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Be it resolved
Local celebrities want to eat better and spend more time with family and friends in the new year.
By AMY ABBOTT and SHANNON BREEN
© St. Petersburg Times, published January 11, 2001
If you think your favorite celebrity is perfect, then you don't follow the news very closly. So we're here to set the record straight and give you an idea of how local celebrities want to improve their personal life and public image with a list of New Year's resolutions.
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JOE REDNER, Adult club owner. He's going to quit eating things that are not good for him in order to extend his life. Redner, a vegan, plans to restrict his caloric intake. He says he's been on this diet since before the holidays. Redner may stick to his resolution considering he was working out at the gym as we spoke.
GAYLE SIERENS, WFLA-TV Channel 8 news anchor. "I want to learn how to relax. I want to sit on my back porch and eat bons bons." Sierens rises out of bed at 6:30 each morning and says she usually doesn't revisit her pillow until after midnight. Sierens is involved in her three children's schools and is a soccer mom. If she's not taking her dog to the vet or her kids to the doctor, she's reading the evening news to thousands of Tampa Bay area residents. Sierens doesn't get the time to simply sit on her couch and watch TV with her husband as often as she'd like. She has a second resolution: "I'm learning to be more thankful for everything that's good in my life. . . . I'm very happy."
WARREN ELLY: reporter for WTVT-TV Ch. 13. "I would like to spend more time with my kids." When asked how he is planning that since they are in college in Florida and one also plans to go to Boston,"There will definitely be more traveling involved."
NANCY ALEXANDER: WTVT-TV Ch,-13 feature reporter and 100.7 morning show co-host. "I plan to work a whole lot and not get much sleep 'cause I know I can keep that one." She also is looking for a cure for static cling but so far no luck.
JIMMY HART, The Mouth of the South, wrestling manager. "New diet . . . not the Southern Boy Special I'm used to eatin' with the beans and the bacon and the potatoes. I eat so much greasy bacon. . . . I'd like another year at Buddy Freddy's eating the same type Southern food, but man, my arteries are probably clogged and I don't even know it."
SUSAN CASPER, Bay News 9 news anchor. "I want to do a better job of keeping in touch and communicating with friends and family out of town." She plans to crack open her e-mail address book and send out a lot more letters and postcards.
RITA CIRESI, local author of Pink Slip, Blue Italian and Sometimes I Dream in Italian. "I need to finish my new book. . . . deadline of December 2001!"
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