is some of the slickest most nasty stuff out there. This woman is destined to be the next superstar of this sort of mean and compelling prose. You watch. Go to the site and read everything by her. Great stuff. Until recently this site was in beta.

A sample:

The New York Daily News says the suits at Warner Bros. are in a tizzy over Katie’s suddenly ubiquitous “Scientology adviser,” a young woman named Jessica who has been attending — and at times disrupting — the starlet’s “Batman Begins” interviews.

“Tom pays Jessica to ‘keep Katie on the path,’” an insider blabs to the paper. “She goes everywhere with Katie — she’s never more than a quarter-step behind her. When you ask her who she is, she says, ‘I’m Katie’s best friend.’ She’s known her for six weeks!”.

Creepy. Now I get the bit in the movie Bowfinger!

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# 1 Ima Fish said, on June 17th, 2005 at 11:22 am

You know, for someone who bitches about our asinine celebrity gossip culture, you sure write an awful lot about it.

# 2 site admin said, on June 17th, 2005 at 11:36 am

I do it for a number of reasons:

1) it always gets you riled up
2) Gives me an excuse to put up a pretty picture
3) the pretty picture attacts the men who rack up the numbers

I do NOT over-do this as you suggest. About one post out of 40 or 50

# 3 Ima Fish said, on June 17th, 2005 at 12:13 pm

Speaking of pretty pictures, here’s an idea. Why not put those “pretty” pictures on a different server? That way we could block that server in Firefox but could still see the normal “work friendly” pictures you include on your site. I’m thinking maybe http://www.dvorak.xxx

I tried viewing your site without any pictures, but the “work friendly” pictures you choose tend to be either highly relevant or highly funny, so I wasn’t much fun to lose them all.

It’s just something to think about.

And by the way, I think ANY posting about celebrities is over-doing it. Celebrities are merely waiters and waitresses who were luckily enough to get a break. Think about that the next time you’re at a restaurant: There is a very fine line between that slack-jawed brainless excuse for a human taking your order and the slack-jawed brainless excuse for a human on the cover of People.

# 4 dvorak fan said, on June 17th, 2005 at 2:20 pm

Hey, I though you said blogs were weak? Now you have one?

# 5 K B said, on June 17th, 2005 at 5:38 pm

If I am not mistaken– ? — there was a time several months ago when the number of girlie pics spiked on the blog. At least that was my perception. At the time, I felt that it was a deliberate decision by JCD to increase readership. And I liked the decision.

But I guess I agree with Ima Fish about covering celebrity stories. Except, I’d still like to see the pics posted.

# 6 John Schumann said, on June 17th, 2005 at 7:03 pm

Nicole Kidman is really hot. I saw her again this week on DVD — “Eyes Wide Shut”. I always thought she was too good for Tom Cruise. She’s got class, I figure.

# 7 Mister Mustard said, on June 20th, 2005 at 2:28 pm

>> I always thought she was too good for Tom Cruise.

Even that brainwashed Scientology bimbo that Tom “Bad Hair” Cruise is imitating a chimpanzee over on Oprah is too good for him.

I don’t find there to be too many celeb stories on this blog.

# 8 T.C. Moore said, on June 21st, 2005 at 2:08 pm

This is a stunning photograph that is in no way pornographic. I can’t see any reason why a coworker would object, but that you’re reading about celebrities.

The real scandal is that Katie Holmes is totally star struck and is changing her religion for a man 16 years older than her. She was quoted as saying “I’ve wanted to marry Tom Cruise since I was a little girl.”

Add this to the Scientology stuff above, and this marriage is doomed. (Especially if Katie continues to kick ass at the box office like Nicole did. Or she could pull a Kate Capshaw and completely disappear.)

This celebrity post in particular had a soft, flaky crust and a meaty inside. Yum, yum.

# 9 site admin said, on June 21st, 2005 at 2:52 pm

Capshaw was never much of an actress.

I tend to run the celeb stories on Friday only.

