 Years later, he dated a friend of mine and would frequent the restaurant we worked at. The little girl crush always remained. Well, I get it. I get it. You know, back in the day, TV personalities, local TV personalities were huge stars. Huge stars. I remember when Gil Whitney came to our school to do an assembly about the weather. And it was like Ringo from the Beatles had shown up. I mean, he was just great. People loved him.