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Friday, April 21, 2006
Star turn earns radio producer a new job
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sometimes, if you’re terribly fortunate, there’s a moment during a job interview when you realize you’ve just hit the gig-getting home run over the wall.
Incoming “Steve & Vikki in the Morning” show producer Rachel Giordano had such a revelation this week during a lunch interview at Maggiano’s Little Italy in Buckhead.
When the former New Yorker discussed her television background, working for ABC Daytime, she happened to disclose that she’d once served as Star Jones Reynolds’ assistant on “The View.”
“My mouth just dropped open!” Vikki Locke told Buzz, laughing uproariously. “We just couldn’t believe it. I told her, ‘I knew there was a reason I loved you!’ “
As Buzz readers will recall, earlier this year during Jones Reynolds’ amazingly well-documented media tour for her recent inspirational tome “Shine: A Physical, Emotional & Spiritual Journey to Finding Love,” the daytime diva hung up on Steve McCoy and Locke after they dared to ask about her alleged gastric bypass surgery.
The incident was later splashed across the New York Post’s Page Six column, with Jones Reynolds describing McCoy as “the single rudest person who’s ever interviewed me.”
After re-airing the interview several times and posting it online at star94.com, McCoy and Locke outfitted listeners for Jones Reynolds’ February book-signing here with commemorative T-shirts with her hilariously over-the-top quote on it.
“Rachel knew all about our relationship with Star,” Locke told us. “We pressed her for lots of Star stories, but she was very diplomatic about it all.”
As for the obvious, Locke said, “No, Steve hasn’t given her a T-shirt yet, but we’re sure going to. Maybe we’ll even take a picture for Star! I’m sure she would want a chance to congratulate Rachel.”
All this Star-speak has us misting up and reflecting on all the fun we had last winter. Heck, as we sip tea from our “The View”: Skinny Star edition coffee mug, we might as well dig around and find one last…
Moment to ‘Shine’
“Here’s a truism: Don’t let ‘em dog you out. When someone dogs you out, it strikes a blow to your self-esteem. Don’t let anyone else say what you’re about or put you in a box. You know, my motto is ‘I am the author of the only dictionary that defines me.’ ” — Star Jones Reynolds, “Shine,” Page 275.
Sharing the birthday bucks
Speaking of the aforementioned McCoy, last Friday, during the radio station’s Free Money Birthday Game contest, the Atlanta radio vet was taken aback by winner Clay Sain, whose birthday is Sept. 1. Sain explained that he’s legally blind and was going to give $900 of his winnings to a pal who owed that amount to Uncle Sam on his taxes.
“He drives me anywhere I need to go,” Sain explained to McCoy. “He’s really the only friend who’s stuck by me. He’s really been stressing over this. I’ve been praying so hard about a way to help him out.”
Touched by Sain’s generosity, McCoy whipped out his personal checkbook on-air and wrote the listener a check for $900.
Overscene
“Rush Hour” actor and Atlantan Chris Tucker braving the lunch rush at Buckhead Diner on Thursday to nosh on chef Joey Riley’s fish and chips. Before exiting, the comic posed for a picture with server Helen Lu for the eatery’s celeb-drenched “Famous Faces” wall.
Celebrity docket
After being repeatedly arrested in the past year for his uncanny imitation of a Walgreen’s drive-through, former Libertines frontman Pete Doherty was finally ordered by a London judge to attend an 18-month drug rehabilitation program Thursday. The singer was placed on two years’ probation.
Judge Jane McIvor also banned the current Babyshambles frontman from driving for six months because of drug possession.
Doherty, 27, had pleaded guilty last month to seven charges of possessing drugs including heroin, crack cocaine and marijuana, which police said they found when he was stopped once in December and once in January.
Prosecutors noted the rocker’s flippant — yet open — demeanor when he was arrested Dec. 18, one of a long line of run-ins with police.
Court documents said that when police found plastic bags of crack cocaine in his right sock, Doherty told officers: “I didn’t think I had it in there.”
McIvor told Doherty she would adhere to his pre-planned drug rehabilitation regimen, choosing the dates of his court-ordered drug tests around his lengthy tour schedule.
“It’s a long, slow process, but you are showing sufficient signs of compliance and effort,” McIvor said. She noted that Doherty hadn’t been arrested for drugs since Jan. 14.
At press time Thursday, Buzz was planning to celebrate the momentous occasion with champagne, confetti and a balloon drop.
Celebrity birthdays
Actor Charles Grodin is 71. Singer Iggy Pop is 59. Actor Tony Danza is 55. Actress Andie MacDowell is 48. Singer Robert Smith of the Cure is 47. Actor-director John Cameron Mitchell (“Hedwig and the Angry Inch”) is 43. Comedian Nicole Sullivan (“King of Queens”) is 36.
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