Duo negotiates with management to push the terrace closing from 3 to 4 p.m. so they could shmoozeTony Danza found a friend in Regis Philbin last week when the mature TV duo teamed up in a ruckus at the Reebok Sports Club on the upper West Side.
The fancy gym, located in the same building where Philbin lives, has a rooftop terrace that residents of the high-rise can use. But when sports club managers tried to close the outdoor space early one afternoon for a private event, Philbin and Danza weren’t having any of it.
“First Tony was up there, reading his paper, just hanging out. Then Regis comes up and he’s got his papers and he’s trying to relax. The two of them were sitting with a chair in between them just enjoying the afternoon,” a spywitness tells Confidenti@l.
But when club employees came up to shoo everyone off the premises, Danza went bananas.
“He starts going, ‘I’m not going anywhere. I am not going anywhere. This is my time to relax and I’m gonna relax. Look, I’m relaxing,’ ” our spy tells us.
Then Philbin joined in, asking why they had to leave.
“You have Tony’s voice, then imagine Regis’ voice asking, ‘Why are you moving all the lounge chairs?’ ” says our witness.
At that point, the roof had cleared, with the exception of a few people who stayed to watch the commotion. After Danza and Philbin recognized each other, they negotiated with management to push the terrace closing from 3 to 4 p.m. so they could shmooze.
“They were sitting there with a girl in a bikini half-naked between them, yelling back and forth,” laughs our spy. “Tony says, ‘What do you have going on these days, Reege?’ And Regis is talking to him about TV projects. After they both have a fit, they’re sitting there yelling back and forth to each other.”
The duo sure had a lot to catch up on. Danza, 62, will be on screen soon in “Don Jon,” directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He was recently called into VH1’s “The Gossip Table” to discuss working with the actor-turned-director, and called the film fantastic.
Philbin, 81, is preparing for his new talk show on Fox Sports 1, “Crowd Goes Wild,” to be filmed in a new studio at Chelsea Piers. It will air weekdays at 5 p.m.
The two continued on for the hour, before Danza got up and announced: “Okay, my civil disobedience is over.” He then headed inside.
BONO BRINGS AID TO NEW YORKERS
OC61 Salon owner Louise O’Connor found a famous Good Samaritan to help her with a very heavy package. While struggling to carry some goods to her car on Madison Ave. recently, a passerby saw her and ran to help, an onlooker tells us. “This very nice man turns up, said, ‘I saw you trying to carry that, can I help?’ and she looks up and it’s Bono,” a spy tells us. “He helped her and she didn’t even realize it was him until he walked away, and she said ‘That was Bono!’ Louise is Irish [like the U2 front man], so it was extra special.”
RINNA REVEALS HER SECRETS
Holy Moly! Can we please look like this at 50 years old? Lisa Rinna, who is turning half a century on Thursday at a bash thrown by husband Harry Hamlin, looks more like 20. Here she poses in her bathroom and snaps a pic of herself looking ripped in a bikini, so all the ladies can be jealous and all the men can drool. It doesn’t come easy, though. Rinna admits to Kundalini yoga five times a week, a personal trainer and plenty of juice fasts. Whatever it is, it’s working.
BLINGING IT ON
The Hotel de Paris, a five-star hotel in Monaco, was deluged with New Yorkers Thursday throwing Jacob the Jeweler a giant party. “There was over $100 million in diamonds and watches on display,” a spy tells us of the bash for Jacob Arabov, who’s made bling for celebs from Jay-Z to Kanye West. “Jacob sauntered around the crowd looking dapper with his wife, Angela.” Guests included soccer god Cristiano Ronaldo, taxi kingpin Gene Friedman, real estate attorney to the stars Ed Mermelstein, French actress Juliette Binocheand 5WPR
CEO Ronn Torossian.
IT’S KENDALL, AND SO FOURTH
Yet another member of the extended Kardashian clan — this time it’s Kendall Jenner, an aspiring high-fashion model — frolics in the ocean in Malibu during the family’s Fourth of July barbecue beach party.
“Beautiful day!” she tweeted. She may have been in such a chipper mood because high school friend Julian Brooks, her rumored longtime boyfriend, was around. The two were later spotted together.
KELLY RUTHERFORD’S PLAY DATE
We love to see a happy Kelly Rutherford with her kids, Hermes and Helena.
The trio were headed to a playground in Battery Park on Thursday. The “Gossip Girl” star recently filed for bankruptcy after a costly child custody battle with ex-husband Daniel Giersch, who lives with the children in Monaco. Rutherford has been with her kids for a few weeks now and is fighting to have them move back to the U.S.
KUDROW’S SHAKE-Y
Most of us go to Barry’s Bootcamp to work up a sweat and get some muscle. Lisa Kudrow goes to peruse the menu. On Friday, the former “Friends” star, who is staying at the James Hotel, strolled into the lobby of the Tribeca workout class looking for a smoothie. “She came in just for a shake. The type she got was called a PB&J,” a spy tells us. “She said she was super jet-lagged; she just flew in from Italy last night.”
KATY, JOHN: SPARKS FLY
Red, white and eww? Katy Perry Instagrammed a photo of herself and personal “Firework,” notorious womanizer John Mayer, celebrating the Fourth in matching stars and stripes.
The songwriter has a habit of dishing about ex-girlfriends’ skills in the sack (as he did about Jessica Simpsonin Playboy) and giving streetcorner interviews about why he broke up with them, as he did with Jennifer Aniston. Watch out, Katy!
ALI CALLS GROWTH INDUSTRY TOUGH
It may sound hard to believe, but Tatyana Ali says she struggled to feel pretty while growing up in the public eye. “It was, at certain points, not being black enough,” Ali told The News’ Jennifer H. Cunningham Thursday at a private screening of the documentary “Imagine a Future,” at Manning’s Restaurant in New Orleans. Ali is in the Big Easy for the Essence Festival.
“It’s this push and pull — putting yourself out there, to be creative and fulfill your purpose, and feeling like the world isn’t receptive to what you’re trying to say, because you don’t necessarily fit the mold of whatever it is people think you’re supposed to be,” the former “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” star said.
Ali said meditation and contributing to “Imagine a Future,” which focuses on black women’s perceptions of their own beauty (which aired Friday on BET), helped her overcome her insecurities.
SONJA TRIES ON YOUNGER LOOK
“Real Housewives of New York” star Sonja Morgan’sparty just doesn’t stop. Before flying out to Saint-Tropez for — you guessed it — partying, she hit Hamptons hot spot Georgica in Wainscott, where she was throwing back cocktails and dancing. “She was acting half her age,” says a
spy. After doing a little light math, we figured out that would be 25. But since it is Morgan, we’ll
give her a pass for acting half her age — because she looks it, too.
IT'S JEREMY SCHLOCKEY
Ex-New York Giants star Jeremy Shockey isn’t playing football, but he’s still playing the field. The tattooed tight end was at the SLS hotel in Miami recently, where he chain-smoked and rolled up his sleeves for patrons to check out his highly inked arms. “He was running his fingers through his hair nonstop,” a spy tells Confidenti@l. We’re told Shockey stayed late, partying into the night and flirting with the ladies.
With Molly Friedman and Margaret Eby
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