Woody’s box a family affair
THE Jets have been one of New York’s hottest tickets for celebs this season — even with the Mets playing deep into October — but owner Woody Johnson has avoided being starstruck to focus on the field.
Johnson’s box at MetLife Stadium, usually packed with Alisters, has this season been reserved for close friends and family. “Woody’s suite has mostly been just family so he can focus on the team and the games,” said a source. But with the Jets, who were a dismal 412 last year, already racking up four wins under new coach Todd Bowles, the VIP door cracked open a little wider Sunday.
After playing “SNL” a night before, Demi Lovato was seen in the owner’s box — along with Vi acom CEO Philippe Dauman, Gillian Miniter and special guest Marine Cpl. Todd Nicely, the war hero who lost his arms and legs in Afghanistan in 2010 and is now a spokesman for the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
Also making the cut, spies said, were art dealer Adam Lindemann, who just bought Andy Warhol’s Montauk estate, and Vanity Fair writer and former Warhol acolyte Bob Colacello — overheard at the game offering Lindemann personal Warhol photos for his new home.
“It used to be if you were a celebrity at the game you’d be invited to the suite,” said a Jetsgame regular. Now, “Woody’ll say hi before the game, but so far he was mostly keeping it to the Johnson family.”
Stars, however, are still flocking to the team’s trippedout Panasonic Green Room, where Liv Tyler and Univision host Raúl De Molina were on Sunday. Previous weeks drew Usher, Jonah Hill, Jesse Eisenberg, Dwyane Wade and Ray Romano.
Busy Lovato, meanwhile, posed for pics on the field, but spies said she left fans at a later Long Island event seething when a CD signing included no actual autographs. Her rep blamed “a miscommunication between the store, the record label and Demi’s team about what they would be able to accommodate and still make her flight to Brazil that afternoon.” She’s back to play a Hillary Clinton birthday fundraiser on Sunday.