Brad Walsh

Ga… Ga… In the Rooom

Lady GaGa wore a specially-designed outfit by Christian on the Today show yesterday for her appearance with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb. She taught them some of her moves to “Just Dance” and we were there on set to watch, and to giggle as quietly as possible at the absurdity of this happening at eight in the morning when GaGa just woke up. At the Z100 gifting suite last week she was wearing her stage outfit (she was opening the show and about to perform) with the big white crystals on the shoulder and I got p-p-p-poked in the face during the double cheek kiss. Luckily this time the greeting was stab-free.

We did some photos in the outfit and backstage in the makeup area, and upstairs on set with the fourth hour ladies. GaGa is really funny, we were basically all just laughing for two hours. She needs to add a stand-up routine to her live shows! And we met her super sweet mother, who was backstage and hanging out with us just off camera during the filming. I always like meeting moms, it’s really interesting to see where people come from.

While we were milling around in the lobby for a while, we looked up and standing right there waiting for his cue was Tom Cruise. Apparently yesterday was his first time back at the Today show since the whole Matt Lauer “glib” thing a couple years ago. We ended up in his dressing room for a minute and his entourage of friends and handlers were like a style army; a big group of people all intensely focusing on what he looked like and then what he was saying on the monitors while filming. We didn’t talk to him because… well, what do we have to say to Tom Cruise? At least with Madonna I had hair to discuss. “Hi Tom, you’re pretty famous, huh? How about that time you made Brooke Shields sad?” Better just to watch.