Runaround Ralph 😯😬

Ralph Cirella was Howard Stern's most trusted long-time companion who died suddenly and without warning sending shockwaves through the Stern community of pigeons on his payroll wondering who would replace him when of course, his position with Howard was unequaled and cannot be replaced by anyone. 

Ralph died on December 5, 2023 and Howard announced it on his SiriusXM satellite radio show on December 6, 2023.

Ralph was a fixture plugged permanently into Howard's life, always following a few steps behind Howard, in and out of Howard's former Manhattan penthouse where he had his own bedroom suite when he was in town working on Howard's wardrobe because Howard claimed he was color blind and needed help with Ralph the stylist, makeup artist, among other things. It was odd when Ralph was fired as Stern's personal hair stylist but many people claim it was due to Howard needing someone adept at weaves and hair transplants and Ralph was busy doing other errands for Howard anyway.

For past blog entries you can type in Ralph's name in the search bar at the footer of this blog and it should bring up the numeous times he's been mentioned here and of course the report of his sudden death when Howard announced it live on his SiriusXM satellite radio show [BFP 12-6-23].

One wonders what happened to the enormous fish tank Howard had inside that Manhattan penthouse of his. Remember this from MarksFriggin dot com? It's the website that used to do a daily rundown of the Stern show.

Howard's New Fish. 9/18/98. 6:05am

I hate to say it but I over slept and missed the first 15 minutes of the show. I woke up and heard Howard talking about how he was getting new fish in his 700 gallon tank yesterday. His buddy Ralph was helping out with the tank by redesigning the layout of the rocks in the huge tank. Howard said Ralph actually got in a wet suit and got in the tank to move the rocks and stuff around. I don't know what else Howard talked about since I was half asleep.

How interesting Ralph just happened to have a wet suit handy to go diving in Stern's fish tank. One wonders where he got that wet suit to begin with.

It's no secret Ralph got around ferreting out information for the King of All Pests who loves to badger and bother producers and anyone with a network TV show so Howard could get back on television since he was fired off the E! Channel network.

How interesting that in October 2024 photos emerged in the Daily Mail of P Diddy and his then-girlfriend J Lo at an MTV VMA afterparty in 2000. It's relevant as P Diddy faces charges of allegedly assaulting a teen at that afterparty witnessed by unnamed persons in legal documents to protect the eyewitnesses' identities. 

Did Ralph harbor any relevant details of that afterparty? Ralph died in December 2023, P Diddy's Holmby Hills mansion was raided by federal authorities in March 2024. Following the death of Ralph, suddenly and without warning, Howard said he was doing some renovations on his apartment in New York with alleged insiders stating it was due to changing Ralph's bedroom suite back into a guest room, erasing all evidence he had lived there, and finally informing his investment attorney that his apartments would soon be available for purchase. The renovations also included Beth's apartment beneath because in one of her hallway closet selfies, you could see the plastic hanging to one side that construction workers use as a barrier when work is going on to contain the mess and section off the area that is temporarily off limits [BFP 6-10-24]. By the end of 2024, the Beth Fan Page said Howard fled to Florida as validated by the New York Post [BFP 1-31-25 and 3-11-25].

2017, Ralph was already good buddies with Biden well before

Howard [via SiriusXM] paid him tons of dough [made a 

donation to his election fund] to coerce him to do the

Stern show in 2024.

In October 2024, newly unearthed photos show Sean 'Diddy' Combs and then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez appearing to be having a heated argument on the night he is now accused of allegedly assaulting a teen, as revealed by the DailyMail.co.uk.com.

The music mogul and the singer, who famously dated from 1999 to 2001, were snapped attending a star-studded afterparty for the 2000 MTV VMAs in New York City where they were later seen having a dramatic confrontation.

The photos were taken at the now-defunct Lotus nightclub on September 7, 2000 – the same evening a new lawsuit alleges Diddy assaulted a young girl in front of two unidentified celebrities.

