Archives for May 2007

Win a date with Mirelly Taylor at GoFish.com

Go Fish is having a fun contest where you could win a date with a celeb. Are you up for it? I guess this one would be more for the guys since the celebrity that you could win a date with is Mirelly Taylor.

You might know Mirelly Taylor from movies and television shows like Kiss me again, Serving Sara, Las Vegas, Numb3rs. You can see some Free videos at GoFish.com of her. Plus, if you visit the site you can learn just what it will take to win a date with this beautiful celebrity.

The Seduce a Celeb contest will run on GoFish.com for the next 14 weeks. To enter the contest you need to watch Mirelly’s video. You’ll learn by watching the video that you must make three different videos to correspond with the three “call to actions” that she requests. Your video entries should be creative as you want to catch the eye of the voters. Then, once you’ve created your videos all you have to do is upload them to the site and hope that your videos do well.

Site visitors can watch and vote on the various contest submissions. Some of them are hilarious!

What I like about this contest is that the online audience can actually become part of the show through their video submissions, so it’s like an online reality show. Apparently Emmy award winning Producer Scott Sternberg and hottie Andrew Firestone from the Bachelor will also be part of the show.

I kind of like the idea of this contest. I’m going to be keeping an eye on it over the next three and a half months to see what happens. Perhaps, you, one of my readers, will win?

I wonder if this turns out to be a big hit if they’ll run another Seduce a Celeb contest? Maybe a male celeb next time? That’d be interesting.

Check it out and if you’re interested submit your videos and you might win a date with Mirelly Taylor.

Earl Wins Survivor!

by Tricia

Surprised? You thought it was going to be Yauman didn’t you? Uh huh, I had a feeling that if Earl could make it to the top two he’d pull off a win.

Nice surprise that they took three people to the finals. That really changed the game near the end and gave Dreams a tough decision to make. He says he planned on keeping the immunity all along but I have a feeling if it had been the normal two survivors at the end vying for the million he would have given immunity to Yauman and convinced the others to vote off Casandra.

I really liked this season of Survivor. I know I haven’t really talked about it at all on this site, but I’ve been watching every episode.

Any other Survivor fans out there?

Taking the show to China for the next series is a big coup. I imagine they had to jump through hoops to be able to get permission to film their show in China. That will be an interesting season!

Shop online at CouponChief

by Tricia

I don’t think I’ve mentioned one of my favorite places to shop on this site yet. Well, it’s CouponChief.

This site lists hundreds of top name stores, and as you browse through the site, either by store name or shopping category you can find coupon codes that will save you money on shipping, or give you a discount on the item you’re interested in purchasing.

I guess you’d have to call it a coupon site. There are hundreds of great deals to be found. Take for example The Body Shop coupon deal offering free shipping on orders over $55. I love products from the body Shop, don’t you?

Check it out for yourself. I’m certain you’ll find some of your favorite online stores listed at CouponChief, and you are bound to get some great deals too.

Petition asks Schwarzenegger to pardon Paris

by Tricia

I know I’m a bit late on this but this has got to be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard of! Paris Hiltons friend Joshua apparently started a petition,that co-incidentally went up on Paris’ Myspace page asking that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pardon her from her 45 day jail sentence.

As you probably know she was sentenced for violating her terms of probation by driving with a suspended license. the punishment, handed down by a Los Angeles Superior Court last Friday, is already under appeal.

On her Myspace page Paris went on to say “I urge all fans and supporters and all that are outraged by injustice to sign this petition,”.

An injustice? Did someone make her get behind the wheel?

The governors office hasn’t viewed the petition but his spokesperson, Aaron McLear told the Associate press on Tuesday “We’ll treat this as we would any other case of this nature, but it would be premature for the governor to get involved until the individual has exhausted his or her judicial remedies,” McLear said.

If she does get pardoned it will just go to show that celebrities or in her case socialites live by different laws that the rest of us.

I’ll bet celebrities never worry about their mortgages

by Tricia

I often wonder if big time celebrities even have to apply for a mortgage for their home. I suppose they would since most of their homes cost millions and millions of dollars, but if they are a big star they probably could pay the house off in one go couldn’t they?

Their lives are nothing like ours. I think it’s easier these days to get secured loans or a mortgage for a new home, particularly if you have a good broker and or a good credit rating, but I think it’s still harder for regular people like us to get loans than it would be for most celebs.

When we first applied for our mortgage when we were buying our home our bank thoroughly checked out our job history, current income and credit rating. They were doing this to be sure we’d be able to pay back the mortgage. To be on the safe side, we even had to get home insurance and have the house inspected by a special insurance agent before we could finalize our mortgage because they wanted to be sure the house was insured in case of fire or major damage. I mean, if something happened through no fault of our own the bank could still get their mortgage we owned them partially through the home insurance.

Even when we applied to renew or Remortgage our home last year they still went over our current finances to ensure that we’d be able to pay back our mortgage. I think that’s just smart business on their part. I don’t know if all banks are so thorough but ours certainly was.

We really lucked out on our mortgage. We got it when the interest rates were at an all time low, and we kept our payments a little higher than what was required so we actually ended up paying more of our mortgage off. When we renewed we ended up paying a bit more interest but it’s still low enough that it’s manageable and if we work at it we can get ahead and pay it off a bit faster than expected.

Again … I’m sure celebrities don’t have to worry about any of this stuff. Renewals? Interest rates? Yeah, I’m sure they are considered, but I bet not as much as we consider each and ever tiny extra point of interest we have to pay.

Win a date with Mirelly Taylor at GoFish.com

Earl Wins Survivor!

Shop online at CouponChief

Petition asks Schwarzenegger to pardon Paris

I’ll bet celebrities never worry about their mortgages

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