Press Release
8-23-00
MTV TAPS LOCAL PA ANNOUNCER FOR 'Road Rules' EPISODE
Kevin Kelleher, a local
public address announcer for Florida Atlantic University and Boca Raton High
School in Palm Beach County, recently taped an episode of the MTV show ‘Road
Rules’ here in South Florida.
Road Rules, in it’s ninth season, places 6 people together in a fully
outfitted RV and sends them across America...This year the “Maximum Velocity
Tour” features 09 cast members: Laterrian, Holly, Theo, Masada, James, and
Kathryn…their adventures include skydiving, monster truck racing, ‘parachute
plane’ flying and similiar “skill” type encounters, while the MTV people
follow them, documentary style and chronicle their day-to-day activities…
Kelleher, a public address announcer in Boca Raton, Florida and also known as
“The Voice of Boca Raton Sports”, was approached by MTV executives back in
April of this year. “The Sports
Information Director at Florida Atlantic University, Katrina McCormick, called
me and said she gave my name to
somebody who was looking for an announcer,” said Kevin, age 49. “When she
told me it was MTV, I went into shock!” The MTV crew was coming to the
university and would use the schools’ Olympic size pool to tape an episode
featuring the Road Rules cast pitted against the “Playboy Models Extreme Dream
Team” in a synchronized swimming contest.
Kevin Lee, executive producer of the show, called Kelleher and offered
him the opportunity to announce the ‘technical merit’ and ‘artistic
impression’ scores to the expected capacity crowd gathered for the event on
campus. He (Kelleher) was also
asked to introduce the Road Rules cast and the Playboy Models as they entered
the swimming complex. Kevin kidded,
“I played hard to get at first, and told Lee that my agent would have to
approve everything!” The show was
taped before an enthusiastic crowd of 2000 people and was playing in rotation
this month on MTV as “Episode 8- Love, Lust and Lies”…the night before
the competition the Road Rules team has trouble with team morale because
of problems between cast members Laterrian and Kathryn, explains the
MTV episode “capsule”.