Castle Pines caddie Brenden Martin is a contestant on the reality show “I Want to Be a Hilton.” And he does.
The show debuts at 8 tonight on KUSA-Channel 9. You can see Martin survive the first elimination as a member of Team Park Avenue. In the second show, you see him ride to the Hamptons via private helicopter. When the team flies over some links, he says, “I’m so glad not to be on a golf course busting my (expletive) in a white jump suit. I work at a golf course. I get up at 5 in the morning and kiss (expletive) all day.”
He doesn’t mean to diss Castle Pines members. Martin is 31 and he’s been a caddie there for 15 years. The club paid for half his college tuition. “The members just couldn’t be nicer,” he says. “And some of them are more excited about this show than I am.”
A casting agent found Martin hanging with some pals at the Campus Lounge. Last summer he spent 5 1/2 weeks living the high life in NYC. “We did everything,” he told me. “We went everywhere. They treated us like movie stars.”
But what about Paris and Nikki Hilton?
“The gals were super fun,” he says. “I think they get a bad rap. They have their stuff together and they know what they’re doing. And they’re sweet.”
I knew it!
Martin is out of town today on a family matter, but he’ll be watching over the weeks ahead at the Wash Park Grill. Who knows? He may end up a Hilton.
Smokin’
Mel’s Bar and Grill is snuffing the butts out as of July 1. People will be able to smoke on the patio – and in the bar after 9:30 p.m. But other than that, Mel’s will be smoke free.
“I hate laying down rules about what people can and cannot do,” says Mel Master from his Long Island enclave. “But this is what the majority clearly wants. And I have been watching (the smoking ban) here in New York. It’s settled down and people are not suffering.”
Amen. And he noticed that the hottest joints in the Creek, Cherry Creek Grill and North, are smoke free.
That leaves precious few joints in the ‘hood that are tobacco friendly: Rodney’s, Chinook, Cucina Colore, Bob’s, Cherry Cricket.
Frenchy Steaks
Marco Colantonio, who once ran the house at Mel’s, has opened Steak au Poivre in the old Manhattan Grill space. It’s been open for dinner for two weeks; it opens for lunch today.
Colantonio has softened up the dining room and put out a menu of French bistro standards, concentrating on four cuts of steak, five sauces and five sides. Go for the New York strip with au poivre and bearnaise sauces and scallion mashed potatoes. Oh yeah.
City spirit
375 people have RSVP’d to the Black Tie “Have Your Met?” Cocktail Party tonight at the Pinnacle Club. Among the bold names on the list: Frances Owens, Sylvia Atencio, Rutt Bridges, Jodi Brooks, Ed Bucholtz, Noel and Tammy Cunningham, Joanne Davidson, Larry and Wanda Fanning, David French, Dennis Gallagher, Lisa Herzlich, Walt and Georgia Imhoff, Douglas Kerbs … Sez who: “To me a job is an invasion of privacy.” Danny McGoorty
Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Husted also appears on Fox 31 News. You can reach him at 303-820-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com.
