I missed this article in the September, 2010, pjstar (excerpt below) about a Woodruff Grad doing a game show:Holmes, who graduated from Woodruff in 1994, has been entertaining since his days with the Woodruff Entertainers show choir. He last visited Peoria over Christmas. He had planned to visit for Woodruff High School graduation ceremonies this year but ended up getting hired for a Bud Light commercial, and had to cancel another visit for a family reunion when he was booked to start filming “Hole in the Wall.”
This morning Little One was watching something on TV that had her laughing hysterically. I went in to take a look and it was a hole int he Wall. Before I knew it, I was caught up in the laughs.
I detested Teck when he was on the Real World; but Hole in the Wall is funny. Check it out and support our homeboy Teck Money.
Teck Holmes Tapped For Host of Cartoon Network's Game Show, 'Hole In The Wall'
If you're an avid watcher of MTV's "Real World," and have been watching from the beginning, you probably remember Teck Holmes from the show's eight season in Hawaii from 1999.
He was one of the season's most crazy, fun and outrageous cast members.
Since then, Teck has been doing the acting thing, landing recurring and guest roles on different TV series, and even on commercials. He's even done a couple movies, including his independently produced "Nobody Smiling".
Most recently, Teck has been tapped as the host of an upcoming game show on the Cartoon Network called "Hole in the Wall," set to debut next Wednesday (October 6).
The new show is a "twisted" half-hour game show featuring two teams of families in competition as they face down a series of moving walls with ever-changing cut-out shapes.
On the show, "contortion is key as competitors must position their bodies in any way possible to clear the walls and avoid being thrust into a pool of water -- all before a live-audience," according to a press release.
As each contestant successfully face down each wall, the patterns become more and more challenging.
Apparently, the game show ran on FOX from 2008 to 2009, and was an adaptation of the Japanese game NÅkabe, which means "Brain Wall" and nicknamed by YouTube fans as "Human Tetris"). But, was pulled back in May 2009.
In addition to playing host on the show, Teck will be a co-star in the upcoming film "Douglass U" alongside Danity Kane's D. Woods, as well as a new Bud Light commercial currently airing.Source
4 comments:
Another entertainer... surprise surprise. Best of luck to the guy but where are the African-American engineers, scientists, researchers, business executives, etc...
My cousin, who is Afro-American, married one of my former Afro-American students who became a mechanical engineer at Caterpillar--now in business for himself. Little in his background would have made even him guess that he would end up with graduate degrees in engineering and computer science.
Black students do not have very many role models in the fields that you mentioned, so it's hard for them to think in terms of these fields.
In 1955 I was workiing at Caterpillar in Education and Training. Still in high school and not having known more than five black people in my life (maybe three), I still don't know why I asked the question, but I asked the man who hired college grads for Caterpillar if he would ever hire a black man (never gave women a thought myself). He said only if he could find a black man who was superior to all white candidates. That was only 50 years ago, so it's not hard too understand why there aren't many black students entering the field of engineering.
On another blog we have been discussing how executives (private and public sector) are chosen and someone mentioned networking. Black people have not yet mastered that art in the private sector. The only place where black people successfully network right now are mostly in the field of education and social work. Those are the two fields that opened up first for black college graduates in the 1960s.
It will take a while for the other fields to open up--and preparing and directing black students in those directions is a task for teachers in the public schools.
Academic standards have to be raised, not lowered as is the trend in public schools throughout the nation, if we want more black young people to be prepared for these fields in greater numbers.
Unfortunately, they still have few role models in these other fields. Remember that for many children the only college-educated people they get to know at an early age are teachers. Isn't it likely that all students gravitate toward professions that they have seen modeled or professions that are held by family members and friends.
I like Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. He is an astrophysicist. You see him on PBS. Granted he is taking on an 'entertainment' angle but the guy is a serious physicist. He is the first really publicly accessible space guy since Carl Sagan. (hard core scientists seem to lack good public skills in general, not so with Dr. Tyson) That he is black is full of win.
My little ones are totally into outer space things right now.
He didn't go to anything in Peoria but so what.
Mahkno: My Litlle One also likes Dr. Neil and his show on PBS.
I wasn't holding Teck up as a "black" anything. I was holding him up as a Woodruff Grad - a Peorian.
But your point is well taken.
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