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I'm a Guest on the Tyra Banks Show! (And I danced with her!)

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Rasselas, Sep 21, 2005.

  1. Rasselas

    Rasselas Member

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    How do you know that the Tyra Banks show will soon be cancelled?

    Because in only the second week of the show, a producer asked ME to come on as a guest. Now that's scraping the bottom of the barrel.

    Last week, they flew me out to LA. I spoke as a "nightlife expert."

    (By way of background, I'm the Editor in Chief of a nightlife site, Clubplanet.com, and have written stories about nightlife, clubbing, fashion, blah blah.)

    Anyway. In my segment, I give Tyra's viewers some advice on how to get into a club. What to wear, what not to wear, tips and tricks, etc.

    I'm afraid to watch it. It's going to be embarrassing as hell. I'm not really a "tv personality" and I'm worried that I'll look like a dear in headlights. We'll see.

    But here's the best part. After we finished chatting, the lights darkened and I thought the segment was over. But then Tyra got off from her stool and started dancing, the crowd started dancing, so I got up and started dancing. Now I'm a pretty awful dancer, so I just scooted as close to Tyra as possible without being creepy, sorta put my arm halfway around her, and hoped for the best.

    When we stopped dancing and the cameras really were off, I kissed her on the cheek and hugged her goodbye.

    Weird, wacky, stuff.

    For those of you asking for "PICS!", you can get that, and more, by watching this Friday's episode. Depending on your cable and your local market, it airs on either UPN, CBS, FOX, or Oxygen. (Another bad sign for the show).

    The TV Guide or Tivo should describe the episdoe as the one with Nick Cannon and Jennifer Love Hewitt. (I met neither of them.) It's an hour-long show, and my 5-minute segment is toward the very end.

    This is probably going to be the most embarrassing thing ever, so I probably shouldn't share, but oh well. That's half the fun.
     
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  2. PhiSlammaJamma

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    Can you verify the other post, are they real?
     
  3. AntiSonic

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    Big whoop. MacBeth would've nailed her.

    JK, congrats on the tv show. :)

    Hopefully R2K or someone will capture this and supply us with endless possibilities for dancing Rasselas .gifs. ;)
     
  4. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    you're the type of guest they have on "Cold Pizza" and its still going.
     
  5. Rasselas

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    I thought about just grabbing her breasts and giving a good squeeze. Why not? Sort of a once in a lifetime opportunity, right? But since I was there representing the company, at the last second, I decided just to stare at them, instead.
     
  6. BobFinn*

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    Is this you?


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    Lil Penny Hits (Crack) Rock Bottom
    September 21, 2005

    St. Louis, MO – Li'l Penny Hardaway, who rose to fame in the early 1990’s as the diminutive television alter ego of then-Orlando Magic star Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway, was found dead Tuesday in the decrepit bathroom of a notorious East St. Louis crack house.

    Officials refuse to speculate cause of death, but sources say that the half-naked puppet was found in a bathroom stall, badly beaten and missing one of his arms. Li’l Penny burst onto the national scene in the 1990’s with a series of Nike commercials created by the Portland-based Wieden & Kennedy advertising agency, coining such catchphrases as "Hey Tyra, you left your toothbrush at my house," "Could ya do that for a brotha?" and "You can't guard me! The Secret Service couldn't guard me!"

    But as Big Penny Hardaway’s national spotlight began to fade after a trade from Orlando to the Phoenix Suns and a series of debilitating injuries, Li’l Penny’s life also began to unravel, and his off-camera troubles over the past decade were well documented.

    In 1996 he was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, and possession of a loaded weapon and a small amount of cocaine. In 1997 he was booked on assault charges stemming from an altercation with the Energizer Bunny at a Manhattan nightclub. And in 2000 he was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance, resisting arrest, and assault with a deadly weapon after attacking talk show host Larry King, when King, during a segment titled Advertising Icons: Where Are They Now?, asked Li’l Penny whether former girlfriend Tyra Banks left him due to his out-of-control drug use.

    After beating King nearly unconscious with his own desktop microphone the outraged Penny was finally subdued. He was later sentenced to 11 months in an upstate New York prison.

    It was in prison, insiders say, that Li’l Penny’s drug addiction took a turn for the worse and he began a pattern of abuse and violent behavior that would haunt him up until his death. "He called me almost every day to send him money, saying it was for his mother’s kidney operation," said Big Penny (Hardaway). "But when I went to visit him, he was a mess – tracks up and down his arms, bruises. He was down to about 12 pounds.

    I knew he just wanted money for drugs. I told him no, and he went berserk, throwing his little plastic body against the glass, smashing the phone, just crazy. I never saw him alive again." Wall added: "He went into prison a puppet and came out a monster." Upon hearing of Li’l Penny’s violent death, Big Penny Hardaway refused to comment on his friend’s personal problems, but did confirm that he and Minnesota Timberwolves’ forward Kevin Garnett, who appeared in several of the Li’l Penny commercials, had been planning an intervention.

    He also asked that people remember the "good Li’l Penny." "Little dude had some problems, just like all of us," Hardaway said. "He got too rich, too famous, too soon, and couldn’t handle it. Listened to the wrong people. But I just know that he’s clean and sober in Heaven right now, saying ‘Hey God, is this couch real leather? ‘cause it’s sticking to my leg!"
     
  7. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Damn that's funny.
     
  8. Rasselas

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    Too funny.

    No, sadly, I don't have nearly as much personality as Lil' Penny.
     
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  9. Surfguy

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    Did you meet Jennifer? I don't think hers are real.

    Edit: Oh...you didn't meet her. Never mind.
     

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