# 10 J F Riley said, on January 18th, 2006 at 11:33 am

“gossip maven Kat Giantis”

Gossip maven almost sounds respectable. And there isn’t much respectable about anything Kat writes (or scratches) out with her claws. She’s merciless to people who are priviledged without any apparent justification. I almost get the feeling that she hates the fact that they’re there and she isn’t. And the only way she can scratch that itch is to slash and burn them the one way she can, in print. She may be protected–but protecting her is as wrong as protecting Flynt and Hustler and the rest. She mistakes liberty for license. JFR

# 11 ilovesecondhandsmoke said, on February 24th, 2006 at 12:58 pm

Since I cannot find her email address or a forum of some sort in her “Undressed” column at MSN, here goes:

Dear Kat Giantis,

You have the most ridiculously inaccurate fashion critiques I’ve ever read. Some are right on, yet plenty are just so far-fetched every editor-in-chief, design director, and reasonable fashion writer would gloriously beg to differ. The suggestions made are ones that belong to the “safe” fashion pages of weekly tabloids but never, NEVER in legitimate international fashion bibles. Lastly, J F Riley has an excellent point!

# 12 Lou Castelli said, on April 20th, 2006 at 12:37 pm

Kat Giantass’s “reporting” on MSN is just plain mean. I also think it’s cowardly of her to write critiques of people she doesn’t even know without providng an opportunity for people to respond back to her directly. Boo, Kat Giantass, boo.

# 13 Darius said, on July 20th, 2006 at 6:14 am

I’m only curious to see a picture of Kat Giantis as I can’t find any online or is that she breaks the lens with her beauty!!! If your going to toss mud, post your picture so we can see where all the crap is coming from……

# 14 Macedonreader said, on July 20th, 2006 at 4:34 pm

Kat Giantis ————- Holy $%^& .
I want to see a picture of that …… columnist so anyone can tear apart her attempt at making a personal statement about her attire. Bet it is textbook WHATEVER
I wish she could publish photos about the celebs – and then just shut the $%^&*( up.
Get a job, write some words that matter Kat.

# 15 dan bohn said, on August 3rd, 2006 at 8:08 pm

‘nother chance (im ammused).
my comment re lindsay…
it was that you are obviously bisaed.
(the comment was stupid, and way out of the times).
if i don’t get through this time, i’ll know what i know.

# 16 Steve said, on August 16th, 2006 at 4:58 am

MacedonReader, I totally agree. Her wit is about as clever as an 8th graders, not to mention she gets attention with her pathetic attempt at ’shock value’. Nothing about her writing is original and she spreads lies and rumors over the internet. Great job Kat, if you died tomorrow this planet would move along just fine without you. Thanks for not helping society progress in any shape or form.

Whats her last name again???….oh well, who cares.

(Now go back to embellishing stories and pretending you are somehow better than the people you insult)

# 17 SteveB said, on August 16th, 2006 at 4:58 am

Whats her last name again???….oh well, who cares.

(Now go back to embellishing stories and pretending you are somehow better than the people you insult)

# 18 TheresaA said, on October 26th, 2006 at 6:36 pm

Kat is totally mean. Probably pulls legs off insects and then writes that they look freakish and walk funny. Get a grip. Imagine being “critqued” by that biotch… Make my day. MSN should pay us to read her crap.

# 19 Gerd J. Rude said, on November 8th, 2006 at 9:14 pm

Kat Giantis has a most wonderful, entertaining sense of humor. The people who criticize her need to “lighten up”.

# 20 Bhead said, on November 22nd, 2006 at 11:33 am

Oh my GAWD! Kat’s writing is so funny! I laugh until I cry everytime I read anything of hers. Lighten up indeed. Celebrity worship is for people who have no life of their own and Kat puts them RIGHT where they belong. Hilarious! And hey, don’t any of you folks have a spell check on your computer?

