Haute Living honors Debra Messing with Bertaud Belieu

Nobody puts Debra Messing in the corner – nobody.

On the heels of her wrapping filming on the Dirty Dancing TV remake with Abigail Breslin (airing tonight on ABC), the upcoming fall revival of Will and Grace after an eleven-year hiatus, and perhaps even taking on a new role executive producing passion projects, Messing proves she is sure to shine no matter what the stage — and that she did on Tuesday night in NYC when Haute Living, alongside Bertaud Belieu, honored the star at Soho hotspot, MAMO.

As guests made their way upstairs for the intimate cocktail party, they were greeted with Bertaud Belieu rosé before feasting on a culinary showcase of MAMO’s finest, from gazpacho Italiano and rum and lemon-marinated salmon to its signature truffled focaccia. Notable VIPs in attendance included Jean Shafiroff, Lucia Hwong Gordon, Larry Milstein, Ambassador Paolo Zampolli, Mazen Dayem of JetSmarter, Haute Living Publisher, Seth Semilof and Haute Living New York Editor in Chief, Catherine Sabino.

As a native New Yorker, Messing reveals “It’s been a huge honor. It’s a beautiful magazine- chic and sophisticated, it was a pleasure to do it and I’m really proud of the whole spread,” when asked about ‘gracing’ the New York cover. In the issue, she opens up about media as not only a barometer of the particularly charged socio-political climate, but as a mechanism of navigating it using comic relief. Speaking to her inherent activist, she goes on to use her craft as a stage, a precursor to dialogue on pressing cultural issues. “Everything happening now will be fodder for the comedy.”

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