British media do not know what scantily clad really means in Vegas

The real reason that song “Blurred Lines” took off three years ago wasn’t because Pharrell and Robin Thicke sang it, but because model Emily Ratajkowski walked around in the music video, like, “Look at me, all topless in a nude thong” the whole time.

That’s the truth. The truth hurts.

Anyway, it’s usually not news when a model prances around Las Vegas, but this weekend, Ratajkowski elevated her experience all the way to headline news in the tabloid Sun of London for one reason.

She and other model-looking women showed up Saturday at Andrea’s restaurant in the Wynn-Encore, then partied at Intrigue nightclub, drinking Don Julio 1942 tequila and a magnum of Moet & Chandon Champagne, all on camera.

They didn’t even do anything crazy. There was no British prince involved. No scandal. They just looked hot in the photos, I guess, with the Sun musing in its headline that Ratajkowski was “dressed to kill in a cleavage baring dress,” even though it was just a one-leg-baring, satin-green, robe-looking dress which, by Strip standards, is like a nun’s nightie.

OK, look, London press, I get the feeling you ran the story just so you could run the photos, but you know she was basically naked in the “Blurred Lines” video, right?

Well, that’s pretty close to how women clothe themselves at the dayclub pools here, so, you should give that a shot sometime. Not complaining, just explaining.

ANY THEORIES?

Las Vegas action figure Nicolas Cage wore a bright pink suit while eating at Mr. Chow in Caesars Palace on Saturday.

DID YOU SEE THEIR DEATHS COMING?

Death, death, death, they died too young. Prince, Kurt Cobain, Scott Weiland and DJ AM.

Filmmaker Kevin Kerslake (who’s in Vegas to debut his DJ AM documentary at the Palms) knew them all, so did he see their deaths coming?

Kerslake’s biggest “yes” concerns Weiland, who he worked with on STP and Velvet Revolver videos.

“Scott was a tragic character. You just feared that call. You knew it was coming, and you knew he would never get a leg up on what he was wrestling with,” Kerslake said.

Weiland died of an accidental overdose of cocaine, ethanol and psychoactive MDA/“Sally” in Bloomington, Minnesota, in December at age 48.

Did Kerslake see Cobain’s death coming?

“No. Not at all. I felt like Kurt was fragile. I didn’t feel that he was damaged in the same way, because I felt like Kurt was more grounded,” said Kerslake, who was a go-to director for Nirvana’s videos and was shooting a band film when Cobain died.

“I have some theories about, you know, his death that lines up with others that are not necessarily the official story. So I wouldn’t say he succumbed to the same thing, in the same way, that Scott did.”

The official story is Cobain, at 27, exercised his Second Amendment right with a shotgun to the head in Seattle in 1994, although quite a few music lovers suspect foul play.

Did Kerslake see Prince’s death coming?

“No, I worked with him a long time ago, so I had no window into that,” Kerslake said but added it seems logical in retrospect “knowing now, when you read about what he was taking, the prescriptions in the picture.”

Prince, the Mozart of our time, died April 21 in his Chanhassen, Minnesota, home, reportedly while battling an addiction to painkillers.

Did the director see DJ AM’s death coming?

“No, AM by all accounts had such a command of his addiction that it shocked everybody,” Kerslake said.

AM had successfully overcome crack in rehab, but after surviving a plane crash and taking Xanax for anxiety to fly nearly every day to gigs, he suddenly relapsed and died at age 36 in New York in 2009, overdosing on crack, oxycodone, hydrocodone, lorazepam, clonazepam, alprazolam, diphenhydramine and levamisole.

“Xanax,” the director said, “is commonly referred to as ‘The Devil’ for addicts, because it just makes you not care, one way or another.”

Kerslake’s general takeaway on celebrities who die young of unnatural causes is they’re either too isolated or too surrounded by “yes” people.

“Nobody wants to say ‘no.’ You’ve just got all these people around you that are sycophants. Or you’re their milk cow (and) whatever it takes to keep the milk coming.

“If you just keep them on the road, or keep them in the studio, (or) if you keep putting them on TV shows or films, then they’re doing their job for you.

“If some of those issues are brought into the light, maybe people will conduct themselves a little differently.”

You can ask Kerslake your own questions at a Q&A following the premiere of “As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM” at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Palms.

THE PERKS OF BEING FAMOUS IN LOVE

Do you ever wonder how much fun and free life you get when you’re famous? Let us count the ways with this one star couple in Las Vegas for Memorial Day weekend.

