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November 3, 2009 
http://cotswold.greatbritishlife.co.uk/editorial-image/id/2644/?qid=0&?back= 
http://hubgreen.com 

            Emma Cut the Ribbon at the Hub Green Launch!
                                 
Pictures are from
Cotswold Life

the Article is
Gloucestershire Echo- March 26, 2008.

When new Stroud company Hub Green had its official launch the ribbon cutting ceremony was a little different.

Dynasty star Emma Samms cut a 'ribbon' made of plastic bottles and tin cans to declare Hub Green officially up and running.

The new, mainly internet-based business, aims to make recycling easier with a wide range of products, such as bins for separating waste and storage units.

"Recycling is getting bigger all the time and will be the main waste disposal method of the future," said Jason Turk, co-founder of the company.

"With legislation saying that all packaging will be recyclable, all the next generation will know is recyclable rubbish."

Emma has given her support to new business. She was happy to cut the ribbon at the business which is based in an environmentally friendly headquarters in Lightpill.

"Hub Green supplies products which are designed to help make recycling easier," said marketing manager Neil Wilson.

"We make a wooden structure to house recycling bins, as well as wheeled bin caddies and recycling hub."

Emma said: "Having children makes you concerned for the future - but also makes you incredibly busy.

"You feel so good when you see the enormous pile of recycling, and waste for the compost heap, next to a tiny bag which is going to landfill."

Visit www.hubgreen.com

              
              

                                          PARTY OF THE WEEK

The illustrator Daisy de Villeneuve, the surrealist painter Marie Guerlain, and the painter Natasha Law, Jude's sister, were at a glitzy fund-raiser for the Starlight Children's Foundation at the Saatchi Gallery.

They were just a few of a host of well-known figures from the world of art and design who had come together to run a series of workshops, inspiring children to create artworks, which were exhibited and sold at the Saatchi Gallery to raise money for the charity.

Kate Middleton stole the limelight wearing a full-length grey Issa dress, when she arrived with her boyfriend, Prince William.

The charity, which grants wishes to seriously ill children, was founded by the Dynasty actress Emma Samms 21 years ago.

Even the footballer Sol Campbell turned up as he had donated his football shirt and boots, worn when he played for Portsmouth in the FA Cup Final in 2008, for the after-dinner auction.

Vivienne Westwood's wacky hand-painted rocking horse, with safety pins on the saddle cloth, fetched 10,000, while Bob and Roberta Smith's colourful painting I Believe in Michael Jackson went for 5,500.

Guests also had a chance to see the Saatchi's current show, Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, including Guerra de la Paz's sculpture Nine, which is made of found clothes, as well as some garish paintings by a new generation of emerging US artists.

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       Variety the Children's Charity in Iowa
 
           received the Gold Heart Award! 


An email from Variety announces

"On behalf of Variety — the Children’s Charity, I am happy to announce that Iowa received Variety International’s highest honor, the Gold Heart Award at the 2009 Variety International Convention in London, England.  The criteria for the award was based on the spirit of the local organization, the impact on the children in our community, the efficiency of operations, the fundraising efforts and the participation in Variety’s worldwide events.  It was based on the fiscal year October 2007 through September 2008."

see a video made by Variety here

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd4O9P8ZQuA

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                    Daily Mail-  May 14, 2009

Actress dances for joy

If it wasn't for her hip damage at the age of 15, millions of TV viewers would have been deprived of watching Emma Samms as Fallon in the glitzy Eighties soap Dynasty.

Living her dream: Emma Samms

But despite the fame the show brought her, the shapely star always regretted that injury forced her to give up her place at the Royal Ballet School and her dream of becoming a professional dancer.

Now, some 33 years later, Emma tells me she is reprising her ambition and preparing to appear with Adam Cooper, well-toned star of Matthew Bourne's all-male Swan Lake, at Sadler's Wells
in July.

'It's so exciting to finally use the training I worked on for all those years,' says thrice-married Emma, 48, whose Starlight Children's Foundation is supported by royal girlfriend Kate Middleton.

