\u201cI would tell women in Hollywood to steer clear of him,\u201d said one celebrity rep.<\/b>
\nJohn Mayer \u2019s current single \u201cNew Light\u201d might be a hit \u2014 reaching No. 7 on Billboard\u2019s Hot Rock Songs chart \u2014 but according to insiders, he\u2019s still a big miss among single A-listers.
\u201cI would tell women in Hollywood to steer clear of him,\u201d said one celebrity publicist. \u201cHe\u2019s manipulative. He has a reputation. . and it\u2019s better to exercise caution dealing with anybody who kisses and tells.\u201d
No doubt Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Aniston would agree. Both women dated the crooner, now 40, only to be publicly burned when he then told the media about their relationships.
\u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s a very honorable thing to do and I think that it\u2019s hurtful,\u201d said the publicist. \u201cI\u2019m sure women are very cautious after seeing what he\u2019s done.\u201d
Despite all that happening a few years ago, Mayer\u2019s been on a sheepish apology tour of late, whining on his new single that he\u2019s \u201cpushing 40 in the friend zone,\u201d and lamenting to pal Andy Cohen on a recent episode of Bravo\u2019s \u201cWatch What Happens Live\u201d that he\u2019s persona non grata among the Hollywood elite.
\u201cYou have a lot of friends who, without you, would want nothing to do with me,\u201d Mayer said to Cohen. \u201cYou\u2019re friends with Jennifer Lawrence, who just doesn\u2019t want anything to do with me. Look, I don\u2019t have the world\u2019s greatest track record when it comes to celebrity relationships. .
\u201cDating John Mayer at this point is conceptually just sort of a no-no,\u201d Mayer continued, in the third person.
The singer has only himself to thank for his less-than-glowing reputation.
In a March 2010 interview with Playboy, he dished that Simpson, whom he dated from 2006 to 2007 was \u201clike crack cocaine to me.\u201d
\u201cSexually it was crazy,\u201d he told the mag of Simpson (via Billboard). \u201cIt was like napalm, sexual napalm. Did you ever say, \u2018I want to quit my life and just f\u2013kin\u2019 snort you? If you charged me $10,000 to f\u2013k you, I would start selling all my s\u2013t just to keep f\u2013king you.\u2019\u201d
In the same interview, he opened up about his breakup with \u201cFriends\u201d star, Aniston. They dated on and off from 2008 to 2009.
\u201cShe saw my involvement in technology as courting distraction,\u201d Mayer told Playboy. \u201cAnd I always said, \u2018These are the new rules.\u2019 \u201d
Two years later, Mayer still hadn\u2019t learned his lesson, telling Rolling Stone in June 2012 that Taylor Swift \u2019s single \u201cDear John\u201d was \u201ccheap songwriting.\u201d
\u201cIt\u2019s abusing your talent to rub your hands together and go, \u2018Wait till he gets a load of this!\u2019 \u201d said Mayer, who dated Swift briefly in 2009 and 2010. \u201cThat\u2019s bulls \u2013 t.\u201d
The next year, he wrote \u201cPaper Doll,\u201d ostensibly about Swift.
No doubt, Mayer\u2019s good looks and sweet voice made it possible for many ladies to overlook his big mouth.
\u201cHe used to bring his girlfriends to GoldBar \u2014 including Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, Katy Perry and Jessica Simpson. On the off nights that he came in solo, he never left solo,\u201d publicist for the New York hotspot, Steve Kasuba, told The Post.
But after his back-to-back Playboy and Rolling Stone interview faux pas, Mayer tried to run away from the spotlight \u2014 going so far as to move to Montana. He\u2019s also been touring with Dead & Company, the newest version of the Grateful Dead. But the glare has followed him, according to music insiders.
\u201cI know a well-known artist that was talking about his own career and shouted out: \u2018I don\u2019t want to turn into John Mayer! Look what happened to him. He had to go join the Grateful Dead because he talked too much about all his famous girlfriends,\u2019 \u201d recalled one music bigwig.
\u201cThey stopped talking about his music and started talking about his reputation and girlfriends and personal life. That\u2019s a crime if you\u2019re a musician.\u201d<\/p>\n

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