Dum-Dums and Dumber

It’s just about the silliest thing to come out of London City Hall and that’s saying something.

The city’s glossy Annual Report for 2011 features a photo of skaters enjoying the outdoor rink at Covent Garden Market in the city’s core.  It’s beautiful.  It twinkles.  But what’s that in the right hand corner? Hollywood tabloid targets Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt??!

Several people skating and Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag wearing skates as Pratt lifts Montag into his arms

I have copied the photo and gleaned the information for this story from the London Free Press website, www.lfpress.com.  What the City of London appears to have done is lifted a photo of the former reality show stars and inserted it into a stock photo of skaters at the rink. Why?  Well the City Manager says the photo is supposed to depict what London could become.  How two of the most reviled and mocked pseudo-celebrities of the year figure into a vision for our great city’s future is simply baffling!

I don’t think we have heard the last of this gaffe, which was first noticed by an eagle-eyed Londoner who couldn’t believe her peepers.  Was it meant as a joke that was accidentally sent to print?   Did the graphic artist think no one would be savvy enough to notice?  Are they prepared for a copyright lawsuit from this loopy, litigious couple that famously went broke after spending all of their money on plastic surgery for her?   Stay tuned!