Many of you have seen Jodie Sweetin finish in sixth place on “Dancing with the Stars,” or portraying Stephanie Tanner in “Full House”/“Fuller House.”

She came to Vegas with her fiance, Justin Hodak.

They stayed in The Venetian Piazza suite, normally $589 a night this weekend: 1,400 square feet; plush king bed; chaise bench; sunken living room; dining room; Italian marble entry; powder room; wet bar.

The hotel sent them a “celebratory welcome amenity” of Veuve Clicquot Champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries.

They were given a private cabana at the Palazzo pool.

And they got a gondola ride on the hotel’s mall floor.

Although, they did have to wave at an official photographer while on the boat, so they were working for it to some degree.

CHRIS TUCKER ON LAURYN HILL

Chris Tucker took a comedic shot at Lauryn Hill while performing Saturday in the Palms’ Pearl.

Some audience members strolled in late. The comedian saw them and, since his job is to make jokes, he cracked they were “coming in late like Lauryn Hill.”

Hill is known for being severely tardy at times. She was two hours late in Atlanta three weeks ago. On Facebook afterward, she insinuated she’s late because of her muse:

“The challenge is aligning my energy with the time, taking something that isn’t easily classified or contained, and trying to make it available for others.”

Or as I like to put it, Lauryn Hill’s time and money is apparently more valuable than her fans’.

SIGHTINGS

Planet Hollywood headliner Jennifer Lopez ruled over the crowd at Drai’s Beachclub on Sunday, appearing with a huge assemblage of people spraying Champagne from her club terrace (boyfriend Casper Smart was there). She hid from the sun under an enormous hat, but didn’t hide from people, hitting a beach ball to onlookers, in white shorts and bikini top.

Actress Kerry Washington, “Scandal” co-star Darby Stanchfield, and their friends luxuriated for three days in Nobu Hotel, which is inside Caesars Palace, dining at Mr. Chow, seeing Jennifer Lopez at Planet Hollywood, and posting photos on social media like influencers do.

Who were all those girls with DJ Diplo in the VIP room at Wynn’s Intrigue nightclub on Friday? That room has a policy of throwing people out if they pull out their phones. Which kind of happened to me, weeks ago.

Mel B, the Spice Girl and “America’s Got Talent” judge, saw Celine Dion’s Caesars Palace show on Friday with husband Stephen Belafonte, then said hi to Dion backstage.

On Sunday, Mel B and Belafonte took kids to see J Lo play Planet Hollywood. Naughty By Nature’s Vin Rock was also in the J Lo crowd.

Karreuche Tran (noted ex of Chris Brown) partied Saturday at Encore Beach Club, a day after partying at Intrigue.

DJ Khaled, the comical Snapchat king, accepted his key to the Strip on Sunday, with a Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority marketing push including Miss USA Olivia Jordan, Clark County Commissioner Mary Beth Scow, Fox 5’s Sean McAllister, councilman Rikki Barlow, and showgirls Jennifer Aurty and Porsha Revesz. Khaled did a lot of social media-ing from The Venetian presentation.

Miss USA contestants saw an “I Love the ’90s” show with Salt N Pepa, Kid N Play, Color Me Badd and Tone Loc at Mandalay Bay Beach after seeing Blue Man Group in Luxor on Saturday. The Miss USA Pageant is coming Sunday to T-Mobile Arena.

Stars who played Topgolf Sunday: hip hopper Ja Rule; and singer Trey Songz with New York Giants standout receiver Odell Beckham.

Antonio Sabato Jr. raced at SpeedVegas on Monday. This is his last week guest dancing in Rio’s “Chippendales.” He’s really gotten around town.

Atlanta Falcons’ Roddy White and Julio Jones ate at STK in The Cosmopolitan on Friday (crispy lobster tails, scallops, Colorado lamb chops, Hennessy cocktails).

Two guys who aren’t known for holding their tongues, comic Jim Norton and Vegas musician Flava Flav, saw Mike Tyson perform his one-man diary show “Undisputed Truth” in the MGM Sunday, then took photos with Tyson backstage.

Vegas performer Murray SawChuck saw comedian Lisa Lampanelli’s show Saturday in The Venetian and hung backstage.

Eric Stonestreet from “Modern Family” took friends into the Intrigue VIP room for drinks.

And MTV’s Jillian Rose Reed, from some show you’ve never seen called “Awkward,” ate at Giada, in the Cromwell hotel, on Sunday with friends, then partied at Tao nightclub in The Venetian.

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Doug Elfman can be reached at delfman@reviewjournal.com. He blogs at reviewjournal.com/elfman. On Twitter: @VegasAnonymous