The Bossticks - Nikki Haskell - Socialite, Entrepreneur, Extraordinary Party Giver, & Stories From Studio 54

Episode Date: July 26, 2019

#204: On this episode we sit down with Nikki Haskell. Nikki is an entrepreneur, socialite, and extraordinary party giver. She is on the show today telling us stories from the days of studio 54 and mor...e much.  To connect with Nikki Haskell click HERE To connect with Lauryn Evarts click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697 This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens If it's time  (and it is) to focus on your health and feel your best, getting into a daily routine with Athletic Greens really will be the single best thing you can do for ​yourself this year. We have a special offer is you jump over to www.athleticgreens.com/skinny ​and claim our special offer today. Get 20 FREE travel packs valued at $79 with your first purchase. Produced by Dear Media 

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The following podcast is a dear media production. She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. Fantastic. And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie. And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you alone for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her.
Starting point is 00:00:21 Aha. I was a fixture. Studio changed my life because prior to that, I never, ever went out without a male escort. I mean, I never went to, I'm not a person that hangs out with the girls anyway. But I always had a date. We always went to a club. And then I'd say to my date, do you, do you want to go to Studio 54? They'd say, no, I have to go to work tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:00:44 So I'd go around in the revolving door at my building, get in the car, and go right back to Studio 54. We'd say, don't let, don't bother to get out of the cab. What's up, guys? Welcome back to the skinny confidential him and her podcast. Today we'd have a fire guest. Nikki Haskell is on board. So she's an insane, remarkable entrepreneur and a pioneer and a fearless leader.
Starting point is 00:01:10 She is so major. She is so fab. And she's been a part of everything from the entertainment industry to being a film producer, a talk show host, an artist, an inventor, and an extraordinary party giver. We've been having fun bringing on guests that are telling us a bunch of wild stories. Nikki was there for all of the studio 54 days, front row, partying, dancing. Wish I was there. I grew up in the wrong era, everybody.
Starting point is 00:01:33 You know what's amazing is not only was she around for all the major moments at Studio 54. She now vacations every single summer for a month with Clive Davis and Santropay. Sign me up. That's the life. Clive, what is going on? Bring me with you. You know, she's got friends in high places.
Starting point is 00:01:52 Joan Collins is her bestie. Ivanka Trump. Yes. She used to be friends with Donald Trump. I mean, she's been friends with everybody. Robert Evans. And so she's the who's who? She's got stories for days.
Starting point is 00:02:03 She is so cute, you guys. So here's the deal. My dad, this is kind of a funny story, Michael. I don't even know if you know this. My dad, shout out to Brad. Brad, we know you're listening. Introduced me to Nikki because they met on Facebook. Did you know that?
Starting point is 00:02:19 My dad and her somehow met on Facebook. They connected. They became friends. And then one day my dad called me and he said, Lauren, I'm in L.A. I met the Beverly Hills Hotel, the Polo Lounge. having a McCarthy salad and we're having margaritas with my friend Nikki. Will you stop by? And I'm like, Daddy, it's a Wednesday at 12, but sure, twist my arm. Can we talk about why you still call
Starting point is 00:02:40 your dad, Daddy? It's always kind of irked me a little bit. I don't know. I just always called him Daddy. I can call you Daddy if you want. Now I don't want to be called Daddy because I'm going to think, listen, you and Daddy bouncing on each other's knees, a little weird. Brad, what's going on there? So anyway, I went to meet my dad and Julie, my stepmom at the Beverly Hills Hotel and Nikki was there and she was so fab. She was dressed to the nines. She had her, I think she had actually she drinks, what does she drink, Michael? A vodka soda, right? Yes. She was dressed to the nines. She was enjoying a margarita with my dad and they were just laughing and having fun and telling stories. So after getting to know her, we decided to invite her on the podcast because she's had such a
Starting point is 00:03:20 colorful, full life. And if you know anything about me, you know I am absolutely, or I was absolutely obsessed with my grandma. I had such a special relationship with her. She was my best friend. I miss her every single day. So anyone that kind of reminds me of that, I lean into. And Nikki is, reminds me so much of her because she's so positive. She's so funny. She has so many stories. And she's interesting. We just love, I mean, if you haven't got the point yet already, and if you're a new listener, maybe don't know yet, we try to bring on as many walks of lives with as many different viewpoints as possible. You know, I think there's so many platforms. out there that are built to divide people in a very divisive time. And for us, we always want this
Starting point is 00:04:01 to be a non-judgmental place that brings people together, gives them a little escapism, inspiration, something to learn, something to aspire to. Or if you just want to disconnect and have a laugh for a little bit, so we try to bring on as many different people to have as many different conversations as possible. And this one is no different. Like always, keep your judgments reserved, hear the new point of view, question your own thoughts and beliefs. That's what this show is all about. That's the audience that we hope we're cultivating. With that, let's dive into this colorful conversation with none other than Nikki Haskell. We're going to take a quick break and talk about athletic greens. First and foremost, I need to share how I use my athletic greens. So what I do is I micromanage
Starting point is 00:04:42 and manipulate my husband. He wakes up. He does his meditation. He writes in his journal, blah, blah, blah, and then he goes to the gym. And then he knows the second he comes home that my eyes are about to open. And I want my green smoothie. So he goes to the kitchen, grabs the blender, puts tons of ice in it, a little water. He does a heaping huge scoop. I want a big scoop, Michael, none of that half-ass shit. And then some berries, like a handful of berries and tons of spinach and pushes it down in there, maybe a little lemon, and then adds a pitted date. If he forgets the date, he has to redo it. We might have to do a podcast on how to manipulate your significant other. Well, listen, I needed help in the greens department. A lot of us need help in the greens department. I'm not the most disciplined
Starting point is 00:05:22 Did you ever? But with athletic greens, when I first learned about it from Tim Ferriss's show, I said, okay, I need greens, I know I need it. It's going to help me with my energy. It's going to support my immune system. It's going to help with my gut health. All of these things. Listen, we all know we need greens.
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Starting point is 00:06:58 Nikki, introduce yourself to our audience. For anyone who doesn't know you, give us the bullet points, the summary. Well, I'm Nikki Haskell. I was born in Chicago, brought up in Beverly Hills, lived between New York and L.A. I was a stockbroker, among the first five female stockbrokers in the world. I was on Wall Street for 10 years. And then at the end of that career, I started my own television show
Starting point is 00:07:24 at Prince Egan Von Furstenberg called The Nikki Haskell Show, which is now on Amazon Prime. I did 300 episodes shot from all over the world, the Philippines with the Marcos's, Rio de Janeiro, for Carnival. I danced in the Samba School parade for 12 years and filmed, they called me the American Karma Miranda. I was the first person never put fashion on television
Starting point is 00:07:46 because, see, the 80s, was a very unique time in the United States for fashion. It's when American designers first became popular, like Calvin and Halston and Ralph Lauren and Oscar DiLorenta. Prior to that, everybody bought their couture clothes from Europe. So the 80s was a very important part of the fashion world. And I was the only person, I covered every fashion show and put one in every one of my shows.
