Wait a second. Fat Albert is a cartoon. Robin Black is not a woman. And Steve Irwin is recently deceased!

I was seeing stars where there were none.

But sightings did occur. For starters, I spent some time chatting up Ylenia Aurucci and Sisi Wang from Canada's Next Top Model.

"Sisi!" I shouted, making my way over. "Wow. Hey, models and stuff. How are you?"

"I'm fine. How are you?"

"Oh, I'm great. And..." turning to Ylenia, "...you. Um, crap. This is terrible. I actually watched Top Model and I can't for the life of me remember your name. This is so embarrassing. Are you girls having fun?"

"Yeah. We just got here," says Sisi.

"Really? I'm just waiting to leave, but I'm with the media so I can't go until I see Tommy."

Perturbed, Ylenia says: "You're press and you don't know my name?"

I wanted to explain that I didn't know because she hadn't won and she wasn't the crazy one. However, in a rare moment of self-restraint, I said: "Hey, I'm a guy. You're lucky I watched you at all. It's Alanna or something, right?"

"Ylenia."

"Oh yeah! You made spaghetti," I recall. Taking her hand in mine, "I'm Diederik. It's nice to meet you."

Sisi's grinning that crazy grin of hers.

"Well," I say as I leave them, "you kids have fun tonight."

Walking away, I couldn't help but notice how bewildered they looked. "What was all that about?" I asked Bonnie.

"Diederik, you're supposed to wait until they dismiss you. Famous people aren't used to getting the brush-off."

"Whoops."


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