Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Jay Leno Show with George Clooney

I got up and had breakfast with my mum n dad at a new Deli in Westlake called Brents. It is like a good old fashioned NY Deli, great food and loads of room in there as well. Anyway, after that I belted it off down to Universal City to the hotel. There I met up with Neil Reed & co. After while everyone assembled in the lobby. We then were escorted out to our Limo outside. This was a squeeze. There were to many of us really. But we did manage it in the end. We were swiftly taken to NBC studios to get ready for the Zimmers appearance on the Jay Leno (Tonight Show) probably the biggest show in the USA. Once we got there we were met by all of Jay Leno's people and we were escorted to our dressing room. It was nice to see the names on the door of all three Zimmers. Shame the other 37 wernt there, but, you have to start somewhere.. It wasn't long before we were escorting them all through to make up, then hair etc. It was very exiciting for them. The dressing room next door to us was George Clooney's. He arrived and agreed to come in and say hello to the Zimmers and also, was cool about me shooting them all together. He was genuinely a lovely guy, really. Although he was kind of rushed, he was very interested in the Zimmers and all of what they were doing.. I though afterwards, I should have asked him if he fancied dueting with the Zimmers on their next release.. After all, his auntie had a great voice, I do recall having an album in our house of hers called 'Clap Hands Her comes Rosie'. That was Rosemary Clooney of course. Anyway, I didn't ask him. Maybe I will mention it when I go over to his place for dinner soon. Soon after George went into makeup, Jay Leno came flying in and brought 3 presents for the Zimmers. He gave them all a portable DVD Player.. That was really nice of him. They were all very touched. So, a short while later, the show began and on went George Clooney, the following him was our three little hero's. When they went on stage, Tim, Neil, Liz (Mail on Sunday journalist) and Simon BBC Cameraman and all round great geezer, stood and watched with our hearts in our mouths. Bu, we needn't have worried, they were fantastic. They went down a storm. After the show, a few people came back to meet them, which was also fun for them. We then gathered our Zimmers and headed out to our limo and back to the hotel. All in all a fantastic event. Once back we decided to go out and have dinner and do a quick shot of the Zimmers in front of the Hollywood sign. So, off we went with Jimmy our driver in front and me following in my car. We headed out to Los Feliz and did the shot in front of the Hollywood sign, then went round the corner to an Italian restaurant for dinner.. We then made a quick exit as Winifred almost crashed out at the table. We rushed her back to the hotel, where Keri got her straight to bed. Keri looked after her so well on this trip, she was very caring, dedicated and very aware of everything concerning Winifred. In fact Keri was caring when it came to all of the Zimmers as well. Not once did she say anything about wanting to bugger off out to go shopping or come down stairs after Winifred had gone to bed. She wasn't out to hob knob with the George Clooney's of the world or anything. She was just brilliant and dedicated. In my view, if there was such a thing, she should be up for carer of the year award. I have been in kind of similar situations where people are supposed to be looking after people and all they really want to do is 'get a holiday in' if you know what I mean. I hate those kind of people. Anyway, I spent the next few hours editing up my photos for a paper and then a few of us sat around a large screen TV in the hotel lounge and watched the Jay Leno show.. Great fun.. Then after that I said goodnight and I buggered off to Thousand Oaks..