Chelsea Handler blew off an appearance on NBC’s “Today” with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb on Monday morning, with her rep explaining she had food poisoning — but she rebounded quick enough to snuggle with on-again boyfriend Andre Balazs later that night at the Monkey Bar.
The raunchy E! talk-show host got well enough to not only appear on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” on Monday afternoon, but to attend the Glamour Women of the Year Awards that night at Carnegie Hall. An after-dinner for award winners at Monkey Bar followed, where Handler was “all over” handsome hotelier Balazs, sources told Page Six.
On her show yesterday, Gifford said of Handler, “She had been sick all night, we were told . . . But we had a feeling something was up.”
Handler said on “Fallon” of missing the morning show: “I wasn’t drunk or anything. I literally walked into a shower door this morning . . . I couldn’t go with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kota-ba, or whatever her name is.”
Meanwhile, newly single Selena Gomez “looked like Justin Bieber couldn’t be further from her mind” as she huddled with her family and Ethan Hawke at a separate table at Monkey Bar.
Earlier that evening, Gomez was honored by Glamour along with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, photographer Annie Leibovitz, architect Zaha Hadid, Rory and Ethel Kennedy and “Girls” creator Lena Dunham, who took off her gold heels onstage in mid-speech because her feet hurt.
“I have to take my shoes off you guys, I’m so sorry,” she said, bending over to remove the painful footwear.
During her heartfelt speech, Dunham also gave a shout-out to fellow honoree J.Crew executive creative director Jenna Lyons for encouraging her to wear shorts.
“It’s not going very well, thanks a lot,” Dunham joked, before bouncing off the stage barefoot, stilettos in hand.