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Adland Confidential: What happens in Cannes…? (Column)

Our insider's latest dispatch from the Cannes Lions

What happens in Cannes, stays in Cannes. Not. Twitter blew up yesterday with a picture of an unknown couple involved in some public love making laying on the Cannes red carpet.

That’s right: on the red carpet! It’s still not known whether it was truly a love connection or a pre-meditated marketing stunt. Either way, it’s pretty indicative of what happens around here.

Tut-tut all you will, but suggestions of rambunctious behavior abound for the Canadian contingent as well.

A French music company sales rep apparently pushed a Carlton Hotel piano player off to the side two nights ago and performed an impromptu one-woman show to the drunken patrons.

We have heard through the most discreet channels imaginable that a certain Juniper Park creative director and curly haired sales rep set the crowd on fire by table dancing in the midst of a $300-a-head lunch.

If we were interested in gossip, we might say some suggest a brunette executive producer was doing her very best to make out with Marilyn Manson during one late night party session.

Lastly, stories have been told of a JWT creative type – who at very least appeared to be impaired – regaling anyone he thought should listen with stories of him “owning” a Bollywood party earlier in the evening.

Good times.

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