While at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this month, I got an e-mail from Stuart Wilson, who is part a part of DISTREE, that he had seen me on a BBC news report at CES.
This rather intrigued me as I hadn't spoken to any press while I was there except for a short phone interview I had done with Dubai Eye, so I wondered what I was doing in the BBC news report. Stuart was kind enough to send me a link and much to my amazement, I was indeed in a story the BBC had done in Vegas called "Booth Babes Stir Controversy at 2012 CES."
I know the old adage of "What happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas" but the BBC could've blown my cover if I was indeed a part of the story. Sadly though, the image of me on camera was only a brief one as there is a shot of a female model at the Nikon booth at CES and there I am walking past her, looking at my phone, not realizing that I'm on camera (The link to the story can be seen by clicking here and fast forwarding to 2:18 mins into the story to see me).
This isn't the first time I've become a by-product of a scandalous story as I came on ESPN's website several years ago in a story called "Murder by Cricket" which was about the death of Bob Woolmer, Pakistan's cricket coach during the ICC World Cup. I just happened to be staying at the same hotel as the journalist who wrote the story and I never knew he was doing a story on Bob Woolmer. I was just having a casual chat with him and he said he may use a few quotes for a story he was doing on cricket in general.
In any case, I learned my lesson. The next day at CES, I saw a camera crew from Sky News and I made it a point to walk around them and remain as far out of the camera's shot as possible as I think I had my fair share of would-be scandal for this year.
This rather intrigued me as I hadn't spoken to any press while I was there except for a short phone interview I had done with Dubai Eye, so I wondered what I was doing in the BBC news report. Stuart was kind enough to send me a link and much to my amazement, I was indeed in a story the BBC had done in Vegas called "Booth Babes Stir Controversy at 2012 CES."
I know the old adage of "What happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas" but the BBC could've blown my cover if I was indeed a part of the story. Sadly though, the image of me on camera was only a brief one as there is a shot of a female model at the Nikon booth at CES and there I am walking past her, looking at my phone, not realizing that I'm on camera (The link to the story can be seen by clicking here and fast forwarding to 2:18 mins into the story to see me).
This isn't the first time I've become a by-product of a scandalous story as I came on ESPN's website several years ago in a story called "Murder by Cricket" which was about the death of Bob Woolmer, Pakistan's cricket coach during the ICC World Cup. I just happened to be staying at the same hotel as the journalist who wrote the story and I never knew he was doing a story on Bob Woolmer. I was just having a casual chat with him and he said he may use a few quotes for a story he was doing on cricket in general.
In any case, I learned my lesson. The next day at CES, I saw a camera crew from Sky News and I made it a point to walk around them and remain as far out of the camera's shot as possible as I think I had my fair share of would-be scandal for this year.
