Gabrielle never showed her face. It was Gabrielle's company first, i once had an epic three hour phone conversation with her, she definitely seemed to me as someone who had the "kink", at least understood it very well. I was blown away, I don't even think the TMF had started yet, and I had never spoken to a woman about the kink, other than a few vanilla girlfriends. I definitely had never spoken with someone who understood it, who finished my sentences.....she spoke about the embarrassment of the word itself, something many of us relate to, and how she got over it. In an alternate universe, I'm still on the phone with Gabrielle, that's how long we talked. And as I remember it, she kept me on the phone! She was in the mood to gab, Gabrielle was! Looking back, I wish I took notes or something. i didn't quite appreciate the glimpse-behind-the-curtain I was being treated to.
As she told it:Renee was her mom, and Gia was her sister (you can definitely hear the similarities in their voices and speech patterns...and their laugh, they shared the same exact shriek....). Gia was the first to stop, she worked as a makeup artist, she had already stopped appearing in videos when this conversation happened. Renee later took over the company. Gabrielle, who was still very much in her flaming youth, was a colorful character, and had a ruthless streak when it came to competition. Remember, this was when there were only a few companies on the scene, all emerging at once, mainly Magic Touch, Paradise Vision, and Real Tickling. Tickle Central a little later. The TMF hadn't even started yet, and when it did........well, all I know is that Gabrielle became persona non grata here on the TMF! I don't remember any threads or specific gossipy details, but let's put it this way: she was very proud of the quality of her videos (rightfully) and disparaging about everyone else's (not rightfully! I laughed and stuck up for the other companies when she would go down that route in our conversation; it was pretty funny and almost endearing, in a way. I thought the quality of (most of her) videos spoke for themselves, and it made her seem loopy to be going off on, say, the tickling technique of one producer, or doing a gross mockery impersonation of a popular tickle model's laugh!).
She was adamant that Kamiano was not her boyfriend, laughing while she said "Everybody thinks that! I don't know why!". He was a guy whose tickling drawings she had seen, and they had begun a friendship over the kink. She said "The Machine" (the other young guy that did alot of the tickling in the early videos, he was the MC in "The Contest", etc) was an old boyfriend of hers that didn't have the kink, but had fun making the videos. She told me he was in love with Starr, lol! Another funny note. i remarked about the music. You know how there would be little music in the beginning of the videos? She laughed and said that Renee did all the music for the videos. Lol! I mean, I didn't know what to believe. She told me some of the models were just friends, that didn't even get paid! Lily or Starr was allegedly one of those models. She told me some of the scenarios were 100% real, not sure if it was Nonconsensual 1 or The Millionaire or The Contest, but something obviously staged.....so I don't know how much she told me was fact or fantasy, but she certainly had all the biographical details at her tongue-tip.
Renee taking over the company seemed like a stabilizing force and rehabilitated the company's "image", at least on the TMF where I think they weren't even allowed to advertise. I had had a problem with a video right before the switch, and Renee was very helpful and professional in righting the wrong. Like all companies, they had their ups and downs, their duds and their fakes but they sure hit many home runs. There have been many great companies, and videos, before and after this early era.....but I don't think I ever had as much fascination with , or looked forward with as much anticipation, as those early Paradise Vision video tapes. There was just an extra buzz about them. The scenarios were often crazy (and even now, still on the cutting edge of controversy and outrageousness), the models were gorgeous, and captured footage of some tickle princesses that still give guys the shivers: Viviana and Lily being two of the most obvious, but most definitely not the only. They had a great sense of humor in their clips, and production values. There was a mystique to Paradise Vision, as if it was the Playboy Mansion of the tickle industry! The "Boogie Nights" of tickle porn! (I suppose FM Concepts had that vibe before Paradise Vision, to be fair).
One last cute thing, from that phone call I had with Gabrielle: Early in our conversation, she asked me which videos I had. I told her I had all of them, except one. She asked the title and I told her....it was one that starred her. She gasped! She was hurt to the heart! I stammered it was nothing personal, and her laugh was gorgeous, it was just that I preferred to see the face, and though I understood why she didn't want to put her face on camera, that's why I hadn't bought the video. She totally understood, and the conversation moved on and we talked for hours, never broaching the subject again.
About a week after I hung up the phone with her, the video came in the mail, free of charge. 🙂 Thanks, Gabrielle. 😉
