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Fish Suppers and Bloody Beers: How to Do Vegas, Chippendales Style

Another Wednesday, another My Vegas. It’s hard trying to keep tabs on all the happenin’ stuff in Sin City, so we’re calling in expert advice. From now on, every time we bump into a Vegas celeb, we’ll grill them on where they rate and what they like to do (yes, handily, this can also double as a stalker’s guide to Vegas).

Last week we kicked off with Mr Las Vegas, Norm Clarke. This week, we branch out with what must be two of the hunkiest men on the Strip, Billy Jeffrey and Juan DeAngelo from the Chippendales. We caught them at their calendar launch party at Venus Pool Club. (Excuse us for shouting, it was really loud).

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After KGB, a Burger May Not Seem a Burger Without Cheesy Batter

If you eat in rather than take out, we assume your meal will look considerably more attractive

Mmmm, Kerry’s Gourmet Burgers. As we told you on Friday, we went there on Thursday, and we’re still thinking about them five days later. In fact, this could well be a long term relationship for us.

Yes, not only does KGB somehow (how?) manage to transcend its 100 percent dreary environs (it’s Harrah’s, people, need we say more) with its sexy interiors and ever-rotating ice bar for its vodka, but, judging by what we ate, hot chef Kerry Simon has done a fine job with the menu too.

As we told you, we had the crispy four cheese burger on the recommendation of the waitress, who said it was becoming the signature burger after a couple of days. The four cheese bit is self-explanatory but why crispy? Because the cheese is slapped on either side of the burger before it’s fried, meaning that it’s basically coated in cheesy batter. How appalling. How delish.

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Hammers, Sickles and a $75-Per-Hour Ice Bar: Welcome To KGB

Take a deep breath, people, because it looks like you finally have a reason to go into Harrah’s.

Yes, sexy chef Kerry Simon’s new burger restaurant is open (ahead of schedule – swoon) in the space where Penazzi used to be. Seeing as it’s called KGB (Kerry’s Gourmet Burger), and has hammers and sickles and all things Russian over its walls, this could either be appalling or impeccable timing - but we’re thinking Vegas peeps will be intrigued enough to go form their own spy/burger ring.

We headed down for lunch yesterday, and found things very quiet (hey, there are few people of good taste in Harrah’s, so that was actually something of a relief), but the place is beautiful: marbly-mirrory-foily tables, sexy booths and saucy pop art murals of Russki-looking ladies on the walls. It’s also incredibly bright for a casino, which is a very good thing.

Center stage but not at all ostentatious is the vodka bar which houses 10 types of vodka in a 12-ft block of ice. According to the lovely (Slavic?) waitress, the ice has to be replaced every two hours and costs $150 a pop. A pop. If that isn’t a reason to imbibe, we’re not sure what is.

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A Buxom of Beauties (And Mario Lopez) Hit Planet Hollywood Last Night

Sometimes we feel that here at VegasChatter we’re concentrating so hard on the sexy men (and Chippendales) of Vegas, that we forget to show equal love to the female form. So in an attempt to redress the balance, here’s a video of a couple of hundred sexy ladies in bikinis.

The occasion? The Cosmo Bikini Bash at Planet Hollywood. Presided over by Mario Lopez (unexpectedly yummy) and Lo Bosworth (unexpectedly lovely) and featuring appearances by Carson Kressley (unexpectedly hawt toes) and Holly Madison (not unexpected in the least). Apart from Mario leaving early (possibly because we told him his soon-to-be-sprogged baby would be fit - in the English sense), a good time was had by all. "All" mainly being the 98% male spectators.

Hotness

Now what would the collective noun for this be? A buxom of girls? Feel free to study the video for etymological research as you decide.

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Tweet of the Weekend: Matt Goss' Equal Opps Stripping Policy

Many people got trashed in Vegas this weekend, and lots of them told the world about it. So, every Monday we’re bringing you our favourite tweet of the weekend. And don’t forget to follow us at @vegaschatter.

It’s not an opinion we like to air too often, but sometimes, just sometimes, Vegas strikes us as a slightly sexist town. Like when we look at the fat old men at pool parties being pawed by hot little gold-diggers. Or the (old fat) guy we always see at red carpet stuff being accompanied by blatantly hired help. Or, for that matter, any time we think about Terry Fator and his child bride.

Anyhoo, we’re pleased to have learnt this weekend that there is at least one equal opps-friendly man in Vegas. His name? Look away now, Banger and Phoenixarcade - Matt Goss.

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Lavo Thinks Matt Goss' Looks Can Kill

Matt Goss and his sexy band. In our heads it is, anyway.

Eagle-eyed (ahem) readers may have noticed that we at VegasChatter have a mini thing for this dude called Matt Goss. Not only does he have some show or other at Caesars, but he’s also a rather finely clad specimen of a man (although as we mentioned before, we could do with a little less of the penguin suits and a little more of his old style when it comes to performances).