Starting point is 00:08:13 So almost every show that I did has a fashion show in it. It was a great time. When the show ended, I did the show for six years. Then I created this diet product called StarCaps. I used to have billboards all over Sunset. I had 20 billboards and won three Sunset Strip Billboard Awards. My billboard was the one that sort of looked like the Hollywood sign with me sitting on top of it. And then I started doing different projects and working on, and I wrote a diet book called The Star Diet,
Starting point is 00:08:41 which was on the bestseller list for three weeks. And I wrote, what else? have I done? Oh, I'm also paint, and I'm a sculptress, and my artwork is on my brother's company. It's called Graphic Encounter. And that's it, guys. Have anything else for me to do? There's a lot of directions we could take this interview. And I like to go dancing, so that's it. You can put it all together. All right, we can all go dancing. I go dancing on Saturday nights all the time. You have to come with you. We're new to L.A. Where should we go dancing up here? I have to take you to the secret place. It's called Georgios. It's in the standard hotel.
Starting point is 00:09:16 That sounds cool. You have to, like, go through the kitchen. It's very rat pack, you know, it's like, you know. I bet you could tell us all the hip, cool things to do around here because we, you know, we're new. We're still finding out the secrets of Hollywood, the secrets of L.A. What secrets have you found out so far? Well, we, my dad and I ran into it at Craigs. It seems like you have your, you had your table there in, like in the, the chicest corner at Craigs.
Starting point is 00:09:40 I ate at three restaurants, Craigs, Craigs and Craigs. Did you used to eat at Chastens back in the day? I did. Every Sunday night was like the A spot. Everybody went there. It was very chic. Everybody got dressed and it was all movie stars. What happened to Chasens? We need to bring Chasins back. What happened to Hollywood? would. Yeah, true, true. People just aren't there anymore. It got to the point where the family that owned Chasen's sold it, and people were like hysterical. But most of the landmark places in Los Angeles are gone. I did a documentary called The Sunset Strip. I was so pleased that the person
Starting point is 00:10:16 that did all the archives on it found footage of everything. Every single famous club and nightclub and restaurant that was on sunset, they captured everything. They used to be so, many fun things to do. It's not so much fun anymore. How is Hollywood changed? Can you like, well, give us, give us specific examples. You're, you obviously, you know, are a hustler in Hollywood. You're very connected. You have tons of famous friends. How is it, how have you seen it change with social media? How have I seen it change with social media? I don't think that's really the I mean, how did you just seen a change over the years? Well, it's changed over the years because needless to say, you know, all the great places like Spago's when it was open on sunset and Chasins and all the,
Starting point is 00:10:57 They used to be where Hugo bosses up in the sunset strip now used to be a restaurant called LaRuse, and we used to go black tie on Saturday nights for dinner. Now they wear flip-flops and t-shirts. So the whole clothing has changed sort of the nightlife. Nobody gets dressed anymore. Everybody looks like a slob. I don't like that. I don't like people looking like slops.
Starting point is 00:11:19 I don't look like a slob today because we're in the studio. I apologize. But you know, I don't like that either. My dad told me Vegas got ruined. as soon as people stopped dressing up, it just became a sloth best. It just became, you know, like leisure suits took over. It just changed. But, I mean, I get dressed all the time.
Starting point is 00:11:37 I mean, I'm not a person that wears flip-flops and T-shirts. I am, in fact, I'm overdressed when I'm naked. I'm always over-dressed. You know, so I have several of my friends, and we sort of keep the standard up. We always get dressed when we go out for dinner and look. like an adult. That's why I love New York and London still so much, because you go over there and people still, not everybody, but there's still some effort put in in those cities. New York is getting worse, too. It's not, it's not as glamorous as it used to be. Don't forget,
Starting point is 00:12:09 I live in New York too. I moved to New York in 1965, and when I, it was like a fluke that I became a stockbroker, but when I was on Wall Street, there weren't any women there. I mean, I went to restaurants and said men only. I thought, well, this doesn't mean me. And I went right of course and sat at the best tables. But there wasn't anything down there. There was no stores. There was nothing. But everybody got dressed to go to work every day.
Starting point is 00:12:33 There was no leisure day, you know, or friendly Friday or whatever it is that they call it. You know, well, you don't have to dress up. You know, you can smoke a joint and put on a pair of flip flops and say, I'm at the office. So I think social media, in a way social media is added to a lot of things. Like, for instance, I'm on Instagram as Big Nick B.H. and I'm on Facebook as at Nikki Haskell. I don't use Twitter anymore. It's too mean.
Starting point is 00:13:00 I don't really like that. I mean, I... Yeah, you can go down the Twitter wormhole. It can get nasty. I mean, I'm from, you know, listen, I'm a people person. So my entire life, I've given parties and entertained people throughout my life. When I lived at the Sierra Towers,
Starting point is 00:13:14 the building that I just pointed out to, yes, Elton John did live there and Joan Collins and George Hamilton and Cher. In fact, Elton, Cher and I all moved out the same day. It just happened that our, you know, we moved out. What are those personalities like? Well, I love Elton and I love Sherry. I mean, you can't get any more glamorous than that. Unfortunately, I didn't sing in the elevator of the lobby. So, and I used to, and I've been friendly with Elton. I was at Elton's very first Elton John Academy Award party, which I think was like
Starting point is 00:13:44 27 years ago. And Cher, I've known forever. I mean, I think Cher is one of the great super talents. I just adore her. And Elton's incredible. I mean, he's really kept the, the awareness of the age catastrophe in plain sight because everybody thinks, oh, AIDS is over, but it isn't. The epidemic is worse now than ever. They've just found medications that can prolong it, but it does have a death sentence to it. And Elton has never wavered. He does, I think he does two or three events every month. I mean, if you have nothing but money to spend, you could spend your entire life going to Elton John events. Wait, so when you're living in a tower with these people, do you see them dressed down all the time, or is it not like that?
Starting point is 00:14:29 Well, you know, you don't really see them that much, unless you're cruising the elevators, you know? Unless you're camped out. Who did I, you know who I, one of my last, I got into the elevator and Zach Ephraim was in the elevator, right? I don't know where he was going. I, like, totally quartered him, you know. He was lucky he got out of the elevator. I think it was fine. Nice to see you, you know. But there was lots of stars in that building. A lot of people. I heard a rumor that you also got to go to Studio 54, which makes me very jealous.
