The Taco Bell dog’s true Hollywood story

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Here’s a humorous E! True Hollywood Story type segment on the life of a famous fast-food Chihuahua. It’s obviously meant to be Taco Bell’s Gidget, but here the doomed pooch, caught up in a whirlwind of debauchery and drug use, is Arnesto Martinez, spokesdog for the fictional Burrito Barn. Gidget herself did not die of an overdose—nor, contrary to one rumor, was she crushed by falling equipment during a commercial shoot. She reportedly is enjoying

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