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Top 10 Las Vegas Moments (Before COVID) | Ep. 79 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to Vegas Revealed episode 79.
• 0:03
  Sean McAllister: Dana and I have worked and lived in Vegas for years and have so many moments that we've really never talked about.
• 0:10
  Sean McAllister: Today we're counting them down.
• 0:12
  Dayna Roselli: And let me tell you, we have some good ones.
• 0:15
  Dayna Roselli: Let's spin the wheel and get started.
• 0:28
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed.
• 0:30
  Sean McAllister: Alright, so today we're doing a very special episode.
• 0:33
  Sean McAllister: You know, Dana and I have lived and worked in Vegas for gosh, I mean, we're pushing 20 years here, Dana.
• 0:41
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 0:42
  Dayna Roselli: We used to say 15, but then time flies and we're like, okay, now 16, 17.
• 0:45
  Sean McAllister: Well, we're past 15 now.
• 0:47
  Sean McAllister: We're counting up.
• 0:48
  Sean McAllister: But in that time, we've had uh some really cool opportunities and some really uh interesting interactions that really can only happen in Vegas.
• 1:00
  Dayna Roselli: And Sean and I were talking, and I was like, oh, did I ever tell you this happened to me?
• 1:04
  Dayna Roselli: And he sometimes tells me stories, and I thought, you know what, let's just do an episode and share some of these kind of behind-the-scenes moments, some interactions we've had with big celebrities, some Vegas, you know, moments that we've experienced.
• 1:19
  Dayna Roselli: And then we started making a list.
• 1:21
  Dayna Roselli: We have numbered them ten to number one, and we're excited to share these stories.
• 1:27
  Sean McAllister: So, what do you say we get right in to number 10?
• 1:30
  Dayna Roselli: Let's do it.
• 1:31
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 1:32
  Sean McAllister: So uh my and number ten are the Cindy Crawford sightings that we've had here in Vegas over the years.
• 1:39
  Sean McAllister: And this dates back to the early like 2000s when Cindy Crawford and her husband Randy Gerber owned Whiskey Sky and Whiskey Beach.
• 1:48
  Sean McAllister: This is the nightclub at the Green Valley Ranch Resort.
• 1:52
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and I remember it was a big deal because it was off the Las Vegas Strip, and it was like, what?
• 1:56
  Dayna Roselli: You know, this megastar owning a nightclub and a beach club at a strip, you know, off-strip casino?
• 2:03
  Sean McAllister: Essentially in the suburbs.
• 2:04
  Sean McAllister: And I lived right around the corner in those suburbs from Green Valley Ranch, and so uh Whiskey Beach was like my spot that's every weekend.
• 2:14
  Sean McAllister: And you know, occasionally uh Cindy Crawford and uh Randy Gerber would pop up there.
• 2:19
  Sean McAllister: But more recently in 2019, uh the couple was also at the grand opening, the re-grand opening of the Palms and Chaos Nightclub.
• 2:31
  Sean McAllister: And as part of that, there was a uh an Alicia Keys concert.
• 2:35
  Sean McAllister: Cindy Crawford was sitting in one of those little opera booths in the theater, just kind of right across from where I was sitting, and there were some younger girls in there who were snapping all these selfies.
• 2:47
  Sean McAllister: You can tell that they were trying to fill up their Instagram feed, right?
• 2:51
  Sean McAllister: And then at one point, they turned to Cindy Crawford, who, by the way, is one of the best known supermodels in the world, you know, sports illustrated swimsuit issues.
• 3:03
  Sean McAllister: She's been in ad campaigns, that Pepsi commercial left and right, a cover girl.
• 3:07
  Sean McAllister: I mean, the biggest model ever.
• 3:11
  Sean McAllister: And these girls turned to Cindy Crawford, handed her their phone, and said, Will you take pictures of us?
• 3:18
  Sean McAllister: And I was like, Are you have got to Are you kidding me?
• 3:21
  Dayna Roselli: Like, maybe do you think they didn't know who she was?
• 3:24
  Sean McAllister: But I can't imagine anybody turning to Cindy Crawford and saying, take our picture.
• 3:29
  Sean McAllister: I was just like, What is going on over there?
• 3:32
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 3:33
  Dayna Roselli: You know what, though?
• 3:34
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know the ages of these girls, if they were millennials or, you know, definite millennials.
• 3:39
  Dayna Roselli: They don't care.
• 3:40
  Dayna Roselli: They'll just, you know, they're ballsy.
• 3:42
  Dayna Roselli: Or we'd be like, oh, we would never ask Cindy Crawford to take our picture.
• 3:46
  Dayna Roselli: But you know, maybe she enjoyed it being on the flip side.
• 3:48
  Dayna Roselli: Who knows?
• 3:49
  Sean McAllister: But we love seeing Cindy Crawford here in Vegas and Cindy, welcome back.
• 3:53
  Sean McAllister: You're welcome on Vegas Revealed anytime on your next trip.
• 3:59
  Dayna Roselli: Well, let's move along to number nine.
• 4:03
  Dayna Roselli: This moment actually happened right before the pandemic in 2020.
• 4:09
  Dayna Roselli: It was my last big outing in Las Vegas.
• 4:12
  Dayna Roselli: A really fun night, and it has to do with Sophia Vergara, one of the biggest, you know, actresses.
• 4:18
  Dayna Roselli: I think she's like one of the highest paid actresses on television and movies.
• 4:22
  Sean McAllister: I mean, obviously from Modern Family, and now she's a judge on America's Got Talent.
