E28 - John Rendall
Miss D & John Rendall discuss how he and Anthony “Ace” Bourke purchased Christian the Lion, a 3-month old lion, from Harrod’s Zoo Department in 1969 for 250 guineas, who lived beneath their pine furniture store. The story would later become a book entitled "A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion".
Creators of Born Free contacted George Adamson to reform him for the wild and re-release into Kenya. The documentary called "Christian the Lion" had 50 million viewers. George successfully rehabilitated Christian and he still has lions with his lineage out there.
Created the George Adamson National Preserve.
www.GeorgeAdamson.org
E27 - Melinda Hughes
Melinda is an opera singer and performer with a wide range of voices (Soprano). Miss D and Melinda discuss her studying voice in Holland and upon graduation she was employed by AndréRieu to tour around Europe. She played leads in Madame Butterfly, Aida, and more.
Melinda performs “Please Don’t Invite Me To Your Country Estate,” “Where Flamingoes Fly” and “Take Me Home."
Performing at Crazy Coqs on November 9th (www.brasseriezedel.com).
Started a Berlin Cabaret (www.kissandtellcabaret.com).
E26 - Miss Hope Springs
Miss Hope Springs sings “A Seedy Little Nightclub in Pigalle,” “Show Off Your Assets,” “Devil Made Me Do It” and “Carnival" live for Miss D. Catch her at Wilton’s Music Hall - August 9-11th, 2016.
CDs are available on her website.
www.MissHopeSprings.com
E25 - Victoria Fisher
Miss D and Victoria discuss working with Freddie at "Freddie’s Flowers" (company delivers flowers weekly for 20 pounds a week) and designing and sending flowers all over the UK.
www.FreddiesFlowers.com
E24 - Amy Minty
Miss D and Amy, an erotic fiction author, discuss female power, controversy, male readers, novels ("For Better or Money," "For Love or Sanity," "Sink or Swim" - all 3 books are in a series of the same protagonist’s life), being a bartender, magazine views on spicing up your marriage, playsuits, where you can buy her books, and old cliches.
www.AmyMinty.com
E23 - Kay Gilman
Miss D and Kay discuss growing up with her father owning the New York Jets, her book "Inside the Pressure Cooker: A Season in the Life of the New York Jets," working with Asbury Park Press, being the first woman writer at The Daily News and Vogue, interviewing Evel Knievel, Billie Jean King, Joe Namath, and Joe Frazier, women in sports, her book "The Savvy
Woman’s Success Bible" (with co-author Tina Flaherty), her company Hemming and Gilman, Alzheimer’s, Football Players, female sportswriters today, and heavyweight boxers.
E22 - Dale Coudert
Miss D and Dale discuss helping women, Mad Men, Russia and her quest for women’s rights, forming Seeds of Peace with John Wallach, Palm Beach, working at the Aspen Institute and Metropolitan Institute of Art, the Coudert Institute, bringing people together to discuss serious issues and Cuba. Finally a joke about a man wanting to win the lottery and praying.
www.CoudertInstitute.org
E21 - Lexye Aversa, Part 2
Part 2:
Miss D and Lexye discuss the value of dealing with a travel agent, travel troubles, traveling with other people, Professional Touch International, and Franco Corso. (Franco Corso, the Voice of Romance, sings two songs).
www.LexTravelWorld.com www.FrancoCorso.com
E20 - Lexye Aversa, Part 1
Part 1
Miss D and Lexye discuss being an actress, tour director, her company "Professional Touch International," the languages she knows, her husband, what she’s learned from her years in customer relations, her radio shows, LexTravel, winning Best Global Event Planner, Sorrento, Stresa, and things that are better than normal travel.
www.LexTravelWorld.com
E19 - Courtney Moss
Miss D and Courtney discuss "Glamourpuss," working for Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Tommy Hilfiger, Christian Dior, being smart & sexy, luck, believing in yourself, her locations, and rose wine.
www.glamourpussnyc.com
E18 - Stories & Jokes
Miss D shares stories about exercise, Canyon Ranch in Arizona, airplane horror stories, bingo, shopping, listener George's airplane horror stories and some funny jokes (rabbits who promise to tell them about heaven when they die and God and Adam on women and reproducing).
E17 - Jenny Garrigues
Miss D and Jennifer discuss becoming a supermodel, airport stories, New York, West Palm Beach, her interior designer career, her boutique, traveling (Jenny has been on 25 trips with Antony Underwood), charity, her trunk shows, and the arts and antique shows she does.
www.JenniferGarrigues.com
E16 - Sebastian Keitel
Miss D and Sebastian discuss directing a TV news show, news behind the scenes, staying on camera, spring break, their quest to get Miss D on Jimmy Fallon and Miss D’s birthday party. Sebastian discusses being Miss D’s son.
E15 - Stories & Jokes
Miss D shares stories about airports (LAX, JFK), a bridesmaid fiasco, traveling with jewelry, her jewelry business, an Irishman’s Philosophy, a little boy who wants a bicycle and she tells jokes about nuns eating dogs in America.
E14 - Nadine Kalachnikoff
Miss D and Nadine discuss Nadine's parents' escape from the Nazis. Her mother (from Spain) and father (from Russia) met in Paris. Nadine’s father was friends with the Nazi General who was asked by Hitler to burn Paris. The General allowed Nadine’s family to travel to Spain and eventually to the US. In school Hemingway helped her on a paper on "The Old Man and the Sea" and it received an "F."
They also discuss costume balls, Dali, dyslexia, businesses she has started (pasta shop then catering company), Martha Stewart, gun safety, Lars Bolander showrooms, and butterfly canvases.
www.NadineKalachnikoff.com
E13 - Rochelle Ohrstrom
Miss D and Rochelle discuss "Ponzi and Picasso" (her acclaimed book about art scandals), the art world, the world's 168 Billionaires, art houses, movie ideas, branding/marketing artists, forgeries, the Rembrandt research project, curators, stolen art, the Whitney Museum and finally, they tell some jokes.
www.RochelleOhrstrom.com
E12 - Harry Hurt III
Miss D and Harry discuss flying a World War II airplane, quarterbacking the New York Jets, dancing with the New York City Ballet, The New York Times, his name, white water rafting, driving a race car on a Nascar track, polo, rock climbing, para-trooping and diving.
They also discuss his books "Texas Rich," "For All Mankind," "The Lost Tycoon:The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump" (Trump recently called him a dummy), "Chasing the Dream," "How to Learn Golf," "The Aim of Golf," and "Hurt Yourself."
Then Miss D tells her joke on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire.
www.HarryWorldOfHurt.com
E11 - Tarik Wildman
Miss D and Tarik discuss birds (parrots, turkey vultures, Griffin vultures, the Swift, crows, pigeons, blue-footed boobies, pelicans, peacocks, Capitoline geese, swans), migration of birds, snapping turtles, alligators, Bulls, Andalucia, and airplanes.
E10 - Stories & Jokes
Miss D shares stories of growing up, preparing for a triathlon, her mother’s Center Island home, Billy Joel, Billy Crystal, John Barry, Angie (Diane’s mother’s companion/live-in assistant who died), designing her house, and a very funny joke.
E09 - Antony Underwood
Miss D and Antony discuss trip organization, stories of animals on Miss D’s trip to India (elephants, old ladies, and tigers), stories of Miss D’s Cuba trip (wonderful dancers, Cuban cars, and general happiness), travel horror stories, traveling and alcohol, and upcoming trips.