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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2021
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Katy Kane, left, appraises celebrity chef Carla Hall’s vintage purse collection in an episode of
‘Antiques Roadshow Celebrity Edition,’ airing Monday on PBS.
‘Antiques Roadshow’ fl ips the
script with celebrity editions
By MARK KENNEDY
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Chef,
cookbook author and TV
host Carla Hall has always
wondered about an antique
wooden highchair her family
has long cherished.
What is its history? How
much is it worth?
She fi nally got answers
when PBS’ “Antiques Road-
show” visited her Washing-
ton, D.C., home. It turns out
that the highchair is not hand
carved and dates to between
1880 to 1920. It’s worth only
about $100.
Even so, Hall still adores
it. She and her husband are
remodeling their home in a
more modern style, but the
highchair is staying.
“This will still be front and
center somewhere in our mod-
ern house,” she says after the
TV visit. “I’m not selling
anything.”
Hall was one of several
celebrity guests on four new
special episodes of “Antiques
Roadshow” that were fi lmed
during
the
coronavirus
pandemic.
The producers fl ipped the
script. Instead of people —
and their would-be treasures
— coming to meet the apprais-
ers in a big hall, the appraisers
went to the people. And this
time, the people were famous.
“I think it’s very humaniz-
ing. They share with you this
very vulnerable moment. They
are just like any other ‘Road-
show’ guest,” says “Antique
Roadshow” executive pro-
ducer Marsha Bemko.
The fi rst celebrity edition
aired earlier this week and
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featured comedian Jay Leno,
actor S. Epatha Merkerson,
author Jason Reynolds, Olym-
pic fi gure skater Nancy Kerri-
gan and pro golfer Dottie Pep-
per. Celebrities have appeared
on “Antique Roadshow”
before, but this is the fi rst time
they’ve been featured for an
entire episode.
Kerrigan got a pair of her
Olympic medals appraised as
well as several competitive
costumes, including the Vera
Wang wedding dress outfi t she
wore at the 1992 Olympics. A
torch from the 1996 Summer
Olympics that she bought for
$300 as part of a relay is now
worth as much as $7,000.
Reynolds wanted to know
about the value of a Langston
Hughes letter, an advanced
reader copy of Claude
Brown’s “Manchild in the
Promised Land” and a fi rst
edition signed copy of Toni
Morrison’s “Beloved.” Merk-
erson has a collection of Black
memorabilia, and Pepper has a
golf cup and an heirloom table.
Leno needs a lot more help
from the team. He and his
wife were instantly smitten
by a 16,000-square foot estate
in Newport, Rhode Island,
and bought it pretty much on
the spot, with all the furnish-
ings. But he has no idea what
he’s got, from paintings to
sculptures.
“He did knock on the door
and buy everything — ketchup
included — and doesn’t know
what’s in there. So it was a real
chance for us to help him,”
said Bemko.
Future episodes — airing
Monday, May 17 and May 24
— include the likes of humor-
ist John Hodgman, actor
Ronny Chieng, cartoonist
Mo Willems, journalist Sole-
dad O’Brien, fashion designer
Christian Siriano and TV per-
sonality Carson Kressley.
“This is true across the
board of everybody we visited
on this show and all the oth-
ers: They are human beings
like you and me,” Bemko said.
“They really are curious about
what they own and they want
to know, and not just because
of the money. It’s not all about
the value.”
The celebrity episodes
were a clever answer to the
pandemic and a chance to
shake things up during the
25th anniversary of “Antique
Roadshow.”
Initially, with fl ying not
an option, the celebrities
chosen to be featured were
within driving distance of
the show’s Boston headquar-
ters at WGBH. Everyone had
to drive in separate cars, stay
masked until cameras were
rolling and were COVID-19
tested regularly. Some celeb-
rities felt more comfortable
displaying their collectibles
on their lawn. Others allowed
appraisers inside.
For Hall, a fan of the show,
it was a chance to get answers
for the items her family has
long held dear, including an
antique table, old seltzer bot-
tles and chic handbags col-
lected by her grandmother.
Hall also learned some-
thing. Her highchair converts
into a stroller, something nei-
ther she nor her mother knew
until the appraiser pointed it
out. “That just was so wild,”
she recalled. “I never knew
that it did that. That was the
biggest shock.”
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Transportation district
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HONOR ROLL
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Eastern Oregon University
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Warrenton: Clark Miner
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