Radio blabber Peter Boyles, perhaps Denver’s most eligible bachelor since he and his wife split, is profiting from the troubled time as pitchman for It’s Just Lunch, the franchised dating service.
Boyles, the KHOW-AM (630) talk-show host, and Kathleen, his wife of 25 years, separated last year, but the divorce is pending.
“I’m looking for a very wealthy single woman, if you know any,” he said, laughing, when I asked him about the ads airing on the station. “I was with the same woman for 25 years; I don’t know what to do in the dating world.”
Denver’s It’s Just Lunch franchisee approached Boyles about hawking the service. Since he was suddenly single, the well-known radio man figured, what the hey?
“You can have lunch with somebody and it’s OK, it’s cool,” he said. “It’s no different than the Internet-dating thing, but you get to meet the person in person.”
Part of his compensation was a free membership. Boyles said he has been on one date, which didn’t go any further.
“I know people who have met on this system and got married,” he said. “I don’t know how to date. Honest to God, I don’t know.”
Sports reports.
They may have faces for television, but now they have voices for radio. CBS4 sportsters Vic Lombardi and Gary Shapiro are launching “The Insiders” on Monday, a new radio show from 7 to 9 a.m. weekdays on ESPN-AM (1600).
Tom Manoogian, better known as KOA radio’s Lou From Littleton, is the brains behind the operation. He bought the timeslot and is selling ads to support the show.
The CBS4 twosome will broadcast from the Ultimate Electronics studios, a set built in Lombardi’s basement in Golden, then move to Dove Valley when Broncos training camp starts.
Hot hotels.
Eight Colorado hotels snagged a lofty spot on Travel + Leisure magazine’s Top 500 Hotels of the World list, which was announced online Friday.
They are: The Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch, Little Nell, Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort & Spa, The Broadmoor, Hotel Teatro (a first timer on the list), St. Regis Aspen, Beaver Creek Lodge and Hotel Monaco. For the entire list, go to travelandleisure 0/2009/region/us/score.
Freebie.
Denver-based Chipotle Mexican Grill is underwriting a free screening of “Food, Inc.,” the documentary that puts the nation’s food industry under a microscope, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd. The first 275 folks who show up get free admission.
Food fight.
Former Luca d’Italia pastry chef turned food stylist Angela Yeung meets three other competitors in “Food Network Challenge: Food Magicians” at 6 tonight on the Food Network.
It’s not how it tastes, but how it looks in the battle where challengers test their skills in styling breakfast, a mystery lunch box and a romantic dinner for two. The episode was shot in the High Noon Entertainment studios in Centennial.
Eavesdropping
on two men spotting furniture czar Jake Jabs at lunch on the patio at Tambien in Cherry Creek North: “Jake Jabs is having lunch on the patio.”
“Did he bring any zoo animals with him?”
“Well, he is sitting with a cougar.”
Penny Parker’s column appears Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Listen to her on the Caplis and Silverman radio show between 4 and 5 p.m. Fridays on KHOW-AM (630). Call her at 303-954-5224 or e-mail pparker@ .
