Saturday, November 04, 2006

A whole new world

We really liked the hotel where we stayed in Rome a couple of weeks ago, but the only weird thing is that the whole time they were filming what turned out to be a music video so we were constantly dodging film crews and equipment when entering and exiting the hotel. One day while I was in meetings Gretchen said that they seemed to be filming a remake of that song "A Whole New World" (which she couldn't miss because it was played at such a loud volume that it woke up Baby when they were in the lobby). We figured it was probably some cheesy Italian singer and promptly forgot about the whole thing...until tonight.

I had picked up a copy of trashy Brit celeb mag OK! for Gretchen, and as she was reading it she came across a two-page spread about someone named Peter and Katie filming a video for "A Whole New World" at a hotel in Rome...whoa! But who the hell are Peter and Katie? As quick as you can say "google", I learned that they both seemed to be B-list celebrities in the UK (Katie aka Jordan) and Australia (Peter). Gretchen actually walked right past Katie, so I guess I wasn't the only one to have a minor brush with fame this month...