'How my name came up for the part, I have no idea.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1181346/McAlpine-ex-calls-second-marriage.html

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Cooper to lead cast of Richard Rodgers tribute at

                      Sadler’s Wells

Published Tuesday 28 April 2009 at 16:28 by Lalayn Baluch

http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/24249/cooper-to-lead-cast-of-richard-rodgers

International dance star Adam Cooper is set to choreograph and perform in Shall We Dance, a tribute to late composer Richard Rodgers, which will receive its world premiere at Sadler’s Wells this summer.

Best known for his partnerships with lyricists Oscar Hammerstein II and Lorenz Hart, Rodgers composed more than 900 songs and 40 musicals before his death in 1979.

Shall We Dance has been created to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of the Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony award-winning composer, and features music from the likes of South Pacific, Oklahoma and the King and I.

The show follows the story of one man’s journey around the world, from the Orient to the Wild West, to find true love.

The 40-strong cast of dancers and musicians will be led by Cooper, who in 2003 won the Critics’ Circle Dance award for Best Musical Choreography for On Your Toes, and appeared in 2000 film Billy Elliot as the adult Billy.

Playing alongside Cooper will be Emma Samms, who over the years has appeared in television shows including Dynasty, Holby City and The New Adventures of Superman.

Cooper’s production will open on July 23 and run until August 30.

 
               
                              click photo to link to article on the ew.com website

 Emma Samms to return to General Hospital!

EW has learned that fan favorite Emma Samms (and her alter-ego, Holly Sutton Scorpio) will return to General Hospital, just in time for May sweeps.  Samms, who started on the show in 1982, and was last seen there in the summer of 2006, starts taping at the end of April, with scenes to air mid-May, says a show insider.  Little is known about the upcoming story arc, but Holly will be reconnecting with a lot of older characters, such as old flame Luke(Anthony Geary), as well as, younger characters, including Lulu (Julie Berman) and newcomer Ethan (Nathan Parsons).  So far, her other paramour, Robert Scorpio (Tristan Rogers), is not set to return as well, but "there's always a possibility that other vets will be returning," says the source.  Samms, who also played Fallon Carrington Colby on Dynasty, is not on contract and her stint in open ended.

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         Variety Children's Charity raised
  
                 $3,170,830 this year!

               For telethon information, click on the logo below.
  
             
  
You can help raise money for the telethon by

donating to the Variety Children's Charity by 

going to their website.  All the money donated 

goes to improving the lives of children in need.

Please consider donating to this fantastic group!


                    
    

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Kate Middleton is joining forces with Emma and the Starlight Foundation to give 10,000 sick children a Merry Christmas!! 

Follow the link to the full story...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1063278/Kate-joins-Dynastys-Fallon-charity-work.html

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           Emma attended "Miss You Can Do It" Pageant 
                     in the summer of 2008

**There is an article about the event beneath the pictures now.**

 A photo of Emma and Pop Singer Lindee Link  from the event!



Abbey Curran is the Founder and Director of the "Miss You Can Do It" Pageant and Miss Iowa 2008!   For more information about the Miss You Can Do It Pageant,

Please visit-  http://missyoucandoitpageant.com/

 By Dave Clarke
Winners of the fifth annual Miss You Can Do It pageant held in Petersen Auditorium Saturday night were, Daleney Teske, Little Miss You Can Do It; and standing, Alexandra Schmitt, Ms. You Can Do It; Aly Long-Rhinehart, 2008 Miss You Can Do It; and Breezy Dunn-Reier, Junior Miss You Can Do It. More photos on page A3. By DAVE CLARKE Of The Star Courier UTOPIA — It happened again. Petersen Auditorium was transformed into a magical place where — for just one night — dreams could come true for girls and young women with special needs and challenges. They came from both coasts and as far away as England Saturday night to fill the house for the fifth annual Miss You Can Do It pageant founded by Abbey Curran, a 20-year-old Kewanee co-ed with Cerebral Palsy who has made her life’s mission proving people wrong who say she can’t do something. She is the reigning Miss Iowa USA. There were 37 girls and young women between the ages of 5 and 23 who came to Kewanee from Michican, Minnisota, Iowa, and California, as well as across Illinois. Aly Long-Rhinehart, 16, of Fontana, Calif., was inspired by Curran after she saw her on the “Ellen De Generes Show” on You Tube. She looked up the

