From Justin to Amy.......

OK OK OK OK........see why I didn't start a blog? It's just the pressure of keeping it up, so I avoid it.....for FOUR months........lol
My fav blogger friend Jen has given me a little grief about it and I felt this story was SO super blogworthy.......so here goes......

So I'm now on a project in Nashville, TN and I travel on Sundays from OKC through Atlanta and into Tennessee. Atlanta airport is the place to see celebs - I've seen Al Sharpton, Jack Hanna (adorned in his khaki's) and Sandra Bernhardt. So this week I actually had a celebrity on my flight into Nashville!!

I'm sitting in the waiting area and I saw this guy who resembled American Idol Season 1 runner-up to Kelly Clarkson - Justin Guarini and I just wasn't sure if it was him or not - his hair wasn't as big as I remembered?!? Ok so I confirmed my suspicion when I saw this:
I'm sitting there chuckling to myself as I'm in Zone 1 First Class......(who's the celebrity now Mr. Guarini?) I immediately was thinking to myself, "OMG I have to call Paul!! Then I hesitated dialing as he's not going to know who in the heck he is?!" So I call my bestest friend Mark and of course he's cracking up at me, then I call my friend Suzanne and she double dog dared me to take a picture - so it was ON!

I board the plane (ahem one of the first to board mind you - Zone 1 remember?) and I get my camera out so I can pounce on him when he comes through. I waited until I saw the Zone 4'ers come on (sigh) and he rounded the corner......I got up my courage and was like, "Hey Justin - I'm a big dork - can I get my picture with you?" And he was like "You wanna wait until we get off the plane or now?" and I'm like "Well I have my camera here and I know you'll be busy once we land so do you mind?" and he was like "Sure!" so I snapped (and could my face have been ANY SHINYIER!?!?) ugh......
I was upset that I didn't get his hair (as that's kinda what he's known for).......but I was noticing he's quite a handsome young strap and has a cute lil' tooshie :) The folks around me asked who he was and I explained and they still mostly didn't know (You see only my gay friends and my friends teenage girls only would know who he was) and of course everyone in 1st class is usually 50+ year old business men.

When we arrived back in TN he was pretty much to himself and nobody was really paying any attention and then finally a high school bowling team caught wind of him and asked for his picture. I was shocked that a celebrity would have to get his own luggage (guitar case and 1 bag) and he went to the public parking exit - so I'm assuming he had a car there? I mean, me being of celebrity status - even I have my name displayed on the #1 Gold board at Hertz?! lol

Ok so after all that excitement I decided to look him up on MySpace and was feeling a little guilty that I was snickering at his non-celebrity status as he went to Afghanistan and visited the troops. And I also found out the reason he was traveling to Nashville is he's in Season 3 of a show called "Gone Country" - ever heard of it? Yeah me either. But I Googled it and it's a show that has celebrities compete to become a country & western singer. Apparently last season Bobby Brown was on there - lol. Here's a blurb from who will be on this season - "Those who'll vie to create a hit country single with show host John Rich (one half of Big & Rich) are Miss USA 2006 Tara Conner, former Monkees drummer Micky Dolenz, funk master George Clinton, "21 Jump Street" actor Richard Grieco, '80s pop star Taylor Dayne, Prince protégé and drummer Sheila E and former American Idol runner-up Justin Guarini. "
So I'll have to watch the show just to see how it turns out - they are currently filming according to this article.

Justin - if you're reading this - I'm sorry I doubted your "celebrityness" and I hope you win the Gone Country show ..........

PS - My friend is working on a video of our "encounter" so I'll post that here soon...... LOL