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NOT DISNEYLAND, BUT CLOSE ENOUGH: On Sat 6/12, gorgeous Q13 News personality Jim Castillo was a biiig winner at the Northwest Emmys, held at the Paramount Theater. He came home with the coveted Best Weather Anchor award... naturally! So where did Jimmy go to celebrate? ARO.space! TTS reporter Eric was standing in line with the rest of the hipsters when he spotted handsome Jim talking on his cell phone, hanging with a group of gals--then he was sucked into the maw of the crowded nightspot. Gulp!
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OTHER NW EMMY WINNERS include KCPQ arty-type Pete Lowell, who designs the sets that make our Q13 News hotties look so good (or is it the other way around?); and KOMO 4, which won for Best Daily Newscast... but TTS readers don't exactly watch our news for content, now do we? ··· In the wee hours following the NW Emmys, the Cult of Raible held an orgiastic ritual of celebration for the object of their adoration, KIRO 7 news-hunk Steve Raible, who earned the coveted individual achievement Emmy for Best News Anchor. Huzzah!
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SALON UPDATE: John Curley took the advice offered by TTS reader Mark a few weeks back, and got his blond 'do "touched up" before the big night--good thing, because his KING 5 Evening Magazine pal Dave Gillin won for Best Non-News Reporting! (How do I know about Curley's hair hijinx? Why, I just happened to be down at 6th & Union last Fri 6/18, having breakfast in lawyerland--not that I need a lawyer!--and strolled past Marco's hair salon. There was Curley-Q, doing his TV personality duty.)
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BOUNCY-BOUNCY: Hmm... what notorious Seattle playwright was spotted "cavorting naked on a West Seattle trampoline" with the artistic director of a fave local theater, Sun 6/20 at 3 am? I'm not saying, but... they don't call it a "tramp"-o-line for nuthin'!
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MARTHA, MARTHA, MARTHA! On Mon 6/14 Todd cut through Bellevue's fancy Clyde Hill neighborhood, only to spot the one & only Martha Stewart driving a larger-than-life dark blue Ford Expedition (an SUV? Quelle surprise!) that looked fresh out of the detailer's shop. Todd insists, "I know my Martha & she looked right at me!! I went numb!!" Todd assures me that, despite PR-addled rumor-stoppers in sister Jean Godden's Times column, Martha HAS bought "a chateau-style home on 92nd Ave [in Clyde Hill].... You need to see this place--it screams 'Martha!!'" Unfounded rumor also has it the overachieving Ms. Stewart entertains a certain Microsoft honey in her 100% perfect leisure hours--the house isn't the only one screaming "Martha!!"... if you get my drift.
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SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING! A fan from NYC wrote to express concern for a certain MTV personality with an uncanny resemblance to Jar Jar Binks. Apparently "Jar Jar" has been spotted "stumbling around with his junkie girlfriend... shooting up, snorting coke, and popping pills on occasion. He is desperately thin and his hair is falling out from malnutrition." Word is Jar Jar's manager denies there's a problem: Our source opines, "[Jar Jar] is close to dropping dead and the music industry, including MTV, should be held responsible"!
I don't make up the gossip--I just report it! shirley@thestranger.com
