Dan Gross: Seacrest's Voice is coming to Children's Hospital

April 07, 2011|By Dan Gross

"AMERICAN IDOL" host Ryan

Seacrest handpicked Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as the second site for his charitable foundation's closed-circuit broadcast multimedia center, The Voice, the hospital said yesterday.

The Voice, due to open this summer and be housed inside the hospital's Colket Atrium, will let patients engage in activities related to radio, TV and new media, such as broadcasting like a DJ, playing songs and conducting interviews.

What the hospital hasn't announced, but what we have on good authority, is that Seacrest will visit several times a year to broadcast his nationally syndicated radio show, heard here on Q102, from The Voice at CHOP.

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Philadelphia magazine's Victor Fiorillo recently broke the story of Seacrest's CHOP intentions and his visit to the hospital last fall, on Phillymag.com.

The Ryan Seacrest Foundation's first Voice location is at Children's Healthcare in Seacrest's hometown, Atlanta.

Happy Anniversary Chaka/Renee

Seems like just yesterday that every so-called political insider in town was calling to let us know that U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah and NBC10 anchor Renee Chenault-Fattah were divorcing.

That was during the 2007 mayor's race when several nasty and untrue rumors swirled, and we reported that this rumor fell into that category.

Today, the couple, whose wedding was called "The Wedding of the Century," on the cover of the Daily News, celebrate their 10th anniversary and the last laugh.

"The best election I ever won was when she said 'Yes'," the congressman told us yesterday. We asked if he had any special plans in mind for his anchor bride, and

Fattah told us he was planning a night out on the town. When asked if he meant Philadelphia or Washington, he clammed up and decided it best not to ruin any surprise. Good move, congressman.

Maybe Kendrick will buy it?

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