Richard Johnson: Megan Thee Stallion’s rosy anniversary in NYC

Pardison “Pardi” Fontaine proved his love for Megan Thee Stallion on their anniversary Tuesday at Brooklyn Chop House Times Square.

Pardison, who makes hits with Cardi B and Kanye West, spent hours decking out the rooftop patio with thousands of balloons, red roses and candles.

On the car ride over, Megan asked Pardi if he remembered how many days they have been together, and she had him do the math.

“Seven hundred and thirty,” he said and smiled. They were smiling all night.

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Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke rocked out with the Steve Marshall band Tuesday at Stitch on West 37th St. in an effort to save the neighborhood around Penn Station.

Kirke joined saxophone star Arno Hecht of the Uptown Horns and Ozzy Osbourne keyboardist Charles Roth, who are both regular members of Marshall’s wild party band.

Marshall’s daughter Christi, on her first trip to New York, played tambourine.

The two found each other four years ago through AncestryDNA.

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Ron Simons is busy producing Broadway shows, but he’s making time for a podcast, “From Pops With Love,” about being the father of four kids.

“They are all great people, either brilliant or very creative. I’m proud of all of them,” Simons told me.

Simons, the most Tony Award-winning Black producer in history, is gay. His first child came after he donated sperm to a lesbian couple. The other three were adopted.

“There was a time I could pick up all four at the same time,” Simons said. Now they are 18 to 23 years old.

Simons is ready to share the triumphs and mistakes he’s made as a dad.

As head of SimonSays Entertainment, Simons won seven Tony nominations for “Thoughts of a Colored Man, For Colored Girls.” He won 12 Tony nominations for “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations.”

He has two musicals in the works, and two plays heading to Broadway.

“I don’t sit around watching the paint peel,” he said.

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Best-selling author Melissa de La Cruz celebrated her new deal with Disney Publishing at the midtown rooftop bar Versa with Disney executives Tonya Arguto and Kieran Scott.

The author has 60 books to her name with many geared towards younger readers.

The new venture aims to provide Disney with content for new TV and movie projects.

De la Cruz had a reunion Karen Rabinovitz, her co-author on “How to Become Famous in Two Weeks or Less” (2003), a story inspired by de la Cruz’s work as a fashion writer at Marie Claire magazine.

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Vicki Gunvalson, of “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” needed protection from two tipsy men who surrounded her and her girlfriends at Catch nightclub in Manhattan.

When they wouldn’t back off, Vicki’s son Mike’s college roommate Evan Couri, who’s 6-foot-6, 270 lbs., had to step in to protect her.

“I had to put my arms out and my body in between them and Vicki,” he said.

The men backed off.

A high-spirited Vicki started yelling to the waiters for food, but the kitchen was closed, so a pal called out for a pizza that was quickly devoured.

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Dr. Ramon Tallaj of SOMOS Community Care took home a NY Emmy for the documentary titled “Dr. Tallaj, The Hispanic Physician Who Faced Covid-19 In NY” at the 65th Annual NY Emmy Awards at the Marriott Marquis. SOMOS lost 12 frontline workers to the virus.

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Bartle Bull, now in his 80s, has two books coming out this month, and is getting married next September, to Kathleen Augustine.

“We have been everywhere together for 11 years, from Zimbabwe to Hungary and Russia to Guatemala,” Bull told me.

“Having been to over 100 countries now, Paris is still my favorite city, despite the French, so we are going there for our honeymoon.”

“We’ll Meet Again” (Speaking Volumes) a novel set in Egypt and Yugoslavia during World War II, includes some characters from his African page-turners — including Olivio Fonseca Alavedo, the fearsome dwarf — but it’s based on tragic truth.

“My father, a young M.P. [Member of Parliament] at the time, served in the Coldstream Guards during World War II in Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya, where he received the wound from which he died in 1950.”

A photo of Bull’s father is on the cover of “Bull’s Way” (from the same publisher) a family history going back to 1818.

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Angela Lansbury, who died on Oct. 11 at the age of 96, had a direct way of dealing with irritants.

A good source saw a man in Midtown pestering her for an autograph until Lansbury said, “Oh bugger off!”

Good for her.

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