Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Blast From The Past: Debbie The Space Alien

In the early days of the Howard Stern show, there were numerous other Wack Packers and semi-famous people who appeared on the show. I figured it would be interesting to take a look at some of these forgotten people. Many of thse people are responsible for what made the show great in the old days.

Debbie the Space Alien (? - April 1995), also known as Debbie Tay, was a mentally ill lesbian contestant in Howard Stern's New Year's Rotten Eve from Los Angeles, California, who committed suicide by overdosing on heroin in 1995. Her real name was Debbie Roach. A saddened Chaunce Hayden announced her death via telephone on the air and later brought her cremated but unpulverized remains into the studio during an appearance. Her mother appeared in a video with Debbie which was pre-produced for the pay-per-view pageant special, but died shortly before the actual pageant. Reportedly, Roach's relatives objected to Hayden trying to capitalize on Debbie's remains, and filed a lawsuit against both the Stern show and Chaunce, which was later settled.

SOURCE: Wikipedia

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