• 4:27
  Sean McAllister: So people know her all over the world.
• 4:29
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 4:29
  Dayna Roselli: So she was gonna be at the Park MGM for an event.
• 4:32
  Dayna Roselli: Um, my friend and also celebrity, Debbie Gibson, said, Hey, you want to come with me to this thing?
• 4:38
  Dayna Roselli: They asked me to come.
• 4:39
  Dayna Roselli: It's um I would think it was Sophia's son came out with a really cool line of pet products.
• 4:46
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 4:47
  Dayna Roselli: You know, different kinds of collars and clothing, and it was luxury.
• 4:50
  Dayna Roselli: And so anyway, it was at the Nomad Tower.
• 4:52
  Dayna Roselli: And so we go there and you know, we do the event, and you know, we hang out, and everyone's, you know, Sophia's there, and you're like, wow, you know, she looks beautiful, and everyone's coming up, and she's a lot of fun.
• 5:02
  Dayna Roselli: And then she met Debbie and they were, you know, taking pics together and even singing a little on the mic.
• 5:07
  Dayna Roselli: So after that, we go up to On the Record, you know, they say, Come on, we're gonna go and do like a little laughter party.
• 5:12
  Dayna Roselli: So we go up there, and that's really fun in Park MGM if you've never been.
• 5:16
  Dayna Roselli: And and it's not a huge place, really.
• 5:18
  Sean McAllister: No, that's like their nightclub speakeasy uh venue, which is up the escalator if you're on the casino floor.
• 5:25
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 5:25
  Dayna Roselli: So we go and we get a table, and you know, Sophia, the whole family, because everyone's there, whole family's there.
• 5:31
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, they're in from Mexico, everyone's there.
• 5:33
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, long story short, finally Sophia leaves, but then we move into a private karaoke room, and like Sofia's entire family comes in there, and it's me, Debbie Gibson, um, and then like the like the whole family, and we're karaokeing all night long for like hours.
• 5:53
  Dayna Roselli: And it was so random.
• 5:54
  Dayna Roselli: And they loved it because we were singing like, you know, they were singing some songs in Spanish, you know, we were singing some in in English, and it was just a fun night out, but um never expected it to go that way.
• 6:06
  Dayna Roselli: But that's really one of my you know big epic moments with an A-list actress here in Las Vegas.
• 6:12
  Sean McAllister: And this was literally days before the world shut down, right?
• 6:14
  Sean McAllister: Days before the world shut down.
• 6:16
  Dayna Roselli: And I remember I lost my glasses and I had to call like lost and found, and they they found them, and yeah, it was a good night.
• 6:27
  Sean McAllister: That's a good one.
• 6:28
  Sean McAllister: Definitely a a way to go out before the world shuts down, right?
• 6:31
  Sean McAllister: Uh let's move on to number eight.
• 6:34
  Sean McAllister: And this one, Dana, comes from backstage at the iHeartRadio Music Festival.
• 6:40
  Sean McAllister: So for the past, I don't know, decade probably, the iHeart Radio Music Festival has been taking place here in Las Vegas.
• 6:48
  Sean McAllister: Now it's being held at T-Mobile Arena, but back several years ago, its home base was MGM Grand and out at the Grand Garden Arena, and that's where this uh Floyd Mayweather experience took place.
• 7:04
  Sean McAllister: So I was backstage and in those hallways and corridors, like you're you're walking around and you you're just like face to face with celebrities.
• 7:15
  Sean McAllister: They're everywhere.
• 7:16
  Sean McAllister: And in the middle of this group of people is Floyd Mayweather.
• 7:19
  Sean McAllister: And I'm kind of just squished up against the wall in the hallway.
• 7:24
  Sean McAllister: And then all of a sudden, which I thought it was cool, I was like, oh, Floyd Mayweather.
• 7:28
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 7:28
  Sean McAllister: Super cool.
• 7:29
  Sean McAllister: I mean, you know, undefeated boxer, great.
• 7:31
  Dayna Roselli: Some people love him, some people hate him, but yeah, you know.
• 7:34
  Sean McAllister: He was like an arms and arms reach away.
• 7:37
  Sean McAllister: Then all these bags of McDonald's food start getting handed out, and I'm like, where in the world is all this food coming from?
• 7:47
  Sean McAllister: And it it looked as though someone from Floyd's Entourage had gone out, brought back like these boxes of McDonald's chicken McNuggets, and everybody was just sitting out in the hallway just snacking on their nuggets.
• 8:05
  Sean McAllister: Including Floyd.
• 8:06
  Sean McAllister: Including Floyd.
• 8:08
  Sean McAllister: So I was like, look at this.
• 8:10
  Sean McAllister: He's like the highest paid whatever boxing champion.
• 8:15
  Sean McAllister: You know, look on his Instagram.
• 8:17
  Sean McAllister: He's just got stacks of cash everywhere, but even Floyd eats his nuggets.
• 8:23
  Dayna Roselli: That's good to know.
• 8:24
  Dayna Roselli: It's good to know.
• 8:25
  Dayna Roselli: Because you'd think that like he's he's eating spinach and drinking water all day long, right?
• 8:31
  Sean McAllister: I don't think he was preparing for a fight at the time.
• 8:33
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 8:33
  Dayna Roselli: Well, that's a bit girl.
• 8:34
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 8:35
  Dayna Roselli: Floyd obviously lives here in Las Vegas, and you know, often sightings and his entourage and that whole, but it's fun to see some of the unique moments, you know?
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_01: It is.