The afterparty was packed with people where the alleged

assault by P Diddy happened. One particular partygoer looked

suspiciously like Howard Stern's constant companion Ralph Cirella,

with that left ear hoop earring and all. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14003503/diddy-and-jennifer-lopez-seen-having-heated-argument-in-unearthed-party-photos-from-same-night-hes-accused-of-raping-13-year-old-girl.html

Is Howard a Sexually Confused Nerd?

How weird is it that Howard has something in common with the late Cary Grant. Everyone knows about the bisexual rumors swirling around Cary Grant, especially when he lived with Randolph Scott, that it was not a platonic relationship of two baches scouting for women. Same with Howard and Ralph with many people thinking that they had an intimate relationship behind them playing dress-up and Ralph deep diving into Stern's fish tank.

So here we go from a past episode of the Stern show when he was still on regular radio and he talked about inviting Leila Arcieri from the show Stern produced called "Son of a Beach" that was airing on cable TV. Howard invited her to his Manhattan Mancave where he already had his honeypot Beth living beneath his apartment so this is a bizarre little meetup here. By 2001, Beth was quoted by an insider spilling tea to The National Enquirer that she was tired of Howard pretending he was single.

Here is an excerpt from MarksFriggin.com:

Leila Arcieri Calls In. 3/22/00. 8:00am

Howard's date from last night ended up calling in real quick around 8am. Leila basically just confirmed what Howard had said earlier in the morning about their ''date'' last night. There was nothing going on there. She said Howard didn't put any moves on her and she wasn't expecting him to. It was ''all business'' according to both of them. She did crack a joke about having dinner set up in his bedroom though. She said he was a perfect gentleman and there was no sexual tension between them at all.

This was a common move by Cary Grant of all people. It was no secret how he met Dyan Cannon and pretended to want to cast her in one of his movies just to have an excuse to meet her because she was young and attractive, but he was struggling with aging and wanted in that young lifestyle, even trying LSD at one point which is public information.

So, did Howard copy this move from Cary? Well, it's weird and nerdy to say the least.

In the biopic about Dyan Cannon's life with Cary Grant called "Archie" (2023), it was a four-part drama based on the book Dyan Cannon wrote about her years with Cary, along with other information. Both Cannon and Jennifer Grant [Cary's daughter] were executive producers on this project. 

In one scene in the movie when Dyan finally agrees to have dinner with Grant at his LA mansion, she was apprehensive, like, she was not going to sleep with him. She made it clear it was dinner only.

Cary was much like Howard, weirdly enough, in that Cary starts banging on the piano and singing show tunes with Cannon joining in trying to placate the old guy. He then brags about his old movies he did and was phony in how he berated and downplayed his past performances in his old films. He was a big windbag until finally the maid says that dinner is served.

So, what does Cary do? He sets up dinner, consisting of hamburgers and fries, [with Howard it's that awful Nobu pasta & shrimp], and serves dinner in his bedroom.

Dyan was nervous but it turned out that Cary was just a weirdo nerd who was alleged to be bisexual or asexual in some cases, but Dyan was a starlet getting nowhere fast and wanted fame and fortune. Of course, that would come later after giving birth to his only child and she cashed in and divorced him and became famous after that marriage ended. 

How weird is it that Howard did the same move with Leila?? Even Beth Ostrosky Stern said in the official scripted report about her first date with Howard, that they just sat around and watched his movie "Private Parts" [although when they first met, that movie hadn't been released yet but that's another story].

Many sex therapists suggest that, ... sexually inhibited bisexually confused nerdy men are weird - they try to act cool or hip, like how they think a young guy would act around a woman much younger than they are.

Below are screenshots from that scene in the movie where a fully-dressed Grant serves dinner in his bed with Dyan on their first date and they look really stupid. How embarrassing, I mean, I would've walked out but then I was never a starving starlet stalking fame in Hollywood.

Cary tells her he doesn't want to have children. Yet, Jennifer Grant is the product of their union. The series did touch on the 'friendship' with Randolph Scott which was rumored to be romantic.

