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JASON
PRIESTLEY'S LOVE BOAT WEDDING
"Heartthrob
Jason Priestley has settled down at last -- he married the woman
who does his makeup in a romantic ceremony aboard a chartered
yacht."
Priestley,
29, had just come off a whirl of late-night parties and the Super
Bowl when he summoned his "Beverly Hills, 90210" pals
Brian Austin Green and Ian Ziering to Fort Lauderdale to witness
his marriage to Ashlee Petersen. Petersen, also 29, and Priestley
met on the set of "90210" three years ago and have had a
stormy courtship, breaking up three times, said an insider.
"Jason was nervous about the marriage, but now he's
fine," the insider said. "He's very much in love
with this classy lady."
Priestley booked the yacht only a few hours before the wedding.
The cost of the wedding, the boat and refreshments for the less
than three-hour cruise was $8,000, said a source.
The first person the happy couple called from the boat after the
ceremony was Ashley Judd, a close friend who also uses Petersen as
her makeup artist. "Even through the phone, you could hear
Ashley's scream of surprise throughout the boat," said a
source on the yacht.
The newlyweds, married by boat captain John Brandon -- and the
half-dozen guests dined on caviar, lobster and Dom Perignon
champagne on the 110-foot yacht, Lady Mary II.
The entire wedding party later debarked to attend a Billy Joel
concert, then partied and danced in Miami's South Beach. Priestley,
who remains an executive producer of "90210," left the
show four months ago. This is his first marriage. Petersen has a
4-year-old son by a previous marriage. Friends say Jason fell in
love with Ashlee because she's very down to earth.
"Ashlee is a celebrity makeup artist so it would take more
than being famous to impress her!" said another insider.
"Jason told me, 'Ashlee keeps me grounded and I needed that
so much."
(Article from:
National Enquirer)
LIVING
WITH THE LADIES
 Holy hot
headlines! Jason Priestley was with Barenaked Ladies In America.
"It was true," says Priestley, chuckling as he lounges
in a Park Hyatt Hotel suite yesterday. "Finally, the tabloids
got something right." Not really. Typically, the 31-year-old
is being playful and self-deprecating.
In this case, he's also grinning with pride. The reason? It's his
directorial chores on the Barenaked Ladies tour documentary,
Barenaked In America, showing tomorrow in the Real To Reel series
at the 24th Toronto film festival.
The movie features the band's tunes on stage, after-show
conversations, some poignant revelations and lots of humour.
That's thanks to the wise and witty editing by the Beverly Hills
90210 hunk. And that was after he spent 15 days on the rock 'n'
roll road with the local lads as they toured America's northeast
last fall.
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"And while we were shooting the documentary," Priestley
remembers of his shoot last September, "their song, One Week,
became the No. 1 single in America. "It was wonderful to
document that kind of thing, because they had worked so hard to
get there. Y'know, like it only took them 10 years to become
overnight sensations."
Priestley could take some credit for the American build-up,
although he never would. It was the 90210 star who persuaded
producers to show the Ladies on a 1994 TV episode. In fact, the
Vancouver-born Priestley had so much fun with his Toronto Ladies
that he went on to direct their Old Apartment video. But a
documentary? Not yet. Directing and acting chores on 90210 kept
him busy, as did lots of movie parts, but Priestley kept in touch
with his rock 'n' roll friends. A few years ago, Priestley met up
with the group at their Vegas Hard Rock show and decided to hitch
a tour bus ride with them to San Francisco. "The
conversations and antics along the way made me think that
somebody's got to get this down," says Priestley. When they
arrived in 'Frisco by 5 a.m. the next day, weary, dreary and
totally bus-lagged, the director in Priestley saw a moment that
convinced him a Barenaked Ladies movie was a must, and he must do
it. It went like this: Exterior Barenaked Ladies bus establish
shot: Singer-guitarist Steven Page standing before their retro
cool but well-worn hotel. Page, shaking his sleepy head, says to
Priestley, "The charm of this hotel is lost on me." Page
says this just before singer-guitarist Ed Robertson jumps
enthusiastically from the bus and runs into the hotel, proclaiming
along the way, "I love this place."
Tv special
Soon after, Priestley put his energy where his creative wishful
thinking was, pitched the idea, sold the idea and shot it as a
one-hour TV concert special and a 11/2-hour theatrical documentary.
"I tried to show their sense of humour, because they are all
different," says Priestley. "But I also tried to show
that a life on the road is not all fun and games." As an
actor, Priestley understands all about a nomadic existence. He
just wrapped a telefilm in L.A. called Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye,
attended the recent Vancouver car race, and he'll be in New York
next week after his festival duties here. Then it's back to
Toronto by the end of September for another telefilm, Common
Ground. Meanwhile, Priestly will be seen in the feature Eye Of The
Beholder with Ashley Judd by early next year. "I play a
heroin trafficker," Priestley reports, grinning, playful
again at the 90210 anti-casting. "And I love it."
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