White House Correspondents Weekend Insider

WHC Insider presents the first annual WHC Weekend Insider Awards to highlight the great deeds of the famous and infamous who came to Washington to party, schmooze, and most importantly – be seen – at the events surrounding the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

It’s the biggest weekend in Washington, second only perhaps to Inauguration, which you clever kids know from civics class only comes once every four years (and without as many brunches).

So, here it is, the best of the fetes, as we scour the tables at the Washington Hilton to find someone not represented by Bob Barnett.

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Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. No one walks in LA, but apparently Hollywood hottie and “Entourage” star Adrian Grenier was making his way on foot to the Bloomberg/Vanity Fair after party when he was spotted by none other than Rahm Emanuel. The White House Chief of Staff’s brother, Ari Emanuel, was the inspiration for the high-strung, heavyweight agent portrayed by Jeremy Piven on the hit HBO show “Entourage.”

Rahm immediately had his motorcade pull over and Adrian hopped in. Now that’s taking it to the people!

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Wendy Williams walked into the 2010 White House Correspondents’ Garden Brunch with a smile on her face. If the talk show host were harboring any bad feelings about whom she would potentially be dining with that evening, it sure didn’t show.

Williams was escorted to the brunch by American Urban Radio Network‘s White House correspondent April Ryan and was to be seated at the network’s table at the annual WHCA Dinner later that evening. Except Williams didn’t go to the dinner.

According to the NY Daily News, the American Urban Radio Network also invited former “Celebrity Apprentice” contestant Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth to the dinner without realizing the two women have had an ongoing tiff since 2008.

Welcome to Washington, Wendy!

C-SPAN will be streaming the red carpet arrivals for tonight’s WHCD. Check it out here. After the stars, Washington insiders, and journos walk in, you can also watch C-SPAN’s coverage of the dinner.

And, as always, WHC Insider will be tweeting from the red carpet. Follow us @WHCinsider.

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Matthew Morrison aka “Will Schuster,” will be the guest of FNC this Saturday night at the hot-ticket WHCD.  Matthew is no stranger to Washington as he has performed twice for President Obama.  First, in December at the Kennedy Center Honors where he stole the show singing “Springtime for Hitler” to Mel Brooks and most recently on the White House lawn for the Easter egg roll with the rest of the cast of Glee.

White House Communications deputy Lauren Thorbjornsen with Eric Podwall and Matthew Morrison during his December visit.

Joining him at FNC’s table will be other crooners such as Enrique Iglesias and Vanessa Williams, actor Marlon Wayans, actresses Patricia Arquette and Ali Larter, and Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford who made his WHCD debut last year and was the hit of the WHC Garden Brunch.

FOX Business will also have a host of big names such as Joseph Mazzello, the star of HBO’s WWII miniseries,“The Pacific” and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.