How weird that Howard Stern duplicated this scene a few times, with Leila having dinner in his bedroom and talking about his career and his movie and he did the same thing with his soon to be second wife Beth O who he told he wanted no children, yet what was the product of their union? Well, you have to read the Beth Fan Page to know that. There are plenty of blog entries just waiting for you to puruse when and if you choose to go down that rabbit hole.

Cary begins their date by banging on that piano and singing off
key to having a cheapskate burger and fries dinner sitting in bed
looking like he's with his daughter who's visiting dad in
a nursing home watching TV in bed. Howard Stern's so-called
dates were no different except he either pretended to be an artist
or a guitarist entertaining his guest by reciting his resume and watching
one of his TV shows or his movie before serving dinner in his bedroom.

‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ breaks IMAX records

NEW YORK (February 10, 2025) – Sony Pictures Classics’ BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN, the first-ever sanctioned film on the band in the almost 57 years since the formation of the notoriously private group, gave a record-breaking performance for its first weekend at the box office as it opened to an impressive $3M IMAX® debut across 16 countries and territories. Domestically, the film’s $2.6M start ($7K per screen average) represents the biggest opening weekend ever for an IMAX®-exclusive music release, as audiences nationwide flock to experience the exhilarating docu-concert on the largest screens available.

https://ledzepnews.com/2025/02/11/full-press-release-becoming-led-zeppelin-breaks-imax-records/

#dawgshed #carygrant #cary #dyan #dyancannon #howardstern

#bethostern #beth #ralph #ralphcirella #pdiddy #diddyparty #jlo

#jennifer #jenniferlopez #mtv #vma #awards #music #cary #dyan

#jennifergrant #carygrant #archie #becomingledzeppelin

Couch Potato 🛋️🥔

It seems that Boss Witz didn't permanently put the fritz on that couch that's inside the Howard Stern studio in New York and the Beth Fan Page can retire Couchgate that was last referenced in the last blog entry dated March 25, 2025, which included references to the initial blog entries about the Stern studio's disappearing couch.

Sometimes it's there for guests and sometimes it's gone and they have to crowd in a chair and Howard tries to scrunch in next to the celebrity guest for a photo op but since he no longer lives in New York this is apparently no longer an issue and we can also mark the end of Howard Posing on a Couch with Celebrities [a.k.a., Putz on a Couch] series [ref: BFP 11-1-22 for the original report].

We know that Howard Stern has vacated New York as exclusively already blogged about [BFP 3-11-25, 3-13-25, and 3-17-25] and that's how he could get his moving expenses paid by Boss Witz to shuttle Stern to his Florida Empty Fortress, commonly referred to as Flor-a-Lago, which serves as a timeshare with Beth the house manager hosting the likes of Jeff Bezos who toured the house and she even stated live on the Stern show how she is hosting people at the house and giving them a tour and wants to know when Howard's off the air so they can get a gander at the old studio equipment and furniture Sirius dumped on Stern when he was dumped in the Hamptons and moved the equipment to Florida but supposedly he had to get new equipment in the Hamptons due to the sinking flooded basement that this blogger has always blogged about. 

Howard now shuffles between his Hamptons sinkhole and his Florida Reptile Ranch where Howard founded Florida Porch Fashion Week for Beth because he could no longer score freebie corporate tix for Beth to sit in the front row of any shows during New York Fashion Week but since the reptile invasion, Florida Porch Fashion Week was canceled.

Beth did a bunch of these Florida porch fashion shows as posted on
this blog, this is just an example of her posing on her porch. No one
does this but 'model' Beth since she thinks she's a real model.

Beth's last Florida Porch Fashion Week was in 2018 and was discontinued
due to the reptile invasion.

