News Archive January 2011
From: Times & Transcript
Posted: January 22, 2011
Monctonian marketing wunderkind Brad LeBlanc can take KISS frontman Gene Simmons's impressions of his recent visit to the city as both a humbling and a head-swelling experience.
Although the star of the Family Jewels reality TV show does refer to Mr. LeBlanc as 'Matt' at one point on his website (http://genesimmons.com/) account of his stay in town, he's also blown away by the fact a guy so young can pull off an event like last weekend's Atlantic Brand Confabulation at Moncton's fabulous Casino New Brunswick.
"This 22 year old has more chutzpah and business grit than professionals I have met twice his age," says Mr. Simmons, who predicts Mr. LeBlanc's company Momentum Group (which also brought Sir Richard Branson to town last year) will go "very far."
Mr. Simmons and longtime girlfriend, Newfoundlander Shannon Tweed (a former Playmate of the Year and once romantically involved with now-octogenarian Playboy Magazine publisher and recently remarried-for-the-umpteenth-time Hugh 'The Mack Daddy' Hefner) stayed at the casino's hotel and got a chuckle at fellow guests who seemed a little star-struck.
The fire alarm went off in the middle of the night and Mr. Simmons suspects, since there wasn't any fire, that "someone wanted to get a look at us."
Incidentally the rock star did get Mr. LeBlanc's name right in all his other on-line entries about the event, but also misspelled 'Frederikton.'
