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The show is hoping for a cameo from Bon Jovi in the episode, but a team spokesman yesterday said he wasn't sure whether JBJ would appear. He did say that the Arena Football League granted use of the team logo in the show and that the team sent some merchandise to the series. The Soul, meanwhile, are 11-3 and tied for first with the Dallas Desperadoes. The fourth season of "Sunny" premieres on FX in September.
State Sens. John Rafferty and Mike Stack were on hand for shooting on Friday and chatted with the cast and director Fred Savage. The senators were quickly roped into the action, taping a segment on camera playing senators trying to shut down the production, taking turns discussing how "filthy and offensive" the risque comedy is. In real life, both are supporters of the show, as well as the PA Film Tax Credit, which helps bring movies and television shows to Philadelphia.
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Lead anchor Larry Mendte is under investigation by the FBI over allegedly reading personal e-mails of his former colleague Alycia Lane without her permission., the Inquirer reported last night. This comes just five months after Lane was fired by the station after being arrested in New York and charged with hitting a female police officer for which she was later cleared and her case remains in a prolonged period of dismissal.
“On Thursday federal investigators approached Larry Mendte as a result of claims made by
Schwartz, of the Pepper Hamilton firm, was retained Thursday by Mendte. He knows both sides of this fence, having previously worked for 14 years at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in
UPDATE: Huddleston just got back to us to say that he is "clearly disappointed," with Fox 29's decision to not renew his contract, but says there is new management and they want to do what they want to do. The anchor, who turns 44 tomorrow, and wife Tracey and their two children "fell in love with Philadelphia," and he hopes to stay in the area, if that's possible. Huddleston and agent Henry Reisch however will explore options nationally as well. The family who live in Glen Mills, came here from Minneapolis in 2002. Huddleston was raised in Seattle.
West Philly and Willingboro raised actor Gary Dourdan, of "CSI," was busted in Palm Springs yesterday and is alleged to have been in possession of heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and prescription drugs, TMZ is reporting. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ the actor was asleep in his car at 5:21 AM when they approached the vehicle and made the bust. The site, which has had previous run-ins with the actor, says he posted $5,000 bail and was released. An e-mail we sent Dourdan's spokeswoman was not immediately returned this afternoon. Dourdan had previously confessed his affinity for marijuana to Philadelphia magazine in an May 2007 interview with Richard Rys, but the Rastafari's puffing practices, are a far cry from the hard drugs he's now allegedly using.
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He may have offended viewers in the process, but Cherry Hill native Adam Jasinski has the last laugh, taking the $500,000 prize by winning CBS' "Big Brother" Sunday night. Jasinski, 29, who works in public relations in Florida, attended Camden County Community College, and during production of the show, in which castmates are cut off from society in a California mansion, he referred to autistic children as retards, and was then fired as representation by the United Autism Foundation. On a live 24/7 Internet feed of the "Big Brother" house, the politically incorrect Jasinski called a gay castmate a "f----t".
The picture on Mikey P's MySpace page, of the singer with one hand on his crotch and the other giving the finger, was taken before he learned to be a gentleman while taping MTV's upcoming "From G's to Gents," he assures.
Mikey P, part of local hip-hop/pop act DaCav5, was among 15 contestants who learn "manners, how to be a gentleman and to practice chivalry," on the show produced by Jamie Foxx and hosted by Fonzworth Bentley, the dapper gent who used to be P. Diddy's butler. It airs this summer. On Thursday, DaCav5 will release an album's worth of songs for free download on its MySpace page. The group also will perform on May 16 at the Susquehanna Bank Center at Q102's Q Concert 2008. Mikey P and bandmate B-Roc work in promotions at the radio station.
When we spoke to Pine Hill's Matt Sigel after his signature dish of diver scallops and white chocolate made Fox's "Hell's Kitchen" host puke, Sigel predicted that despite Gordon Ramsay's regurgitation, other chefs would bite on his dish. Food Network host Robert Irvine cooked diver scallops with white chocolate (Hershey's to be exact) during a "Dinner Impossible" episode that aired Wednesday. Sigel says that Irvine, for whom he used to work at Atlantic City's Caesars, clearly copied the dish from him, but he's not mad. Sigel, who's survived four episodes so far on the already-taped Fox reality show, just gave two-weeks' notice at the Warwick Radisson Plaza and Tavern 17, where he has been a bread and pastry chef. In early May he'll start cooking at Pizzicato (500 Rt. 73 S) in Marlton.
