Gareth Gallagher dishes on Elton John diva fits, sex-crazed bosses and real-life Succession
nypost.comsparked by a squabble over Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton’s RSVP. (The issue: why was he still on the guest list, despite having declined?) The party-planning duo and activist investor Peltz are now locked in competing lawsuits: he’s suing them for the $159,000 deposit he paid while the pair has fired back with a countersuit that seeks $50,000 in damages.
The tussle continues. That unseemly public spat serves as a reminder that the air-kissing world of party planning isn’t as carefree and glamorous as it strains to appear.
Gallagher’s new memoir, “Eventually Gareth”, is aimed at making that point, too. Gallagher, who runs EVT Media, whose clients include Google, Levi’s and Apple, and splits his time between LA and London — he was born in England — wants to dispel the myths around the industry. “It was really important for me to get the darker side across,” Gallaher confesses, “From the outside, everything looks great, but there’s so much dysfunction.”Gallagher knows that first-hand: he’s experienced multiple addictions over his two-decade career — to sex, drink and drugs — but is now proudly in recovery.
Substance abuse is commonplace in his field, he warns, even while on the clock. “I’d say 99.9% of people have worked under the influence.
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