Jewel & Ty to be on reality TV show 'Young Guns'

[Lara]

Hey, I just saw the video of the show on youtube. At the begging there's Jewel playing something...What song is that? I think it might be something new and maybe on her new album
It's really a short clip but enough to figure it's something new...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I63AbbtrVs

[last_dance_rodeo]

haha so cocky that's funny

[Lara]

So you saw it? I think it's new...

[Little Bird]

Interesting article found by FabioJJ (Fjjordao on the EDA list)

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Fast cars, big stars


Gillette's Young Guns teach the stars a few tricks as pop culture meets
NASCAR in a new reality TV series


It's the sort of scene that only a few years ago wouldn't have been
imaginable in the NASCAR world: Flyin' Ryan Newman roaring around Lowe's
Motor Speedway with Captain Kirk in the passenger seat of a race car.
Along pit road, former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher is discussing
turn approach angles with Jimmie Johnson. Kurt Busch is ex-plaining to
Serena Williams that the speed really isn't all that bad. Jewel, the singer,
and her boyfriend, Ty Murray, world-famous cowboy, talk animatedly about how
she slammed her race car into the fourth-turn wall and lived to tell about
it.


Welcome to the latest intersection of NASCAR and pop culture - the Fast Cars
and Superstars Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race.


Gillette, which has sponsored a "Young Guns" advertising program in NASCAR
for several seasons, jumped into television in a bigger way by organizing
the made-for-television, multi-episode "reality" series scheduled to be
broadcast by ABC June 7-24. The event, taped over three days and nights in
March at Lowe's Motor Speedway, paired the Young Guns drivers - Newman,
Busch, Johnson, Kasey Kahne, Carl Edwards and Jamie McMurray - with 12
celebrities from the worlds of sports, Hollywood and music.


Thus the track hosted a zany mix of speed and VIPs, resulting in volleyball
star Gabby Reese spinning a car at 140 miles per hour, professional wrestler
John Cena talking about body-slamming not being out of the range of
possibility in racing, nervous tennis superstar Williams going home early
and every celebrity being decked out in bright-blue Gillette firesuits that
occasionally were ill-fitting.


It was NASCAR turning another corner in the never-ending rush toward the
mainstream.


"Events like this help out," Johnson said. "Perception is everything. There
are a lot of stars that attend football games. I think our sport is slowly
gaining speed in that respect. I'm not sure this talks to the status of the
sport, but I think it sort of validates it. They're going to tell their
friends how much fun it was, and it will continue to grow."


The experience did modify some thinking about NASCAR. Taping began with the
drivers giving the celebrities at-speed tours of the track in Jeff Gordon
Driving School race cars with passenger seats installed. Former NBA player
and sports television commentator John Salley emerged from his ride with
Carl Edwards startled by the speed and the rapid approach of the first-turn
wall.


"I know NASCAR is trying to do a lot more with diversity, but I'm going to
go out and tell my people to stay away from this," joked Salley, who is
black. He called Edwards "the devil" after their three-lap run.
"John Salley kind of flipped out a little bit," Edwards said. "I don't think
he was prepared, but we had fun. We joke around about Salley, but to see
somebody get that excited, to change the way they see racing, that is pretty
cool."


Cowher, recently departed from the Steelers but expected to return to
coaching eventually, said he was surprised by the speed.


"The focus and concentration of these guys is amazing," he said. "You don't
realize the speeds and G-forces they're working with until you experience
it. And to think that they're 3 or 4 inches from the car in front of them
for four straight hours - I have an unbelievably greater appreciation for
what they do because it is life and death. It's not like you hit a bad shot
or you throw a bad pass. These guys make one bad turn, and it could be
tough."


After riding with the drivers, the celebrities turned practice laps in
Gordon school cars before moving into the competition part of the program.
They were timed as they drove several laps around the speedway as a NASCAR
driver served as a "pace" driver to give them a speed monitor. The session
included a pit stop and tire change. Six celebrities qualified for the final
round.


Reese spun out during her qualifying session, and Williams, former
Wimble-don champion and current Australian Open champion, didn't make hers.
She was so shaken by her ride-along experience with Busch that she decided
to drop out of the competition. It was a little tougher than a confrontation
at the net.


