You know, some celebrities spend their time on the beach drinking margaritas and wearing really God-awful one-piece Bob Marley bathing suits, and others dry hump their significant others like they’re teenagers all over again, and then you have some, more upstanding celebrities, that are on the lookout for one-year-old babies that they can save, and that, my friends, is the category that former ‘NSync-er JC Chasez falls into. From People:
JC Chasez proved himself a hero on New Year’s Day on a Miami beach when he saved the life of a 1-year-old girl after a helicopter flying too close to the ground sent an umbrella flying across the sand.
Those in the line of fire included little Shirel, her mother, Netali Nissim, and their family.
“Shirel is safe because of him,” Nissim, an Italian jeweler, told PEOPLE through her rep. “I want to tell him thank you from the bottom of my heart. If it had not been for him, my daughter could have been seriously hurt.”
According to the New York Post, which first reported the incident, the former ‘N Sync star, 35, and his girlfriend Nicole were on the beach adjacent to the Fontainebleau when the chopper started kicking up the winds. Acting quickly, Chasez was able to grasp the umbrella before it struck the child.
You know, no joke, those damn umbrellas can be a serious hazard on the beach. People never screw them into the sand the right way (myself included; what, did you think I possessed f-cking superhero, stake-driving strength along with this scathing wit?), and when the first strong gale of wind flies, those things turn into whirling, swirling projectiles that can seriously damage some stuff. Like others’ umbrellas, for example. I live at the beach, and do you have any ideas how many times I’ve had to buy replacement umbrellas over the past few years because someone had the same problem as me and couldn’t screw theirs into fluffy, easily-yielding sand?
I’ve had umbrellas fly at me (tuck and roll, bitches!), fly at my cooler and spill my lunch in the sand, fly at my umbrella, ripping the fabric and rendering it positively useless, and I’ll tell you – there’s just nothing scarier than seeing someone’s umbrella hurtling at you ass over kettle across the sand, watching it impale yours like it was its sole intention to begin with, and then see two of the bastards hurtling over the sand ass over kettle, looking for another umbrella to make a veritable trio of deadly, flying, projectiles bent on destroying everyone’s leisurely day at the beach.
These aren’t Mary Poppin’s umbrellas, you guys.
I seriously doubt they are ‘Italian’ jewelers with names like Shirel and Nissim.
Why not? They could be Italian Jews. There are Spanish citizens called Levy and Cohen. You know, Spanish Jews.
If they have Italian citizenship, they’re Italian after all. FIY they are Italian Jews.
His GIRLFRIEND? He’s not gay?
They meant “girlfriend”, not GIRLFRIEND, girlfriend. ;-)
Argle Bargle and Jess, you just made yourselves sound like complete butt wipes by saying that.