Kelly Clarkson just had her own Pretty Woman moment, and she isn\u2019t keeping quiet about it.The Grammy winner and daytime talk show host went to X on Saturday, October 10, to call out Art of Play, a specialty shop in Brooklyn. She said an employee there assumed she couldn\u2019t afford the merchandise.<\/p>\n
Clarkson said she went out of her way to visit the store. \u201cJust drove all the way to Brooklyn to check out this store I thought looked really rad and had a few things in mind to buy,\u201d she wrote. The trip didn\u2019t go as planned. Clarkson said she \u201cliterally was looked at as if I couldn\u2019t afford it.\u201d She added that the salesperson offered to find \u201csomething comparable\u201d for her.<\/p>\n
Her verdict was short: \u201cWow, dude. You\u2019re an idiot and just lost a huge sale.\u201d<\/p>\n
She then sarcastically told followers to visit Art of Play if they enjoy being treated like Julia Roberts\u2019 character in Pretty Woman. She ended the post with a thumbs-down emoji.<\/p>\n
Clarkson\u2019s comparison points to one of the most famous shopping scenes in movie history. In the 1990 film Pretty Woman, Roberts plays Vivian Ward. A snobby Rodeo Drive boutique employee dismisses her based on how she looks. Vivian later comes back with bags full of purchases from other stores and delivers the line fans still quote today: \u201cBig mistake. Big. Huge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clarkson\u2019s \u201chuge sale\u201d remark sounded like a nod to that line, and fans online quickly made the connection.<\/p>\n
Art of Play calls itself a \u201cBrooklyn curiosity shop.\u201d It sells puzzles, games, toys, books and unusual home goods, and it has a small theater that hosts close-up magic shows. The store is at 69 Atlantic Avenue, near Brooklyn Bridge Park. Clarkson didn\u2019t name the employee or say which items she planned to buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelly Clarkson just had her own Pretty Woman moment, and she isn\u2019t keeping quiet about it.The Grammy winner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[136700,98,100,99,136702,25271,136701,32346,9,24,63,2895],"class_list":["post-370524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-art-of-play","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-clarkson","tag-employee","tag-idiot","tag-kelly-clarkson","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}