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Inauguration Hangover Insights: "The Real Party is On the Metro"

Does this look like anyone you attended the inauguration with?

"Celebs, they’re just like us," says Us Magazine in their weekly feature. (Yeah right, aside from the whole genetically gifted, exorbitantly wealthy thing, celebs are just like us sitting at their desks waiting for the clock to strike five.)

But at yesterday's Presidential Inauguration, security was the great equalizer, blocking off roads and forcing the pretty people to put (Italian) leather to pavement and to trade Town Cars for Metro cards.

Much like our own Brendan Spiegel was thwarted trying to leave the National Mall, celebs were forced to seek alternate exits.

At Friday’s BET Honors, celebs like Joss Stone were stuck in traffic as Obama’s motorcade wound its way through the city. Desperate Housewife Dana Delany and creator Marc Cherry were smashed against each other as the frustrated crowd outside the Huffington Post party surged forward, tired of waiting in the lengthy security lines.

David Alan Grier and wife Christine Y. Kim got hip to the traffic hassles and bopped around via Metro. Road closures led the Creative Coalition to bus many celebrities to the event elementary-school-style. Other late arrivals had to do things like (gasp) walk!

Still, the giddy mood of the weekend made everyone take things in stride. As Jennifer Beals said, “The real party is on the Metro. The real party is in the streets.”

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