Hawaii

By Dave Donnelly

Thursday, November 21, 2002

Wild, not woolly

The E! network spent six weeks in Asia shooting "Wild On..." shows, and were supposed to have finished up on Bali . Yeah, things got a little too "Wild" for real on Bali with a devastating bombing of a disco, so "Wild on Hawaii ," which had been slated for next February, was moved up. Localite Mona Wood helped hostess Cindy Taylor and local co-host Cindy Paliracio of KHNL, who became known as Cindy T. and Cindy P., in lining up their Hawaii exploits. This included the skydiving episodes written about earlier, a steamy swimsuit shoot at Diamond Head Beach with photog Russell Tanoue and ADR models Juliet Lighter, Jennifer Abreu and Sondra Barker. The two Cindys met up at Mandara Spa at the Hilton Hawaiian for chocolate and coffee body scrubs and massages. Paliracio even started eating the scrub mixture after the therapist okayed it ... At about the same time a tourist was bitten by a shark on Maui , Taylor was wrapping up her Valley Isle shoot by swimming with sharks herself. Her swim, however, was in the controlled environment of the Maui Ocean Center in Maalaea ...

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Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
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