Here's today's Stern show transcribed excerpts starting out with a Virulent Beth cartoon that is exclusive to the Beth Fan Page:

#dawgshed #howardstern #sethrogen #seth #betho #reptileranch

#floralago #florida #swamplandradio #swamp #sirius #andycohen

#siriusxmtownhall #andycohenlive

Coat of Many Colors 👚🧥🤵🏼

Howard Stern is still plugging that boring wedding of Justin Theroux on his satellite radio show today that was sponsored by Vogue magazine and their corporate partners.

Howard horned in on the wedding as a plus-one couple with the Kimmels but left out that it's a feral pig poop beach resort for good reason since anyone who stays at the resort will have to pet a pig like Beth did when they got their freebie trip to Tulum, Mexico, in December 2019, because they got the resort featured in Closer magazine [BFP 3-14-20, 3-17-25 and 3-20-25].

Interesting on today's Stern show, Howard mentioned seeing Jimmy Kimmel in only one suit for the Theroux wedding but it wasn't the same suit that Jimmy wore for the actual wedding where Jimmy didn't match the other groomsmen who wore the standard black suit and tie.

Was Kimmel sent on purpose by Justin's ex-wife Jennifer Aniston to mess up the bride's wedding photos? Howard did mention on his show on March 10 that he wanted to wear an electric blue suit and Beth nixed it, but Howard was not one of the groomsmen so I doubt it would've mattered yet Jimmy showed up in suits that were too casual for the event. Jimmy seemed to think he was funny botching up the wedding photos that had to be printed in black and white because of him wearing an old suit that looked like he was going to a coffee shop instead of a formal-dress wedding.

Here are screenshots from the March 17 & 20, 2025, Beth Fan Page

showing Jimmy wearing his two different color suits:

Here's the March 25, 2025 Stern show 

transcribed excerpts:

#dawgshed #howardstern #becomingledzeppelin #justintheroux #wedding #vogue #jimmykimmel

#gwyneth #paltrow #pingpong #timotheechalamet #MartySupreme #marty

Third Time's a Charm 🤩🌟

Due to overwhelming demand, the blockbuster hit movie "Becoming Led Zeppelin" is back for a third time in IMAX theaters. 

It was first released only in IMAX early February 2025, then in standard theaters, then re-released in IMAX for a limited time while simultaneously playing in standard theaters.

Now, there is a special one-night only return to IMAX theaters across the country as fans experience a once in a lifetime event, bathing in the legendary music of Led Zeppelin, awestruck at the beauty and power of Plant and Page on the silver screen supported by the rock solid foundation and unequaled musical skill of Jones and Bonham.

Howard Already Interviewed Seth Rogen?

As blogged about frequently, it's no secret Howard Stern tries to get a freebie trip out of Boss Witz to do his show from the SiriusXM studios in Los Angeles because he has family in California, namely his daughter Debra and his other 'daughter' Noel Clare Ostrosky. I just blogged about Noel having a home in the Hollywood Hills and she could've been affected by the recent fires in the Malibu and Pacific Palisades areas [BFP 1-31-25].

Howard announced on his last live broadcast on March 12, 2025 that Seth Rogen would be on his show "next Wednesday" which would've been March 19, 2025 - but Howard was not on the air, he was on vacation in Mexico for the Justin Theroux wedding and in California visiting his family.

Now it's been announced that Seth Rogen will be on the Stern show this week, begging the question, is this the interview Howard taped in Los Angeles last week so the trip to California was paid by SiriusXM? I think the answer is yes, since that's how Howard finally got his trip to the West Coast paid by Boss Witz because she probably caved into the constant badgering by Howard to get him a free trip to the West coast.

Howard probably taped the Seth Rogen interview last week 

in Los Angeles following his trip to Mexico for the Theroux 

wedding on March 15th.

Here's the March 24, 2025 Stern show transcribed excerpts starting out as usual with a "Virulent Beth" cartoon since we always want to start out with a joke:

#dawgshed #robertplant #jimmypage #johnbonham #johnpauljones

#beth #bethstern #betho #noelclare #noel #debra #losangeles #wedding

#justintheroux #mexico #tulum #beach #winds #ledzeppelin

#becomingledzeppelin