Starting point is 00:14:59 But not only did I get to go to Studio 54, first of all, I went opening night with Donald and Ivana Trump. I took them to Studio 54. And, you know, Donald, Donald is one of my closest friends. And when he married Ivana, she became one of my closest friends. And they had just come back from their honeymoon. And I had received this opening night invitation for Studio 54. It was in a plastic, little plastic box with black confetti in it. And we went out for dinner.
Starting point is 00:15:24 Donald never went to clubs. He doesn't drink, right? No. He doesn't drink because his brother died of alcoholism. Nope. But we belonged to this one club called La Club, which was a very private chic, upper east side townhouse with a dance floor. And, of course, everybody wore suits. I mean, if you ever went in there in a pair of blue jeans, they'd think that you were like in a murder massacre or something or something.
Starting point is 00:15:47 They throw you right out. They would. You know, and I met Donald. I didn't meet him at studio, but I met him during the club time. So I convinced everybody to go to Studio 54. And of course, we got there very early. You know, clubs don't even start until 12 o'clock at night. So we got there was about 10, 30, 11.
Starting point is 00:16:07 And there wasn't anybody out in front, no doorman, no nothing. So Donald got out of the car and he started knocking on the door. Nothing happened. Knocked again. Nothing happened. About 10 minutes knocking on the door. finally this man, this construction worker, opened the door. And he was still painting Studio 54 when we walked in.
Starting point is 00:16:26 And the studio had a long, cavernous entranceway. It was a theater. And there was no music playing. I was actually there the minute they played the first song. And we walked in. There was only maybe 100 people inside. Margot Hemingway was in there and Brooke Shields. And it was nice.
Starting point is 00:16:44 It was like, so what is this all about? Where is everybody? And when we came, time for us to leave, and we went to push open the door with thousands of people all the way around the block and nobody could get in. Because everybody was pushed up against the door and they couldn't open the doors. And Sinatra couldn't get in and this one couldn't get in. And the next day on the front page of the paper, the fact that they couldn't get in made it a popular place. And then the next night, and within that week, Halston gave a party for Bianca Jagger and they brought her in on a white horse. I read about this in Janice Dickinson's autobiography.
Starting point is 00:17:16 And Janice Dickinson, by the way, was a friend of mine. At the time she was going with Rick James, it was a really close friend of mine. And the two of them were dating, and they were standing in the middle of the dance floor of Studio 54, screaming at each other. And I'm like, you know, standing there with my arms full because I wanted to get out of there. So I reached into her purse, and I pulled out her keys, and I gave them to Rick James, and I said, goodbye, and I left. You know, but studio was great.
Starting point is 00:17:42 I mean, people used to say to me, where do you live? And I said, well, I live at Studio 54, but I keep an apartment on 68th Street. I went there and see, studio totally changed my life. You were a fixture. I was a fixture. Studio changed my life because prior to that, I never, ever went out without a male escort. And then I never went to, I'm not a person that hangs out with the girls anyway. But I always had a date.
Starting point is 00:18:06 We always went to a club. And then I'd say to my date, do you want to go to Studio 54? and they'd say, no, I have to go to work tomorrow. So I'd go around in the revolving door at my building, get in the car, and go right back to Studio 54. See, pal. We'd say, don't bother to get out of the cab. I even had T-shirts to me that said, don't bother to get out of the cab. And I would go back there.
Starting point is 00:18:31 But I never overdid it. First of all, I never did any drugs anyway. And I don't like being in the basement. I just like to dance and have a good time. But I left there probably 2, 2.30 most nights. And I almost always left by myself. How were you staying up until 2.30 in the morning and creating this massive empire simultaneously at the same time?
Starting point is 00:18:51 Well, I really don't need a lot of sleep. I mean, I can't, see, what happened with those people was they stayed up all night. After they went to studio, they had a thing that I created called the Dawn Patrol, where they would all meet and then they would go to all these clubs downtown. I had no interest in that. I was studio. Maybe I'd go to once in a while. I go to another club. But, I mean, I would sleep. And when the studio first opened, I was still a stockbroker.
Starting point is 00:19:14 And I mean, I never have a problem. I'm, I take a disco. I invented the term disco nap. I take a disco nap every day. What's a disco nap? A disco nap is something I should be doing right about now. Oh. Is when I laid out of my bed and I go to sleep for two hours and get up and get dressed and go out. Well, listen. Is there any other way? No, I don't think there's another way. We've done a lot of these interviews, close to 200, there is so many directions that we can take this end, just on the few places you've already taken us. I'd be remiss not to that. So you became friends with Donald Trump during a time when he was just a businessman living in New York. How has that relationship changed or been impacted with obviously him now being the president of the United States? Well, how has it impacted
Starting point is 00:19:55 your life and also your relationship? Well, you know, it's interesting because first of all, I was a Democrat and I was very close to the Clintons. And I went to the Clinton inauguration. I went to the White I was 20 times when the Clintons were in office. And I always knew that Donald wanted to be president. I mean, I used to speak to Donald every day. Ambitious guy. Yes. And so I thought, what a great idea.
Starting point is 00:20:15 Never once thinking that he would actually become president. But, of course, it was, you know, it worked great for me because I'm the first person that ever interviewed Donald. So I have all the footage on Donald. I worked with Donald on the Trump Tower. So I have the groundbreaking, the topping off. I have all the interviews in the offices with Donald when he was living at 8005th, when Yvana was working on the Trump Tower. I mean, I went with Ivana to Italy where she bought an entire mountain, a pink marble, and made the entranceway for the Trump Tower.
Starting point is 00:20:46 She had a floor plan of every piece of marble, you know, it's seven stories high. And we rolled it out and she matched every piece of tile to every number on every, on the whole thing. Wow. You know, it was a massive undertaking the Trump Tower. And it was a, at the time, it was, you know, nobody had ever built a building like this before. So I loved it. And I loved working with Donald. He was always very supportive of me, always has been and very supportive of my show. And I've done 27 documentaries on him. There's one one running now on Netflix. It's a four-part documentary where they licensed all my footage. And then there's one that's running now on A&E. it's a six-part documentary. It's two, three-hour documentaries. And it looks like the Nikki Haskell documentary. There's so much footage because I have footage of myself with a hard hat and a
Starting point is 00:21:40 main coat standing at top of the Trump Tower saying, you know, live from the Trump Tower. It's the Nikki Haskell show. You have to post this on your Instagram account so the audience can go follow you because your Instagram's so cute. Oh, thank you. You have to post some of these pictures. Like, I need to see you in a hard hat in a fur coat at the Trump Tower. No, you have to go to the Instagram.
