Reid Rosenthal will appear on ABC's "The Bachelorette."
Inqlings: Wired DJ picked for Passion
Wired 96.5's GN Kang was among 12 women selected yesterday for the Philadelphia Passion, a new franchise in the Lingerie Football League.
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Lingerie Football?
Plot: Teams of women clad in short shorts and sports bras (plus helmets and padding) go seven-on-seven in full-contact football.
"I feel like my body was run over by a truck," says Kang, 27, after a four-hour tryout. Kang, who grew up in Arizona and says she never truly followed sports before she arrived here three years ago, was put up to the audition by morning-show host Chio. She says she spent two weeks being trained by every guy she knows: "I crammed so much into my brain."
The Passion will play two home games this fall on Friday nights at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton. Minicamp will start in few weeks, and training camp is in July. The season starts in September.
On the screen
That was Reese Witherspoon near Rittenhouse Square? Quite possibly, since How Do You Know?, a romantic comedy from James L. Brooks that she'll star in and produce, is in preproduction here in anticipation of a late-June or early-July start. She plays a gal pursued by Paul Rudd, who plays a white-collar guy, and Owen Wilson, who plays a relief pitcher for the Washington Nationals.FX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia will be back, shooting scenes for its fifth season here from June 9 through 12. The cast is expected to run amok in Dave & Buster's on Columbus Boulevard, booked for one day's filming. Other exteriors will be shot in South Philly, especially the Italian Market and Pennsport.
Reality TV
Upper Dublin-raised Reid Rosenthal, 30, a Rittenhouse Square Realtor and Ohio State grad, will be part of the crew on ABC's The Bachelorette, premiering Monday night. He's among 30 men competing for the attention of Jillian Harris, who was dumped last fall by Jason Mesnick on The Bachelor. In a related note: Dave & Buster's in Plymouth Meeting will host a casting call for The Bachelor from 1 to 5 p.m. on June 13.CBS's Late Show will try out pets for the show's "Stupid Pet Tricks" segment from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Cutter's Mill pet store in the Paoli Village Shoppes.
Briefly noted
Jeff Odiorne and Steve Andrich, now with Haverford's Phasmatrope Studios, won a Gold Pencil at the One Show, run by the nonprofit One Club for Art and Copy. (Odiorne was with the Neiman Group at the time.) The entry, which also won best of show at Philadelphia Addys, is FullApologies.com, a state-funded initiative to keep teens from drinking and driving. On the site, young people apologize to people they hurt.Philly-bred Tom Warburton, creator of the Cartoon Network's Codename: Kids Next Door, will sign his first kids' book, 1000 Times No!, at 2 p.m. Saturday at Head House Books, 619 S. Second St.
Carlota Ttendant - the drag-queen alter ego of ActionAIDS' Michael Byrne - will return to the fund-raiser GayBINGO on Saturday after a seven-year hiatus. Byrne had packed up his wig, heels, and mascara during the previous management of the AIDS Fund, which organizes the monthly games. Byrne, as Carlota, cohosted the first outing in 1996. Saturday's games, at the Gershman Y in Center City, are sold out. GayBINGO has raised $2.1 million to date.
The title of Stewart Mahan, director of catering and conference services at the Westin, was incorrect in Tuesday's column.
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