Photo by @DaynaRowden

Photo by @DaynaRowden

As we predicted yesterday, kicking off the Silverdocs film festival with Don’t Stop Believing: Everyman’s Journey, a documentary about the band Journey, did in fact result in the attendance of guitarist Neal Schon. And with Schon came his current paramour, one-time White House gatecrasher and Real Housewife of D.C. Michaele Salahi.

Schon’s attendance was anticipated thanks to him being penciled in to take part in a panel discussion following the movie, which tracks the story of Arnel Pineda, a Filipino singer who was plucked a few years ago from YouTube obscurity to become Journey’s new lead vocalist. And Salahi, well, you know she loves to be seen at all the cool parties.

Except they didn’t stay for the party! (The one at the Fillmore Silver Spring following the screening, which featured as entertainment a cover band that performed nothing but 1980s Billboard chart-toppers.)

Not only did Schon and Salahi miss the afterparty, they had the gall to duck out early on the screening, which means Schon also skipped the panel afterward, which included Pineda being beamed in via Skype.

But, they bailed. And Schon’s disappearance was a source of frustration for the Post’s Chris Richards, who himself was subbing as the panel’s moderator after Jose Antonio Vargas, the former Post scribe who last year admitted he moved to the United States as an undocumented immigrant when he was 16, had to pull out. Richards, over Twitter, did not spare Schon his disappointment:

Bummer.

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