Legendary newsman Tom Brokaw declined his invitation to the 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner for one specific reason: Lindsay Lohan. She may have been his “breaking point,” but it was a longtime coming.
“Somewhere along the line, it began to freewheel out of control,” Brokaw told Politico. “And the breaking point for me was Lindsay Lohan.”
The troubled actress attended the 2012 White House Correspondents’ Dinner as a guest of Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren. Lohan apparently disappeared a few times to the bathroom for a cigarette and tipped an attendant $100 before saying, “You’re too old to be doing this,” according to Page Six’s Cindy Adams. ------ The dinner has been a tradition since 1920 for journalists who cover the White House and the President. Brokaw said in the Politico interview that he enjoyed attending the event in previous years, especially in 1975 when “Saturday Night Live” stars Chevy Chase and Jim Belushi made appearances.
However, Brokaw said that standards of the red-carpet fete have now fallen so low that his “daughter’s junior prom has more dignity.”