[Kelly_mv]

[Kelly_mv]

Leanne- thanks for the recap I'm glad things worked out so nicely for you there

Originally Posted by ramgirl (View Post) I tried to download the radio interview but i can't would anyone like to sum the highlights, cause the lil bits that i've heard about the interview have made really want to listen to it!!

I'm trying to remember now... the only things (other than the usual questions about the show) was him saying he wants a family, that his dad's Italian side came through New Orleans, and that he speaks only a little Italian. They (both men, and hetrosexual so it was meant to be funny) joked that they thought Milo was more attractive than Adrian in person and if they were in prison then Milo would be who they would go after, which Adrian said he in no way minded that Milo would be first .

[ramgirl]

thanks for that Kelly

[boredliteratireader]

Leanne......thanx a lot for sharing everything with us....was great reading about it.....you must have had a blast...
Milo seems like such a great guy...
and the video is awesome....you guys shouting out DSC..and him responding...loved it.....

[-smack-]

Originally Posted by ramgirl (View Post) I tried to download the radio interview but i can't would anyone like to sum the highlights, cause the lil bits that i've heard about the interview have made really want to listen to it!!

I made an MP3 file HERE.

Loved what he said about Adrian's kids, being so beautiful and smart.

[PGGF]

Thanks so much for all of the clips, pics, experiences, downloads, etc... I've been gone for a couple of days and I'm so glad that I have so much to catch up on. Thanks again.

[22.8_miles_away]

Originally Posted by -smack- (View Post) I made an MP3 file HERE.

Thank you so much!
It's so cute. Uncle Milo and Adrian as the flying dad. I love it.

[Roswell 10/2/00]

Hysterical Video I found of Adrain and Milo and the Heroes cast in Paris!

YouTube - Bone Marrow Meltdown # 9

I loved the UK Interview that was so endearing the part when Milo was talking about Adrians kids and parents and his family and how he wants kids of his own! So sweet!

I don't care who you are but there is just something so sweet and endearing when a man talks about children!

[ramgirl]

thanks for that MP3 file hopfully it'll work i'll have to try it later along with the vids thanks for all the new news always wonderful coming home to it

[arieanna81]

