A pistol-packing Ted Nugent startled a VH1 film crew member.
Gun enthusiast Ted Nugent won a showdown with a VH1 film crew assistant director the other day.
Nugent, in town for the filming of VH1's "Supergroup" reality show, walked onto the set early this week exercising his right to bear arms.
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The startled assistant director asked the rocker to remove the holstered firearm from the active set, citing safety concerns.
Nugent, 57, stuck to his guns (gun), and the AD has not been seen on the set since, I'm told.
Reached at VH1 in New York on Friday, spokeswoman Michelle Clark said Nugent "has a license to be a firearm carrier no matter where he might be. I'm sure he wasn't waving it around."
Nugent and four other veteran rockers wrap up their 12-day taping, most of it at the Parisian Palace, with a concert Sunday at the Empire Ballroom, 3765 Las Vegas Blvd. South.
Joining Nugent on the reality show is Sebastian Bach of Skid Row; drummer Jason Bonham, son of Led Zeppelin legend John Bonham;Scott Ian of Anthrax; and Evan Seinfeld of Biohazard.
THE SCENE AND HEARD
"Hairspray" cast members Nick Dalton and Chandra Lee Schwartz, who met on the first day of rehearsals here Dec. 27, are getting hitched Sunday at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. Dalton plays Fender, and Schwartz has the part of Penny Pingleton. Dalton's father, a minister, will officiate. ...
There's no end to the Las Vegas-set reality show trend. Next up is an untitled NBC project starring 20-year-old Jason Davis, grandson of the late billionaire Marvin Davis and brother of Brandon Davis. Davis the Younger will work lowly jobs in a local hotel and casino to see whether he wants to continue pursuing his dream of owning and operating his own hotels and casinos, according to published reports. ...
Four years ago, PR Plus owner Laura Herlovich was handling public relations for skateboarder Tony Hawk's Boom Boom HuckJam at Mandalay Bay. Hawk was always looking out for a friend. "I'd pick Tony up every day," Herlovich recalled, "and every time he'd ask if I could take his friend Shaun to GameWorks." Now the world knows Shaun White, 19, as "The Flying Tomato," after continuing his snowboarding domination with a gold medal in the men's Olympic halfpipe. ...
For the fifth year in a row, Alan Stock and Heidi Harris of KXNT-AM, 840 have been named to "Talker's Magazine" top 100 talk-show hosts. They were No. 99, which had jokesters cracking the obvious witticism: "Who's 99 and who's Maxwell Smart?"
SIGHTINGS
NASCAR driver Dale Earnhart Jr., getting his first taste of Tryst (Wynn Las Vegas) on Thursday ... Philadelphia Eagles running back Brian Westbrook, dining at Kokomos (Mirage) on Thursday night ... Members of VH1's "Supergroup," filming at Ivan Kane's Forty Deuce (Mandalay Bay) on Thursday night. Seinfeld's wife, porn star Tera Patrick, was camera-shy on this occasion. ... Nugent, staying at the Wynn with his wife, Shemane, instead of bunking with the other rockers at the Parisian Palace. ... A wax likeness of NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon will be unveiled at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Madame Tussauds (The Venetian). Gordon joins the late Dale Earnhardt among the likenesses. ... No, that wasn't a strippers convention at the Palms' ghostbar the other night. It was just a Spearmint Rhino bash featuring 60 of its dancers.
THE PUNCH LINE
"The Academy Awards crew took those big, giant Oscar statues out of storage, sandblasted them, filled in the cracks with putty, painted them, and then placed them at the end of the red carpet. Tomorrow they will do the same with Joan Rivers." -- Jay Leno
