Have you ever seen your friend on National TV?

[RhinoinMN]

I was watching The Discovery Channel this weekend and saw the "Surviving Alaska" episode tied in with Alaska Week. Survivorman, Les Stroud, was the host of the show and there was a segment about surviving an avalanche. The park ranger that was looked to for expertise was my sister's ex's best friend.

I thought it was cool to see a graduate from my HS, a person that I spent a lot of time with, have his time in the spotlight. He did quite well too.

Have you ever seen a friend on national TV?

[Marc with a c]

my friend from high school was on MTV's True Life: living with STDs. he was the herpes guy

[King Hippos Bandaid]

yes have a couple of friends that were on TV

including Rico Rodriguez, who was just on Celebrity Rehab

I was on NY 1 over the weekend

too bad i dont have NY 1 with Direct TV

[RhinoinMN]

my friend from high school was on MTV's True Life: living with STDs. he was the herpes guy

I'm so sorry. Someday you won't have to call him your "friend".

[AnnoyedGrunt]

He wasn't necessarily a friend, but someone I knew since grade school is playing in the CFL and went to the Grey Cup last year.

http://www.cfl.ca/index.php?module=roster&func=display&ros_id=709

[Holes]

Friend of mine was on YES Ultimate Road Trip last year.

[Tall_James]

Nope. (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/21/earlyshow/leisure/main681942.shtml)

[sailor]

i saw ralph and another friend randomly on yes walking into yankee stadium. working in hotels, all my co-workers were actors, so i won't count them.

[Tenbatsuzen]

Girl I knew from college was a runner-up on Survivor and I was on TV, so if you're a friend of mine, then you can say yes.

(It was a VH1 News Segment on Bruce Springsteen, I was the Man on the Street)

[TheMojoPin]

A friend of mine was a contestant on Russian Roulette a few years ago, but I think more people saw me walking down the street today than watched that show.

[Devo37]

a friend from college is now the manager of the Strokes. I actually helped bank-roll his first 2 albums when he had his own band back in college.

i saw him in a strokes video (not sure which). kinda weird.

now he's rich and i'm a working-class schlub. why, oh why did i lose touch with that guy?!?

[ChrisBrown]

does anyone remember Scott O'Grady, the pilot that was shot down and then rescued in the former Yugoslavia. He was the kicker on our high school football team when I was there. Nice enough guy but very average. He was in a class with me but I barely remember him. Anyway, it was beyond surreal when he was saved and was suddenly a hero. I remember when we was on Letterman and a couple of other talk shows.

[PapaBear]

My 2nd wife was in the audience for the Leeza Gibbons show.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/snowmaninva66/Untitled-145Large.jpg



Not exactly a friend, but a woman who was a very regular customer at the camera shop I managed, was on MTV's Fanatic. She was always coming in to print photos of Bon Jovi, and she was featured on the Bon Jovi Fanatic episode.

[Hottub]

I've seen Mikeyboy on Remote Contol. HTG on Fox News. Tall James on CBS Good Morning. Paulo whoring. Soon to see Envirogator on 60 Minutes. Fez on Fox news. Radio_Shark, whatever.

[Coach]

bunch of my friends are in the ab-lounger infomercial where they have lifeguards from Monmouth NJ try it out.

[drusilla]

the most random time this has ever happened was one night when i was watching a plastic surgery show on tlc & they were interviewing one of my old college friends about his thoughts on his girlfriend's nose. very odd.


i've seen a few people i know on old mtv shows like that stupid one jenny mcarthy was on

& sort of related, but one coach i work with now was on blind date years ago & it's incredibly embarassing. he has no idea that so many of us have seen it thanks to one of his friends putting it up on you tube.

[topless_mike]

mikey background and the mrs were on "queer eye", but it was the "welcoming party" for their friend that was made over.
mikey even delivered the perfect ronnie "you look like a million bucks" line.

[joethebartender]

I have a good friend named Lark, he was Candy's brother on Comedy Central's "Strangers With Candy". It was always weird to see him on tv.
Now I hear him on the tube and on radio as he makes fat cash doing voice overs.

[Matty_poo]

I saw myself on cnn, does that count?

[Sevenyears]

in 1990, my unit from Germany (2nd Ad) was sent to desert storm. There is b roll of me marching our platoon away from a meeting we had with Colin powel. It was on the Sunday night 60 minutes. I never saw it but was told about it a thousand times the next day after it aired. I have looked on youtube but no luck.

[A.J.]

A friend of mine was in a local commercial for the Orioles.

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[RAAMONE]

my buddy starred in this snowboarding reality show called "the block" on G4. he ended up getting fired and the show was cancelled...i think he moved to nashville and waits tables now...seemed to work out great for him

[Jujubees2]

the most random time this has ever happened was one night when i was watching a plastic surgery show on tlc & they were interviewing one of my old college friends about his thoughts on his girlfriend's nose. very odd.


i've seen a few people i know on old mtv shows like that stupid one jenny mcarthy was on

& sort of related, but one coach i work with now was on blind date years ago & it's incredibly embarassing. he has no idea that so many of us have seen it thanks to one of his friends putting it up on you tube.

Wait a minute. Is he the volleyball coach?