Originally Posted by i-miLOVEntimiglia (View Post) Hey guys, For any non belivers of Milo knowing my name. There is video evidence! YouTube - Heroes World Tour - London And also, my Comic Con experience is below : ] Enjoy. P.s - i want Milo's children! London Film and Comic Convention 2007. What an Experience. I got up at 5am and set off to London for my first ever London CC. I was really excited but also scared as i was going to meet people whom i was a huge fan of. When ever i go to cons, i never judge the celebs, because they are probally, tired/bored/fed up if they have had a hetic week - which all of the Heroes Cast have. We arrived at the Convention quite late, due to messed up trains and me getting stranded on a tube by myself, haha! ; ] We got into line and waited, the que moved in quite quickly, and as i was with people who hadnt ever been to a convention, they didnt quite realise what it was going to be like, so i was running around getting my differant tickets for differant things and they were stood in shock! haha : ] Once i had got all of the tickets i needed, me and my wonderful friends decided to look around the stalls and look for more of our friends. By this time, we had a crew of Myself, Laura, Jase, Wilko and Robyn, and then we met Siaan and her friends. Siaan was really cute and made me a picture frame which reads "Leanne of the DSC" "DSC for Life" with one of the pictures from friday init, which i thought was adorable! We then saw some friends that i new from Collectormania who had told me they were a really late number ticket for Milo, but managed to get in. So we tried our luck, AND WE GOT IT. The person on the que also saw my frame with the picture init and thought that was really cool aswell so i was like whhhooop. So we were queing for Milo and i was ****ting myself once again. He first saw Wilko and said to his PA "Hey look its my crew" which totally made me giggle. He then saw me and said to us both "We didnt really get a chance to chat on friday, so now we will" I think we were some of the only people that day who got a really long conversation with him. We talked about alot of things, he said that Dino told him that we sent him a tahankyou, and me and Wilko were like. "It was more of an essay" and then i told him we had done a video aswell but hadnt uploaded it yet. I think me and Wilko then told him we adored his "Butter" Video and he smiled and told us how Adrian shot that. We talked a little more about lots of randon things, and by this point i had given him my picture to sign. It was one of the really old Gilmore Girls pictures and he was like "Ahh man i hate this picture" i was like "I love it so tough haha!" He signed it anyway and wrote "Leanne, I hate this picture, But i love the DSC , Milo Ventimiglia" Which was awesome. I then showed him my photoframe that Siaan made me and he then said how he will upload our pictures from firday soon, but he hadnt had a chance yet as he cant really catch his breath at the moment, I told him i totally understood that he was busy.. poor bloke. He then signed that which was awesome! We chatted a tad more before we left him, and said our goodbyes. Little did he know he would be seeing me alot more haha! We then went and qued for Haydens Photoshoot, which took SO LONG. it was unbelivable. When i got into the shoot Hayden was still looking tiny, but in the sexyest pair of heels ever! She said i looked cute, the photo was taken and i had to leave. Then came Jacks Photoshoot. When Jack came out of the Green Room myself and a couple others cheered for him and he smiled and said thankyou. While waiting for Jacks shoot, Milo and Adrian were going to Lunch, and as he walked past me he smiled at me and i smiled back. A few people around me were like... wtf? Then i went in for Jacks shoot, he was awesome. I shouted DILF! as i left the photobit and everyone outside laughed. (C'mon he is a DILF!!) By this time most of the celebs were on for lunch, so we caught a bite and then set off to get more Auto's. Next came Adrian. To be honest i think he was really tired of signing, but he smiled at me and shook my hand, so i was happy. Next came Jack, who was might i ask a legend. His security spotted my frame and took it to show jack one of the people in the photo who was apparently a "jerk" and then i said to jack "Thats me!" and he was like, "oooooo thats you!" Next came Adrian and Milo's shoot! Now i wanted to go at the back so i could maybe have like another 5 second chat with Milo, so i arrived fashionbly late, but there were still like 100 people behind me so i was abit bummed. However, i was about third to the front and Milo spotted me and smiled at me - again. So i new he had sin me. When i went in for the shoot, we kind of grabbed eachother (it felt like he was grabbing me, but someone said i was grabbing him, so im just taking it as a group grab!) and Adrian was just kind of like.. okayyyy? I then left and told him to have a safe journey home. After that i went and got Haydens Auto - Bless her, By the time i saw her she was basically in tears, tired and jujst generally looking drained, she signed my photo with a "Hayden" and i left after telling her to take damn good care of herself. After that, we went to wait by the greenroom - to where i nearly fell asleep on the floor, just to shout "Bye" to the guests. (i like saying bye and thankyou - they have given up a day for you) And i did, Milo saw me again and said bye : ] After that we set off on our mission home from this amazing day. Ide Like to say thankyou to all attending guests, this convention has been my fave so far (It topped the Supernatural one in March - yes it did!)

Great story. Do you mind if I show the "Jess" signed picture on GilmoreGirlsNews.com ?

[Roswell 10/2/00]

More Heroes UK Style the famous Heathrow Bobbies

YouTube - Heathrow Bobbies

[Doodle_Diggle]

"DILF" Sounds like you had a good time, it's just awesome how Milo recognized you.

He signed it anyway and wrote "Leanne, I hate this picture, But i love the DSC , Milo Ventimiglia" Priceless stuff.

Originally Posted by Roswell 10/2/00 (View Post) More Heroes UK Style the famous Heathrow Bobbies YouTube - Heathrow Bobbies

I am doing a lot of laughing today, thanks guys. It cheers me up.

[ramgirl]

The MP3 file worked!!! Thanks so much it was a funny interview and so were those videos thanks Erin.

[Kelly_mv]

Originally Posted by PGGF (View Post) I've been gone for a couple of days...

Welcome back!

Originally Posted by -smack- (View Post) I made an MP3 file HERE. Loved what he said about Adrian's kids, being so beautiful and smart.

Hey Jess! I'm really sorry, but you've been breaking the main rule of Milo's board.... no lurking It's great seeing you post again and I hope all is well with you. I hope to see some new avatars from you soon. And thanks for creating that download I added it to yesterdays news.

