“Leave Britney Alone” Heads West
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\nChris Crocker has landed.<\/p>\n
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As I told you on Friday, the 19-year-old better known as the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Leave Britney Alone\u00e2\u20ac\u009d guy on YouTube was coming to Hollywood for the upcoming opening of World of Wonder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Just Britney art show.<\/p>\n
Well, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s here now. Turns out that Just Britney is just one part of his trip.<\/p>\n
He was apparently flown to L.A. by the Onch Movement jewelry company because he’s their\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor lack of a better term\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcelebrity spokesmodel.<\/p>\n
I just got off the phone with Onch (yes, she only goes by one name). The 22-year-old Los Angeles native says she and Crocker started working together before he hit it big with his Britney video.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Chris sent me an email in the middle of last year asking if he could have some of my jewelry to promote with his stuff on the Internet,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Onch says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I would get so many emails like that through MySpace and stuff that I just saw him as another kid with 10,000 friends. I was like sorry, maybe you could pay for half of it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
But that eventually changed when Onch reached out to Crocker. Why? Because she became a fan of his work on MySpace and YouTube. What she hadn’t realized was that Crocker was the same guy she blew off just months before. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I got hooked on his videos,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Onch says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I said, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI am going to contact this guy, because he could model for me.’ \u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
No surprise, but Crocker jumped on board. About two weeks later, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Leave Britney Alone\u00e2\u20ac\u009d became an Internet phenomenon, with a mind-blowing 8 million hits. Within days, Onch arranged Crocker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trip to Hollywood from his home in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he lives in his grandparents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 basement.<\/p>\n
Later this week, in addition to the Just Britney opening, Crocker will be doing a round of press to promote Onch, a collection of kitschy pieces using a mix of materials, including razor blades, dice and a variety of candies encased in resin.<\/p>\n
But first, Crocker had some sightseeing to do. Within no time of landing here, Crocker hit West Hollywood gay bar Rage and had dinner at celeb-favorite restaurants Koi and Mr. Chow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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