If you believe Popbitch – and who doesn’t? – Usher is the very latest in pop pretension. At the Sean “P Diddy” Combs party in New York last week, the R&B actor, wearing a white T-shirt with his own image on it, came up with the idea of not talking directly to the bartender. Good one, Usher. And classy. The singer whispered his order into his bodyguard’s ear. “Usher will have a Bellini,” the bodyguard interpreted for the bartender. When the drink was ready, the bartender handed it to Usher, but was intercepted by the bodyguard, who explained that he was the only one allowed to hand Usher his drink. Rinse, repeat, etc. Later, Usher gave the bodyguard the important task of separating a bag of M&Ms into five wine glasses by color for the bar staff to deliver to the young star.

It’s odd that Usher would even be at a Diddy do, since, according to Japanese fansite Always Usher, the star recently criticized Puffy for “failing to offer him financial help in his time of desperate need” – a teenager starting out in the music biz. “I looked up to Puffy,” Usher whined, “but he turned his back on me. I went to him once when my record company wasn’t doing me so well, when I was about 17, and I’m like, ‘Yo, Puff, you know, I need some money, I don’t have any money, man, and can I borrow $5,000?’ And he’s like, ‘Nah, man, I haven’t got it.’ And yet he was walking Versace, you know?”