A lunch date with Boulder-bred actress Jessica Biel went for $30,000 at a charity auction last month for Molly Bloom, the Denver teen who lost a leg in a limo accident on prom night.
Make that a double date.
Her father, Jon Biel, confirmed Thursday that Biel has agreed to go on a second date with another high-bidding gent. He would not disclose names or numbers, but we hear it was for another $30,000! Yowza.
“Actually, several men called and matched the $30,000 bid,” organizer Jeanne Lee said – but did not elaborate on how the second date was chosen.
Biel is about to break out as a star. She was chosen last year by Esquire as the “Sexiest Woman Alive” and stars in the soon-to- open flick “The Illusionist” with Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti. Next comes “Home of the Brave,” with Samuel L. Jackson, 50 Cent and Christina Ricci.
Biel is reportedly surprised that a guy would shell out $30,000 for lunch – let alone two guys. In this week’s Time magazine, she says of the $30,000 date: “I think I’ll have the salad. I don’t know what the guy looks like. I think he’s in the oil business. I didn’t anticipate this to be such a publicized event. My dad said, ‘Be prepared for someone to spend a few hundred bucks.’ But it went beyond.”
Biel was set to have her first lunch date Friday. Check denverpost.com/husted for deets.
Blue Monday
Comedy Works honors local comic Josh Blue, winner of the NBC laff-off “Last Comic Standing,” with a parade 11 a.m.-
noon Monday. The march will start at 15th and Larimer streets, go down Larimer to 14th, then back again. It’ll include U.S. Paralympics Athletes, the U.S. Olympic Crew, Colorado Rapids cheerleaders, Rapid Man and various street performers. Blue will ride a fire truck. It all ends at the new elevator to the Comedy Works, where Blue will cut the ribbon with Mayor John Hickenlooper and Councilwoman Elbra Wedgeworth. Hick will also proclaim it Josh Blue Day. A Blue Monday indeed.
Tasty
SOS Taste of the Nation returns to its roots tonight at the Westin Tabor Center, where the whole thing started 19 years ago. The elegant feedbag runs 4-7 p.m., tix are $65 for one, $100 for a couple. Restaurants this year include 240 Union, P.F. Chang’s, Sparrow, La Tour, the Palm, Vesta, Jax, Avenue Grill and Cru.
Flushed
You gotta know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em.
Paul Wasicka, a 25-year-old card shark from Westminster, came in second in last week’s World Series of Poker, taking home more than $6 million.
That’s a thrill – but word comes that former Playboy Playmate Colleen Marie and her Playmate pals have challenged all WSOP finalists to play in the World Series of Strip Poker. Whoa! The winner takes home his/her clothes and $500,000. Marie is sure she can win. “Mark my words,” she said in a release, “it will be the most money I ever make for keeping my clothes on.!” No word if Wasicka is up for it.
City spirit
Sightem: Former president of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski lunching at the Wellshire Inn with University of Denver Provost Greg Kvistad and Leo Goto … Sez who: “I am always a perfectly safe man to tell any dirt to, as it goes in one ear and out my mouth.” Ernest Hemingway
Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Husted also appears Tuesdays and Fridays on “Good Day Colorado” on Fox 31. You can reach him at 303-954-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com.
