Lose two, get two. That’s Colorado’s reality.
Two Colorado women, Sarah Powell and Madison McKinley, left “The Bachelor” on Monday night.
And Margie and Luke Adams, a mother/son team from Colorado Springs, join the cast of “The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business” when it debuts Feb. 20. It’s a reunion show with teams that didn’t win in past seasons.
There were the expected drama and tears in the departures from “The Bachelor.” Vail’s McKinley took out her vampire-fang veneers and had a serious sit-down with bachelor Brad Womack. She said she would feel bad if she took a rose instead of another women who might actually want one. So she stomped out in the middle of the final rose ceremony. Very Madison. “There’s every chance that I’ll wake up tomorrow and wonder what the heck I just did,” she told Womack as she left.
Powell, a server at LoDo’s Bar and Grill Highlands Ranch, delivered a tearful closing. “He didn’t feel it, I didn’t feel it. I’m going home, to Colorado. . . . I’m happy with me, I know who I am. I gave it my all.” Sniff, sniff.
The Adamses were popular contestants when they finished third in Season 14 of “The Amazing Race” in 2009. Margie, 53, is a clinical diabetes researcher. Luke, 25, is deaf, gay and smart, a grad of Rochester Institute of Technology.
They were way ahead going into the final episode but fumbled when they had to get a 145-pound pig down a beach in Maui. They went home with $10,000, but mom, in the wrap-up show, said, “That experience was worth more than a million.”
Everybody loves Chris.
Bandleader Chris Daniels has been fighting cancer for almost a year, most of the time spent in a Houston hospital. But he’s back, again teaching “The Real History of Rock ‘n’ Roll” at the University of Colorado Denver. Classes started Wednesday. “I have a lot of students, man,” Daniels says. “One hundred twenty in one, 100 in another, 40 in another. It feels amazing. It’s so great to be back in the classroom. I’m taking every day as a blessing.”
Chris Daniels and the Kings will play Jan. 28-29 and Feb. 11-12 at the Ameristar Casino in Black Hawk. And Daniels in working on a record. Welcome back, pally.
Singled out.
5280 magazine’s Single in the City party hits Exdo Event Center on Feb. 18 — and the gang, to be featured in the next edition of the ‘zine, assembled Wednesday night for a group picture at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret. Among this year’s honorees: Former Speaker of the House Terrance Carroll, 9News reporter Jamie Kim, Kuulture frozen yogurt’s Hidemi Ena and Alice radio’s Steve Weed.
City spirit.
In addition to many great auction items, look for sports/comedy big-name surprise guests at tonight’s Bon Jovi benefit concert/gala for CeDAR. . . . The 2011 Icon Awards, always a gasser, parties down Feb. 25 at Grand Hyatt. This year’s theme: Decadence in the City . . . Sez who: “A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.” Phyllis Diller
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