Starting point is 00:21:57 Amazon Prime and look at the Nikki Haskell show. Are you still able to communicate with him now that he's... Yes, I do. You do. In fact, right now I'm in the middle of trying to get... It's my fault because I'm getting it organized to go down to interview Donald for a special for Amazon Prime. Is he ever like, holy hell, I can't believe this? I'm sure of every morning when he gets up.
Starting point is 00:22:17 Yeah. I would think so. Because, I mean, I think you like me, like myself, like most people, when he announced that we knew their ambition was there, but not a lot of people expected this to, actually happen. We see, we were, you need, the truth of matter is Donald is a brilliant negotiator and a fabulous businessman. And no one has ever run this country like a business. They kept giving away this and giving away that and spending money on this. And nobody really realized most politicians never had a job. They've never had a nine to five job. If you don't, never had a job,
Starting point is 00:22:48 and you've never built a building or had employees, people working for you. And it's pretty hard to run a country. They don't know what they're doing. What were they? a junior senator or something. I mean, I loved it when I saw the Kennedy, the Kennedy years, they did this, you know, huge bio. They just aired that, right? It was on the reels. And they said, Jack Kennedy was down south, you know,
Starting point is 00:23:12 trying to get votes. And they said, if anybody asks you, don't tell them that you never, ever had a job before. So, you know, just tell them that you, you know, were an investment baker or something. Because none of these people ever had jobs. You know, to become the president of the United States, there should be some kind of qualifications,
Starting point is 00:23:29 except for being, you know, all you have to be is an American citizen. So after you did your stock broking for five years, how did you... 10 years. 10 years, excuse me. How did you get into your whole star empire? Can you kind of walk us through that?
Starting point is 00:23:43 Okay, so when the show went off the air, I created this product called Star Caps. Before it was Star Caps, it was called Tone Caps. And I decided, because I was putting these gold stars on the bottle, I changed it to Star. So everybody loved the name Star. Star in any language is Star. Oh.
Starting point is 00:24:01 The world Star is known throughout the world as Star, right? And then I started this candy company, was the Hollywood Star Candy Company, and I had Star Suckers and Nikki bars and Star rolls and everything. So I had a whole line of candy. And then I had, you know, they had the Star Caps, and then I had the Star Diet. And then I invented the Star Cruncher, which is now on Amazon Prime, which is a piece of exercise equipment, which is fair. fabulous, Joan Collins, Buzz Aldrin, everybody uses the Star Cruncher. And so it stars, and then my new
Starting point is 00:24:33 invention, the Star Shooter, so all of my products, my brand identification is Star. It's so smart. And the Star Shooter is a camera, as a camera, no, not a camera, it's a case that goes on your phone and turns into a selfie stick. It's amazing, you guys. We'll put it in the show notes. It's so cute. Yes, very cute. It's not out yet. It'll probably be out in about six months. hopefully we'll be out for Christmas this year, but then I said that five years ago. It's adorable. It's so, so cute. So hard to get anything done. It's hard to get stuff done. So how are you such a hustler? Is this just something that's an eight? You know, you have two choices. You either do it or you don't do it.
Starting point is 00:25:11 You know, you can sit around and wait for something to happen, which never does, or you get out and you do it. I mean, I, you know, when I started the television show, I had no idea what I was doing. And neither did anyone else because there was never any show like my show. And it seemed like a good. good concept to me. I mean, we did it on a shoot string, but I had Pan Am as my sponsor, and they used to give me free tickets for all over the world. I would go to Rio and take all these people with me and go to the Philippines or go to Paris and go whatever. They used to give you stacks of what they called S-1 passes, and you could just walk on the plane. You say, hey, guys, you want to go to Paris for lunch? You could just walk right on the plane and go. And they even gave me miles on top of the free tickets.
Starting point is 00:25:52 That's a good deal. Yeah, that is a good deal. Out of all the famous people that you've met, because I feel like you've met so many different colorful people, what is something that you see that a lot of them have in common when it comes to the great successes that they're having? It's interesting. Success has many faces, and it depends basically on the demeanor and the confidence of the person. You have to really, the older that I get, the more I realize how self-contained you have to be. Because if you put it out there a lot, everybody's going to tell you you're doing it wrong, you're not going to do it. I'm supposed to do it this way. You're supposed to do it that way. I don't listen to anyone. People know that. I just do what I want to do, and somehow it always has worked out. You sound like me.
Starting point is 00:26:34 You just do what you want to do. Yeah, I mean, I never forget, I said to somebody, you know, if they had told me to take the show off the air, I would have. They said, they told you 100 times, but you just never paid the attention. She's never listened. I never listened. I'm not a great listener. So you see all these successful people putting on their blinders and not listening to what outside forces say? Not necessarily so.
Starting point is 00:26:55 I mean, everybody's mojo is different. You know, a lot of people have been fortunate enough that there's a lot of nepotism. So they have rich parents or family that's in show business or they go into their father's business or they do what they do. But, you know, being brought up in Los Angeles, I was brought up by my mother and my brother and myself, we were very small, just the three of us. And, you know, I came from Chicago and I moved to Beverly Hills and I loved every minute of it. I was very fortunate. I was popular and I was terrible student. I was never a good student.
Starting point is 00:27:30 But I had a lot of friends and I made a lot of friends. people that I'm still friendly with today. Never once did I ever, you know, my mother only wanted me to grow up and get married. You know, she wanted me actually to be born married. You know, I mean, I didn't make any difference what I ever did or wherever I went. She would always say, did you meet anybody nice? So my mother actually used to stop Jay Leno. She used to see him in the grocery store and say,
Starting point is 00:27:56 would you please fix my daughter up with someone? I said to my mother, I'm horrified. You went to Jay Leno and you asked Jay Leno to. fixing me up every time I see him to this day. He says to me, tell your mother, I'm still looking for a guy for you. That's pretty funny. Before we get into that, I want to tell you about Grove Collaborative. All right, so I've talked about this on my Instagram, on my stories, on the skinny confidential blog. You got to try Grove Collaborative. Basically, it's an online marketplace that delivers all natural home beauty and personal care products to your door. Now, you know I love services
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Starting point is 00:30:34 and everything that's afforded to the world today, it would make things better. But for some reason, it's made things worse. I think it's because people are looking at what other people have and what they don't have. I don't think is, I think this bullying thing. I think this way kids treat each other. I mean, there's so much hostility amongst kids.
Starting point is 00:30:50 I never felt that as a child. You can't escape it now. Because before when we were kids, We grew up in a time when we're right on the cut where we grew up for the first, you know, I'd say 20 years of our life without having this. And so, you know, you go to school and you come home and nobody could get to you when you go home. But now you go to school, you get bullied and you go home and people can follow you home through your phone. I know. It's just, I'll tell you very funny story.