• 8:44
  Dayna Roselli: It's something like that.
• 8:45
  Dayna Roselli: Just Floyd and his whole crew eating chicken McNuckets.
• 8:48
  Dayna Roselli: Alright, let's move on to number seven.
• 8:51
  Dayna Roselli: This one was a lot of fun to witness.
• 8:53
  Dayna Roselli: It was when the Jonas brothers had a movie come out.
• 8:57
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, because they've had a few since, but remember their first big kind of behind-the-scenes film?
• 9:01
  Dayna Roselli: I don't even remember what the name of it was.
• 9:03
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and this is the one that kind of tracked their rise to fame, isn't it?
• 9:07
  Sean McAllister: From just a family group to playing a state fair where they just kind of exploded.
• 9:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it was it it was great.
• 9:14
  Dayna Roselli: And it was a big deal for the fans, you know, because to get this close-up look, and so anyway, they were having the opening, which it was the release of the movie, and in here in Las Vegas, there's a shopping area called Town Square, and they also have a movie theater.
• 9:28
  Dayna Roselli: So I was working for a CBS affiliate at the time.
• 9:31
  Dayna Roselli: They said, come on down, we have a bunch of fans coming in to see the film for the first time, but they have no idea before the film starts, the Jonas brothers are gonna come into the theater from the back door and surprise them.
• 9:46
  Dayna Roselli: So it was so much fun to witness this.
• 9:50
  Dayna Roselli: These girls and guys were going nuts when all of a sudden the film was about to start, and then they're like, um, hold on a minute.
• 9:58
  Dayna Roselli: We have a surprise for you.
• 10:00
  Dayna Roselli: And the Jonas brothers walked in, everyone was cheering, they did a little QA.
• 10:04
  Dayna Roselli: It was great for the fans before they started the film.
• 10:08
  Dayna Roselli: And then I was able to go back into this little hallway in the back to interview them.
• 10:13
  Dayna Roselli: It was literally just me and the Jonas brothers, you know, they were so young at the time, and they couldn't have been more polite.
• 10:18
  Dayna Roselli: They were like the politest uh people I've ever interviewed, and I remember one would not walk away unless he said thank you to me in the eye and shook my hand.
• 10:28
  Dayna Roselli: You know, it was my great impression of the Jonas brothers.
• 10:32
  Dayna Roselli: What good guys?
• 10:32
  Dayna Roselli: They were great, and it was a moment that I know anyone would kill for is to just stand in a hallway and have a chat with the Jonas Brothers, just you for.
• 10:41
  Sean McAllister: And are your ears still ringing from the decibel level that was hit when they walked into the room?
• 10:45
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, it was insane.
• 10:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it was fun to watch because you see, you know, videos like that now go viral.
• 10:50
  Dayna Roselli: But this was, you know, I saw it in person and I don't even know.
• 10:53
  Dayna Roselli: Back then, I don't even think I don't even know if I had a phone to take a picture.
• 10:58
  Dayna Roselli: But I remember I took a picture with a real camera of the screen, and I have it on my Facebook archive still.
• 11:04
  Sean McAllister: You have a lot of film archives, don't you?
• 11:07
  Dayna Roselli: I do, I archive it all.
• 11:08
  Sean McAllister: I love it.
• 11:08
  Sean McAllister: The Roselli Archive.
• 11:10
  Sean McAllister: Uh okay, so Jonas Brothers are great, and we have uh another music star appearance coming in at number six.
• 11:21
  Sean McAllister: And Dana, uh this is an experience that that both you and I were a part of.
• 11:26
  Sean McAllister: One of our uh good friends is the publicist for Olivia Newton-John, who you know people have known for years as a billboard chart-topping artist, a movie star, a writer, uh a cancer uh activist.
• 11:44
  Sean McAllister: And uh Olivia is just known worldwide and absolutely beloved.
• 11:50
  Sean McAllister: So as uh her publicist and again our friend was a longtime publicist, so they're close, yeah.
• 11:57
  Sean McAllister: Uh was renewing his wedding vows.
• 12:00
  Sean McAllister: And Dana and I were invited to go, and we were on one of those pods on the high roller, which is that giant observation wheel that's at the center of the strip.
• 12:10
  Sean McAllister: It only holds, what, 25 people or so?
• 12:13
  Sean McAllister: Something like that, yeah.
• 12:14
  Sean McAllister: And one of the people who was in the pod with us to witness this vow renewal was Olivia Newton John.
• 12:22
  Dayna Roselli: It was amazing, and not only that, she actually did the vow renewal.
• 12:27
  Sean McAllister: She did.
• 12:27
  Dayna Roselli: And she sang kind of like a little a cappella, and it was the first time she was taking a vocal rest, and it was the first time she had actually, you know, sang in a while, and she she had sang a song, and we were in this pot.
• 12:39
  Dayna Roselli: It was uh you and I, and um obviously uh guest some guests, and then also the Chippendales, you of the Chippendales, because Mike Caprio also represents the Chippendales and Olivia Newton John, so it was a cast of characters, and what a moment though to be so close.
• 12:55
  Dayna Roselli: And I I mean, if I ever thought back in the day when I watched Greece 600 million times over and over that I would be standing in a pod of an observation wheel with Olivia Newton John, renewing my friends' vows and singing to them.
• 13:09
  Sean McAllister: I know, and I was at one point standing, you know, shoulder to shoulder with her, and you know, I'd met Olivia several times through the years, but it that was just such a special moment, and we were, you know, just chatting about you know the emotion of the moment and how great it was.
