Marco? Phelps-O!
Nothing all that trashy about this clip. Anderson Cooper suits up and swims a lap with Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps. They are both a couple of cuties and it looks like after this was shot they played some water volleyball or maybe a rousing game of Marco Polo. Marco? Polo!
In slightly more trashy Michael Phelps news, the swimmer apparently took his new girlfriend home to Baltimore this past Thanksgiving to meet the family. What’s trashy about that? Well, nothing, unless you consider that she is a cocktail waitress and topless model that he met while improving his poker game in Las Vegas. Again, not really all that trashy …. I mean, someone has to serve the drinks and pose for naked pictures, right? But having a cocktail waitress girlfriend just seems to go way against the clean cut all-American image Mr. Phelps seems to have developed. Or perhaps that the media has developed for him. I mean, maybe his goal all along was to win the World Series of Poker and date a girl with lots of tattoos and the whole Olympic athlete thing was just a means to an end. Could be. Or maybe his guest cameo on the season finale of Entourage somehow affected his douchyness filter. (And for the record, I do not watch Entourage on purpose. Trashy Talker Amy does — DVRs it, even — and sometimes I am just in the same room when it is on.)
But whatever, I’m sure not as many people care now about who the Human Fish is dating now as cared a few months back. In another few months it will be “Michael Who?” until four years from now at the next Olympic games. Until then, why shouldn’t he do everything he can to stay in the media. Or do be a slightly douchy but rich young man in his early 20s. Party on, Phelps.
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