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Hey, folks, it's Kimberly Jessicareporting in Live Today weekending September fourteenth.
Any Awards weekend by any means.We just want to make clear that the
events that we are publicizing and attendingare in no way affilied with the Emmy
Awards. We had an amazing time. When I tell you, it is

(00:24):
one of the best annual Echo Luxpre Awards lounges at the Beverly Hills and
by Debbie Durkin, Yes, thefabulous Debbie Durkins out of Hollywood, California.
I think she throws one of thebest Awards pre awards lounges that there
is. It's amazing just the amountof people that turned out. The food

(00:46):
was amazing, to say the least. The view from the balcony was unbelievable.
Debbie Durkins Echo Lounge was on Friday, September fourteenth at the Beverly Hillton
in Beverly Hills, California. Thered Carpets, Higgles Were Walls was created
who I had the opportunity to sitand chat with with Leslie kaman Roe her

(01:07):
Flowers on Flowers Hilton Champagne Brunch.It was amazing how she created the flowers
for the boards. By the way, Leslie is extremely talented. When I
chatted with her, I said,Leslie, what is it exactly this that
you do? And she just basicallysaid, look, Kim, I do

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a little bit of everything, andwe just sat there and chatted it up.
The strictly vegan Jamaican cuisine was amazing. Nothing showed up amazing. DJ
William Reid held down the music.There was live entertainment by Zeal Levine and
BMG recording artist Carl Robin Green.And of course it was a line just

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to get into the party life photobooth. I tried to get in there,
and I tell you, the peoplejust lined up on that photo booth
is amazing. It literally allows youto see the full photo of your entire
body and any look that you want, any face that you want. It
allowed you to make changes. Imean, it was amazing. It was
magical. It takes Selfie Stiel wholeanother level. Celebrities were there and they

(02:15):
enjoyed the twelfth annual event. Wehad Andrew Walker in attendant. Of course,
the incredible Hope none other than thefantabulous law enforcement officer himself Rufe Rigno,
Kelly Jinreb, Michael Campion, JamesKennedy and Roquel Levise, not to
mention Sean Tope Dinn and Dyl DianeCannon, Adrian Johnick. Then it was

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Patrica Darboux, Rolando Watts who Ilove, Rosa Blassie, another Angel,
Patricia Kara, La La Milan,and Rocker Means. I can't pronounce his
name, but it's m I lj e n k O m A t
I j e d I see ofSteele Heart. I don't like butchering people's

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name, so I won't even tryit. The sponsors were another thing,
Bud Trader. I won't even talkabout them yet. I'm gonna come back
and talk about them in a minute. You had the sponsors which include a
Chariot travel Wear, Jamaica Tourist Board, Kindred Babe, Braverly Villa, I
Wear with Black Fans, Black Fan, and Italian Independent Custom I Wear from

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Italy. Those glasses are so amazingand I feel that it was such a
blessing to get that. We didn'tget to get the glasses, but we
got an awesome gift certificate to getone hundred dollars off on the glasses.
So if you missed that, thatwas Huge Beauty Kitchen Junkie by Heather Marianna
Armani Wells, Men's Wear by celebrityentre preneur Claudia Wells, DTTF pop art

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by Gabe Golf Planet, Beach HotWorks SPA by celebrity makeup artists coul Benson,
who I will be interviewing next week, the Amazing Gentlemen Strictly Vegan and
gift bags by artist Jeff Carter.And of course the charity partner was with
Alward's Wild Voices, a nonprofit youthliterally group, literacy group of diverse slam

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poets from Stockton, California. PetMom's TV show films at the event interviewing
celebrity pet parents. That's producer Deadof course, of course, the fabulous
Debbie Durkin. And of course youknow you can get your your getty images
and all that. So I tellyou, you know, the deal or

(04:27):
no deal with Patricia Karra. Shewas there and she was picking up her
granite beauty products from Marianna's Beauty KitchenJunkie. Deal or no deal Patricia Karra,
She's a beauty and it was justamazing seeing her there at the event.
And of course you had emmy nominee, none of them, none other
than Christopher Scott. He's going toJamaica's royal Ton, royal Ton the Grill

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courtesy and again that's courtesy of DebbieDurkin. And then of course we had
Jane Andrew W. Walker and helearned the healing benefits of cannabis projects products
from budtrader dot com. Let metell you about Budtrader dot com. Now
you're talking to someone that the formerteacher, former high school teacher, former

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ran the SPED department, and Iwas one of those teachers. We're talking
going back to the nineties now whereI post studies, Stay away from drugs,
stay away from weeds, stay awayfrom you know, all drugs.
I have to tell you that budTrader from Andrew W. Walker. Well,
Andrew W. Walker, he didn'tHe's not from him. He was
there, but that bud Trader.I hope Andrew ensure his bag because that

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bag was something of this of anotherworld. That bag had so many goodies.
And I have never been really exposedto cannabis, weed or whatever you
want to call it, but thatbag had CBB oil CBB the little electronic
cigarettes. I'm not proficient on theterminology, but I had to tell you

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the THCHC, the CBD, theblueberry flowers, the cannabis flowers. The
chocolate. Oh my god, thatchocolate put me to sleep. Guys,
that chocolate was so addictive and yummy. And then they had like some cookie
bites that was also butt in fees. The chocolate was butt in fees,
and so were the cookie bites.And then you had the THHC pens.

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And then you had the thch Cand CBD pens. And then you had
the hemp rolling paper. The hempdrops from under your hand. I mean
the bag has to have been worthat least ten thousand dollars. I don't
know where Deddie gets these people from, but I tell you, I always
want to be on Debbie Durkin's goodside because she's got the good stuff.
And of course you had any nomineeMiles tag Tagmyer, who was also there.

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I mean, he's a cutie too, and he was there talking,
chatting it up with Jamaican Tourist Boardat the Echo Lounge gifting sweep. This
is nothing short of amazing. Butwe also had Naomi Gross And who was
there. She also is an Anynominee and she was there and grad autographing

(07:08):
the b B Bravely for Kindred UhBravely, and she was there as well.
And then of course there was youknow, uh Walter Tava Young Young
I hate butchering people's names. Andthen you had Any Winner Patrika Darbou,
co governor at the Performer's Peer Group, at a comment at the Academy of

(07:30):
Television, Arts and Sciences in LosAngeles, and she was picking up her
solla I wear sunglasses at Debbie Dirkand who was just discussed about those glasses.
You couldn't get glasses because they wentaway so fast. You definitely got
to give certificate for the glasses.So that was pretty cool as well.
And then you had the you know, top artists Fashionir Gabe and and then

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you had Golf and Damien Puckler whowere also in attendance. And then of
course you know act so Shaan TobeHomeland and he was also an Iron Man
with his wife Marina. They werethere at the gifting suite. This gifting
suite was nothing but short of nota fabulous I'm excited to be actually interviewing

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some of the vendors that were atthe Gifting Suites one on one coming up
this week, So please be sureto look out for those interviews. We
love telling you know the goods andthe ins and outs and nice little places
to get to and go and bea part of. Whenever there's any type
of Oscars, Emmys, any ofthose places, there are different lounges that

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you can attend if your media andthat celebrities are there. And I just
want to shout out to Debbie Durkinand thank her so much for allowing us
to be there at iHeart, youknow, with iHeart Radio and Thrived Global
of Ariaana Huffington's website. So we'llbe back giving more commentary on different fleets
that were going on that week.Stay tuned, folks will be right back.

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And so we gotta go pay somebills, but be right back.
Thank you so much,
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