Starting point is 00:31:11 When I was a kid growing up, I must have been about four or five years old. And I was walk to school, maybe I was like five years old. I walked from where we lived in Chicago to school. And it was snowing one day. girl beat me up and she stuck my face in the snow, right? And I came into the building that we lived in and there was a man downstairs and he said, what happened to you? And I told him, you know, that this girl beat me up. And he said, well, I'll walk, I'll meet you every day and I'll walk you to school. So he walked me to school every day and picked me up after school and walked me home. And one day I'm
Starting point is 00:31:44 watching television and it said that his name was Mr. Fisher. He was one of the Fichetti brothers. So I had mob protection even as a child. from the time I was a kid. Don't mess with me. But you asked me, I think probably the one thing, if I had to put my finger on one thing that has changed, made me sort of who I am today, is the fact that I was a horseback rider.
Starting point is 00:32:07 So from the time I was a little girl, I was showing horses, riding big, 2,000-pound crazy horses, and competing. And I was competing against men and women my entire life, and I just gained a tremendous amount of confidence, ring-wise, you know, you know where to be at the right time. Plus, I was born at a time where everything was happening. Rock and roll came in, you know, I mean, the songs that the kids
Starting point is 00:32:30 listened to today, the old songs, those are the songs that I grew up with. So between music and the 80s, between the art world, which was, I mean, you asked me, probably the most person that I loved the most to meet was Andy Warhol. Because I was an art major. I was always sort of under the school of Andy Warhol, even as a kid. So when I met Andy Warhol, see, Andy Warhol, in those days, was more of a socialite artist. And if he went to a party, you knew you were in the right place. And I was just totally enthralled with Andy. And there were all these great artists during that period of time, you know, and they were
Starting point is 00:33:05 there and they were friends of mine. And even to this day, that was the shining hour in the art world, was the contemporary art. What's Andy Warhol like? Andy Warhol was very, very. unique. He carried a camera with him wherever he went and he took pictures wherever he did and he did a diary.
Starting point is 00:33:25 So I'm in his diaries. Okay, he sounds like an influencer. He is. A 2000-19 influencer. I mean, he wore blue jeans and a white shirt and sort of a down jacket and had that terrible fright wig that he wore. He was extremely colorful.
Starting point is 00:33:42 He wasn't flamboyant at all, but he, his artwork, I was always totally impressed by him. and Keith Herring and all the artists and Baskiye and everything. It was all during that period of time. Now there's no one. I mean, there's Damien Hirst and a couple people, but it's not like it was then.
Starting point is 00:33:59 The 80s was such a vibrant time for not only the society that we live in, but for music and film. Nowadays, they're only doing this making, you know, even Broadway. There's no new musicals. They're all old revivals. So everything is at a standstill. Nothing is moved. You'd think that through the social media, everything would be new and fresh and terrific.
Starting point is 00:34:22 And it isn't. It's all the old stuff redone all over again. And now they finally brought back the 80s, because every 20 years they bring back, but the 60s and 70s hung on forever. And now the 80s are back, which is great. They just did the Studio 54 documentary, which I'm in, and I did the Allen Carr documentary.
Starting point is 00:34:41 He was the one that did Greece. These were all of my friends. And now there, I remember when my book came out, My publicist at the time, English, Jeffrey, Jeffrey, he would say, me, darling. Isn't this any way we can get into this Studio 54 image of you? And now it's so popular. You know, then there was like, oh, Studio 54, let's not talk about it, you know, because it was, you know, I never, there's a very famous picture of me in about 25 different books
Starting point is 00:35:07 of me standing on the dance floor with the captions that I never saw anybody doing drugs at Studio 54. And underneath my right arm, there's two guys with Coke spoons in their nose. So I was like oblivious to everything. I was out there dancing and going to the record booth and talking to this one. And I gave this fabulous. I used to give parties at Studio 54. And I gave a party one time for Ewell Brenner, who was best friends with Michael Jackson. And it was when they first started videos.
Starting point is 00:35:35 And Michael came to this party. I had the whole thing done like the set from the King and I. And we launched Thriller on the Bridge of Studio 54, which was great. I mean, it was one of the coolest things ever. Out of all the celebrities you met, who is the coolest? You know, they're all pretty cool, I have to admit. I mean, I'm a person that everybody always asks me. I really, I was very enthralled with Madame Marcos.
Starting point is 00:35:57 You know, she was the president, Madame Marcos from the Philippines. I went to the Philippines to cover the film festival. Rogers and Collin used to cover all these dictators. And every time there was a dictator and had an event, they would send me. Like Reverend Moon, you know, I would, I mean, I went to the Cannes Film Festival. he did inch on him. So when I went to the Philippines, the first day I was there, I was there all by myself. So I commandeered the television crew for Good Morning Manila. They spoke English. I said, I'll tell you what, I'll do the interviews. You can use my interviews. And then you'll
Starting point is 00:36:32 give me the footage. So that night I went to, that day I interviewed Jeremy Irons. Nobody ever heard of Jeremy Irons. He had just done the French lieutenant's woman. He's one of the best actors of all time. Yeah, brides had revisited. So, I saw him on television in the morning. I thought, I think I'd like to interview him. So somehow, because I was the only one that was doing these interviews. So that I did the only one there. I was the only one there.
Starting point is 00:36:56 And it was amazing. And I went without a camera crew and I commandeered the camera crew right away. And that night I went to the American Embassy and Madam Marcus came in. She came in with George Hamilton, who was an old friend of mine for many years. She was madly in love with George Hamilton. And they all came in and walked around and everything. and Madam Marcos walked up to me and she said, are you Nikki Haskell? And I said, yes, she said, you come with me.
Starting point is 00:37:20 And after that, I was always with her. And I would take my little cassettes. You know, in the old days, we have to have these three-quarter-inch cassettes. And I had a little satin bag, right? And I'd go up to her cameraman. I put it in. I do my interviews, take it out, put my little bag. The next morning I'd go downstairs to the press office and take out all of her footage,
Starting point is 00:37:38 the party footage, because she gave glamorous parties and everything. So that was, and then, and I was dying to, interview her. And everybody said, if you want to interview her, you've got to figure it out yourself because she's not giving interviews to anyone. I thought, I am not leaving here without an interview. And she used to have what they called her blue ladies. They were like her girlfriends. She had to go through all the blue ladies and through all the secretaries and everything. And finally, of course, she knew by now that I wanted to interview her. She said, I know you want to interview me. She said, the car will pick me up and bring you to Malacaniai, which was
Starting point is 00:38:09 the palace. I remember Jeremy Ireland said to me, well, it's been nice knowing you. I'll probably never see you again. You better be careful what you ask her. And since I was never, ever programmed or ever scripted, and I knew there were three things I wanted to ask her. During that period of time, they said that she had her son-in-law kidnapped. So I wanted to ask her if she had her son-in-law kidnapped. And if she liked the fact that people said that she was like Eva Peron,
Starting point is 00:38:34 and they used to call her the iron butterfly, because she used to wear these dresses with butterfly sleeves. So I went through the whole interview, you know, what do you like? What's your favorite color? Where did you go to school? you know, how'd you meet the president? What do you think about this? And then I asked... Then you hit it with the hard ones. Right. Let me ask you this. It wouldn't have been better.
