Celebrity Interviews

Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil "The Media Giant" Haley and Kim Sorrelle interview Phil Allocco.

PHIL ALLOCCO is a feature film and commercial writer/director. His work has garnered over 60 awards and nominations. He was one of the short-listed directors picked by Steven Spielberg from a world-wide search of over 12,000 directors for his US TV series On the Lot for FOX TV.

Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil "The Media Giant" Haley and co-host Lefty of Legacy Filmmakers interview Dean Israelite.

Dean Israelite is a South African film director, writer, and producer, best known for directing the found footage film Project Almanac, the 2017 reboot of Power Rangers, and the 2019 reboot of Are You Afraid of the Dark.

Aleks Paunovic was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to a Croatian mother and Serbian father. The result of this remarkable blend of bloodlines is the 6'5" ruggedly handsome actor appearing on screens around the world at a rapidly escalating rate.
Acting came to Aleks while he was onstage in his hometown playing in a heavy metal band, his livelihood since he was 16. Remarkably the role offered was one completely against type as it was that of Roddy McDowall's butler in the 1994 TV movie 'Heads'. Now bitten with the acting bug, Aleks combined his athleticism from his lifetime of boxing - he claims that he started boxing in the womb as all of the men in his family are boxers - and turned it into a very busy career as a stunt actor.
In 2001 Aleks stopped in Vancouver on his way to Los Angeles with an impressive resume and ready to take on Hollywood when the most horrible event in America's recent history struck. 911 changed the way anyone could enter the states and so Aleks found himself a new home and career in busy Vancouver.

Martin Kove is an American actor. He is best known for his role as John Kreese, the main antagonist of The Karate Kid. He reprised the role in The Karate Kid Part II, The Karate Kid Part III, and the television series Cobra Kai.

Steve Treviño is “America’s Favorite Husband.” He can “speak wife fluently,” he never calls “the guys” for help on a home project, and he knows better than to “make his own decisions,” since decision-making is a privilege reserved solely for his wife, Renae. He’s currently on his 2024 Simple Life tour.

His relatable approach affirms his status as one of the country’s fastest-rising comics, viewed over 223 million times, selling out shows coast-to-coast, amassing over 2 million total social media followers, and headlining specials for Amazon, NETFLIX, Showtime, and more. His most recent stand-up special, I Speak Wife is currently streaming on YouTube.

In 2020, he and his wife, Renae, unveiled a joint weekly podcast entitled “Steve Treviño and Captain Evil,” that has generated over 1.5 million views/streams and is now in Season 3.

Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil "The Media Giant" Haley interviews Lenny Clarke.

Lenny Clarke famous for his thick Boston accent. During the 1970s, as related in the Comedy Central roast of Clarke's friend Denis Leary, Clarke ran for mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. When asked by Leary what his platform was, Clarke replied "Fuck the Kennedys". Clarke had buttons and bumper stickers made with this slogan on them. In an attempt to spark interest in his campaign, Clarke stole a Boston bus and began driving it around until he realized it was just him driving a bus. Clarke then began to pick up random people and drop them at their doors.

Clarke was the most famous "saloon comic" in Boston during the 1980s, the heyday of the Boston comedy scene. The DVD release When Standup Stood Out (2006) details Clarke's early career and affiliations with other famous Boston comics, such as Steven Wright and Denis Leary, his good friends. In 1980, Clarke wrote and starred in a local television show Lenny Clarke's Late Show featuring Wright and Leary, in collaboration with Boston comedy writer Martin Olson. Clarke and Olson were roommates, and their apartment, known by comedians as "The Barracks", was a notorious "crash pad" for comics visiting Boston, and the subject of a documentary film as Clarke and Leary explain in When Standup Stood Out.

Since his early days in Boston, Clarke starred in his own short-lived network sitcom Lenny (1990), and in such TV shows as Contest Searchlight, The Job, The John Larroquette Show and It's All Relative and movies like Monument Ave., Fever Pitch and Southie. As of 2006, Clarke appears in the recurring role of Uncle Teddy on the FX comedy-drama Rescue Me.

Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil "The Media Giant" Haley interview Adam Glassman.

Adam Glassman has been creative director of Oprah Daily, formerly known as O, The Oprah Magazine, since 2000, overseeing the style pages, all aspects of the magazine’s cover shoots, and the highly anticipated "O Favorite Things."

Glassman has been fielding questions from Oprah Daily readers on a wide range of fashion topics, and was a pioneer in using “real women” for fashion shoots in the magazine.

Prior to joining Oprah Daily, Glassman was a contributing editor to house & garden and style director at Self magazine. He has also worked as a freelance stylist and art director for clients including GAP, Ethan Allen, Spanish Vogue, Saks Fifth Avenue, and London Fog, to name a few.

Glassman serves as a correspondent for “Extra.” Sharing his expertise, style, and wit with millions of viewers earned him a Daytime Emmy Award in 2016. He appears regularly on “Good Morning America,” “The View,” and other national television shows.

A New York native, he currently lives in Manhattan.

Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil "The Media Giant" Haley and Spiffy Sean Styles interview Riley Voelkel.

Riley Emilia Voelkel was born in Elk Grove, California, Riley Voelkel's family moved to Calgary, Alberta, Canada when she was a child and she grew up in Sacramento, California. As a youth she was heavily involved in athletics, her family and schoolwork.

Riley was discovered during a modeling audition and she lost no time in taking advantage of that opportunity. She moved to Los Angeles and threw herself into the acting world. With her natural talent for the arts it did not take long before she was booking commercials and acting full time.

Her first acting role was as a club girl in the Oscar nominated film The Social Network, directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. From there Riley's career took off and she quickly booked roles in such hit series as The Mentalist, Glee, and American Horror Story.

She worked once again with Aaron Sorkin when she was cast as student turned assistant Jenna Johnson in HBO's award-winning The Newsroom opposite Jeff Daniels. More roles followed culminating in perhaps her best-known role to date, Freya Mikaelson in CW's The Vampire Diaries spin-off, The Originals. Voelkel played Freya for four seasons (2014 to 2018) and reclaimed her role when she guest-starred on the second season of Legacies.

Voelkel was then cast in the recurring role of Jenna Cameron in CW's science fiction drama series, Roswell, New Mexico. From there she has taken on her most challenging role yet in the Jerry Bruckheimer produced Starz series Hightown, that of Renee Segna, former exotic dancer and fiancé to a drug kingpin.

Today on The Neil Haley Show and The Love Is Podcast, Neil "The Media Giant" and Kim Sorrelle interview Adam Gamal.

Adam Gamal (pseudonym), one of the only Muslim Arab Americans to serve in "The Activity," or "The Unit" (as the Department of Defense has asked us to refer to it) has written one of the most explosive and unlikely stories of immigration, service and sacrifice: THE UNIT: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America's Most Secret Military Operatives (On Sale February 20, 2024). Let me know if you think this is of interest to you for Snap Judgement.

Within the U.S. military there is a team so secretive that not only is the name of this unit classified, its members are like ghosts to the military personnel. Even the VA doesn't have them listed. This is the world Adam Gamal lived. As a young boy he fled Egypt to come to the U.S. to escape from the Muslim Brotherhood. He spoke no English, stood 5'1", 112lbs, and hardly cut the figure of a future soldier.

Today on The Neil Haley Show and The Love Is Podcast, Neil "The Media Giant" Haley and Kim Sorrelle interview Scott Valentine.

Scott Valentine was born and raised in Saratoga Springs, New York and first discovered acting at age five doing plays in his parents' garage. He appeared in a few high school plays, but didn't pursue acting as a career until his second semester of college. He moved to New York City and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where he completed the school's three-year program in a year and a half. He held a few odd jobs such as short order cook and researcher for a publishing firm, and he won a few roles off-off Broadway. He signed a contract for a daytime soap and was about to screen test for a role in the feature film, "Lords of Discipline" but was accidently hit by a truck on September 17, 1981. After three years of convalescing, he left New York for Los Angeles where he landed the part of Nick Moore on the hit series, Family Ties (1982).