Boots Girls’ New BFF Steve Kemble
On Tuesday night, Lifestyle Guru and Celebrity fashion police officer Steve Kemble made an appearance at Water Tower to highlight the latest fashion trends and gift giving ideas for the holiday season.
The Boots Girls were lucky enough to sit down with him to get the latest dish on fashion, celebrity gossip, upcoming projects, and the secret details behind the American Music Awards airing this Sunday!
Steve Kemble isn’t a name you naturally recognize upon hearing it announced. However, this man, who calls himself ”America’s Sassiest Lifestyle Guru” has more to offer than many of the household names Chicago brings in. Although his warm demeanor and contagious charisma convince you that the man doesn’t have a single mean bone in his body, turns out, he is one of the reoccurring fashion police that rate the catastrophes in the back of Us Weekly. And while his comments are already jaw dropping, Steve reveals, “you should read the comments we don’t get to print… ha!”
Not only does Steve work in the fashion industry, but he also indulges in several event planning projects, most often involving weddings! In fact, he just won TLC’s Battle of the Wedding Planners and was granted the opportunity to plan one couples’ special day.
However, he doesn’t find passion from one genre. Instead, he claims he is ”into lifestyle as a whole. I want people to have lifestyle with low stress,” he exclaims.
When we found out, that Steve was the Red Carpet correspondent for the American Music Awards to air on Sunday, we couldn’t wait to get his dish on little miss Lady Gaga. To our surprise, it was his biggest excitement as well!
He said he was sincerely interested in seeing all the performance rehearsals, which begin Thursday morning. However, he shyly admitted, ”the thing I am most excited about is… Lady Gaga, is rehearsing at 8am on Saturday morning! Who did she anger?!”
We couldn’t help but share his amusement and curiosity on that unfortunate event scheduling for Lady Gaga. ”They’re like you don’t have to go to that one, and I was like oh no, I will be there at 7am! Lady Gaga at 8am?!!! Is that not the best?! Oh, my alarm is set for 5am!” he laughed.
Beyond the humor though, he did indulge his opinion on Lady Gaga and her sense of what few consider style. Although it’s not a look us Boots Girls would sport, we agree that Lady Gaga has become more than an ongoing joke, but rather a fashion icon. And Steve agrees! ”I think that she is a fashionista! Unfortunately a lot of people in the fashion industry have put her in the category of costume. Katy Perry has the same dilemma.”
Some of the other dirt he gave us regarding the show?! Well, he wasn’t shy about showing off the list of performers for the award ceremony, and the list was nothing short of exceptional. Musicians that range over decades, from Whitney Houston to Adam Lambert, everyone great from every genre will be on stage. Jennifer Lopez will be performing.. with 64 performers on stage with her at once! Steve joked that with that many people, we’ll be thinking to ourselves, ”where’s J Lo?!” We couldn’t help but agree!
Finally, because Steve too specializes in celebrity gossip (he does a show on CBS Radio), he shared with us his latest story on the Fergie and Josh Duhamel drama. He says that they are currently going through marriage counseling, and that recently right before her Saturday Night Live performance, Fergie threw a fit in the shows green room. Apparently she walked in, only to find numerous copies of the latest People magazine strewn about the room. The cover story? Josh’s affair. We never support celebrity melt downs, but when you are expected to perform on live television, how can you go into it after witnessing and reliving those unfortunate issues?!
Steve says now, it’s important for Josh to be seen everywhere with his wife, and is curious to see if he’ll be there to support her performance at Sunday night’s event.
It was such a pleasure to meet with Steve and learn all he had to offer. From lifestyle suggestions, to top-notch celebrity gossip, this sassy man has really got it goin on! Not to mention, as a celebrity stylist, he complimented our clothes and accessories giving him two really big windy city thumbs-up! Come back whenever you want Steve, we’ll always save you a room at the Peninsula Hotel!