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Friday, January 23, 2009
1/24: DeAnna Pappas gabs about “Get Married” and USO tour, not so much about Jesse Csincsak
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Former “Bachelorette” DeAnna Pappas is aware of the irony that she is co-hosting a show called “Get Married,” shot locally and seen on Lifetime every day at 7:30 a.m.
She agreed to do “Get Married” while planning to get hitched to snowboarder Jesse Csincsak — but then she broke up with him in November. Doesn’t this negate the rationale of having her on the show?
“That’s everybody’s No. 1 question,” Pappas told me last week. “I don’t think it makes any difference. I love weddings. I love the fashion, the food, the parties.”
She declined to comment about her breakup, though Csincsak himself posted a YouTube video describing the pain he experienced over the split.
Pappas, who still lives in Newnan, recently got back from a USO-type trip to Iraq and Kuwait.
She spent a lot of time talking to solders. “I was really curious about those in the first year of marriage, how they’re coping with things being away from home so long,” said Pappas, whose dad has been in the Navy since he was 18. She has kept in touch with many of them through email and her MySpace page. (She said she’ll respond to all emails off the getmarried.com Web site or her own.)
Not that military personnel are target “Bachelor” viewers, but she said more people recognized her than she expected: “I’m sure a lot of wives made them watch ‘The Bachelor.’ “
Though Pappas is open to more TV gigs, she said there is one genre she won’t pursue again: reality shows.
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1/23: Wow, John Rocker. Is it still the year 2000? Steak Shapiro gets an earful. And Warren Ballentine getting the boot?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We know Steak Shapiro loves press. He relishes it. He seeks it out. He’s admittedly shameless. But this time around, he wasn’t courting anything. At the W Hotel Buckhead party last night, former Braves player John Rocker verbally abused Shapiro in front of at least 40 witnesses, using Jew epithets galore, Shapiro said.
I just spoke with Shapiro. He said Rocker was staring at him with daggers all evening. When Shapiro came up to him and said, “Let’s be civil. I have no issues with you. It was a long time ago.” Rocker responded by saying it wasn’t that long ago, that he wasn’t over Shapiro’s comments about Rocker over the years. Shapiro said as an opinion maker, he offers his thoughts on Rocker, thinking he was a bigot. “But it wasn’t personal,” he said. Rocker took it personally and at the party had to be escorted out the building by security guards.
“I’ve had some rude listeners but nobody has ever talked to me in public like that before,” he said. “It was crazy. I told him, ‘You’re everything people say you are.’ “
My colleague Richard Eldredge wrote the full story here.. He hasn’t heard back from Rocker, who I doubt is in the mood to respond.
-In other radio news, Warren Ballentine on the air today said he was losing his 102.5 Grown Folks Atlanta affiliate. Tim Davies, the boss in Atlanta who oversees the station, declined to say whether that was true or not. Usually, that means it’s true. A possible scenerio: when 102.5 moves to 107.5 in the coming days, Steve Harvey and Michael Baisden will come along, but probably not the mid-day all-talk shows of Ballentine and Al Sharpton. Instead, they might bring Si-Man to do mid-day music to compete directly against Kiss 104.1, which was the top rated station in Atlanta in December. Then again, Ballentine could move to 107.5, too, though if that were the case, why would he say anything?