[Annie Waits]

i had a beer going down rapids of the Colorado river with the guy who played Rainey in Into the wild....that was a few years ago, before his acting debut...don't know him personnally but it was strange to see a rafting guide in this big Hollywood movie.

[walking joint]

more of a friend of a friend, but we know each other by name...was on the Apprentice a few years back.

my brother is an ER doctor and was followed around on one of those Life in the ER type shows. that was really cool to watch. i think it was on TLC or one of those type channels.

and my sister asked a question on the Donahue show way back. her question sucked and you could tell she was really nervous. it was great making fun of her about it.

[Thebazile78]

Yes.

My friend Austin was one of the contestants on the 1st season of Project Runway on Bravo.

He's now head designer for Kenneth Poole Bridal, which is wicked cool.

[Jujubees2]

The basketball teams here are play in a nationally televised game once or twice a year and the head coach has been on a lot.

One of my wife's college roommates was on Jeopardy recently (she won about $25,000).

[ANC]

The majority have been guys I grew up with on the news because they got into some shit.

A guy I work with has been on the Sopranos and a few bit parts in mob movies.

My sister works in the television industry so I've seen her on the red carpet a few times.

My cousin used to be a relief pitcher for the San Diego Padres.

My other cousin was on 'On The Lot'

My friend's brother used to be on The Black Donnellys.

[LaBoob]

When MTV's spring break was on the Jersey Shore a girl from my high school was playing the "prize" in one of their dating games. She was really whoring it up.

A friend from high school was on MTV's Tough Enough, the short-lived reality show that follows people training for a spot in the WWE. He almost won.

My friend's brother is a priest and he just recently saw him in the crowd at Madison Square Garden when the Pope was in town.

[drusilla]

Wait a minute. Is he the volleyball coach?

um...yes

[Knowledged_one]

Ed Norton was from my area and i knew him from local sports

The creator of the Boondocks went to my high school

and a guy i graduated with was the Orioles bird

[Jujubees2]

um...yes

He was an assistant coach here before he started coaching at your school and we saw the video too. Man that was hilarious! He knows how to show a woman a good time.

[drusilla]

yeah i figured you worked at the other school when i saw your post about basketball games.

dude, that shit is terrible, totally cringe tv. the team showed me. i was watching through my fingers because it was so fucking uncomfortable. even people who don't know him were bugging out at the way he was acting.

[Thomas Merton]

One of my favorite former students, Owen Schmitt, was drafted in the 5th round the other day by the Seahawks. He played baseball for me, a total stud

[Heather 8]

Not really my friend, but my ex-stepmother's friend played Albert Einstein on the Alien Nation TV series.

I've also seen some wrestlers I've been friends with appear on WWE, ECW, WCW, and TNA TV from time to time, usually in extra roles (although a couple did have signed contracts with those companies at one time or another).

[Voreskin]

i cant say that i have. wait. what are these things you call "friends"? :blink:

[IamPixie]

this girl I went to high school with had a cameo on NY undercover and was in a pringles commercial. She also used to expose her bra for a $1 a peek in 8th grade.

[IamPixie]

Yes.

My friend Austin was one of the contestants on the 1st season of Project Runway on Bravo.

He's now head designer for Kenneth Poole Bridal, which is wicked cool.

How do you know him?

[topless_mike]

this girl I went to high school with had a cameo on NY undercover and was in a pringles commercial. She also used to expose her bra for a $1 a peek in 8th grade.

was she hot? i have a Franklin burnin a hole in my pocket....

[IamPixie]

was she hot? i have a Franklin burnin a hole in my pocket....

she's absolutely gorgeous

[Thebazile78]

How do you know him?

We were friends in high school.

[tonypop]

I went to high school and played baseball for one year with Hines Ward, the wide reciever and superbowl mvp for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He doesn't qualify as a friend since not a word has ever been passed between us but he's the closest I've got to someone being on national t.v..

[cogsdoc]

What an odd thing to boast about, but I'll join in too. Tony (Stat Boy) Reali is one of my closest friends.

[StupidGirlllll]

What an odd thing to boast about, but I'll join in too. Tony (Stat Boy) Reali is one of my closest friends.

I have no clue who that is.....

[RhinoinMN]

What an odd thing to boast about, but I'll join in too. Tony (Stat Boy) Reali is one of my closest friends.

Boasting and being proud are two different things. I was proud to see a local native make it in the national spotlight. If anybody thought that I started this thread to brag, I apologize as it was not the intent.

[cogsdoc]

Boasting and being proud are two different things. I was proud to see a local native make it in the national spotlight. If anybody thought that I started this thread to brag, I apologize as it was not the intent.

Sorry buddy I didn't mean to be insulting to anyone, I was more referring to the feelings I had about my own post

[MagillaGorillaz]

I had a freind from college who was in this WB show. They were forming an all girl band. Gosh, I think it was called Eden's Crush or something. She made it to the finals and decided not to join the band because it was against her Chrisitan values.

My mom was watching TLC one night about an E.R. and this guy sitting next to the cyclist being treated was my cousin. She had no idea my cousin was there because he wasn't the focus of the scene.

My uncle and the guys from his firehouse were interveiwed on the CBS show NFL Today after 9/11.