Starting point is 00:38:50 What do you, so many interviews? What do you think makes a good interviewer in order to have effective interviews? I found out since I was never scripted, you have to listen to what people say. If you go in there with a bunch of questions, you're asking questions, but you're not listening to the answers. So they could be telling you some really interesting story. You know, things have a tendency to sort of drift out. And then, just, just, you know, just, you know, she's in the middle and saying, you know, I just murdered my husband. You said, and where did you go to school? You know, so if you don't listen, I mean, Barbara Walter sat there with these blue cards in front of her all the time and just asked a bunch of questions. Yeah. I have conversations with
Starting point is 00:39:25 people. I think those are the most interesting. I interviewed a lot of people. I didn't even know who they were. That was, that's a, that they say, oh, here's so-and-so. He just made this movie. You have to figure out what movie, how they got there. What's the movie about? So you have to pay attention. I like what you said about going in with a goal of trying to get to some certain topics and subjects. You know, we're running this network, we consult a lot of the time with people that are interviewing on the other side of the table. And I say, when you get so scripted like that, you're exactly right.
Starting point is 00:39:52 And someone gets off your script, then you're lost. You don't know what to do. Nikki, have you ever thought about doing a podcast? Because you'd be pretty damn good at it. Can I do your podcast with you guys? I don't think I'd want to do one alone. You can come over and do our podcast anytime. Who should we interview?
Starting point is 00:40:05 We should pick somebody and we should bring them in and us three should interview. And we should do a round table. So you bring in whoever you think. and it's all three of us interviewing. Maybe I can ask you this. Can we take our podcast on the road? Yeah. Let's do a road trip.
Starting point is 00:40:18 Let me ask you this. One of my favorite biographies, we were talking about it offline earlier, is Robert Evans. The kid stays in the picture. Oh, my best friend. I love him. First of all, that would be a great interview.
Starting point is 00:40:28 I just did one with him. Second, what were the circumstances behind that meeting? How did you get connected with Robert Evans? For those that don't know Robert Evans, he produced the godfather in Chinatown and Rosemary's baby. and he ran paramount.
Starting point is 00:40:45 So I was very friendly with his brother when I lived in New York. And I got a call from a friend of mine and he said, Bob Evans wants to meet Margo Hemingway. You know, Ernest Hemingway said that's where the whole kid stays in the picture came from because he was on the set. He did this movie called The Sun Also Rises. And everybody on the movie tried to throw him off the movie. They didn't want him on the movie.
Starting point is 00:41:12 And so they were also anti-Semitic. And they didn't really see Pedro Gonzalez being played by Robert Evans, right? So they didn't like him at all. And they called me and they said, can you introduce Bob Evans to Margo Hemingway? He said, no problem, because she was my best friend. I was the one that put her in Betty Ford. I really took care of her during the 80s a lot. So she met Bob and they fell in love.
Starting point is 00:41:41 They were having portraits painted and whatever it was. get a call one day, and they said, this is Mr. Evans' office, and Mr. Evans would like for you to come to California. He's going to screen. The sun also rises and have a dinner in his screening room. So I went out to California, and he actually did this whole thing so he could get up and hold Margo in his arms and say, your grandfather would roll over in his grave if he knew that I was here with you. So that was that. And then I went back to New York, and that summer I went to Sandra. pay and I stayed with some friends of mine and there was Bob and Margo. And Bob and I bonded that year and we've been best friends ever since. I'm there. I see him almost every day in my life. Wow.
Starting point is 00:42:24 He has had a colorful life himself. He's had a very colorful life and he's brilliant. He is so smart and so he sees things in such a clear light. You know, he's in his well into his 80s. And I find it fascinating being with him every day. I learn something every day. I've been working with him on a couple of projects. A couple of them last year, we spent tons of time trying to get it to come to fruition, and it never happened, which of course was very disappointing for me. But he is so, you know, they did a play. You know, the kid stays in the picture. The book, the audio version is the best thing you've ever heard. The best audio is. I have to listen to it. I'm going to listen to it. I'll get it for you. And then they did the doc, they did the first, like, really meaningful documentary.
Starting point is 00:43:08 You know, the kid stays in the picture. And they did it in such a unique way, Bob. is not in it at all. You know, it's only his voice. And most documentaries are other people talking about you. That's the way the documentary genre works. But this isn't that at all. It's Bob telling his story through pictures and videos. Oh, that's interesting.
Starting point is 00:43:29 And clips of movies and things. And it's so, it's so engrossous. It's fabulous. And now they're doing a play called The Kid, which opened in London was a huge hit. And hopefully they're bringing it to Broadway. So he's still, you know, still doing different things. But the kid stays in the picture was just one of the great venues of all times.
Starting point is 00:43:49 They're doing a TV series wrapped around it. Tell him that the skinny confidential him and her and you want to do a roundtable podcast so we can learn all about his life. We'll come to him. We can go on the road with it. With you. The closest we'll get is me giving you my interview that I just did with him. I did a two and a half hour interview with him at the house. But the problem was we did it outside.
Starting point is 00:44:11 And you never really think there's a lot of airplanes flying in Beverly Hills, but it must have been like an air show at the Beverly Hills Hotel or something. Because everybody was like, you can come use the studio whenever you want. Come in here. I want to be with you guys. I don't want to do it by myself. Yeah, you can come on anytime you want. Well, okay.
Starting point is 00:44:28 I'm sorry you said that. I have, no. I can sit and listen to your stories all day. I have a question. How fab is Joan Collins? I love her. She's one of my best friends. That's who I saw you at Craig's with.
Starting point is 00:44:38 and I feel like she is iconic. She is. So when I was 19 years old, that's when the twist first came in. And there was a club in Hollywood called Maroosh's. And I entered this twist contest. And Joan and Bob Hope judged the twist contest. And I won. Wow.
Starting point is 00:44:58 And they wrote about it in the paper and everything. And years later, Joan said to me, darling, so what is it? I met you when in the 80s? I said, no, Joan. In the 70s? no in the 60s. I said, when you first came to Hollywood, that's when you met me. And I pulled out this clipping, this full-page article, otherwise I would never have known how I met her. And Joan lived in the Sierra Towers, too, and she moved out. Now she lives right across the street
Starting point is 00:45:26 from me on Wilshire. I see her all the time. And, I mean, we're really close friends. We try to be in the same place at the same time. In the summer, I go to Santa Pais with Clive Davis. Are you going to go this summer? Hopefully. We're going to be there. Oh, when? Probably in July. July. If you're there, when we're there, I'm going to hang out with you. Where are you going?
