Barbara McMillian

Barbara McMillian – September 24, 1987 6:45AM

I wouldn’t say I’m some innovative spirit or something. I just happened to come around Pangea at the right time. My real life job was working the phones at WZRD, a talk radio station in St. Petersburg. So the idea for the show came from that. I knew that at work, the times where we got the most calls and when I was most busy was when we’d be talking about celebrities doing dumb stuff. The more funny and more mundane, the better. We’d get people calling in to say how they saw Madonna at an airport and she was eating McDonald’s. Or someone would call in to share a story about being on a subway with Richard Gere or something. People loved those segments. So I got the idea from that.

When I learned about Pangea and got my way around it, I started looking for ways to make a little money and the “Everyday Celeb” show was my best idea. Basically, I’d have people pay to join the exclusive group of viewers and when they were in, they’d be able to watch the dreams of whatever celebrity of the week we were featuring. The celeb got paid, we made some good money, and the viewers got to see how we all had the same type of dreams regardless of how famous people are. It worked out well. Obviously these were D level and Z level celebrities because who else would agree to it. But you get the idea. Eventually it got really big and celebrities started seeing that these low level personalities that were featured multiple times got a boost in their careers in real life. They would have all these new fans that would just love them and feel connected to em and not know why. It was because of “Everyday Celeb”. They were watching them when they were asleep and falling in love with them. So eventually we started getting bigger celebrities.

You’d go to bed never hearing a Boy George song and after you’ve seen his dreams for a week, the next thing you know you’ve bought all his albums.

So I know I didn’t change the way the world works or nothing and I didn’t fight some great war. But I feel like I contributed my little piece. And we’re all better for it.

Or worse. I’m not sure