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Corbin Bleu performs at the 2008 Rock County 4-H Fair.
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JANESVILLE — A sure way to make a heart throb is to get close to a heartthrob.
Just ask Kristen Aubrey and Brianna Prokopec.
They were two of many Janesville girls who got up close and personal with teen heartthrob Corbin Bleu on Saturday night at the Rock County 4-H Fair.
Prokopec’s close encounter with one of the stars of Disney’s “High School Musical” was the more public. Make that the most public.
Before the show, female fans gave Bleu’s crew their cell phone numbers, and Prokopec’s number was the one the hunky star called from the stage. Bleu called the wide-eyed 16-year-old Parker High student up on stage to make her his love interest for the song “Close.”
“It was amazing,” Prokopec said. “I felt like a celebrity.”
They sat in facing chairs, and Bleu looked into her eyes as he held her hands.
They slow danced. They hugged. Prokopec got goose bumps.
“I was shaking,” she said.
Aubrey, 14, and gal pals Emilie O’Donnell and Sarah Gray were among the first to get to the grandstand Saturday morning to get spots close to the stage. They pressed up against the fence for the concert, but it was Aubrey who got the closest.
A “meet-and-greet” pass came her way through a relative, and Aubrey found herself among 30 or so young folks who met Bleu backstage before the show to get autographs and have photos taken with the star.
“He’s really nice, and I like his smile,” Aubrey gushed. “And he put his arm around me. I was gonna cry. I almost cried. I had like one tear.
“He’s really hot.”
Bleu, four dancers and four musicians delivered a hot show, maybe a little too hot during “Never Met a Girl Like You.” As he and his two female dancers moved suggestively on stage, one 13-year-old girl wrinkled her nose: “Eew, they’re dirty dancing.”
A whole lot of people were dancing behind the crush of kids that stood in front of the stage. Moms boogied with kids, many as young as 6 or 7. Daughters perched on the swaying shoulders of dads.
Neither the grandstand nor the grass area was completely filled, but the crowd close to the stage was dense and deep.
The shrill screams of girls—any nod, gesture or acknowledgement from Bleu drew a chorus of shrieks—counterpointed the thumping, booming bass of Bleu’s blend of hip-hop and R&B.
But it wasn’t just girls close to the stage.
Corbin Bleu fan Dylan Crank, 8, a Janesville Jefferson Elementary School student, brought some buddies as backup: Kyle Carhart, 11, and Hunter Ellefson, 10.
So, boys, are you going to scream?
“We’re guys,” Carhart said. “We don’t scream.”
After the show, Bleu was still setting local hearts aflutter as he toured the carnival midway and rode the rides, apparently as part of a video shoot.
Jul 30, 2008 at 10:23 p.m.
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i thought corbin bleu was awsome! he did awsome job in perporming that night!
Jul 29, 2008 at 8:12 p.m.
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Just FYI E-Bay has some awesome pictures of Corbin Bleu @our own fair here in Jnsvl, WI.. I should probably not post this as I don't want to be out bid but you gotta check it out!!!!!!!!!!!
Jul 27, 2008 at 11:22 p.m.
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I agree prevention! I almost fell over when the girls were doing the "chair" dancing. I heard alot of comments from the crowd like "what is this show rated?"
Jul 27, 2008 at 11:04 p.m.
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Oh yeah, is not the Fair about 4-H and that type of stuff anyway?
Jul 27, 2008 at 11:03 p.m.
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Thank you to the parents who do not condone the type of dancing that took place. Teach your children what is okay and what is not. Advocate for these public events to have some sort of decency. All Fairs are based on a family theme. Why have dancing for 18 years of age and older exposed to children as young as infants?
Jul 27, 2008 at 10:50 p.m.
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i had 3 kids at the fair to see this guy, and from what i heard he did a good job, however i think him comming out a half hour late was not cool, these kids had been waiting all day and then hes late whats up with that.
Jul 27, 2008 at 8:59 p.m.
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she starts work at orange julius in a couple weeks or so. the girl on stage
Jul 27, 2008 at 7:05 p.m.
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i think then had put on a good showe but the way them girls where dancing was wrong this is for young kids we are trying to teach are children that that kind of behavior is not ok at that age and then this guys go head and dance like this so now this kids think it ok to dance like that. we had 4young children there and we ended up leaving with them because of the way then were danceing. i just really think that then should have dance a little different.
Jul 27, 2008 at 6:31 p.m.
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Does anyone know who the girl was that went up on stage with Corbin? Im not a stalker or anything but I was a mom there with my children last night and I also am a photographer and I took some really nice photos of her with Corbin and would love to give them to her. I'm pretty sure she would love to have them!
Jul 27, 2008 at 4:11 p.m.
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Were the balloons that flew over the fairgrounds a planned event? It was neat to see them!
Jul 27, 2008 at 1:19 p.m.
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good job to Katie for the national anthem
Jul 27, 2008 at 12:53 p.m.
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I thought Corbin Bleu's concert was defintely not as good as his performance last year at the State Fair. He sexed it up quite a bit. I would rate it PG13 or higher. His dancers were too provacative for the younger tweens. I just think there is too much of that in the world and he is trying to break out of his High School Musical typecasting. I know of several parents who actually left with their kids because of the type of dancing they were doing. What a shame.
The opening act of Justin Stein was much better!
Jul 27, 2008 at 12:26 p.m.
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I guess the wiki says that he is 19.
Jul 27, 2008 at 12:22 p.m.
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Isn't that guy like 30 years old? Creepy...
Jul 27, 2008 at 9:53 a.m.
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My daughter was one of the 4-H youth who was invited to go on the midway with him. She was very impressed by him and his Dad who was with him
Jul 27, 2008 at 9:43 a.m.
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I agree, he put on a very good show. Why not mention the young man who was his opening act? Justin Stein is an up-and-comer who is opening for Corbin this summer. Justin did a fabulous job of entertaining and meeting all fans after the concert. My daughter turned 14 yesterday and was thrilled to get a "happy birthday" signed picture of him. This young man is really trying to make a name for himself. Thanks guys for a great show!
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