• 13:27
  Sean McAllister: So that's definitely uh one of the vaguest moments that I'll never ever forget.
• 13:33
  Sean McAllister: So special.
• 13:35
  Dayna Roselli: All right, let's move on to number five.
• 13:38
  Dayna Roselli: Number five is a story that includes a large number of people, okay?
• 13:43
  Dayna Roselli: This was an assignment that I got from Life and Style magazine.
• 13:46
  Dayna Roselli: I used to do some freelance work for them.
• 13:49
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 13:49
  Dayna Roselli: My assignment was to go out and basically observe these celebrity moments.
• 13:54
  Dayna Roselli: They would send me, this is happening, you're gonna go, and I just want you to watch.
• 13:59
  Dayna Roselli: That's what they would do.
• 14:00
  Dayna Roselli: That's how when you read these magazines, you know, you'll say so-and-so was seen at, and she was blah, blah, blah, handing something to her friend so-and-so.
• 14:08
  Dayna Roselli: And this is how it all happens.
• 14:10
  Dayna Roselli: You see, you're the flyer.
• 14:11
  Dayna Roselli: You're the eyes, you're the fly on the wall.
• 14:13
  Dayna Roselli: So um, I was like, sure, I'll make some extra money.
• 14:15
  Dayna Roselli: I was starting out in the business, and I was, I think, doing some reporting from the helicopter.
• 14:20
  Dayna Roselli: So, anyway, Life and Style sends me to uh one of the first concerts at the Pearl at the Palms in the day.
• 14:26
  Dayna Roselli: The theater is great, and it was Fergie, and Fergie was performing, and they um they said, Listen, uh, George Maloof is having a private party in this suite up there.
• 14:37
  Dayna Roselli: Um, you are okay to go in, and uh all these people are coming in and he's flying them all in for the Fergie concert.
• 14:46
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm like, all right, so I go.
• 14:47
  Dayna Roselli: Well, little did I know, like, I mean, the list was you know, Paris Hilton, Nikki Hilton, like the cast of scrubs, uh, the guys from Panic at the Disco before they had really taken off.
• 15:00
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 15:00
  Dayna Roselli: Uh Justin Long was there, Fergie's mom, the whole family, George Maloof.
• 15:05
  Dayna Roselli: It was incredible.
• 15:07
  Dayna Roselli: And there were like the bar was open and drinks were being served, and you know, you got to see the celebs really, you know, acting as they would if they were just with a group of friends.
• 15:17
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 15:18
  Dayna Roselli: Smoking cigs, the whole nine.
• 15:20
  Dayna Roselli: You know, you're going, well, I didn't think, you know, so all sorts of stuff.
• 15:23
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, it was a great time.
• 15:24
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I talked to a couple of the cast members of uh Scrubs.
• 15:28
  Dayna Roselli: We had great conversations.
• 15:30
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, I talked to Nikki Hilton, I remember at the time, and also Justin Long, who's in that, you know, he's like the Mac PC guy, he's in a lot of different movies, and I remembered him from this movie that my ex-husband really loved, and it was Jeepers Creepers, and he was the star of that film, and then he started to tell me.
• 15:49
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I actually watched the opening of that film in my hometown of Rochester, and I was like, I'm from Rochester, so the whole thing with his mother, and it was weird, and he had to like, you know, and so he was like, anyway, it was a whole thing.
• 15:59
  Dayna Roselli: Then we go up to uh a suite in the palms, and John Lovitz is up there, and Mario Lopez, and everyone's it was a whole thing, and it was a really, really fun time.
• 16:11
  Dayna Roselli: Uh Fergie's mom was like uh inviting us to barbecues at her house in LA, and it was just one of those nights, but that was a very vagus moment for me and a hodgepodge of celebrities.
• 16:22
  Sean McAllister: That is quite the roster of characters there.
• 16:26
  Sean McAllister: Wow, good one.
• 16:27
  Dayna Roselli: I know, yeah.
• 16:28
  Dayna Roselli: And then I was chatting with uh Panic at the Disco about like video games and PlayStation and all sorts of stuff like that.
• 16:34
  Dayna Roselli: So it was it was random.
• 16:35
  Dayna Roselli: Uh little did I know they'd be as big as they are.
• 16:40
  Sean McAllister: All right, and coming in at number four.
• 16:44
  Sean McAllister: So this Dana was such a a random night.
• 16:49
  Sean McAllister: So uh Jennifer Coolidge, who you may know as uh, you know, being Stifler's mom in the American Pie movie, and the Bend and Snap lady from uh Legally Blonde.
• 17:01
  Dayna Roselli: No, yeah.
• 17:01
  Sean McAllister: Uh Jennifer Cool, she's been all over, made made memorable, you know, guest spots on on friends, and um she was doing stand-up over at the Venetian one night, and my husband Shane bought tickets for my birthday.
• 17:15
  Sean McAllister: So we went to see the show.
• 17:18
  Sean McAllister: And afterwards, uh somebody came over to us and said, Hey, uh Jennifer would like to say hi.
• 17:25
  Sean McAllister: Um she knows that you're here for your birthday.
• 17:28
  Sean McAllister: And I had just interviewed her a couple days beforehand on the a TV show that I was working on.
• 17:34
  Sean McAllister: But I didn't think that she was going to be, you know, inviting us back for anything to say hi.
• 17:38
  Sean McAllister: So we said, Yeah, sure, it would be great.
• 17:40
  Sean McAllister: Well, we went back, said hi.
