Posts Tagged ‘Brandon Jacobs’

Inside the Private Life of a Super Bowl Champ

February 4th, 2008

It isn’t easy to love a professional football player, the New York Giants’ Brandon Jacobs admits.

“It’s very hard,” the Super Bowl champ tells me. “A lot is required of you, a lot is required of you from your team, a lot is required of you from the club that you play with, a lot is required of you from your fans and what they want you to do, so it’s very hard.”

Fortunately, Brandon, 25, has been married to wife Kim for two years.

“She keeps me grounded,” he tells me. “She keeps me squared away with what’s important, what’s not important, what’s priority. I think she’s done good.”

The couple are parents to 11-month-old son Brayden.

“Fatherhood is something different,” he tells me. “My kid, he’s not a bad kid. He just likes to move around and do a lot of things. It didn’t really change anything for me. I’m only there from 4:00 to 4:30. I only have a limited time to spend with him. When I get home, he’s napping and he goes to bed at 9:00, so on nights like tonight, I’ll miss him. Tonight I got home at 4:30, and stayed home. I left at 7:30, and I won’t get home till 11. He’d already be sleeping for an hour-and-a-half, so tonight I’ll miss him.”

 

Mom and baby must be beaming with pride because daddy won the Super Bowl.

How The Stars Spend Super Bowl Sunday

February 3rd, 2008

Football’s biggest night is a great time to whoop it up.

Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively tells me she’s going to chow down while she watches the Super Bowl live in Phoenix.

“The more fattening, the better,” she laughs. “Nachos, hot dogs, whatever they have. I’ve never been to the Super Bowl.”

She’s not alone in pigging out.

“I’m usually at home with my family, eating junk food,” Cassie tells me. This year, she’ll be in L.A. promoting her movie Step Up 2 but she considered going to Phoenix.

“I don’t know much about football,” Gossip Girl’s Dreama Walker tells me. “I think my friends and I are going to rent out boxes and maybe see if we can win some money.” Still, if it doesn’t involve her favorite team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, she says, “I don’t really have anything to do with it.”

Some gals couldn’t care less about the game.

“I’m performing Super Bowl Sunday," Keyshia Cole, who is part of the Valerie Gallery, tells me. "They’re having a private party for the NFL players, but I’m sorry, I am not into football. Usually I might take my dogs Lyric, Lola and Gizmo to get groomed … or maybe clean up.”

How do the players get ready for football’s biggest night?

While the New York Giants’ Amani Toomer tells me “I try to relax as much as possible” before the big game, his teammates are more serious.

“I’m just trying to take care of my body, making sure that when the game rolls around, I’m in the best shape I can be in,” Michael Strahan tells me.

“These guys are a very good football team,” Brandon Jacobs tells me. “We know we’re going to have our work cut out for us, so right now we’re getting our game plan on.”

Good luck to the New York Giants and the New England Patriots. May the best team win.

Brody, Ivanka, John, Cassie Give Props To Pepsi

January 30th, 2008

Sports and showbiz mix during the Pepsi Stuff Launch Party held at NYC’s Pacha.

While New York Giants players Michael Strahan, Amani Toomer and Brandon Jacobs laugh off celeb romance questions, Ivanka Trump takes off her coat.

“So cold!” she says. “I just came from the office. I’m that girl who is fixing myself up a bit in the bathroom.” Her must-haves? “Purpose facial soap, and in the office, Pepsi.”

Here is Brody Jenner, who tells reporters he thinks Nicole Richie will be a great mother, and now we’ve got Cassie, who is stunning in a cut-to-the-belly-button top and oversized shiny black boots.

How does she keep her fab figure? “I try to eat healthy and take care of myself,” she tells me. “I dance and rehearse and rehearse and rehearse with my choreographer.”

John Legend and I catch up for the first time since I saw him perform at the St. Lucia Jazz Festival in May. “That was beautiful,” he tells me. “Great beach, great water. It was fun.”

Next up is Gossip Girl’s Dreama Walker, who helps a pal fix her hair. “Will you get my friend in here, please?” she pleads with a photographer. “Her name is Jo.”

How is she spending her time off during the writers’ strike?

“I’m really bored,” Dreama says. “I’ve done a lot of shopping. Just relaxing. My friend and I were thinking about taking a trip to Europe. There’s really nothing to do, but thank God there’s auditions for plays and movies. I have an off-Broadway play coming up, which is good. That will keep me occupied for a little while.”

Meanwhile, Prince Charming is whisked upstairs to the VIP section, where he’s waited on hand-and-foot. He tells me Kobe sliders, Hawaiian chicken, scallops and Glenlivet Scotch are being served, and Ivanka shyly says ‘hi, how are you?’ to him.

Ivanka is the greatest. Every single member of the Trump family is super-sweet including Donald, Ivanka, Donald Jr., Vanessa, Melania and Ivana. They’ve got the perfect blend of brains and beauty – and serious spunk! The Donald reminds me of my uncle, I see him so often — seriously.

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