Anyway, seems like the Goss style has appealed to the folks over at the Palazzo, because they've hauled him in to host a fashiony party at Lavo tonight along with people who we are reliably informed are “Vegas movers and shakers”.

It’s called Looks Can Kill, is being held in association with Astor & Black (suits, for the non-suit-wearers among you), and it starts at 10pm. Cost: $20 men, $10 ladies (locals free).

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How to Score Chippendales Tickets For No Money, Just A Slight Loss Of Dignity

Ladies and gents, are you in the mood to see the Chippendales but a bit embarrassed about handing over $55 to get your legs parted by a long-haired nipple-ringed douchebag sexpot?

Fear not, because one of our favorite Twitter accounts is that of the Chips. Not just because of the glorious nuggets of cheesy gossip it pumps out about the boys (today’s sample here), but also because every Friday, they give away free tickets to that night’s show.

It’s easy, too – all you have to do is RT the sentence “"I want to go to @Chippendales tonight at @RioVegas!”. And from the looks of it, it’s pretty easy to win – according to Twitter, at the time of writing, they tweeted today's offer 45 minutes ago, and someone only nabbed it 8 minutes ago.

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Glowsticks, Hearts and Disco Balls: A Night In With Manilow

This is probably the wrong thing to admit, what with our carefully constructed too cool for skool image and all, but on our very first night when we moved to Vegas in January, when our brand new housemate asked us what we would do that night, if we had to go home the next day, we said: MANILOW.

Not because we’re Manilow fans, you understand, but because one of our favorite aspects of Vegas is getting stuck into the cheese. Rod Stewart. Tom Jones. Donny & Marie. You’d never see them at home, would you? Not unless your mum paid for your ticket, your train fare, and the booze you'd need to knock the shame of going there on the head. But in Vegas, it’s the thing to do. You know it, and, more importantly, they know it, and that makes it all the more fun.

So, Manilow. We had great expectations, despite the lipsynching rumors, and we weren’t disappointed when, checking into the theater, we were handed glowsticks to wave at our leisure. Yes, glowsticks. ‘Mazing!

We’re not quite sure whether the sticks were ironic or not, but who cares? We loved it.

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Someone Has Defiled the Chippendales, And Not in a Good Way

What sacrilege is this? We were passing through the Rio recently when we noticed that someone had ruined our daily fix of hotness on the Chippendales wall leading out to the car park.

Not only that, but of all the men they could have chosen to deface (we for one would have been cheering them on if they’d done this to the nipple-ringed hair flicker that is Jace, our abuser), they did it to the most harmless of the gang: sweet little James.

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Matt Goss Has Landed At Caesars Palace

As you’ll see from the photo gallery, we like to call this “The Start of the Orgy”

It’s all over! Matt Goss has launched at Caesars, and now that our stalking waiting is over, we’re not quite sure what to do with ourselves. Treat this review as step one in our Weaning Yourself Off Goss twelve step program.

(First, though, we’d like to remind you that on Thursday, we told you that we had a feeling that the luscious Mel B (swoon) would be joining the G-man on stage but the boring Leona Lewis wouldn’t. We were right on both counts. Just sayin’.)

See our videos of the night here

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Cleo's Barge Finally Gets Her Matt Goss Makeover

Finally. Finally! After all our griping about Cleopatra’s Barge being a) a bit gross and b) not refurbished for Matt Goss’ arrival, we swung by yesterday, when we bought our ticket for the opening night of Goss, to find the curtains up again, the smell of glue and paint in the air, and lots of workmen going in and out with wheelbarrows, carpets and studious looks on their faces. Hallelujah, Caesars. Hallelujah.

By peeking through the curtains and enlisting the services of our Caesars spy, we discovered the following:

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The Case of Cleopatra's Barge Gets Curiouser and Curiouser

Yup, that's how small the stage is. And yup, that's totally open to the public. We might not be paying for our ticket after all

OK so. Just what on earth is going on with Cleopatra’s Barge? After we posted our pics of the renovations going down, the Harrah’s blog responded yesterday by posting some pics of a sphinx being jazzed up in preparation for Matt Goss’ arrival.

(Our first question – Gary Selesner said that the Gossy Room refurb would make Cleo’s “a little less Egyptian, a little more retro.” How is gilding a sphinx making it a little less Egyptian?)

Anyway we popped by yesterday evening and were amazed to find the plastic sheeting taken down, no discernable hookers present, and a sexy band setting up. The lounge looked no different (although the Harrah’s blog is right, the sphinxes are def a bit shinier) but we could see no other discernable difference, and a pair of shiny sphinx boobies doth not a Gossy Room make. Had Caesars done a miraculous, four day, invisible to the naked eye refurb?

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