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Week 1 - Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:00PM About this Episode | Meet the Celebs | Press | Reality News Dining Out MetroWest launches it's first "A-List Celebrities Paint the Town" reality series. Sharks' Hockey stars, Ashton Rome & Riley Armstrong will be joining Karon Shea models elegant Kelsey Hill and beautious Kerry Mulcahy... in an AA Limousine stretch limo will hit the chicest restaurants in town...First Stop Bocado on Winter Street... & second stop TriBeCa restaurant on Shrewsbury St....Live vicariously through these MetroWest Celebrities painting the town...and reporting back about their experience...meet up with them that evening and who knows, maybe you'll get your photo taken by our Paparazzi John Lenis from Photography by John. Ashton Rome Riley Armstrong     Kerry Mulcahy Kelsey Hill

PRESS

Worcester Magazine - 1/11/07
By Charlene Arsenault
Original Article
On Thursday, Jan. 11, “Dining Out MetroWest” is launching its first "A-List Celebrities Paint the Town" reality series. Sharks players Ashton Rome and Riley Armstrong join Karon Shea models Megan Cherry and Kerry Mulcahy in a limo to hit the best restaurants in town, including Bocado and Tribeca. Tune in at 6 p.m. to WCRN 830 am

Worcester Telegram & Gazette - 1/11/07
By Barbara M. Houle FOOD EDITOR
Original Article
"Dining Out Metro West will launch its first “A-List Celebrities Paint the Town” reality series beginning at 6:15 tonight at Bocado, 82 Winter St., Worcester.

Christina Andrianopoulos and Allan Eisenberg, hosts of “Dining Out Metro West,” which airs from 8 to 9 a.m. Saturdays on WCRN 830AM, put the event together.

The scene: Celebrities, including Worcester Sharks hockey player Ashton Rome and models from Karon Shea Model Management in Worcester, will schmooze at Bocado and move on to TriBeCa, 82 Shrewsbury St., Worcester, at 7:30 p.m.

The idea is the celebs will later report their “Paint the Town” experiences on air with Andrianopoulos and Eisenberg.

“Paint the Town” will be a weekly happening with different celebrities, according to Andrianopoulos.

Any celeb wannabees out there? "

REALITY NEWS

5:30PM All A-list Celebrities rendez vous at Karon Shea Modeling Agency Studios
This included Sharks Right Wingers Ashton Rome and Riley Armstrong, Shea Models, Kelsey Hill, and Kerry Mulcahy, the Paparazzi, John Lenis from Photography by John, Christina Andrianopoulos host of Dining Out MetroWest and Karon Shea Style Segment host and owner of Shea Enterprises.

Christina gives brief review of the evening, and then they head out to the stretch Escalade limo provided by AA limousine of Shrewsbury Ma. STepping inside the limo was as if we left the planet and entered Jupiter...with the neon lights flashing and fire place on, it made us all feel so elegant and got us in the mood to paint the town. Riley exclaimed, "This is even better than my apartment!"

To get everyone warmed up and relaxed Christina suggested to the chauffeur that we drive around town a bit, since we were a bit early for our Grande entrance to Bocado our first stop which was also the Chamber of Commerce Biz after Hours that evening.

6:00PM Arrival at Bocado and Grande Entrance
The Chauffeur escorts Christina, and Karon and John pops out to prepare to take the photos of the celebrities exiting the limo. John proceeds to start snapping the photos and a big crowd stops to see what is going on. The models adorned in full length silver foxes, compliments of Shea and Andrianopoulos, look stunning towering Greek Goddess statuettes over 6 feet tall. Both the handsome Sharks players and the models make stunning couples. The crowd at the door part to let the celebrities in. John snaps a few photos of guests at the door.

Inside Bocado the bustling of the crowd starts silencing in waves as people look to the entrance and wonder who these beautiful people are. We get our name tags from the Chamber hostess and we proceed to enter the crowded restaurant. John the true Paparazzi snaps photos until the celebrities feel like they gone blind with all the flashes. They position themselves on the first level by the bar and John proceeds to take photos with various Biz after Hours VIPs, photos included President Dick Kennedy, Director Cindy Skowyra, owner extraodinaire Mike Covino who gave us all a great warm welcome, owner of the Sharks Michael Lehr, Paul Giorgio, David Fleming of the Worcester Tennis Club/Curry Printing (one of In the Know partners), and many, many more. Check out our photo gallery to see all the photos that night at Bocado.

