Audrey Delgadillo and her sisters will be on the Ellen DeGeneres Show today, talking about being home alone while both parents are in Iraq:
Then, Ellen meets the remarkable 20-year-old Audrey Delgadillo from Hesperia, CA, who shares her story of taking care of her three younger sisters while both of their parents are serving in Iraq. Ellen has a special surprise for Audrey and her family they won’t soon forget. Don’t miss it!
Hollywood continues to call here for the girls as well, specifically regarding movie rights. I wouldn’t be surprised if their story showed up on Lifetime or the Hallmark Channel sometime next year.
- Update: There were actually two surprises. First, Ellen did what Good Morning America could not, and set up a live remote from Iraq for the Delgadillos’ parents. Second, when the show does a week of shows from Universal Orlando in Florida, the show will be taking the girls along as guests.
So, yeah, I haven’t been posting much here. We’ve been working on the new HesperiaStar.com, and with one or two remaining major changes, the end result should be pretty good. Expect the new site either early next week or the week after, depending on when the changes are made.
It’s not entirely the site I’d create, if I was building one from scratch, but this is part of a company-wide rollout of a standardized site design (and advertising pipeline), so there are certain elements of it that are going to be immutable by us out here in the field.
But that’s OK.
I forget who said “you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want,” but I’m pretty sure that war they went to turned out A-OK.
After everything being quiet for a while, I got two new inquiries for the Delgadillo girls today: A second Hollywood film person after the rights to their story and Guideposts magazine.
Well, that was a surprise. The new new Daily Press site has launched. I guess we need to get cracking on prepping the Star site for the conversion.
Anyone catch this segment this morning? Posters on the GMA message board did, although ABC wants people to pay to be able to watch their segments online. A text version of the story is also available.
Surprisingly (to me, at least), the televised segment didn’t include anything from Iraq — in fact, the only picture of the Delgadillo parents was one we ran in the Hesperia Star months ago. If you’re ABC News and have one of the few reporters in Iraq, it seems like it’d be worth your time to go film the parents and get their side of the story or, even better, set up a live interview from both Iraq and Southern California simultaneously. Yeah, this might have meant bumping the show a few days to accomodate military realities, but it would have been a much stronger segment overall, I think, and it would have been something that neither People Magazine nor Telemundo would have been able to duplicate.
The Delgadillos’ issue of People Magazine is on newstands today, with the cover story “Inside Britney’s Breakdown.” I’m pretty sure the folks at Von’s now question my masculinity, since I just bought a People with Britney on the cover and a Snickers. Maybe I should have gotten some motor oil at the same time.
As expected, People has a very warm-and-fuzzy take on things, which is what they excel at. It’s got some good photos — and again, a familiar photo of the parents — some good new details, like Audrey’s tattoo with her sisters initials on her wrist and some good quotes.
All that’s left that I know about (and it’s likely there’s more than I don’t know about) is some news story on Telemundo.
And now I’ve just gotten an e-mail from Seventeen magazine …
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