Starting point is 00:45:46 Probably go be in Antib for a little bit. And then maybe Ramat 12. Maybe Club 55, maybe. But yeah, we go like once a year in the summer. Have fun there. Love it. Don't you love it? That's the best.
Starting point is 00:45:59 I don't know if there's a better place. I don't think so. Everybody tries to do, you know, they try to go to Greece or they try to go to Italy and they try to switch. It's just, it's the best. You know, I mean, I've been going to San Francisco. Trape since, well, I've been going to Europe since the 70s. And when I first started going to Santerpe, I went with Jacques Morali. You know who he is?
Starting point is 00:46:18 Why does that sound so familiar? He wrote Macho Man and YMCA, created the village people. Okay. So the first time I went to Santerpei to stay, usually we would like drive down from Monte Carlo or whatever it is, and you'd go there for the day. And going for the day, you just don't get it. You know, it looks like a tourist trap. And I stayed that first summer there.
Starting point is 00:46:38 and then I made a lot of friends of mine that lived there. And subsequently, I've been going back every year. I mean, I've missed a few years, and I must say that what I like the best, we stay in a house in Santerpay that is like the killer house is right in the port. You know where Chanel is? Yeah. Right next to Chanel, there's a long driveway. So you stay in the town.
Starting point is 00:46:55 It's right in the town. It's a seven-acre house. Yeah, a piece of properties to buy. Wow. So we stay there. We've stayed all over the place. The problem is when you stay up, you know, when you stay up in the park, you stay up and in the places, you always want to be in the port.
Starting point is 00:47:08 And you always have to find somebody to take you to the port, and then you can't park in the port. So it's... Yeah, it's a real pain in the ass, that little parking park. Yeah, it's the worst. I mean, I like it at night because I actually leave the house. I go to the biblos. I go to the club. I go to by myself.
Starting point is 00:47:22 You're to Cabdua? I go to the Cabdua. I go to the Cabdua. They let me ride in. They take me right into the VIP area. I'm going with you. Everybody else on the house. Yeah, let's do it.
Starting point is 00:47:31 And I walk from the house. How cool is that? That's cool. Because I can never get anybody to go with me anymore. In the old days, everybody wanted to go. nobody wants to go. Cab gets pretty packed now, though. It's tough. It's, it's, it's pretty, it's pretty busy in there. Well, that's what makes a club. You don't want to go to an empty club. That's true, too. The Cobb is great. I get some of the best times there. And then for many years, I went with Ivana on
Starting point is 00:47:52 the boat. We go to Santerpay and Sargna. I'm not crazy about Sardinia. What's your favorite place in the world? Sanrape. Me too. Love Santerpe. Me too. It's just, it looks better. It has a smell when you drive around the, the aroma from the flowers and from the air and from the ocean, and everything. It's just, it's just like, it's captivating. Totally. They've done an amazing job of sort of keeping it pristine without putting high rises and everything. But you know, they took all the beaches away. Yeah, they took them out. This is the first year. They knocked all this, how did they put all new beach clubs up? No, no, no, no. I spoke to Joe and she just came back. I spoke to Joan Collins and she was like, not a happy camper. They kept sank on sank.
Starting point is 00:48:29 Yeah. But they took away all the, all the clubs are on the beach. Nicky Beach, they saved. Nikki Beach, yeah, because it's, it's back far enough. Anything that's not on the beach. But they took out almost all the beaches. The problem was... I'm going to send you this article about stuff that they're putting in place. Like there was a couple properties that got some leases to be able to go on. But yeah, they moved Bagotel. They removed a lot of...
Starting point is 00:48:50 But you see what they did, which was very smart. Everybody that comes to Santa Pei goes to the beach. But the beach isn't owned by Santape. It's owned by Ramatouille. So all the hotels got sort of shortchanged. People would be going to lunch and spending $15,000 and $20,000 and everything. and the hotels would just nothing happened. So this year they allocated beaches to all the hotels.
Starting point is 00:49:12 Yeah, Bibles has one. That's right. Now you're reminding me. Yeah, it's correct. Chatea has one. And that other fabulous, you know when you're driving out of town, it's on the right-hand side on the ocean side's yellow. It's called the...
Starting point is 00:49:25 I know exactly what you're talking about. And I've wanted to start with the P-N. It starts with the Pene, no. Yes, the Pune. Pune. Yeah, yeah. Punch. No, no, that's a different one. That's up in the town. It's the Penae.
Starting point is 00:49:35 Yeah, I think you're right. But they've gotten so snobby there that we used to go there for lunch. It was so gorgeous. And I paint all day. I take my paints with me wherever I go. So if I'm at lunch, I'm painting, you know, I mean, I don't, only for my pleasure, mind you. But I've done 150 these little ports of call, which I just love doing. This was the greatest place.
Starting point is 00:49:58 And we used to go there. And they said, if you don't stay at the hotel, you can't even come for dinner. He said that to Clive Davis. They don't say things like that to him. What's his reaction? I mean, he's not used to being turned down. No, he definitely is not used to being turned down. I feel like Santropay, what it has is it has charisma.
Starting point is 00:50:18 It feels like there's Xanax in the air. And it has history. You know? But, you know, the interesting part about it is most places you go are don't have, I mean, Montacarla's got a great nightlife during the one week in August when they have the Red Cross Gala. But the interesting thing about Sandra Pais is there's a day life and a night life. You go to Montacarlo, there's no place to go. The beach club's awful.
Starting point is 00:50:41 It's all full with rocks. You can't swim in the water. Not that I ever swim in the water anyway. But I'm saying Santa Pace, I love going to the beaches. I love going to all the restaurants. We go to a different restaurant every day. We only go to Sankancon Sank a couple times when they're. Me, I could go there five.
Starting point is 00:50:56 I'm a creature of habit. I could go to same place. Lauren could live there. She's a fixture there. Me too. No, I just, I like what I like. I feel like you're the same way, like with Craigs. When I like something, I commit to it and I like it.
Starting point is 00:51:07 I don't need to try 800 million other things. Right. But see, Clive isn't like that. He likes to try everything. He likes to try every restaurant. Last year, I must say, we went, every night we went to a different restaurant. We hardly ever went to the same haunts. What's the one in the port?
Starting point is 00:51:25 Alapara. Yeah, Lopra. So he does, we go there. That's a wild place. That can turn into a wild place. That's fun. It's really fun. I go there with, you know, I have a lot of my friends, you know, that go there.