7:15PM Time to move on....
Everyone was treated to some exquisite fancy cocktails that Bocado specializes and after about an hour and a half of schmoozing and tastings of wonderful Bocado Tappas, it was time to make our Grande Exit.

Amidst a huge fanfare, the celebrities are escorted out to the waiting limo and we enter our space galaxy chariot for our next stop...Tribeca Restaurant on Shrewsbury Street. We managed to pick up a couple of guests one of them being Dr. Elizabeth Stefos, Chiropractor to the stars, and warmed up and relaxed, Ashton who is in charge of the super stereo in the limo starts blasting great rock and roll music...we rocked and sang (loudly) doing a pretty silly Kareoke imitation with rolled napkins as mics....until the next landing...and we bet the limo itself was rocking as if it was dancing on the road to Tribeca...Worcester that is not Manhattan!

7:30P Tribeca sighting....
The limo is parked right in the front taking up almost two street blocks (kidding but it is about 25 feet long), and we are greeted with great fanfare by Brian Duggan and Steven Greene owners of Tribeca. Our celebrities had never been to Tribeca so Brian gave us a divine tour and we stopped at the upper level bar and of course, more photos being snapped by John. The guests again steered wondering who the heck were these statuettes models and the strong athletes escorting them. Riley, who constantly was quipping subtle jokes...that we finally was getting his very dry sense of humor (dryer than a dry martini) made us laugh.

Starved from all the fanfare, everyone ordered from the great bistro menu of Tribeca at the reserved table near the wonderful piano player who serenaded us throughout the evening. it took about our second drink at Tribecas to get everyone singing along with the music. More photo opts took place with more guests of the restaurant...and within 30 minutes as we continued to look to the bar area of the bistro, it was filling up like crazy. Within an hour of arrival it was almost as packed as it was at Bocado earlier.

Many people had come from the previous engagement and they all came up to the celebrities and talked to them. Ashton relayed, "This is so much fun...I am having a blast and most of all I like singing along to the piano music." Riley threw a dry remark, which had us laughing again...and Kelsey and Kerry's million dollar smiles were almost as dazzling as the John's camera.

The group dined on three different Steak dinners including, Tenderloin steak tips, surf and turf and more. Ashton who is from Canada and whose dad owns a steer farm had never had lobster So John convinced him to eat the lobster special. He was amazed at how good it was...that was great since our A-list celebrity was able to experience, lobster at our reality series. Also everyone had iceburg lettuce salad with blue cheese crumb dressing, calamari with marinade sauce, and much, much more...I don't think anyone was hungry after that.

9:30P Bewitching Hour--Finale..Boo Hoo
Conscious of her models and the lateness of the time, Karon Shea reminded us that this great night MUST COME TO AN END... Karon was right...glad to have someone who can keep the fun on track...Everyone was having a great time, but it was time to end the first "A-list Celebrity Paint the Town" reality series. The celebrities were all whisked away back into our space galaxy limo and now, everyone knows each other really well and we are feeling very comfortable...and even getting Riley's jokes, we blasted the music on the stereo and sang at the top of our lungs (at least we faked the words but the meaning was there) to Christina Aguileri's new song "Hurt."
Does this mean that Dining Out MetroWest should start a A-list Idol contests soon???? We'll see.

9:45PM Back to home base...Houston we've landed!
Everyone goes back to Karon's studio, talk about the next steps which is to get the celebrities on the air to report live. Kelsey, Ashton, and Riley will be on this Saturday to report "in their own words" about this very successful evening....

Look for the celebrities comments coming soon.....and hope you join us for the next Celebrity A-list Paint the Town episode...As Barbara Houle from the T & G stated in her article on Thursday, any Wannabee Celebs out there??? Please submit nominations and who knows you may be picked for one of these evenings out.