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Friday, July 13, 2007
7/14: Winner of Star’s car promo
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In Star 94’s third “live in it and win it” type contest called “Wheel World Atlanta 2007,” Jesika Wehunt, 19, outlasted seven other contestants to take home a 2007 Mercury Mariner, a place she called home for 33 days.
Sitting in the main court at North Point Mall, Wehunt only got 10 minute breaks every three hours plus an occasional reprieve to compete for prizes.
I shot the photo above on June 30. Evony Butler, who was ousted that following Monday is with Jesika on the right.
Wehunt beat out Cyndi Rafus, a stay-at-home mom from Loganville. Star 94 had only two contestants left Friday when they had the pair pick out letters and numbers randomly until the first one spells out Star 94.
Wehunt, a chipper Delta Zeta sorority gal who is a rising sophomore at the University of Georgia, became buds with Rafus and they plan to stay in touch. (Rafus got a three-day trip to Cancun as a consolation prize.)
Over 33 days, she said she actually lost 3 pounds despite the relative inactivity though she said in the last few days, her legs would start aching more while she tried to sleep upright in the Mariner. “It scared me,” she said.
She said she ate Chick Fil-A every day, especially the fries with honey barbecue sauce. Her mom Zandra drove 45 minutes from Smyrna most days and when she couldn’t make it, Wehunt’s sorority sister came by. About 30 different women visited her, she said.
The toughest part of the contest? “It was having no control, not being able to eat if I get hungry, to go to the bathroom when I wanted to. And having to wake up every three hours was tough.” (The rules required they leave the car every three hours, even in the middle of the night.)
Wehunt also won a lifetime subscription to Tivo and a Tivo, and a $500 gift card from Macy’s. Her first post-car meal was a home-made meat loaf with mac and cheese, green beens and squash.
Wehunt’s beat-up 1990 Builk Sklylark (sans air conditioning) broke down before the contest. This will be quite an upgrade. And her dad offered to pay the $1,700 in sales tax for the $22,000-plus vehicle.
She’s back to work Sunday at Italian restaurant Provino’s in Douglasville. (“A double shift!” she said.)
Do you think this type of contest is a net gain for a radio station?
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7/13: Bits for the weekend
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
TVNewser reports that former CNN Headline News anchor Rudi Bakhtiar has not had her conract renewed after 18 months at Fox News. Bakhtiar had quite a cult following in the past.
Lifetime’s “Army Wives,” which includes several Atlanta actors in secondary roles, got a nod for a second season, not a surprise given how strong its first six episodes have performed. It is easily Lifetime’s biggest show ever, averaging more 3.6 million viewers each Monday.
For fans of “Grey’s Anatomy,” TV Guide reports that the George/Izzie fling is dead in the water after 95% of fans in a focus group rejected it. Who knew that focus groups wielded so much power? In this case, this is a good thing.
And for the handful of you who cared about Fox’s “Drive,” the show’s final two episodes will go online Monday rather than air on Fox itself.
And here’s a fake story about watching too little TV being bad for your ability to make cogent pop-culture observations, courtesy of the Onion.. Yet it is so true, so true.
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7/13: Casting call for Top Chef
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For the first time, Bravo’s delicious reality show “Top Chef” is casting in Atlanta. There were three Atlanta contestants on Fox’s current season of “Hell’s Kitchen” but no Atlantans have been on “Top Chef” the first two seasons.
OPEN CALL: Sunday July 15 / 12pm-4pm
Hard Rock Cafe Atlanta
215 Peachtree St. NE
Atlanta, GA 30303
(404)-688-7625
Download the application at this site.
