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Not Thrilled With Their Friendship

[Blind Gossip] This blind item involves two celebrities.

Both claimed to be good friends for many years.

The truth is quite different.

Allow us to explain.

The first celebrity is an actress.

She is best known for her role in one of the most popular family movies of all time. It’s the kind of movie that you have likely seen more than once.

Our actress played a teen in the movie, although she was not a teenager at the time.

After years in the entertainment industry, she embarked on a second career. That’s how she first came into contact with the second celebrity, a famous singer.

Although Actress was considerably older than him, Singer idolized her role in that classic movie and desperately wanted to meet her.

So he hired her.

At first, everything was fine. However, just a few weeks into the job… she quit.

She was ranting about how she was never, ever going back there again!

She said, “I can’t work with him for one more minute! He’s the weirdest person I’ve ever met, he has horrible taste, and he wants me to do all these creepy things. Hello! I have a professional reputation to maintain! And my sanity!”

Her friend reminded her that Singer was one of the most famous people in the world and that she should be thrilled to have him as a client. Even if things weren’t going the way she wanted, her business would be much more successful simply by having him on her client roster.

Actress took the advice.

She went back, finished the job, and thought that would be the end of it.

That wasn’t the end.

Of course, he loved her, and after that, he wanted to hire her again and again! Each time she just bit her tongue and did the job, even though she really hated working with him. She was very uncomfortable around him, plus she never liked the result.

He seemed to think that they were close friends. Did they ever spend any time together outside of working together?

She said he didn’t seem to have any real friends. He surrounded himself with paid employees.

She didn’t relate to him at all, but she was a kind person. She said that she once invited him over to dinner at her house because he just seemed so lonely and sad.

For years afterward, he claimed that she was one of his best friends. She always smiled and went along with it, partly because it helped her business and partly because she was just too gracious to contradict him.

Actress never once publicly contradicted Singer’s claim that she was one of his best friends.

She continued to say kind things about Singer after he passed.

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Actress and/or Movie:

Singer:

[Optional] Do you think Singer had any real friends?

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  4. anxious6 says

    Michael Jackson
    Charmian Carr- Liesl from ‘The Sound of Music’ and Michael Jackson’s interior designer.

  13. Frizzle says

    Actress: Charmian Carr – Liesl in “The Sound of Music”
    Singer: Michael Jackson
    After retiring from acting, she became a decorator. He was one of her clients. I doubt MJ had any real friends. Early fame & a terribly dysfunctional family made him a very messed up individual and it was probably impossible for him to have any genuine relationships.

  17. amagod121 says

    I know that the Singer was Michael Jackson.

    As for the actress, all I can come up with is Olivia Newton John. She went from being an entertainer to running a cancer hospital in Australia. She is known for being kind. She starred in Grease, which was probably a family-friendly movie. And she was older than MJ.

    Optnl: Yeah, I think MJ did. Wasn’t McCauley Caulkin a friend of his?

  24. Tpau1970 says

    Elizabeth Taylor ……name one .. impossible. Cleopatra, Giant , Cat on a hot tin roof ,Little Women . Sorry she’s one of my favorites.

    Micheal Jackson

    No I don’t think he did . Which is truly sad 😞.

  26. rexczarina says

    Elizabeth Taylor was not yet a teenager when she was in National Velvet. The singer was Michael Jackson.

  27. knit-tink says

    Actress and/or Movie: Charmian Charr, who played Leslie in the Sound of Music

    Singer: Michael Jackson, who hired her as an interior designer

    This makes me sad. It’s also surprising since I can’t remember him specifically indicating they were close friends, just that he’d hired her.

  28. emmyk says

    Actress: Charmian Carr, Liesl in The Sound of Music. She had a decorating business and was hired by MJ.

    Singer: Michael Jackson

    I don’t think he had any actual friends.

  29. Vreakie says

    Micheal Jackson As the Singer

    Actress Brooke Shields

    I feel for Micheal, he was just a kid when he entered the industry.

  31. QubbuQ says

    Charmian Carr played Liesl von Trapp in The Sound of Music (popular family movie) 16 going on 17, but she was actually in her 20s. She became an interior designer, presumably not using clothes to make curtains.
    Singer Michael Jackson.
    “she later ran an interior design firm, Charmian Carr Designs, in Encino, California. Among her faithful clients was Michael Jackson, who became a friend”
    No, I think Jackson’s only friends were the children he paid attention to.

  34. aaasheag says

    Sounds like Liz Taylor and Michael Jackson – but it doesn’t say the actress has passed.

  40. kvetro60 says

    Charmain Carr (Liesl from Sound of Music) and Michael Jackson. She became an interior designer at one point. I’ve seen pictures of them together over the years and thought it odd.

  41. timeoftheseason says

    Actress: Charmian Carr (Lisl from The Sound of Music)
    Clue: Teenage role (“I am 16 going on 17”) for an adult actress (Charmian Carr was 23 during filming).
    New Career: Interior Designer
    Singer: The King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson
    Clue: “Thrilled” – Thriller, “Never, ever” – Neverland Ranch

    The Jacksons discovered Michael was a superstar when he blew the audience at an elementary school talent show away with a rendition of “Climb Every Mountain” from…The Sound of Music.

  42. lila8245 says

    Charmain Carr, from The Sound of Music. She worked as Michael Jackson’s designer after leaving acting.