"I thought it was going to be easy, like smooth and cool, and it was none of
the above," Williams said. "It was stressful. It was scary. It raised by
heart rate and blood pressure. I might have lost two days of my life.
"I feel like I just spent all night in a bar and am just walking into my
room. That was so much speed, and we were so close to those walls. I'm happy
to be back. I've been to NASCAR races. It's a great sport, but I never knew
how awesome it was until I went out there. It took my breath away."


Busch said Williams had her head down and her eyes closed throughout the
run.


"She was struggling a little," he said. "I told her she needed her eyes open
if she wanted to drive."


Shatner, 76, whose starring appearance as Capt. James T. Kirk in the
original "Star Trek" television series launched an unlikely career that has
spread into virtually all elements of the entertainment world, was sweating
heavily after his first run but said his experience as an actor could be
beneficial. "I can pretend I'm going fast," he said. He failed to qualify,
prompting suggestions that he traveled at warped speed, not warp speed.
Jewel, Elway and Cena were perhaps the most serious students in the
celebrity group.


"Elway was absorbing it all," Busch said. "You could see he was into it. I
would think an athlete would have an easier time than an actor because they
have had to absorb a lot of changes in their sports."


Jewel, who grew up on a backcountry farm in Alaska and now lives on a ranch
with Murray in Stephenville, Texas, came into the competition with a plan to
do more than simply participate.


"I'm competitive, so I want to do it well," she said. "I haven't driven a
stick shift in a long time. That will be hilarious, but if I'm comfortable
I'll push it. I grew up on a ranch in remote Alaska with no electricity, no
plumbing, no central heating and no grocery stores. We killed everything we
ate, so they might underestimate my toughness."


Indeed. She pushed it so hard in her solo run that she slamm-ed into the
fourth-turn wall, pancaking the right side of her car. She kept control,
however, and afterward said the incident didn't shake her.


"It wasn't scary, actually," she said. "I wasn't hitting the wall head-on. I
just scraped it. I was really pushing it to go as fast as I could. The tires
just weren't warmed up, and I slid up. I should have let off the gas, but I
just don't have enough experience."


Jewel said she and Murray signed up for the celebrity event without a lot of
investigation. "We were at a Valentine's party," she said, "and we got an
e-mail asking if we wanted to do a NASCAR thing. We were a little
intoxicated, and we said yes without thinking."

Al Merrin, vice chairman for BBDO, the advertising agency that developed the
series, said the logistics of putting it together were challenging.
"We could write a book about the challenges and the obstacles," he said.
"There were a lot of moving pieces, but we got all the approvals."

[JewelWiki]

oh the troubles blackberry's can cause.

[strengths.with.faults]

They were a little intoxicated lol

[Little Bird]

I love that. It's just a nice fancy way of saying DRUNK.

In Ireland, that is affectionately refered to, among others 'langered', 'hammered', 'locked', and for some unknown reason 'elephants'. I never got the last one but it's still widely used. But of course, not forgetting the ol' favourite 'pissed'.

[strengths.with.faults]

lofl yea that really cracked me up.
elephant? lol

[IndianaEDA420]

i wonder which episode will have Jewel's first run?

[ItBeThatWay27]

yeah I got bored with it, I just want to see jewel drive heh e he

[ShawnShamrock]

Originally Posted by IndianaEDA420

i wonder which episode will have Jewel's first run?

The show continues on Sunday. There was a girl screaming in a car during the preview i saw today so I am not sure if that was Jewel or not. I didn't get a good look

[DreamsLast]

Originally Posted by lara

Hey, I just saw the video of the show on youtube. At the begging there's Jewel playing something...What song is that? I think it might be something new and maybe on her new album
It's really a short clip but enough to figure it's something new...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I63AbbtrVs

Yep, that's a new song that I've never heard of!!!!!!

[Little Bird]

Apparently she is going to be on tonight's episode!!

[last_dance_rodeo]

i'll you tube it because tonight i'm watching kathy griffin

[ShawnShamrock]

OMG u should tottaly like tape kathy griffin just for me I love her had a screwe dup dream and she was in it last night,

Seriously, though does Jewel even do Music anymore. Is she going to be the next reality tv star or what. I mean ok Nashville Star, American Idol, Making apperances on wwe, Now doing this.
Before you know it she will be on the sureal life or she and Ty will be like on the celebrity version of the amazing race or some crap like that.

I mean what exactly is she doing here..