pageant website, entered, traveled halfway across the Unites States to Kewanee, Ill., and was crowned 2008 Miss You Can Do It. Her goal is to become the first person with a disability to be in the cast of “High School Musical.” “This is a whole new world that opens just one nithe pageant progrght a year,” Curran wrote in her message in am. “A world where wishing on stars and dreaming big is an everyday event and a world where everyone has an equal opportunity. You are now in Utopia!” Each contestant took part in an interview with the judges prior to the pageant and were judged Saturday night in casualwear, formalwear and an on-stage question. Susia Saylor, of Atkinson’s response to the question “If you could do anything, what would it be?” was “Walk — so I could get places faster.” The answer won here the award in the 19-to-23 age category. The five judges were introduced as each having an impact on Curran’s life and included Rita Borrows, of Galva, business teacher at Kewanee High School; Dr. Shirley Barrett, former Miss Texas and MIss America 1975; Shawn Diddy, 1997 Miss Iowa USA who has hosted shows on the Food Network and HGTV and was emcee of the 2008 Miss Iowa USA Pageant; Rhoni Perrine, of Geneseo, advertising executive with the Moline Dispatch whose sister and pageant volunteer Tudi Edwards, of Princeton, died last year from cancer; and Emma Samms, star of TV’s “General Hospital” and “Dynasty.” Samms, who now lives outside of London, met Curran this winter while she and the reigning Miss Iowa USA were working at a Variety Club telethon in Des Moines. She and director Steven Spielberg are involved in a fondation for seriously ill children and was touched when she learned about Curran’s pageant. Emcee for the pageant was Gary Kroeger, who was a member of the cast of “Saturday Night Live” from 1982-85 and is now associate creative director for an advertising agency in his hometown of Cedar Falls, Iowa. Winner of the Little Miss You Can Do It division for girls ages 5 to 9 was Daleney Teske, of Carroll, Iowa. Winner of the Junior Miss You Can Do It division for girls ages 10 to 14 was Breezy Dunn-Reier, of Montgomery. Winner of the Miss You Can Do It division for girls ages 15 to 18 was Aly Long Rhinehart, of Fontana, Calif. Winner of the Ms. You Can Do It division for young women ages 19 to 23 was Alexandra Schmitt, of Brighton, Minn. Local entries winning awards included Kenna Nimrick, of Kewanee, who won the Best Casualwear award in the Little Miss division; Carlye Akers, of Geneseo, who won Best Casualwear in Junior Miss; Natasha Nimrick, of Kewanee, who won Best Interview in Junior Miss; Abby Thorp, of Kewanee, who won Best Interview in the Miss division; Susie Saylor, of Atkinson, who won Best On-Stage Question in the Ms. division; and Morgan Thorp, of Kewanee, who was second runner-up in the Miss division. The People’s Choice Award, chosen by donations placed in containers for each contestant the night of the pageant, went to Anna Gulick, of Wheaton, who received $1,408, half of the $2,816 raised. Pageant board member Danny Conner, of Kewanee, told the audience “I can only imagine what it must be like to be a parent and learn your newborn baby has Cerebral Palsy or some other special need. You think ‘No sports. No prom. Maybe no wedding.’ Then along somes someone named Abbey Curran who gives your daughter a chance to be in a pageant and make her dream come true. Thank you, Abbey, for giving these girls this night!” The pageant may also be on television. Independent producer Ron Davis, of New York City, who is creating a documentary on the pageant for consideration by HBO, filmed portions of the event. A portion of the entertainment was provided by the Flip Top Tumblers from the Kewanee YMCA. Concluding her program message, Curran told the contestants “I hope you leave this pageant knowing this was a stepping stone, that as long as you truly believe in yourself, every dream can come true!”