# 21 Molly said, on December 8th, 2006 at 7:37 am

Kat used to piss me off because she’s the one wasting her breath (or time i guess) complaining about these celebs. But now every time i read her stuff it’s like she’s reading MY mind. LOL, that girl is frickin hilarious.

# 22 randomhuman said, on December 8th, 2006 at 9:22 am

I just read a critique by Kat Giantis about an outfit Lindsay Lohan wore and was so repulsed that I had to look Kat up. You know how some things can be repulsive, but you love it anyway? Well, this was just plain repulsive. I don’t even pay any attention to Lindsay or know much about her, but from what I read from Kat it seemed as if Kat was out to kill her. I do believe in karma and I believe the karma on that kind of writing is going to be really rough. My guess is that Kat Giantis may not even be his or her real name.

I don’t get what would make someone who has good vocabulary and good writing skills completely waste it on tearing human being to shreds, instead of just critiquing fashion in a way that actually shows off the writer’s talent and will gain the respect of the audience. I’m a big fan of satire – from The Onion to Borat, but this isn’t even satire or comedy of any form. I can’t respect when someone writes in a way as though they are getting every bit of anger they’ve had toward anyone in their past out on a person they don’t even know in the form of a fashion critique. Too cruel to be funny. It just leave the reader wondering what is seriously going on in the writer’s life that they’d stoop THAT low.

# 23 sane said, on December 10th, 2006 at 7:05 pm

Kat Giantis, whoever that is, should really take a step back and consider her (?) place in the world. I guess Kat gets paid for writing about celebrities and i had the misfortune of reading it posted in the corner of some webpage. Kat’s “writing” smacks of the type of shameless and groundless attack commentary against working actors and other people in the carnivorous spotlight that only the most bored and fat headed reader could relate to.
It is not funny. It is not true. It is mean. It is cowardice. It lacks all taste or class. It promotes dishonesty and dis-information.
A true bottom feeder, able to kick a person when they are down.
To try and make fun of someone in AA? Who is next, cancer victims?
If i were ever to read anything from Kat again I wouldn’t be surprised if it were about how the holocaust was a hoax or why whites are superior because groundless mean spirited dis-information will always follow the agenda of the twisted insecure coward.
Not only should Kat be ashamed, she should be stopped.

# 24 wendylee said, on December 19th, 2006 at 2:01 pm

Oh good grief!

Kat Giantis is hysterically funny, witty, has a killer vocabulary, a grasp of the absurd and a handle on sarcastic humour. In short, I can’t wait to read her lampoons of the rich, famous and ridiculously overpaid people who spend their off time getting drunk, stoned, arrested and, in general, embarrassing themselves consistently – yet, are worshiped as gods by moralizing idiots, who obviously lack senses of humour, dictionaries, spell check, vocabularies and senses of perspective, historical or otherwise.

Do not trivialize the holocaust by remotely comparing it to self-centered, overpaid, self-destructive celebrities being roasted for their bad taste and even worse behaviour; that’s truly shameful. Kat Giantis’ jabs are entertainment. If you don’t like it don’t read it, but do not accuse her of being on a par with Hitler – that’s disgusting and you should be ashamed.Maybe a good anger management course would help.

Please get yourselves lives and climb down from your soapboxes. The moral outrage and ridculous rants are boring and make you look like Linsay Lohans – or Anna Nicole Smiths or even Tom Cruises. Gasp! That must make me a twisted insecure coward as well. Or someone who actually has a sense of humour!

# 25 Jae Longo said, on December 20th, 2006 at 11:45 am

Kat Giantis…whomever u r …wherever u r….
YOU ROCK! you are my hero…
I can’t get enough of your dead-on fashion/celebrity commentary!! I work in fashion and the entertainment industry, and I am always surprised how much information/observation you pack into your powerful little paragraphs. I think you are a true talent and a genius.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE reading “Undressed!”. It is THE STANDARD and only TRUE fashion commentary, in my opinion.