[Kelly_mv]

Milo is in the new issue of Men's Fitness Magazine, and he also made the cover:

You can see the pictures- HERE

Milo Ventimiglia
by Albert Kim; photography by Andrew Macpherson

Not too long ago, Milo Ventimiglia went on a date. Nothing elaborate, just dinner with a woman he’d known for a while, though mainly in passing. As the evening progressed and his companion began to learn more about the 30-year-old star of NBC’s hit drama Heroes, the young lady grew increasingly uncomfortable. Finally, recalls the actor, she blurted out: “So you’re polite, you don’t drink, you don’t smoke, you’re a vegetarian, you keep yourself fit, and you’re successful. What’s wrong with you?”

Of course, this being Hollywood, where male stars of the moment come in essentially two flavors—fast-moving party boys destined to flame out by the next Star magazine news cycle, or brooding angsters who wear their codependencies on their black-denim sleeves—one can understand the poor girl’s confusion. Ventimiglia defies easy categorization. Take his recent sprint to stardom in Heroes, last year’s top-rated new drama. As conflicted underachiever Peter Petrelli, Ventimiglia found himself playing the central character in one of the most successful new shows in recent TV history. Many actors would have been content to sit back and let the hero worship wash over them.

Instead, Ventimiglia threw himself headlong into a series of other horizon-broadening projects, each indulging a different facet of his personality. Milo the actor, who had already gained notice for his feature work as Sylvester Stallone’s overshadowed son in last year’s Rocky Balboa, took on the lead role in Pathology, a dark psychological thriller co-starring Alyssa Milano. (The movie opens in theaters Nov. 30.) Meanwhile Milo the entrepreneur, head of his own production company, partnered with clothingmaker American Eagle to produce and direct a series of short films for the company’s Web site. (The shorts also aired during the commercial breaks on the premiere of MTV’s The Real World: Sydney in August.) Even Milo the teen idol—who had gained legions of fans during a four-season stint as prepubescent lust object Jess Mariano on The Gilmore Girls—got into the act, shooting a steamy music video with Fergie, for which he spent most of the time shirtless.

“He’s a single guy on the hottest show on television,” says Sendhil Ramamurthy, who plays Heroes’ questing academic Mohinder Suresh. “He could have become that guy, the one who’s out every night doing whatever it is young Hollywood guys do. But that’s not Milo. He’s incredibly focused, and he knows what he wants. And I have no doubt that he’s going to get it.”

Adds Heroes executive producer Tim Kring: “Milo’s going to have one of these huge careers that is very much in the director-actor-producer category. He’ll be able to control his own projects. He’s a very impressive guy.”

Less than impressive, as Ventimiglia himself will admit, was his not-so-heroic physique when production on the show first got under way. “I was very slightly built. I didn’t have a lot of man weight on me,” says Ventimiglia. “I wasn’t really grown up.” Ironically, that may have actually helped him land his role. Show creator Kring was specifically looking for an actor who could play someone on the cusp of manhood. “When we first meet Milo’s character, Peter,” says Kring, “he’s a bit lost and unsure of what his role in life is. Then, through the course of the season, he had to go from that to becoming a leading man. So he had to grow into that.”

It was a development challenge that Ventimiglia embraced and, in fact, had already been plotting: “Right after I got back from shooting Rocky [in December 2005], I looked in the mirror and said, ‘OK, I’m not a teenager anymore.’ I still looked young but I didn’t have a baby face. It was kind of a critical point, careerwise, where I needed to start going for the roles that were older. So I tried to get my physique to match and become more of a man.”

Though Ventimiglia, a Southern California native, had always led an active lifestyle (“I grew up skateboarding and snowboarding, and I surfed a little bit”), he had never had a formal fitness regimen. A recent breakup with his long-term girlfriend, Gilmore actress Alexis Bledel, had taken its toll as well. “There’s an emotion that goes with that, and it’s reflected in you physically,” Ventimiglia recalls. “I didn’t really keep myself together as I should have. Once I got through that hardship and emotional hurt, I started wanting to take care of my body more and present myself as a better person.”