• 17:42
  Sean McAllister: She's so gracious, so nice, so sweet.
• 17:45
  Sean McAllister: We had some wine, and then she and her her manager and some other people came into the room and they were like, Hey, should we all go to dinner?
• 17:55
  Sean McAllister: And they said, Would you like to join us?
• 17:56
  Sean McAllister: And we said, Yeah, sure.
• 17:58
  Sean McAllister: We're not going anywhere.
• 18:01
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so we went to this really nice steak restaurant, and the food just kept coming and coming and coming, and we're having a great time.
• 18:10
  Sean McAllister: We were chatting just about life and favorite vacation spots, and it was just it was a really nice, enjoyable uh dinner, and uh she d found out that it was my birthday and had a a dessert brought out, which was so so sweet.
• 18:28
  Sean McAllister: Uh after dinner wrapped up, which was uh a memorable, you know, part of the night in and of itself, then we went out to the casino floor and we stopped at the craps table, and uh Jennifer Coolidge said, Do you guys know how to play craps?
• 18:46
  Sean McAllister: And we were like, No.
• 18:48
  Sean McAllister: She was like, Well, neither do I.
• 18:50
  Sean McAllister: Will you play for me?
• 18:51
  Sean McAllister: We were like, Alright, I guess.
• 18:54
  Sean McAllister: But whatever happens, happens.
• 18:56
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 18:56
  Sean McAllister: So she put some chips down on the table.
• 18:58
  Sean McAllister: We roll the dice a few times, she ended up winning, which was great.
• 19:02
  Sean McAllister: I was like, whew, we didn't let her down.
• 19:05
  Sean McAllister: And then we decided to wrap things up at the craps table.
• 19:08
  Sean McAllister: We're walking back through the casino, and of course, everybody is saying, Hey, Stifler's mom, stifler's mom! People are stopping for pictures, but it was getting late, so she went back up to her room, but just such a a random night.
• 19:24
  Sean McAllister: That we ended up just you know thinking we were gonna go see a comedy show and go home, and it ended up with dinner and dinner with the company and craps at the table.
• 19:32
  Dayna Roselli: That's it.
• 19:33
  Sean McAllister: Jennifer Coolidge is such a sweet, sweet woman, though.
• 19:36
  Sean McAllister: Absolutely love her, and hilarious.
• 19:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and we were just reading, literally, uh, before we recorded this on Twitter that she's uh gonna be in a new role on uh show on HBO, so we'll see her again.
• 19:46
  Sean McAllister: That's right, and congratulations.
• 19:48
  Sean McAllister: Love to see Jennifer back on the screen.
• 19:52
  Dayna Roselli: All right, let's move to number three.
• 19:55
  Dayna Roselli: This one was a big deal.
• 19:58
  Dayna Roselli: Uh I was at the Hilton, went to a show to see my friend Rick Fano in the smaller theater.
• 20:05
  Dayna Roselli: Rick was in Jersey Boys for many, many years.
• 20:08
  Dayna Roselli: It's Frankie Valley here in Las Vegas, a Las Vegas production, went off on his own and was doing some solo stuff, went there.
• 20:14
  Dayna Roselli: So after we go, uh by the way, if anyone isn't familiar, the Hilton is now the Westgate.
• 20:20
  Dayna Roselli: So it was the Hilton at the time.
• 20:22
  Dayna Roselli: And so we go into the little lounge area there and say, Oh, come in, like, like let's catch up after the show.
• 20:27
  Dayna Roselli: So we're chit-chatting, and all of a sudden, like things start kind of like getting blocked off, and a cake gets wheeled in and all the and I'm like, what is going on?
• 20:35
  Sean McAllister: You can tell when something's about to go down.
• 20:37
  Dayna Roselli: Something's going down, right?
• 20:38
  Dayna Roselli: So um, in walks Barry Manilo.
• 20:42
  Dayna Roselli: So Barry wasn't performing there at the time yet.
• 20:46
  Dayna Roselli: His show, I think, was still over at the Paris.
• 20:48
  Dayna Roselli: Paris, yeah.
• 20:49
  Dayna Roselli: And it was apparently his birthday.
• 20:51
  Dayna Roselli: And so he's friends with um, and I'm I might be using the wrong title, the owners of the Hilton at the time, or the people who run the Hilton, or one of the bigwigs, or the president or something.
• 21:00
  Dayna Roselli: Sure.
• 21:01
  Dayna Roselli: So they love Barry, so I guess they were having his birthday party there.
• 21:05
  Dayna Roselli: So on there, things are getting shut down, the cake's wheeled in, people are coming in, Barry's there, and apparently it's Barry's birthday.
• 21:12
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm like hanging out in the middle of this party.
• 21:14
  Dayna Roselli: They didn't ask me to leave, and you know, a couple of people recognized me from being on TV and stuff.
• 21:20
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, chatted with Barry, took a pick with Barry, we we sang happy birthday, blew out the candles, and I thought, wow, what are the odds that I am in a room of like literally 30 people, maybe, celebrating Barry Manilo's birthday, one of the biggest singers of all time.
• 21:37
  Sean McAllister: So are you a fanalho?
• 21:38
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I am now.
• 21:40
  Dayna Roselli: It's funny because I kind of was getting there when I lived in Elmira, New York.
• 21:45
  Dayna Roselli: He played a show at this new arena they built, and I remember I had never seen Barry Manilo in concert before, but I had such a great time, and that when he was at the Paris, I think I went for like a media night, and I was like, I like Barry and I love his music, and I'm becoming a fan of.