# 26 ed said, on January 11th, 2007 at 1:45 pm

I tend to agree with randomhuman. I have read a few fashion reviews that Kat wrote and they seem to have less to say about the clothes than the unlucky celebrity she is bashing. She does not know the circumstance with which the picture was taken so how can she slam them so. I personally think Kat is a no-talent hack that needs to back.

# 27 ed said, on January 11th, 2007 at 1:45 pm

# 28 Desiree said, on January 17th, 2007 at 10:44 am

It seems as though you have a little black spot on your heart for Beyonce. Why might I ask, is there some kind of cat like rivalry between you. I think that some of the things you say are very mean spirited and down right nasty. We don’t have to hate Beyonce to love Jennifer Hudson. The entire cast played their roles to the fullest and that’s why the world loved ‘Dreamgirls’.

# 29 violet said, on January 17th, 2007 at 12:28 pm

Although she has moderatley funny sense of humor, 90% of the clothing she ignorantly dismisses as ugly are amazing pieces loved by all in the fashion world. It’s not that I don’t have a sense of humor, because I do find lots of the things she says to be funny, but my only problem with her is that she seems to have no apreciation for the fashion world, and seems to un-intentionally spread her ignorance.

# 30 trisha said, on February 27th, 2007 at 11:22 am

I don’t care what anyone says….I think you, Kat, are hilarious!!! Anything that makes me laugh is good and I’m guaranteed that every time I read your articles. HA HA HA HA!!! See, I’m laughing right now thinking about something you wrote!!!

# 31 jennifer said, on May 9th, 2007 at 12:44 pm

Your dish on the Costume Institute gala getups is pure genius! Granted, you had some excellent material to work with. Geez!

# 32 Cory said, on September 7th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

I wish i never read one of her articles…your job revolvles around someone else’s life…..thats so cool..seriously get a real job. You are writing about someone else’s life..I can’t even believe i read your lame article..Probably because im drunk as shit and it was on msn’s main page, shame to them..fuck you and get a real job

# 33 William said, on September 12th, 2007 at 3:38 am

I find the Celebrity Undressed photo and commentary to generally be “spot on.” While Miss Teen South Carolina can look sexually enticing enough to snag 4th place while babbling blonde bimbo-nothingness Kat provides a review resplendent with refreshing use of mulititudes of language. That ability places Kat at Number 1 in my book over the sartorial disasters that the mass public chooses to pedestal-ize!

# 34 A. P. Phillips said, on September 13th, 2007 at 8:33 pm

I have to admit to being unable to curb the occassional chortle, or two, when reading “Undressed” – while her appraisals typically are quite scathing in nature, sometimes they are nothing less than spot-on in all of their vituperative glory.

However, Kat Giantis, is NOT a talented “writer” – she simply is one more journalistic aspirant who strings together ready-made phrase after hackneyed, ready-made phrase, but does little or no actual writing of her own… what she does is contrived arrangement, NOT original composition.

To take a page from her book – her “wit” is wholly reliant on ready aliteration, and her vast “vocabulary” limited to several, stale, polysyllabic staples… toothsome, sylphlike and amorous, anyone?… pulchritudinous, people?

Pretention present throughout her entire presentation? Unfortunately, so!… in fact, it’s utterly and unnecessarily ubiquitous among the offal that are her offerings.

Anyone can “write” like Kat Giantis.

# 35 Valerie said, on November 10th, 2007 at 5:37 pm

I gotta hand it to Kat Giantis – someone in the biz finally alluded to the immorality of fur – in a passive aggressive way. what happen to the rise in consciousness about it 10 years ago? the fur industry was suffering but new marketing with dyed fur caused a comeback – no one questions it? Thank you Kat.

# 36 Keith said, on June 4th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

Hey Kat Giantis, I hope your fucking mother dies and rots in hell.

# 37 L Rajiva said, on June 19th, 2008 at 10:49 am

Kat Giantis. Glad to know her name. Those shard-like reviews of fashion-freakery are some of the best pieces on the web.

