Yaqi on Dick Clark Show today (he looks healthy)

[nontkl]

Saw Yaqi today on "The Other Half" (Dick Clark/Danny Bonoduce show, knockoff of the View).....he looks like he's feeling better (he did a quick but nice tickling demonstration on a cute blonde girl).

 

[unitkl]

did they tie her up for the demonstration? what were dick clark's reactions to it all?

 

[dig dug dog]

Excellent segment. Truly a mainstream breakthrough! I mean, Stern is one thing (he's like "Mikey"--he'll show anything) but "The Other Half" is REAL mainstream. Huge congrats to Yaqi!

Just to give a bit of detail (and save nontkl more work), A volunteer couple was sitting on a bed in the studio. Yaqi had the girl (blonde, about 5'4", very cute, thin, but not emaciated) put her arms above her head and asked the guy (girls, he was quite decent looking too: dark hair, handsome and well-built) to begin to tickle along her sides and ribs. It was set up as a game of "see how long you can keep your arms up".

The guy began to lightly tickle her along her sides and moved upwards. She looked ticklish, but initially did not have a big reaction to the light tickling. The he started to dig in and she began to struggle a bit, but was still keeping her arms up. However, when he reached the base of her underarms she couldn't take it anymore. She squealed and pulled her arms down very fast.

Then Yaqi instructed the guy to move down to her feet and tie them up with a scarf. He wrapped it around her ankles (Danny B., one of the hosts said something like: don't tie it like a bow--this is BONDAGE, really tie her up!) Yaqi explained the concept of a "safe word" ("red" in this case) and that this game developed trust. Danny got in a quick tickle before the guy started and she flexed her feet in a ticklish way. "She's really ticklish," he said. Then the guy went at it and she did seem quite ticklish. She had nice feet--not super thin, but well-shaped. She was wearing a dark red nail polish. Her feet were squirming intensively and she rocked back and forth on the bed.The girl lasted for about 10 seconds before saying "red, red, red, red".

(Dick Clark seemed fine with it, perhaps a little perplexed about the purpose of it all, but fine. Danny B. was INTO it!)

As nontkl said, when they were going to commercial you could see Yaqi and Danny ganging up on her going at her sides and elsewhere and she was collapsing and squirming. All in all--very fine and mindblowing for it being mainstream. What a world, what a world!

dig dug dog

PS: I would encourage eveyone to go to The Other Half's website and register very positive (and clean and polite) feedback about the segment. We might get more of this if they see the viewership is into it!

 

[Foottickler3000]

Does anyone have a clip of this?

 

[TicklingIsLife]

Does the show ever run re-runs?🙂

 

[tummyticklish01]

What channel is this show on??

 

[dig dug dog]

The Other Half is on NBC. Where I live it follows the Today Show at 10:00 am. I do not believe it has reruns, but I'm not sure. Go to their website, people, to find out more. (Please don't ask what the address is--just find it through a search engine.)

ddd

 

[shark]

In the Pittsburgh area it is actually on the local WTAE station at2am on moaday and 1am T-F.Other than this segment,it is a pretty good show.