Starting point is 00:51:39 And Pamela Anderson is a very good friend of mine. So she was in Sanpay, and she has his boyfriend who's actually played on the French soccer team, the one that won. So I went with them all the time because then I stayed with Ivana and she didn't want to go there and she wanted to go someplace else. So I went with Pamela. What's Ivana up to now? Ivana is the greatest. I just love her. She's now back in New York.
Starting point is 00:52:01 She lives in Miami and she lives in Santa Pei. And, you know, she's always got some great project going. She's living the life. She lives in the life. You know, she does exactly what she wants to do, whatever she wants to do it. To be honest, I'd love pink marble in my house if we're getting specific. Yeah, this is, but this is like pink. It's beautiful.
Starting point is 00:52:21 She actually, I mean, there's no two ways about it. I mean, she and Donald were the golden couple. I mean, they were the flawless couple. They were building empires in Atlantic City. And I was there when they built Mara Lago. They didn't build Mara Lago when they redid Mara Lago. Because when they took over Mara Lago is in a total state of disarray. And Yvana took every fabric and had it replicated and every piece of furniture that was,
Starting point is 00:52:46 I mean, she just totally redid. So she was very involved in the design of a lot of this stuff. Wow. Trump Tower. Yeah. And also all the places in Las Vegas, in Atlantic City, rather. You're an entrepreneur. Tell us all about all your products and where people can.
Starting point is 00:52:59 find your products because I think it's so badass that you have so much energy and you're so um you're so you're so inspiring oh you think so yeah really yeah I do I inspired you today yeah you have inspired me what did I inspire you to do I just think you're a hustler you've inspired me to go to Sandra Pay with you and Clive Owen no Clyde they you know um I I try you know I'm so many it's interesting because so many young people follow me on Facebook and on And they come into me and they say, you know, you're so inspirational. We want to be just like you when we grow up. I said, you don't know about that.
Starting point is 00:53:38 Maybe sounds better than it is. But, you know, I mean, right now my two products, I mean, my television shows on Amazon Prime. We're getting ready to put up 20 more shows next week. We have 45 shows up now. How do they find that? How did they find your show? They go on Amazon Prime, the Nikki Haskell show. There it is.
Starting point is 00:53:55 Bigger than Life. Okay. And so I'm putting up more shows. I have 300 shows, but it's very complicated and quite expensive to keep putting the shows up. And hopefully I'm going to be doing a new show. We have a pilot called A Flashback to the Future, where I re-interview a lot of the same people that I interviewed in the 80s and new people and covering new events. And, you know, I love giving parties, so you never know. I'll give a couple parties here and there.
Starting point is 00:54:23 And then you have your Star Cruncher on Amazon. My Star Crunchers on Amazon. I don't know. Did you see my video with the girl that almost fell off the thing? No, you got to send it to me. You didn't see it? I was up with Clive Davis' last weekend, and we were doing the exercise videos, so the thing. And this friend of Clives was very agile.
Starting point is 00:54:42 She had just finished swimming 90 laps. Oh, Jesus. She said, you know, I'd really like to try the Star Cruncher. So I put the Star Cruncher on it. She was lying down on this table, you know, like a bench, because you could do your upper body and your lower body at the same time when you're laying down. and she was like all over the place. You know, she was sort of like on the side,
Starting point is 00:55:00 and she was moving around like no one you'd ever seen. And it actually looked like she was going to fall off this bench because she was like right on the edge. And then she, you know, got up and she touched her toes and did everything. So when I put it up on Instagram, I must have put it up early in the morning on Monday morning. And I had a very important, very boring business meeting. So I got into the Uber.
Starting point is 00:55:23 And as I was driving over there, I started reading some of the comments. I had like 900 hits in like a minute. She's. Which I don't really get that many hits. I only have 4,500 people so far on my Instagram page. I mean, but one of the comments was that old broad looks like she's going to fall off that table. And I got so hysterical.
Starting point is 00:55:42 I was laughing so hard that, I mean, I don't remember laughing like this. And the tears were like rolling down my face. And I said to the Uber driver, do you have a Kleenex or something that I could put on? So I wiped my face off and I sort of pulled myself together. And I walked into this restaurant and this woman looked at me and I burst out in hysterics and I started laughing it.
Starting point is 00:56:03 She said, what's wrong with you? So I said, you're not going to believe this. And I showed it to her. She thought it was funny, but not as funny as I thought it was. It's really wild. I need to watch it. So the Star Crunchers on Amazon Prime, the Nikki Haskell show is on Amazon Prime.
Starting point is 00:56:19 And hopefully the Star Shooter will be it in, probably in a lot of the different stores. but it will definitely be on Amazon Prime. I'll be using the Star Shooter. Star Shooter's got your name on it. Yeah, it's so chic. It's like the perfect selfie situation. If you're cooking or doing your makeup,
Starting point is 00:56:35 it just holds everything up. I love it. It's like you can use it as a makeup mirror. It says the lights. It has a pink and white light, a blue and white light, white and white, then there's a multicolor lights. Well, I hope you'll come back on the show. You're invited anytime.
Starting point is 00:56:47 Perfect. We love it. Where can everyone find you on Instagram if they want to stock you? I'm at Big Nick B.H. Okay. And I'm at Nikki Haskell on Facebook. That's an iconic Instagram name. Oh, she's iconic.
Starting point is 00:56:59 Big Nick B.H. Yeah, Big Nick B.H. I love it. That's my license plate never. I'm so into it. Nice. I love it. Nikki, thank you for coming on the show, taking the time.
Starting point is 00:57:10 Come back. I'm going to see you soon. Isn't your restaurant opening up soon? The restaurant's opening soon. Shout out to my dad who connected us. Brad, we love you. Brad, we love you. Brad, you're hot.
Starting point is 00:57:20 You're going to come up here and you're going to take us back to the Beverly Hills Hotel, right? You're counting on it. We had skinny margaritas at the Beverly Hills Hotel. I could use one right now. I wish he did. Michael, where's your margarita? I got to get, that'll be my next hire in here.
Starting point is 00:57:33 I'll get somebody that can just make us margaritas. Michael and I can do it. I can do it. I can do it. I can double the ingredients. I love it. You know, I have my own drink. I have a drink called nicotine.
Starting point is 00:57:41 I'm going to have to, I'm taking you up on a nicotini. And Taylor, make yourself useful back there and learn how to make some margaritas instead of just producing these podcasts. You know, nicotineisoneys, orange flavored vodka with club soda and a slice of orange. It's a nicotini. You know what they say, if the bar. If the bartender knows what you're drinking, you're an alcoholic. At Big Nicky, B.H.
Starting point is 00:58:00 Big Nick. At Big Nick, B.H. Thank you for coming on the show. Thank you. Guys, she'll be back. I'll be back. All right, we want you guys to spread the word. So how you can do that is head over to my latest Instagram at the Skinny Confidential
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