Dan Gross: Jennaphr is preggers
FOX 29's Jennaphr Frederick is celebrating more than just the Phillies' World Series win. She's pregnant. Frederick - mother of a 3-year-old son, Brody - and husband, Steve, who is "some kind of computer guy," she says, are expecting a child in the spring.
FOX 29's
Jennaphr Frederick
is
celebrating more than just the Phillies' World Series win.
She's pregnant.
Frederick - mother of a 3-year-old son, Brody - and husband, Steve, who is "some kind of computer guy," she says, are expecting a child in the spring.
The couple haven't yet told Brody about his upcoming brother or sister. "Someone mentioned Santa Claus in late August and every day he's been asking when Santa is coming, so we figured we'd wait, but we are excited he's gonna have a little buddy," Frederick said. She doesn't plan to discuss her pregnancy on "Good Day Philadelphia," because "as crazy as I am on TV, I like to tell everyone about other people's news. I don't really like to talk about myself.
"People might wonder why I'm fat,"says Frederick, a native of Clearwater, Fla., where the Phillies spring-train.
Ruiz tries champagne
from a glass
Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz received a standing ovation from fellow diners at the Water Works Restaurant and Lounge Sunday night. Ruiz smiled and pleaded "No mas," when servers offered to shake up a free bottle of champagne the house had sent him.
Out and about
_ Jimmy Fallon was in town yesterday shooting a video with The Roots at the bar Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front), in Fishtown.
We're told that whatever they shot will be used in some way to promote the former "SNL" actor's takeover of "Late Night," which is scheduled in June 2009, when Conan O'Brien takes over the "Tonight Show" from Jay Leno.
* Spice Girl Mel B and husband, Stephen Belafonte, went for room service at the Water Club in Atlantic City, where they stayed while hosting a Halloween party at the Borgata. Scary Spice dressed as Catwoman and crowned costume winners at Gypsy Bar, MIXX and mur.mur, where Estelle later performed her catchy hit "American Boy."
Charlie Murphy buds with B-Hop
Comedian Charlie Murphy is looking forward to hanging out with his pal Bernard Hopkins when Murphy's here Friday to perform at Glenside's Keswick Theatre. Murphy, who has played Philadelphia only twice before, says that he's having dinner at Hopkins' place. He calls the boxer "the Muhammad Ali of our time."
Not surprisingly, Murphy credits his role on "Chappelle's Show" with allowing him finally to break out on his own, rather than continue to be known as Eddie Murphy's brother. The comic will be on tour in America and Europe through March, and says that he's working on a sports-talk-show concept.
"What Jon Stewart is to politics, I would be to sports," he tells us. Murphy, who asked us to hold on before loudly urinating and flushing during our phone interview Friday, also said that he plans to record a concert DVD in January, most likely in New York.
Charitably minded
Chubby Checker receives the Legends Award at this year's Dance Philly, the annual benefit for the Susanna DeLaurentis Foundation. The event will be from 7 to midnight Friday at Benny the Bum's inside the 9th & Packer Ave. Holiday Inn.
98.1 WOGL's Bob Pantano will emcee, and guests will include Fox 29's Kerri-Lee Halkett and John Bolaris and KYW Newsradio's Brad Segall. Tickets are $50, including dinner, or $15 after 8:30, and are available at friendsofsusanna.org. The charity benefits cystic fibrosis and childhood-cancer research.
Susanna, of Elkins Park, was 10 when she died of neuroblastoma in 1999. Shortly after her death, her father, Michael, started the charity in her honor.
Phillies flacks got to party, too
Three members of the Comcast-Spectacor public-relations department, Ike Richman, Eric Nemeth and Joe Siville, volunteered to handle on-site media for Citizens Bank Park during the parade on Friday so that the Phillies PR staff could join in on the fun. *
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