Kitson to Monaco: Let's Get Ready to Rumba

So maybe you thought that ol' Kelly Monaco dropped major coin for the dress she wore on at last week's "Dancing With the Stars" finale. Turns out, it's actually trendy Robertson shopping enclave Kitson that'll be paying the price.
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Like most stores in L.A., Kitson loans out clothes to freeloader celebs as long as they come back damage-free within 48 hours. We hear the disco diva's peeps arrived at the store in a panic five hours before the finale, desperate to find something for her to wear. Per their agreement, the store loaded them up with $6,500 worth of free dresses.

Little problem: TMZ has learned that her manager returned most -- but not all -- of the clothing a week late, and not only that, the dresses were "completely ruined." Apparently Kel wore another one of the dresses to party it up on her birthday in Vegas. Kitson says the dresses are "filthy and definitely not in sellable condition." Furthermore, they claim Monaco's people have refused to pay for the damaged dresses.

A rep for Kelly did not return our call for comment.

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16. Sell it on Ebay for charity.

Posted at 11:01PM on May 30th 2008 by chicken stripper

17. Is that her fake rub-a-tan on that white dress? Gross!! Whatever happened to people buying their own crap???? Stop giving free stuff to people who can afford it!

Posted at 10:23PM on May 31st 2008 by Kelly Monoco's boobs

18. .

Sometimes, you just gotta take a loss from the low-rent P.R. - just write it off, Kitson - and suck it up.


Posted at 11:44PM on May 30th 2008 by Kate

19. kelly monaco is a nasty rat and an overrated actress on GH with fake boobs

Posted at 12:07AM on May 31st 2008 by steve burton

20. Guess Kelly Monaco doesn't make a lot of money as an actress on General Hospital to pay her bills. What she making?
$300 a week ?
Hey Kelly? Call up Hugh Hefner. Maybe he'll hire you to do another nude Playboy pictorial to pay your damn dress bill.
You Philadelphia bimbo.

Posted at 12:25AM on May 31st 2008 by Brett

21. If I pay the high price for a garment at one theiir stores I do not want some celebrity's sweat in it!
how tacky they loan clothes out and then resell! How would they feel if I a consumer bought a dress wore it one night and returned it!

Posted at 12:58AM on May 31st 2008 by Sherry

22. LMAO that wananbes from Nebraska think Kitson is anything but a cheap store packed with Chinese made knockoffs.

Their stuff is swap meet quality and its hit or miss diggin through the bins like a homeless person.

Want to pay $175 for a necklace with a hollow plastic cherry on it? Be my guest.

Want a tshirt for $55? Have at it, but the quality at Target is better.

Posted at 2:02AM on May 31st 2008 by Kitson is lower quality than target.

23. I am friends with three actors on GH (two contract players, one day player - non-contract), and I can tell you, they don't get paid SQUAT. The contract players do OKAY, but not what it seems they should be making given the enormous fan base for soaps and all the fan events they have to attend. The DAY PLAYERS, however, could get paid more working at Denny's! They ALL have to have secondary jobs! ABC/Disney pays for SQUAT! I know you all probably think they should be lucky to be on a soap, blah, blah, but for the amount of hours they put in not only on the show but leaving their families several times a year for fan events, charity events, etc. and given that THEY are the reason the show has sponsors, you'd think they'd get paid better!

Kelly Monaco probably counted on some other low-paid ABC employee to take care of the dress(es) for her, and they dropped the ball.

Posted at 2:16AM on May 31st 2008 by ManBearPig Hunter

24. UHHH????? Who the hell is Kelley Monaco???? Must be a slow news day if you're reporting on a D-list celeb wanna-be who ain't got money for cloths..LOL

Posted at 9:12AM on May 31st 2008 by Geo

25. I wonder how Kitson defines "flithy." Somehow I don't imagine they mean having rolled around in the mud. Maybe they mean that the dress has a small crease. Can anyone post Kitson's return policies??

Posted at 9:14AM on May 31st 2008 by Trixie24

26. Isn't it just amazing that that stores, and Kitson isn't the only one, will loan clothing for celebrity wear and then return it to the rack. The store gets all that free advertising and we get to pay for it by purchasing what is essentially a second hand item.
I am very sure that they make enough PROFIT that they don't need sell used stuff. But then maybe this news will get them lots of new clients who just can't wait to get home and tell all their friends they are wearing a "star's" dress.

Posted at 10:03AM on May 31st 2008 by nira k

27. Kelly Monaco? Bwhahahaha! What a D-lister if even that. Wow, she won DWTS. Where has it gotten her since then? Where were all these wonderful opportunities the skank mouthed she had after the win? She needs to go back to playboy because obviously that's all she's good at. Well, and screwing up loaned clothing.

Posted at 8:54AM on Jun 1st 2008 by blah

28. I think it's sick that Kitson would try to sell used clothes. Kelly looked great in both dresses and I don't believe she would ever do anything to clothes that were not her's. She is a really great person

Posted at 1:27PM on May 31st 2008 by jsluv

29. She is a Scuba Skank!

Posted at 1:53PM on May 31st 2008 by V

30. argee with #1 and a lot more of you. He is selling used clothes and if he lends them out to these people then he deserves what he gets. they can afford to buy them. Its good that she ruined them that way he can't sell them for top dollar hahaha!

Posted at 2:15PM on May 31st 2008 by Denise

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