The scalding metaphors are just the start. When you’re done drinking her spicy chai, you also get to peek into the dregs and read (with unnerving accuracy) the psychic state behind each fashion fatality.

She’s a pop-culture soothsayer disguised as a sartorial critic.

Her pen is cruel only if you happen to be a gentle, limelight-averse recluse. How many of those do you think show up in eyeball-snaring, boody-baring, thigh-sticking, glitter-littering costumes in public?

Not many, I think…..

# 38 jack said, on July 10th, 2008 at 9:50 am

What’s the deal with the story about Mariah Carey and Nick? Insiders have known for a long time that Mariah prefers women as sex partners. The whole marriage thing is a joke! She is a lesbian. Will she ever come out of the closet?…or is she afraid of damaging her career?

Best regards

Jack Brown

Bryan,Texas

# 39 John Plain said, on November 22nd, 2008 at 10:33 am

I just read Giantis article on Sunken Dreamboats on MSN.com. What an ignorant mean person. What a hack, to use picture comparisons that are obviously from a) the best (airbrushed in many cases) times of that person’s career when they are obviously in top shape and b) not necessarily the worst, but in many cases an awful, unprocessed photo from an unflattering angle or moment.

Come on, this is grade school marketing stuff where the diet pill company takes before and after shots that are so obviously different. Where the person ‘before’ shot is fat and white and frowning in front of a gray background and in the ‘after’ shot the person is tan, and smiling, and in front of a palm tree or waterfall.

Come on. Sweetheart, you’re a hack. I hope you see this Giantis. Even though you don’t care, I still want you to know, that educated people are reading this tripe and we know, we know you are nothing more than a vicious, mean opportunistic hack hiding in the folds of MSN’s skirts.

By the way, where is your picture? Come on out with it, let us see you in a bikini, let us see you an unstaged shot where you are yawning or stumbling or pulling your underwear out of your butt. In fact, let us see any picture at all. Curiously enough, a google image search doesn’t yield any photo of this person, and if it is who I think it is, then she has got nooooooo business capping on other people’s looks.

I smell jealousy. You reek of opportunism. Your evil outpouring of spiteful filth has done nothing but set journalism back another 10 years, lowering the bar of acceptance to well below the surface of the muck you rake. Historically, you will be put on the same shelf as the muck-rakers of the early 1900’s, if you care, which I doubt you do. Even if you did, there is no way to undo the toxic spill of your words.

How easy it is to take advantage of other people. You are weak, you are lazy, you are mean, and you should be countered. I would love to see a zine started that tracks these wannabe writers, taking pot-shots at them and posting messy pictures of them the same way they go after other people. Maybe a taste of your own medicine will help calm you down? If not, at the very least it will be funny to see you mired down in the same sewer you help to create.

# 40 Tracy Steinberg said, on February 24th, 2009 at 7:29 am

Kat Giantis

YOU NEED THE SHIT BEAT OUT OF YOU. I’d should have your husband eat me out on my period and have him buy me a new car on your wages. You dumb bitch. Watch your back!

# 41 sambizzle said, on May 3rd, 2009 at 10:12 am

I hope Kat is reading every one of these posts and laughing her ass off at all you imbeciles upon whom her wit and sarcasm is lost. I actually have cried from laughing so hard at some of her stuff. The people who are offended by her style are the same morons that buy all the crap that supports the vilest, most annoying creatures on earth: the paparazzi. Get over yourselves and learn to appreciate humor.

# 42 Romil4 said, on May 31st, 2009 at 8:55 am

I don’t care what anyone else thinks, Kat is urbanely witty much like those wits of yore who were part of the Algonquin Round Table set. I usually laugh out loud when I read her remarks aboout the celebutards’ fashion sense (or lack thereof). Keep it up Kat. We need you.

# 43 joe piasso said, on July 30th, 2009 at 9:55 pm

This woman is so full of self-hatred that it oozes out of every negative word she writes, which is very sad. I wish her the best in her recovery. Get better really soon. Kisses.

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