On Saturday night (April 17, 2010) Shaun White became the first snowboarder since Ross Rebagliati to be clowned on Saturday Night Live and as several snowboard pundits have mentioned: it wasn’t even that funny.
[Link: Hulu.com]
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It appears that Shaun White had to get up a little too early for his interview with The Today Show’s Matt Lauer. Is all that late-night Vegas party action “spending time with his family” catching up with him a little. . . ?
[Editors’ Note: Turns out Shaun does say the word “Target” once in the interview. We missed it the first time. Thank you to our astute readers for pointing that out. The post has been corrected.]
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As Skate & Annoy’s Kilwag pointed out today, Justin Bieber the “prepubescent pop star” can ollie higher than he can. We agree. But what he failed to point out is that Bieber also has impeccable taste in footwear. . .
[Link: Skate & Annoy, Perez Hilton and Teen Vogue]
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Tomorrow night (April 15, 2010) Shaun White will unveil his new footwear line for Target Stores at a Midtown Manhattan shindig, according to a story in the New York Times.
The shoes, scheduled to arrive at Target on July 11, will accompany the 2010 version of the Shaun White clothing line that Target sells. The apparel is scheduled to arrive at Target in early August.
Tax day is likely the perfect time to unleash $34.99 shoes on the American public. Wonder how all the skate shoe companies feel about this?
[Link: New York Times]
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Celebrity racers: Champ Keanu Reeves, Adrian Brody, Christian Slater, and Tony Hawk.
Every so often, while cruising I-5 we see a black, tinted-out 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 (on rims) coming up behind us at speed and as we casually glance over to see who is blowing past we swear the driver looks an awful lot like Tony Hawk. We have similar thoughts each time a small jet swoops down past the skatepark for a landing at McClellan-Palomar Airport. Now, after reading this story in Motortrend we realize that at least on the freeway, it is Tony.
Hawk had to think for about what he’d rate his SRT8 on a scale of 1 to 10. “Boy, that’s a good question,” Hawk replies, and contemplates for just a nano-second. “I’d give it an 8 just because it’s not meant to be a sports car the way that I use it. But I have kids, so I have to make a compromise with the type of car that I drive,” he chuckles. He does enjoy the Jeep’s full power capability when he’s alone.
Motortrend checks in with Tony at Willow Springs Raceway raceway as he and other celebs practice for the Pro/Celebrity Race at the 36th annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 16-18.
[Link: Motortrend]
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A post on the gossip site The Blemish had some harsh words for this dashinginked pair of realebrites:
Kat Von D and Bam Margera left Trousdale on Wednesday holding hands. . . It looked like the tattooed lady leading her circus midget.
Ouch. . .
[Link: The Blemish]
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Rob Dyrdek always seems to be in the money. And now, he’s helping kids get into their parents money as well with a new deal signed with BillMyParents, the online teen-targeted payment system of the San Diego, California based Socialwise Inc.
“I’m excited to work with BillMyParents. I like what they do,” said Mr. Dyrdek. “Giving teens freedom to pick what they want and also letting parents in on that, I think it gives parents insight into what their kids really want and gives teens the opportunity to learn financial responsibility. It just makes sense.”
Kind of crazy that a company can build a business on something as simple as a parent giving their kid a credit card, but leave it to Rob to make sure he gets paid. Follow the jump for all the details.
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Last night (March 27, 2010), Nickelodeon held their 2010 Kids Choice Awards. Both Shaun White and Ryan Sheckler were up for Favorite Male Athlete in a list that included basketball greats Kobe Bryant and Lebron James.
Shaun White (who looked remarkably unexhausted) may have presented an award to Taylor Lautner, but he didn’t win. Apparently, the little girls still understand and Ryan rolled away with the win. Had this been the Cougars Choice Awards, there likely would have been a different, more tomatoey, winner.
[Link: Nikelodeon]
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Anastasia Ashley and Gretchen Bleiler will be helping two “adventure-seeking guys. . . perform an itinerary of tasks designed to K.O. the B.O. with Old Spice,” according to a post on WalletPop.
The guys, chosens as part of Old Spice’s Fresh Collection Intern Challenge, will split up and spend four days with either Ashley in Fiji or Bleiler in Zermatt, Switzerland. There they will do silly stunts to promote Old Spice like this:
Don traditional Swiss lederhosen and tear up the mountain while snowboarding some of the world’s best snow. Attach 10 Velcro-padded sticks of Old Spice Matterhorn to the Lederhosen suspenders and hand out to 5 other skiers and snowboarders on the mountain – while yelling out “You smell like Matterhorn!!” – at the same time. Use your helmet cam (provided by Old Spice) to capture video of you in action – and reaction shots.
In Fiji Ashley will apparently hook the boy up with a lesson on how to blow a conch shell. We’ll just leave it at that.
[Link: Old Spice Adventure via WalletPop]
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Former child actor and Snowboard Academy star Corey Haim dropped dead in his apartment this morning after an apparent “accidental overdose” according to a story on Fox6.
Haim died at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday of an apparent accidental overdose, according to the LAPD’s North Hollywood Division. . . . Coroner’s Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said an autopsy would determine an official cause of death. . . Haim collapsed in front of his mother inside an apartment in the Oakwood Apartment Complex, located between Burbank and the Hollywood Hills, officials said.
Hollywood certainly does eat ’em up.
[Link: Fox6]
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