Dan Gross | Bro: Sis Ivanka's boobs real
DONALD TRUMP Jr. lashed out yesterday about our recent column on his sister Ivanka's rumored surgically enhanced chest. Donald Jr., a Wharton grad like his sister and their father, was on John DeBella's 102.9 WMGK morning show promoting "The Apprentice," on which he and Ivanka now regularly appear.
D
ONALD TRUMP Jr.
lashed out yesterday about our recent column on his sister
Ivanka
's rumored surgically enhanced chest.
Donald Jr., a Wharton grad like his sister and their father, was on John DeBella's 102.9 WMGK morning show promoting "The Apprentice," on which he and Ivanka now regularly appear.
The implant rumors began last month, when gossip blogs reported that the 25-year-old ex-model had gone to Mexico and returned far bustier than when she had left.
DeBella sidekick Brian Carothers asked Donald Jr. about our implant report. "Don't piss off an overprotective brother," he said. DeBella mentioned that when he went to Mexico he only got diarrhea, but she seemed to get something a lot better.
A steamed Trump Jr. said, "If you don't want me to explode, you better stop with the Ivanka questions," and went on to assure that his sister's breasts are "100 percent real."
We contacted Ivanka's spokeswoman Catherine Saxton yesterday. Saxton said she checked with her client, who replied, "Completely false. The only thing I do in Mexico is build buildings."
Our translation: "I had implants, but I didn't get them in Mexico."
We asked Saxton about our take on things. She did not reply.
Letterman's South Philly pal
South Philly-born comedian Johnny Dark is doing a new character, the Whiner, on old pal David Letterman's show.
Dark, who lives in Los Angeles, flies to New York every other week or so to play an annoying audience member. Dark and Letterman have been friends since 1974 when Letterman introduced himself to his fellow comedian at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles.
The comic actor previously played CBS' oldest page and a few other characters on the show.
Born John Koletes, Dark says singer Fabian's brother Robert Forte named him "Johnny Dark" after the 1954 movie.
In the family way
93.3 WMMR "Preston and Steve" show producer Casey Foster and wife Diane are expecting their second child in mid-July.
The couple have a 13-month-old daughter, Casey, and aren't sure of the sex of the baby-to-be.
Meanwhile, co-host
Preston Elliot and wife, Rachelle, are expecting their third child in April.
LaSalle prof's love story
Charles Desnoyers, chair of LaSalle's history department, and his wife, Jacki, had their first date in 1976 when they saw Asleep at the Wheel play at the old Main Point in Bryn Mawr.
Thirty years later, they caught the band at the Sellersville Theater.
The band heard about the Desnoyerses, and so its new CD/DVD package, "The Best of Asleep at the Wheel on the Road," recorded at the 2006 show at the Sellersville Theater, features an interview with the couple.
Honorable mention
Local attorney Michael Diamondstein's novel "Cloaked in Doubt" has won first place for fiction in the 4th Annual International JADA Book of the Year Awards for Print on Demand Books.
* Pete Ciarrocchi of Chickie's & Pete's, won Restaurateur of the Year award from the Pennsylvania Restaurant Association, which held a ceremony at Bookbinder's (125 Walnut) Tuesday night. Dave Magrogan of Kildare's won its Keystone award.
Tut expert's tux is fit for a king
Zahi Hawass, one of the world's leading Egyptologists, chose Black Tie (1120 Walnut) to provide his tux for Saturday's Franklin Institute gala celebrating its new King Tut exhibit, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs." *
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