Gareth Gallagher dishes on Elton John diva fits, sex-crazed bosses and real-life Succession
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., 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.
Gallagher has seen a real-life dysfunctional family whose antics made clear that Succession’s fictional Roys are absolutely drawn from reality.Succession became known for centering its most dramatic moments on lavish events and Gallagher says he has seen the same.Then Gallagher quickly got off and on again as a test. Sure enough, the man did the same thing.
“Nobody knew her and she’d not said her name,” he recalls — and sure enough, it turned out she was also a snoop. Gallagher, then deep in his alcoholism, had overindulged at that same drinking den the night before; withdraw your complaint, the GM thundered via an intermediary, or I’ll send footage of you to your clients.
“She tried to keep us all through the night, moving tables around the conference room. We ended up walking off the job after 11 hours.”That might involve skimming off money in a corporate setting — say, padding prices from vendors and pocketing the difference or upgrading to first class rather than business – or simple personal indiscretions.
“I’m ashamed to say I was associated with it, but it was one of my darkest times, when I was using cocaine to get through it,” Gallagher says now.
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