• 22:00
  Dayna Roselli: So then when he walked in, I was like, this is really the tip on the iceberg.
• 22:06
  Sean McAllister: That's so cool.
• 22:06
  Sean McAllister: It was a fun night.
• 22:07
  Sean McAllister: And by the way, I don't think a lot of people know that aside from the music that Barry Manilo writes for his albums, he is also the master of writing jingles for TV commercials.
• 22:18
  Sean McAllister: And he's behind some of the most well-known TV commercial jingles that there ever have been.
• 22:24
  Sean McAllister: So that's just a little side note on Barry.
• 22:28
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, no, that's a good one.
• 22:29
  Dayna Roselli: And he loves to tell that story when you talk to him too.
• 22:31
  Dayna Roselli: And he's really proud of that.
• 22:32
  Dayna Roselli: And I know like the bandstand song and all that.
• 22:34
  Dayna Roselli: He's behind all that.
• 22:36
  Dayna Roselli: So uh great night with Barry Manilo, and he'll be back at the Westgate, too.
• 22:40
  Dayna Roselli: So um he's not going away.
• 22:42
  Dayna Roselli: He's still gonna be performing in Vegas.
• 22:44
  Sean McAllister: All right, and from uh music star to movie stars coming in at number two.
• 22:51
  Sean McAllister: So do you remember, Dana, when Hollywood took over Las Vegas for the big premiere of Oceans 13?
• 23:00
  Sean McAllister: And of course, this is the movie starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon.
• 23:07
  Sean McAllister: I mean, everyone who's anyone couldn't get more mega, yeah.
• 23:11
  Sean McAllister: It was a massive, massive movie that, of course, filmed here in Las Vegas.
• 23:16
  Sean McAllister: And then I believe it was 2006 when the film actually premiered.
• 23:21
  Sean McAllister: They held the official premiere at the Palms and they shut down the entire front of the building, rolled out the red carpet.
• 23:29
  Sean McAllister: There were media members there from around the world.
• 23:33
  Sean McAllister: And this was one of the first assignments that I had to go and actually report.
• 23:39
  Sean McAllister: And it's kind of intimidating when you're thrown into a red carpet situation and you have to grab George Clooney and grab Brad Pitt and Matt Damon and Ellen Barkin and Elliot Gould and like these massive stars.
• 23:55
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and you're a young buck at the time.
• 23:57
  Sean McAllister: Just young kid just arrived in Vegas and uh, you know, pulling these people for interviews.
• 24:03
  Sean McAllister: That was one of the best memories that I have here.
• 24:07
  Sean McAllister: And just huge stars.
• 24:09
  Sean McAllister: And not long after, it may have even been the same year, the video music awards, MTV VMAs, were also at the palms.
• 24:17
  Sean McAllister: And as we were there at the red carpet, Robin Leach, long admired entertainment reporter, TV pioneer, icon, was standing right next to right next to us at our reporting location.
• 24:32
  Sean McAllister: And it was a one of those situations where you had to check in early, be at your spot, and you were essentially there all night long.
• 24:40
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone thinks it's so glamorous.
• 24:41
  Dayna Roselli: No, they have no idea.
• 24:42
  Sean McAllister: There's like no bathrooms to go to if you're hungry.
• 24:46
  Dayna Roselli: You can't move, you lose your spot, yeah.
• 24:49
  Sean McAllister: So Robin Leach found a way around this.
• 24:52
  Sean McAllister: He called and ordered pizza and had it delivered to his spot on the red carpet.
• 25:00
  Dayna Roselli: This that is the moment out of all these stories, uh, you know, rest in peace, Robin Leach uh loved working with him through the years and how real he was.
• 25:11
  Dayna Roselli: He did not care or give a blank about anything.
• 25:16
  Dayna Roselli: No.
• 25:17
  Dayna Roselli: He did what he wanted to do, and he was hungry, so he ordered his pizza.
• 25:19
  Sean McAllister: And he shot from the hip, said things like they were, and of course, you know, being the face of lifestyles of the rich and famous, that is exactly how he lived.
• 25:31
  Sean McAllister: And it was a time before you had GPS on your phone.
• 25:34
  Sean McAllister: So how he even told the delivery person where to find him on the red carpet, or how to even get to the red carpet past all the security.
• 25:43
  Sean McAllister: I have no idea how he pulled that off, but Robin Leach ordering pizza to the red carpet, still to this day.
• 25:50
  Sean McAllister: I I have that image.
• 25:52
  Sean McAllister: Love Robin, forever will.
• 25:54
  Sean McAllister: R.I.P.
• 25:55
  Sean McAllister: Robin.
• 25:57
  Dayna Roselli: That's a great one.
• 25:58
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 25:59
  Dayna Roselli: Well, let's move on to number one.
• 26:06
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, number one actually goes along with the oceans theme.
• 26:10
  Dayna Roselli: And when we were discussing our stories, we both kind of agreed this moment I had was definitely number one worthy.
• 26:17
  Sean McAllister: Oh, absolutely.
• 26:18
  Sean McAllister: I mean, without a doubt, as we were discussing these things, and Dana brought this story up, uh, we both looked at each other, we were like, yep, this is the ultimate.
• 26:27
  Dayna Roselli: It was the ultimate story.
• 26:28
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, so Oceans 13 was shooting in Las Vegas around 2007, and I was a helicopter reporter for the CBS affiliate, and what we did every day was we took off from a helicopter airport terminal, I should say.
• 26:43
  Dayna Roselli: So we didn't take off from the station.
