Find Out about Unpublicized Celebrity Events

Good day!

As television and music have split into ever more media and ways to access them, the number of people who are considered to be celebrities by their fans has grown enormously . . . much faster than the access to information about public appearances for these celebrities.

To test out this proposition, I recently did some research with hard core fans to find out what they knew about celebrity appearances and how they found out.

Many soap opera fans, for instance, would love to meet with Kirsten Storms, formerly of Days of Our Lives. Just last Friday, Ms. Storms was interviewed on Soap Talk, the cable show that appears on Soapnet. Of the fans who attended the interview as part of the live studio audience, only one appeared to know in advance that Ms. Storms would be appearing that day.

Why did no one else seem to know? If you visit the site to sign up for tickets to be part of the studio audience, you only find out who the guests are going to be if you check on signing up for a given taping. So if you are going to be in the Hollywood, California area, you should check the listings several times a week to see who will be interviewed during each taping. Go to jampackedtvshows.com, click on Soap Talk and check the various dates.

Charity events offer a similar opportunity. These activities are seldom publicized in advance . . . and almost never on mass media like television and radio. At a recent basketball game played by the cast of Days of Our Lives to raise money for Ronald McDonald houses, a check with the fans showed that most learned about the event from another fan. The ultimate source? Discussion board moderators for some of the celebrities who were attending. So if you don't scan the discussion boards on the most popular sites for your favorite celebrities, you are missing a lot of great events. If you are a regular contributor to these sites, chances are you will develop a friendship with the moderator who will often clue you in to events in your area.

Want to be even more in the know? Put together a network of event scouts. If a dozen of you regularly scan the various outlets, discussion boards and other media sources, each one of you won't have to spend so much time looking for events. You can agree to e-mail each other with information whenever you find out about an appearance or an event that is not well known.

By the way, don't forget to ask other fans and the celebrities themselves what else is coming up when you attend an event. You'll probably learn about two more events you never would have heard about.

Finally, you may also be able to attract the attention of the celebrity herself or himself if you regularly post on the most popular discussion boards. Such a contact can lead to an invitation to visit the set of a show, to attend a premiere of a movie or to have a casual lunch with the celebrity. Naturally, you should take lots of pictures and post them on the board so that others can share your experiences.

I doubt very much if you'll meet any billionaires at these delightful events. Here's another example of how you can live better than a billionaire on five dollars extra a day!

Donald W. Mitchell, Your Dream Concierge

Copyright 2005 Donald W. Mitchell

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