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TV Tidbits: 71-year-old Kernersville woman up for 'Regis & Kelly' award
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Published: August 28, 2009
Another Triad resident is up for a Relly Award.
In 2006, Emma Slabach of Advance, who was then 5 years old, won a "Relly" -- an audience award from the show Live with Regis & Kelly -- as "Best Junior Achiever." She won for her skills at sport stacking, a competition where cups are stacked and then taken down in a precise sequence.
This year, Betty Montgomery, a Kernersville resident, is up for a Relly.
Montgomery, 71, won $10,000 on the show last September for winning a "Cash Dance Trivia" contest. She performed a dance number and answered a trivia question. She won another $5,000 and a five-year supply of Quaker Oatmeal when she competed in a runoff of several contest winners last October.
Now she is up for a Relly for "Sensational Senior," a new category. Clips of the nominees will be shown on Wednesday's show. After the broadcast, viewers can log on to www.rellyawards.com until midnight that day to vote for her.
Several of Montgomery's competitors are 100 and older.
"I'm the youngest one in it," Montgomery said.
Her prize if she wins will be the traditional Golden Stool trophy. Winners will likely be announced later in September, but a date has not been confirmed, according to a spokeswoman for the show.
Dave Goren, the former sports director at WXII, has two new jobs.
Goren is now the executive director of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association and Hall of Fame in Salisbury, and he will be a sideline reporter for Wake Forest football on radio.
"The full-time job enables me to keep my hand in the industry, and the sideline reporting allows me to still do live stuff," Goren said.
He has no plans to move to Salisbury, so he will commute for now.
"All things being equal, I would love to be able to stay in Winston," he said.
Goren was at WXII for 20 years until his contract was not renewed at the end of 2008.
"I looked for what was out there, and there wasn't a lot out there, certainly not in TV sports," he said. "I don't see a huge future for TV sports the way it's treated in most markets in this country."
As the executive director of the NSSA, he will be in charge of such things as fundraising and marketing. He will start that job on Tuesday and his Wake Forest gig next Saturday.
"From no jobs to two in the same week," he said.
For years, the voice of Batman has gotten gruffer and grittier, culminating in the over-the-top growl used by Christian Bale in last summer's The Dark Knight. By comparison, Diedrich Bader -- an alumnus of the UNC School of the Arts -- brings a lighter touch to his vocal performance as Batman in the animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
The show is a lively, kid-friendly romp, with Batman teaming up each week with different superheroes. The show made its DVD debut this week in Batman: The Brave and the Bold Vol. 1, a four-episode compilation from Warner Home Video.
Also new in stores this week: The first season of Lie to Me, a Fox drama about an investigator (Tim Roth) who is an expert in analyzing facial reactions to tell if people are lying, on DVD or Blu-ray; season three, volume one of The Untouchables, with Robert Stack leading a team of crimebusters in Prohibition-era Chicago; and the eighth season of Scrubs, a quirky medical comedy.
For those wanting to try a few shows rather than buy full-season sets, there are also two new "sampler" compilations: TV Sets: Beyond the Ordinary, with the first episodes of Star Trek, Medium, The 4400 and Joan of Arcadia; and TV Sets: Crime and Punishment, with the first episodes of Dexter, Hawaii Five-O, The Streets of San Francisco and CSI: New York.
■ Tim Clodfelter can be reached at 727-7371 or at tclodfelter@wsjournal.com.
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