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THE BULLETIN • MAY 6 - 12, 2021
‘Antiques Roadshow’
now lets celebrities
show off their items
BY JAY BOBBIN
Carson Kressley is among the personalities featured
on “Antiques Roadshow: Celebrity Edition,” airing
Mondays in May on PBS (check local listings).
A series that’s marking its 25th anniversary
deserves a special celebration.
Celebrity editions of PBS’ “Antiques
Roadshow” are running weekly on Mondays
through most of this month, and the May
10 episode (check local listings) has author
Marc Brown, chef Carla Hall, humorist John
Hodgman and musicians Rubén Blades and
Luba Mason getting their rare possessions
evaluated. Though the program often shows
many people milling about, these episodes
have a more intimate feel as recorded under
pandemic-era protocols.
“Since we couldn’t tour this year, and we
couldn’t go knocking on everybody’s doors in
the same way, the idea was to come up with
something that people are really interested
in,” explains executive producer Marsha
Bemko. “And people are really interested
in finding out what everyday people own,
just because maybe you had something like
that yourself. It turns out our celebrities
are everyday people; they just happen to be
known.”
Appraiser Leila Dunbar notes, “Everyone
knows Rubén Blades as one of the great
Latin singers and a fabulous activist and an
actor, but did you know he collected comic
books? Did you know he has the two most
important comic books of all time, ‘Detective
Comics’ No. 27 and ‘Action Comics’ No.
1, with Superman? I didn’t know that until
I walked into his New York townhouse and
saw everything. It was astonishing. To be able
to see another side of these folks has been
exciting ... probably as exciting as seeing the
items themselves.”
With Jay Leno, “Chicago Med” co-star S.
Epatha Merkerson and figure skater Nancy
Kerrigan among those seen in the first
“Antiques Roadshow” celebrity episode, the
remaining two include broadcast journalist
Soledad O’Brien, fashion designer Christian
Siriano, TV personality Carson Kressley and
humorist Mo Rocca.
“I am such a huge fan of ‘Antiques
Roadshow’ that I actually have had a
relationship with the show,” says Kressley,
who is in the May 24 episode. “They invited
me, because I am a super-fan, to many
different ‘Roadshows.’ I have always been
working, or for some reason. I couldn’t get to
them. And then they said, ‘We could come to
your house and do a Celebrity Edition.’ I was
like, ‘Please! Come on. Bring the whole crew.’
“I was that weird kid who would get
birthday money and be like, ‘Can we please
go to the antiques mall?,’ ” Kressley adds. “I
have a treasure trove of things I have been
collecting since I was literally in my teens. I
could have had the crew here all day, being
like, ‘What about this? What do you think
about this?’ And they were like, ‘OK, calm
down.’ But we had some fun items that I
actually learned a lot about.”
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