• 26:45
  Dayna Roselli: I would go to Sundance Helicopters and we would take off to do the evening reports there.
• 26:50
  Dayna Roselli: So then apparently, you know, we start to hear chatter that that they're shooting a couple scenes from Oceans 13 on the tarmac, and that the cast is going to be at the helicopter airport, act cool, don't bother them, all this stuff, you know?
• 27:07
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, okay.
• 27:08
  Dayna Roselli: So there's a little you know, it's not a very large terminal, but you know, you know, two days of shooting, I would say, because they would shoot in the hangar and this and that, and it's that scene where Matt Damon walks out um and he hands someone something on the tarmac and they have a couple lines and I forget how it goes.
• 27:22
  Dayna Roselli: So um, anyway, so in the conference room in this hallway where I used to hang out in between my traffic reports and news reports, because we would do the four o'clock news and then the five thirty and then the six thirty, um, the door was closed.
• 27:37
  Dayna Roselli: And they're like, Oh, well, Ellen Barkin, George Clooney, and Matt Damon are in there.
• 27:41
  Dayna Roselli: So, you know, you're gonna have to go find somewhere else.
• 27:44
  unknown: Okay.
• 27:44
  Sean McAllister: Sorry, Roselli.
• 27:45
  Sean McAllister: Sorry, Roselli, yeah.
• 27:47
  Dayna Roselli: News at 11.
• 27:48
  Dayna Roselli: Sorry, moving on.
• 27:50
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, so anyway, there was like two days of this, and you know, I would see a couple of them from the distance and this and that.
• 27:56
  Dayna Roselli: But the helicopter terminal was always freezing because they would turn the air conditioning on.
• 28:02
  Dayna Roselli: And, you know, in the summer here when it gets so hot, the air conditioning is always like, oh, you're actually cold.
• 28:07
  Dayna Roselli: So every now and then I would go out this side door where there was a like picnic table, a kind of a little hangout area that some of the pilots would go and have lunch, and I would go out there and warm up.
• 28:17
  Sean McAllister: Thought out.
• 28:18
  Dayna Roselli: Thaw out, right?
• 28:19
  Dayna Roselli: So as I did my normal routine, you know, I walk out there, I open up the door, and who's standing there but Brad Pitt smoking a SIG all by himself.
• 28:33
  Dayna Roselli: And so what do you do?
• 28:34
  Dayna Roselli: What what would you like?
• 28:35
  Dayna Roselli: I didn't know.
• 28:36
  Dayna Roselli: Do I close the door and go back in?
• 28:39
  Dayna Roselli: Because that's awkward.
• 28:40
  Dayna Roselli: Do I continue to go out and what do I say and what do I do?
• 28:44
  Dayna Roselli: And like I just didn't know what to do.
• 28:46
  Dayna Roselli: But I I thought if I closed the door and went back out, that would be weird.
• 28:50
  Dayna Roselli: So I walked out and I looked at him and he looked at me and he said, Hey, how you doing?
• 28:55
  Dayna Roselli: And I said, Good.
• 28:56
  Dayna Roselli: You know, I've it's freezing in there, I'm gonna warm up.
• 28:58
  Dayna Roselli: And he laughed and he's like, it does get cold, something like that.
• 29:01
  Dayna Roselli: And then he's smoking a cigarette, and he kind of like, you know, when you kind of like finish like see like a finish his cigarettes, like a couple more puffs before I'm gonna put it out.
• 29:08
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 29:09
  Dayna Roselli: So he seemed a little rushed, and I don't know if I made him uncomfortable because you know he didn't want me to see him smoking or what the deal was.
• 29:15
  Dayna Roselli: But you know, he looked like he did in Oceans 13 with the short hair and he had a great suit on, and I he looked amazing.
• 29:22
  Dayna Roselli: And so awkwardly, I'm sitting on a picnic bench staring out, Brad Pitt's finishing his cig cigarette, and it's like silent, and I didn't even know what to do.
• 29:35
  Dayna Roselli: And so we had this moment.
• 29:37
  Dayna Roselli: Then when he opened the door and he put out a cigarette and he said, you know, um, have a great day, or something like that.
• 29:42
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, Thanks, Brad and I thought about and and my my friends over at uh channel eight at the time where I was working were laughing, uh, came in to do the morning show the next day, and and I said, I did think about taking that cigarette with his DNA on it, putting it into a baggie and selling it on eBay.
• 30:04
  Dayna Roselli: But you just with a digital camera, I think that I had, and I have it in my my album.
• 30:12
  Dayna Roselli: So that's my Brad Pitt moment, but it was definitely cool to be, you know, seeing Brad Pitt with no security, no nothing, just standing outside on the side of a building with Brad Pitt.
• 30:23
  Sean McAllister: I mean, that's pretty cool.
• 30:24
  Dayna Roselli: It was amazing.
• 30:25
  Sean McAllister: That was definitely a moment, huh?
• 30:27
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 30:27
  Dayna Roselli: So that's my and our number one.
• 30:29
  Sean McAllister: Man.
• 30:30
  Dayna Roselli: But the list could go on with all the little moments as we were discussing this.
• 30:34
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, you know, just a few that came to mind even for me is you know, one time we climbed the roof of Caesar's Palace where they shot the hangover and do that famous scene.
• 30:42
  Dayna Roselli: Um, after, you know, I'm really good friends with Matt Goss, who is a headliner at Caesars for a long time, and he kind of knew the route, and we kind of knew the some of the people, and we all, you know, we'd go out and have a few drinks, we'd go, let's climb the roof.
