There's that wonderful meta-media moment in Chicago where Roxy Hart completely steals the limelight when she's in Cook County Jail and goes: ''Oh no. Don't worry about me. Oh ... I only hope the fall didn't hurt ... the baby.'' Then cameras flash as reporters storm to Roxy and all the media attention returns to just her.
In a similar way entertainment journalists gaggled together and simply stormed the red carpet last night at the first sight of the pregnant Nicky Greenwall proudly showing off her beautiful baby bump for the first time in public with her boyfriend Robin Fryer. The radiant couple attended the perfectly organized and magnificently put-together press launch of her new celeb profile show The Close-Up starting on Saturday 20 August at 19:30 on e.tv.
In April I broke the news RIGHT HERE that the longtime blonde presenter of The Showbiz Reporter is expecting her first child.
Then at the beginning of last month I broke the news RIGHT HERE that she's working on The Close-Up to replace The Showbiz Report when she goes on maternity leave.
When Nicky Greenwall and Robin Fryer appeared on the red carpet at the lux 15 on Orange, the happy couple got totally swarmed as press jostled for space for photos of the couple. The event was organized perfectly with a VIP area, an open bar where celebrities mingled while the wine and beer flowed with free chocolates and even WebAfrica free internet vouchers, as well as a screening room where journalists and critics could watch The Close-Up and get a press disk. If only all launches for TV shows could be as well put together as Greenwall Productions and Marina's Little Black Book did perfectly.
''They look beautiful; beautiful together and so happy in love,'' said another red-carpet walker who almost got pushed aside as the seemingly-obsessed press flocked to catch Nicky Greenwall and her baby bump and trampled over each other as Nicky, baby bump and Robin were bathed in a daze of flashlights and snaparazzi who couldn't get enough.
Press watching in the screening room, personally taken and graciously led there by Nicky Greenwall were unanimously impressed with the quality of The Close-Up.
In The Close-Up Nicky Greenwall interviews a range of celebrities like Locnville, Tamara Dey, Kenneth Nkosi, Jack Parow. Episodes of The Close-Up contain remarkable personal, home video footage and a dazzling array of personal photographs from the private lives of the celebrities profiled that's striking to see, with surprisingly candid and very open moments in which the personalities share eye-opening revelations about their lives. Robin Fryer also did mesmerising black and white photo shoots of all, with the still photography that will appear in the opening title of The Close-Up.
