Hollywire was on the Red Carpet at the Danity Kane, “Welcome to the Dollhouse,” album release party at Opera in Hollywood last Thursday. The album was just released last week and with sales grossing over 236,000 copies in the first few days the album instantly skyrocketed into the 2nd biggest opening of the year (only behind Jack Johnson’s “Sleep Through the Static”).

Our very own Heather “BlkCat” Harris was on hand to cover the event!

A lot of celebs were in attendance–the biggest to make an appearance was Kanye West–he, however, came after the Red Carpet had been dismantled…booo…no photo op there… But, he was escorted in by Alex Quinn (& bodyguards in tow of course) straight to the VIP area whereupon he greeted Christina Milian with a friendly hug & a little chit-chat like conversation.

Christina Milian had made it to the event while the Red Carpet was in full swing and while she posed for a few photos, she didn’t stop long enough to talk on camera–she practically ran through the Red Carpet area. I guess she really needed that drink!

Another semi-celeb that breezed through at lightening speed was Brody Jenner–he didn’t even stop for photos…but he made an impact at Opera in his own way. You see, while I was in the women’s restroom, 4 girls were excitedly talking about how they had met Brody and it was enough to convince one girl that partying in LA was totally worth the drive, “Oh my god! You were totally right…I can’t believe we met Brody…I’d drive up for this again!” Blah… blah… blah…. etc… etc… etc… [insert girl giggling & exclamations of excitement here].

Here’s an old Red Carpet photo of Jenner (just for your viewing pleasure)…

Now, do you want to know who we didn’t see on the Red Carpet? Danity Kane…yep, didn’t see Danity Kane at all–we saw their limo pull up & not one person got out of the limo. Instead the driver said he had to pull around again to get closer to the entrance–uh, okay–I guess 5 feet from the curb isn’t close enough. Anyhow, next thing we know, the DK girls were then inside the club–completely bypassing the Red Carpet for their own release party.

Apparently someone with the DK crew didn’t think the front entrance was secure enough

(there was a mob outside and the line to get in went waaaaaaaaaaay down the street), so the driver drove them around to the back entrance and they snuck in without any photo ops for the media…another boo….that’s so not in the spirit of a release party.

Rumor has it that one of the DK girls just recently turned 21 years old and this was also on their celebration agenda for the evening…therefore, sources close to the band speculated that the girls may have been a bit too inebriated for the Red Carpet entrance–better to sneak into a dark club than go through the blaring lights when your looking a bit trashed. This has not

been confirmed by their publicist, but really, who doesn’t give the media a photo op at their own release party–that is why we’re all there ya know!

And lastly, also absent from the event was Sean “Diddy” Combs… I thought he just might show to support the girls on his label, “Bad Boys Records,” but nope, I was wrong.

Originally posted at our sister site HOLLYWIRE.COM