• 30:55
  Dayna Roselli: You know, we totally weren't supposed to, but you know, it was a memorable time.
• 30:58
  Sean McAllister: I don't recommend trying that.
• 31:00
  Dayna Roselli: No, yeah, don't try it.
• 31:01
  Dayna Roselli: And then, oh gosh, one time I was backstage after I was seeing someone in the Jersey Boys, and it was a time where they were having some momentous occasion, and Frankie Valley was there, and the real Frankie Valley.
• 31:13
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah.
• 31:13
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and we had like a great like 10-minute conversation about life and marriage.
• 31:17
  Dayna Roselli: Like he's been married a lot, and he was talking about you know how he would have done things differently.
• 31:22
  Dayna Roselli: And so, you know, one of those intimate moments.
• 31:24
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 31:25
  Dayna Roselli: Another time I went to see Gwen Stefani with my friend Robin Anton, who is a creator of the Pussycat dolls, and she knows Gwen, so we went backstage after, but not just like meet and greet, like we sat on the couch, just the four of us, and you know, chatted with Gwen about she was telling us how she met Blake Shelton and how things were going on in her life, and so it was just a very intimate moment, but tons of stories like that I could probably go on and on, and I know you have a bunch too.
• 31:51
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I mean, this is just the kind of stuff that that happens when you've been in town a while and you know, get to know certain people that you know get you access to things.
• 32:03
  Sean McAllister: Back in my nightclub days, Dana, Rain Nightclub at the Palms was one of the places where we would always go.
• 32:10
  Sean McAllister: And I I forget somebody who we knew like knew the DJ at at Rain Nightclub, and we would get up into the DJ booth and there were controls in there that if you pushed all these buttons, fire would shoot out from this massive, like, lighting rig thing in the middle of the dance floor.
• 32:31
  Sean McAllister: And so we got to take turns going and pushing on the buttons to make these giant fireballs throw out over the the crowd of people who were dancing there.
• 32:42
  Sean McAllister: And I that was I mean, kind of a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing.
• 32:48
  Sean McAllister: Except it wasn't once in a lifetime.
• 32:49
  Sean McAllister: We kept going back and doing it.
• 32:51
  Sean McAllister: And then an another time Adele was performing at uh the cosmopolitan, and again, it was I don't know how we got there.
• 32:59
  Sean McAllister: We just followed some people and ended up like backstage and watching the entire concert from the side of the stage at this Adele concert, and that was uh absolutely incredible.
• 33:11
  Sean McAllister: And uh like you said, the memories, the the stories just go on and on and on, but we had to try and condense it down for today's episode.
• 33:19
  Dayna Roselli: That's right, and and that's the thing, and just what you just said there is we don't know how we got there, but we just follow, you know, went along with some people.
• 33:26
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, that's how these nights and days happen.
• 33:30
  Dayna Roselli: You just it just turns into something, and we've had so many of those moments through the years.
• 33:35
  Dayna Roselli: But we hope you enjoyed this episode.
• 33:37
  Dayna Roselli: And if you like this kind of episode, let us know.
• 33:39
  Dayna Roselli: Please send us a tweet at Vegas Revealed and let us know.
• 33:42
  Dayna Roselli: We'll do more of this because we've got stories for days.
• 33:45
  Sean McAllister: And also, if you have your own Vegas stories about times when maybe you ended up in an elevator with a celebrity, or uh, you know, you know when you have one of those only in Vegas moments.
• 33:59
  Sean McAllister: If you've had one of those, be sure to share them with us.
• 34:02
  Sean McAllister: We would love to hear, and you know, your story may end up right here on Vegas Revealed.
• 34:07
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 34:08
  Dayna Roselli: And as we're saying that, I'm just thinking about my Patrick Dempsey story.
• 34:12
  Dayna Roselli: I'll save that for another time.
• 34:13
  Dayna Roselli: We may have even talked about it.
• 34:14
  Dayna Roselli: How did I not mention that?
• 34:15
  Dayna Roselli: See what I mean?
• 34:16
  Dayna Roselli: They just keep rolling, rolling out.
• 34:18
  Sean McAllister: They do, I know.
• 34:19
  Dayna Roselli: Me, Patrick Dempsey on the tram at the airport.
• 34:21
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway.
• 34:22
  Sean McAllister: Thanks so much for listening.
• 34:24
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• 34:30
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• 34:36
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• 34:40
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• 34:42
  Dayna Roselli: And we also are on Highway Radio now doing some entertainment reports, so you can tune in when you're on that long drive.
• 34:49
  Dayna Roselli: Well, sometimes it's long, sometimes it's short, from LA to Vegas and Vegas to LA.
• 34:54
  Dayna Roselli: We get a lot of visitors from there.
• 34:56
  Dayna Roselli: Sometimes they get stuck in traffic.
• 34:57
  Dayna Roselli: Well, Highway Radio and Highway Vibe is really the only station you can get in that stretch on the radio.
• 35:03
  Dayna Roselli: They play great music.
• 35:04
  Dayna Roselli: We contribute to that now too, so you can check us out there.
• 35:07
  Sean McAllister: So if you listen to us on a podcast platform or on the radio, either way, we'll talk to you next week.
• 35:14
  Dayna Roselli: Have a great week, everyone.
• 35:15
  Dayna Roselli: Captain?
• 35:16
  Sean McAllister: On behalf of the flight crew, thank you for flying with us and have a pleasant day.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_01: Let's go today.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_01: Let's go today, baby.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_01: Let's go.