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'Salon Takeover's' Tabatha Coffey talks 5 cuckoo moments in the Christopher Hill Salon
We think you'll agree with us that the salon owners in Monday's (Dec. 13) episode of "Tabatha's Salon Takeover" were all kinds of nuts. And by nuts, we mean this has to be a reality show. You can't write this kind of crazy.
So, when we had lunch with Tabatha Coffey, we had to get her take on the strangest moments from the episode.
"Honestly, if it hadn't have been for the stylists, I wouldn't have stayed," Coffey tells Zap2it. "I wouldn't have been able to get through the week. If it had been those owners and everyone in the salon had the same attitude, I wouldn't have been able to deal with it."
Here are our top 5 crazy moments from the takeover of Christopher Hill Salon and what Tabatha had to say about them:
1.) The $3,000 massage chairs: Let's face it, there were 3,000 other things in the salon Tim and Alexis could have used those dollars on. The awning that still said the old salon's name, maybe?
"$3,000 massage chairs? Hello. Who cares?" Tabatha says. "It's great, but that's not going to bring people in. It was truly extraordinary."
2.) Alexis' smarter than thou attitude: If there's one thing we've learned in our time in Hollywood, it's that higher education degrees don't automatically make you the master of the universe or any smarter than anyone else. We have friends with Harvard degrees that couldn't reason their way out of a paper bag (and they know it).
"They thought they were so much better than the people that worked for them," says Tabatha. "They needed those people to make their business successful, but they couldn't get their heads out of their own a**es to realize that just because you're a hairdresser doesn't mean you're dumb. That was their mentality. Even with me, that's how they treated me."
3.) Refrigerator-gate: Wow. What utter entitlement this women showed through out the episode, yet when she told Tabatha that she expected she'd buy them a new fridge? We have no words. Tabatha?
"When she turned around after the renovation and said, 'I thought you were going to buy us a new refrigerator.' I was like, are you f***ing kidding me?" she says. "Oh, I was shaking, I was so angry."
4.) Tim's ludicrous story about the Salon's name: It's one thing to lie, but Tim took it to a whole new level with the involved tale of "Christopher Hill," the salon's namesake, world renowned hairstylist and extreme adventurer.
"We couldn't air the whole story," Tabatha says. "It was so long - all the things that Christopher Hill did. It was truly astounding. He grew up with The Beatles, knew Jacques Cousteau, he lived in Monte Carlo. And people would call to make appointments with Christopher Hill and Tim would say he was in London doing celebrities' hair."
The worst part is that the truth was really a much better story. "The real story was so nice," she says. "His mum and brother passed away relatively close to each other and the salon's name was an homage to them. To me that was touching and it meant something. To make up this crazy, fictitious hairdresser? It's cuckoo-ville."
5.) After all that, they didn't learn a thing: So, with all the crazy that Tabatha experienced at the Christopher Hill Salon, we can't imagine she felt positive that they would get their act together and it doesn't look like they did.
"I'm always cautiously optimistic," Tabatha says. "I usually walk out knowing they've had an epiphany and want to change. With salons like [the Christopher Hill Salon], you walk out and think, 'hm, not so much.' They didn't listen to me. They don't want to change. They want to do it their way."
Did we hit your most "cuckoo-ville" moments at the Christopher Hill Salon?
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can't remember tab being so angry at the end. felt really bad for the stylists. thought tim had found his balls but obviously shrew alexis still has them in a knot. hope all the stylists find new and better homes and christopher hill fails. we don't need these type of people as entrepreneurs.
Just goes to prove that when you're arrogance grossly exceeds your competence you're in big trouble. Alexis the unbelievably rude self-centered "dragon lady" is her own undoing and the salon is doomed to failure under her direction. Husband seemed better but lacked the strength to stand up to his own wife. Let's just hope that the stylists find a better home and that the clients wise up and move on to a better salon. The one obvious, at least to me, comment is why was the receptionist not looking more professional? Tank top with large tattoos on both arms? Perhaps a blouse with sleeves would be more appropriate?
I have a feeling if it's not already, the Christopher Hill salon will soon be closed. Tim really does need to be more assertive and get Alexis out of there. She has absolutely no people skills and as far as her MBA? Hello anyone knows if you are going to take on a new venture, don't you do some research and find out how it works? I am surprised that too, that Tabatha did not mention the way that the receptionist was dressed. She has on previous shows. I used to work in Brentwood and it's a pretty posh neighborhood.
Alexis is an arogant *****, He clearly needs to get rid of her dumbass..
I feel sorry for Alexis' child already! An over-the-top ***** of a mother and a nice father who lets her run over him (and their child) like a mack truck - very sad. If the business succeeds, it will be IN SPITE OF Alexis and Tim. I imagine that they might have trouble hiring new stylists now that the episode has aired. I thought Tabatha showed amazing restraint with Alexis - much more than she usually does. Perhaps she shouldn't have been so restrained!
Why do I think that the over the top story about the mysterious celeb stylist was Alexis's hair-brained idea? Tim is balless. Look, you have $300,000 of borrowed money on the line? Tell that little clueless ***** wife of yours to stay home and be a mother while you run the salon, it didn't take rocket science to come to that obvious conclusion! But you've burned through all of your stylists now, plus thanks to your reality tv stint, the world now knows the two of you suck as entrepreneurs and probably at marriage too.
Prediction - salon folds by the end of 2011, couple divorces within 5 years, Alexis stays a clueless arrogant deluded *****.
What a gash. Who cares about an MBA. Our boss is the same way, what a douche. You kind of hope they fail, to treat people like peons cuz they don't have as much education is just assinine.
Did the salon close?
Yes is has...look it up on google
I don't know if anyone else noticed this but I was under the impression that there are issues between the couple that were not taken into account. I don´t buy much into the idea that, with couples, there's a good guy and a "bad" guy. At the house picnic that Tabatha had the couple have for their staff, after everything was discussed, the camera picked up on the couple off on one side having a conversation and if I heard right, something was said where he said something like, "don't worry, let me take care of everything and I'll make it right", and she responded with something like, "yeah, like you did the last time?" It looks like something happened that left her not trusting him, yet he knows how to talk his way out of things.... Tabatha loved him, or atleast liked him more than the wife. It's as if he knows how to tell people what they want to hear and in a very convincing manner.
At the beginning of the takeover, the wife said that they were about $200 thousand in debt and then the husband said, "no, actually it's about 300 thousand". The wife apparantly had no idea. One would think, again, he's just afraid to be honest with this uptight woman, but then I thought, how does one explain the whole Christopher Hill story? Was that story created because his wife is so incredibly dominary or..... is it possible that we're dealing with some kind of compulsory liar? That is one elaborate story to come up with unless you're already used to coming up with such stories on a regular basis.
And that final decision that he made? Him taking over the front of the salon and putting his wife in the back? That's him getting his balls back? It sounds like one really bad idea, along with all the others. The wife may not be the best salon manager material out there, but she's definitely not designed to be hanging out in the "back" of her own salon, or even any salon. I don't envy the husband but I think I envy the wife even less. Or I guess what I really think is that I just feel for them, right or wrong, and wish them the best with everything.
One last thing... did anyone see the Tabatha takeover in which she helps 4 sisters in the Bay Area fix not only their salon but their home life as well by spending a night at their house? This couple could probably use that exact same kind of help, but how does one "stay over" at someone's home when it's a couple you're dealing with and not a bunch of siblings? If we could all have access to Tabatha's magical gold dust when we need it, and where we need it, the world would definitely be a better place.