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Proposal at triathlon beats 2nd-place finish
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Woodstock pediatric physical therapist Jen Adley was expecting a bottle of water and a towel after placing second in her age group at the grueling sixth annual Nautica New York City Triathlon on Sunday.
Instead, Adley, who had just finished a two-hour, 20-minute swim in the Hudson River and a bike ride and run through Central Park, ended up with an engagement ring and a TV crew in front of her to record a proposal from boyfriend Curtis Henry.
The Roswell bike shop manager decided to pop the question at the finish line, since the couple first met through triathlon-related sports outings.
“I could have looked a little better,” Adley conceded to Buzz on Wednesday while driving with Henry in New York. “It was a little nuts. I’m just glad I didn’t get light-headed.”
She immediately said yes to the proposal.
Henry says Adley’s post-race state worked well with his plan.
“I knew she would be a little winded,” he says. “There was a little security there. Plus, she had no idea it was coming.”
The downside?
Said Henry: “Well, she still had her running shoes on. She could have kept running!”
As the newly engaged 28-year-olds vacation this week, Henry says they’re still getting used to referring to each other as “my fiancé” and “my fiancée.” No date has yet been set.
Plus, when they return to Georgia next week, they won’t exactly be boring their relatives with footage from their trip either.
Huracanes … Inundaciones!
What’s Spanish for “golf ball-size hail”? Thanks to WGCL, we’ll all be finding out this summer during its severe weather “Storm Tracker” reports. In addition to running severe weather alert crawls on screen in English, the station will be providing the same information in español for its Spanish-speaking viewers.
Here’s hoping that by the end of hurricane season — unlike our aborted attempts in high school — we’ll finally be able to speak fluently about the weather in Spanish at cocktail parties. …
Quote of the day
“Show business is like dating a schizophrenic: I love you, I ignore you, you’re fantastic, you’re terrible. I don’t need that. I just want to wear makeup and be funny.” — “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” actor Bradley Whitford in the Los Angeles Times, responding to the online geeks who are already criticizing the new Aaron Sorkin show on Internet blogs, based on leaked scripts and scenes from the NBC fall drama’s pilot.
Coupling
We had a foreboding sense of deja vu while scanning Us Weekly’s Web site Wednesday. The online mag is reporting that sex tape specialist Pamela Anderson and hick-hop artist Kid Rock are finally making it legal.
The couple, now vacationing in St. Tropez, France, will marry July 29 on a yacht near the glamorous hotspot. …
Anderson confirmed the good news in an entry in her online diary: “It’s been a whirlwind … spontaneous but well thought through.”
When contacted by The Associated Press, Marleah Leslie, Anderson’s spokeswoman, declined to comment on the report.
You may recall that Anderson, 39, and Mr. Rock, 35, whose real name is the far less scintillating Bob Ritchie, became engaged in the Las Vegas desert in April 2002, but never set a wedding date. They broke up the following year.
Anderson and her first husband/video co-star, Tommy Lee, divorced in 1998 after three years of marriage. It could not immediately be determined where the couple has registered for video equipment-related wedding gifts.
Celebrity docket
Actor John Cusack has won a temporary restraining order against a woman he claims has been stalking him for more than 18 months.
Emily Leatherman must stay at least 500 feet away from the 40-year-old actor, his home, workplace, car and any company or office where he does business, Santa Monica [Calif.] Superior Court Judge Linda K. Lefkowitz has ruled.
Why, you ask?
In court papers filed last month, Cusack said the 31-year-old homeless woman “is showing unusual interest by stalking, throwing long letters of interest over my fence in bags with rocks and screwdrivers inside, making unannounced visits to offices of people I work with in an attempt to meet with me and listing my address as her own during a recent arrest.”
The star of “The Ice Harvest” and “Must Love Dogs” said he has never met Leatherman but he has been recently introduced to her mail, which has been arriving at his home of late.
Celebrity birthdays
Actress Diana Rigg (“The Avengers”) is 68. Guitarist Carlos Santana is 59. Singer Chris Cornell of Audioslave (and Soundgarden) is 42. Actor and former Georgian Josh Holloway (“Lost”) is 37.
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