At the time, the 5'9" Ventimiglia barely tipped the scales at 137 pounds. So he headed for the gym and began performing a self-designed lifting routine four times a week. For cardio work, he ran and jumped rope four to five times a week. He also quit smoking and focused on improving his nutritional habits. Even as a lifelong vegetarian (no meat, no fish, no eggs), he discovered that eating healthy had to be- come a conscious decision. “You can be a vegetarian and still eat pizza every day,” he says. “For the first time, I started to really pay attention to what I was putting into my body.”

Those results started to become apparent midway through the first season of Heroes. Even though he deliberately avoided trying to add size, he still put on close to 20 pounds of muscle mass. Currently his body weight hovers around 155 pounds. “People started to look at me and say, ‘Wow, you’ve grown up. Did you get taller?’” Ventimiglia laughs.

Getting fit also paid off for the show, which, as a fast-paced, sci-fi action series, is one of the more physically demanding productions around. “I get beat up, I’m bloodied, I’m in a flying harness, I’m knocked down. I’ve definitely had a lot of bumps and bruises,” says Ventimiglia, who does the lion’s share of his own stunt work. “I’ve got to keep myself strong and flexible and in the right state of body to do a lot of those things.” Says Kring: “I don’t think we would have written a lot of the stuff that we did in the second half of the season had we not seen what Milo could do physically.”

Of course, the demands of a hit show mean it’s often a challenge to keep up a regular workout schedule. “It’s either wake up early in the morning or go late after work,” says the actor. “I also bring dumbbells to my trailer and see if I can’t maintain there.” And when he’s tempted to blow off a session now and then, he calls to mind the example of a previous mentor. “When we were on Rocky,” recalls Ventimiglia, “I saw the discipline that [Stallone] had. Physically, he put himself through hell to get into shape. Even when we were shooting the boxing scenes, he was constantly drinking from his water bottle because it contained all these vitamins and supplements.”

Stallone also stands out for Ventimiglia as a potent example of what can be accomplished in Hollywood, given the proper combination of determination and talent. “He wrote the film, he directed it, he starred in it. And he was always in good spirits, always calm,” marvels Ventimiglia. “If I could do that, do it all—producing, directing, acting—I’d love it.”

To that end, he devotes the majority of his non-Heroes energies to working with Divide Pictures, the three-year-old production company he runs with longtime pal Russ Cundiff. In addition to the American Eagle deal, Divide has feature films and assorted TV projects on the docket, all of which Ventimiglia hopes to have his hands in. By his reckoning, it’s this extracurricular work that keeps him balanced in his life. Says co-star Ramamurthy: “I don’t think he would know what to do with himself if he only had one thing on his plate.”

“Don’t get me wrong—would I love to be sitting on a beach right now? Hell, yeah,” exclaims Ventimiglia. “But if there’s an opportunity to do great work and in turn it’s going to give me a chance to work with talented people down the line, I’m not going to pass that up just because I want to work on my tan.” By the same token, Ventimiglia has no interest in parlaying his Heroes welcome into boldfaced status in the celebrity tabloids: “I would hate it if my publicity overshadowed my actual career. That would suck.”

Unfortunately, on that front, the press and adoring public may not cooperate. The success of Heroes has already thrust Ventimiglia and his cast mates onto magazine covers and into celebrity-news programs on a regular rotation. The blogosphere practically hums with Heroes fan sites, not to mention Ventimiglia-centric pages with names such as milomania.net. The male stars of the show were even given a glossy two-page photo spread in People’s Sexiest Man Alive issue. “My friends were like, ‘So, you think you’re sexy?’” chuckles Ventimiglia. “They couldn’t wait to give me **** about that.”

Ventimiglia is happy to go along for the ride, but he’s careful not to buy in to the hyperbole of it. If the journey of his physical transformation has taught him anything, it’s to avoid extremes and to make sure he’s prepped for the long haul. “When you fall into perfect balance with yourself—mentally, physically, spiritually—that’s when you find you’re content,” says Ventimiglia, the dark rumble of his voice softening a shade. “That’s when you can sit back and enjoy everything around you, when you’re right there, in the middle of it all.”