Watch out Suze Orman there’s a new OWN money focused series in town! Financial expert Bruce Sellery is turning the town Aldergrove upside down by working with the community on a million dollar challenge.
The show titled Million Dollar Neighborhood is currently one of the most popular programs on OWN Canada.
Bruce is the founder of Moolala, a personal finance company, as well as running a gay household with his partner and adopted daughter Abby.
Nunn called Canada to get some money advice for our readers and hear more about the show.
Jerry Nunn: Hey, Bruce. How’s that gay marriage working for in Canada?
Bruce Sellery: I have been married since 2004. Get it together, you Yankees!
JN: We are working on it. Tell me about your background.
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Southern chef Art Smith is back on Bravo in a new season of Top Chef Masters. A local fave and James Beard Award winner owns the restaurant Table Fifty-Two as well as LYFE Kitchen and Southern Art Restaurants. Art has published two cookbooks and cooked for such notables as President Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and the Dalai Lama.
He is competing for Common Threads, a charity that teaches children about cultures through food. In season one of Masters he raised $10,000 for Common Threads.
With season four of the show 12 Top Chefs are competing in Las Vegas for $100,000 to help each worthy cause. Curtis Stone returns as host and with celebrity judges such as Indigo Girls and The B-52’s this show is not to be missed.
Jerry Nunn: Hi, Art.
Art Smith: Darling, how are you? It just seems like yesterday that you caught me chasing a Scissor Sister and I was just a big old puddle next to Ben Cohen!
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Rosie O’Donnell started in stand-up before landing roles on television movies. The Rosie O’Donnell Show won Emmys and launched her into the talk show circuit. She came out of the closet two months before the show ended its run. Rosie then became the moderator on The View she showing her strong opinions and causing some controversy. Since then she has been raising children, blogging and running Rosie Radio on Sirius XM Radio. She now starts a new endeavor on the OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network with The Rosie Show.
Jerry Nunn: Hi, Rosie. We love seeing you pop up around town and I wanted to welcome you personally to Lakeview and Boystown. I expect you to be at Sidetrack for Show Tunes Sundays.
Rosie O’Donnell: Honey, I didn’t even know about this. I’m jotting it down. Sidetrack Show Tunes, what time?
JN: It’s around four o’clock. It’s every Sunday. Sidetrack is the gay bar there with two hundred televisions. They reenact Broadway musicals, for example the crowd throws napkins when it’s the Titanic and everyone sings all the words.
RO: Oh my lord, I am so there. They’d better reserve me a table.
JN: (laughs) I can arrange that for you.
RO: Can you do requests? Do they ever do The Rink?
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Style guru Lloyd Boston has been giving advice for years on television shows such as NBC Today, Oprah Winfrey, Nate Burkess and Martha Stewart. He was recently on the Today Show with an Emmy recap.
Speaking of awards, he received an Emmy nomination for his HGTV show Closet Cases and was named one of Crain Magazine’s “Forty Under Forty.” After writing 4 previous books, the author’s new one has just arrived The Style Checklist: The Ultimate Wardrobe Essentials. We ran into Lloyd at Macy’s where his Jones New York tour was in full effect.
Jerry Nunn: Hi, Lloyd. Are you glad to be back in Chicago?
Lloyd Boston: I love it, always. I love the fact that the weather is good.
JN: You can wear that scarf out these days.
LB: Yes, just a touch. I split my time between New York and LA but coming here is nice because it is the best of both cities. It has the ease of the people in LA but it has that city vibe in New York without the traffic, the dirt and the pushing and shoving.
JN: Do you get to do anything fun while you are in town?
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Chef Art Smith has been frying up cuisine for some of the most powerful people in the world, from the Dalai Lama to Oprah Winfrey. Smith has proven he can work with a pressure cooker on Top Chef Masters for Bravo. Nunn on the Run dined with the man behind the sweet potatoes at his restaurant Table Fifty-Two. Jerry Nunn: Hello, Art. What have you been up to? Art Smith: Recently I have been working on my health. I lost a great deal of weight, in fact 110 pounds. I recently cooked for the Dalai Lama, his holiness. I did a vegan lunch because he is Buddhist and I thought it would be differentl. I wanted to stress that not every high profile dinner has to be chicken. Why not do vegetables? I am also launching a new restaurant down south. Where is that going to be? View Full Article »
