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The technicians should do the pedicure in lingerie. I have a friend in the Chippendales and he will be your butler.” “You have to serve Cristal,” Leach insisted. He said, ‘What’s the most expensive thing you offer?” While Boychuck thought about it, Leach said, “How much is a pedicure? You should have a $2,000 pedicure-–the most expensive pedicure in the world. “He always said, ‘You’ve got to do this, or that.’ One night we were having dinner at N9NE Steakhouse. Leach went out of his way to help Boychuck market his salons, either verbally or through his celebrity column at AOL.com, the Las Vegas Sun or the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he moved to in 2016. But the best thing was, I don’t care where you were, it became an exciting place because you were with Robin.” Some of our best ones were at Alize at the Palms, with that great view. “We did about 17 birthdays together and 17 New Year’s Eves. When I didn’t hear back, I thought he was just having a great time. “This was three or four days before his stroke. I called him and said if something came up and he didn’t go, he was welcome to join us. The Boychucks had dinner with Leach at Nobu at Caesars Palace shortly before Thanksgiving. His expressions were priceless: a wink, a nod, a smile.” It’s funny, the last time we saw him, Karen asked him if he would like a massage and he nodded.

“But you could still communicate with him.

Leach “was looking way better,” said Boychuck, but still unable to talk. Just a couple weeks ago he was getting ready to go home." “We had visited him quite a few times (at a Las Vegas rehab center). It was awful news: Leach had died from a second stroke, nine months after the first one in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He was jolted awake at 5:30 a.m. Friday by a call from a New York number. The last one, a year ago, at STK Steakhouse at The Cosmopolitan, “was just four of us,” said Boychuck. The double birthday party had shrunk over the years. Known for its luxury suites and villas, the resort is a celebrity hideaway. And off they went to the 300-acre private island located two miles off the coast of Antigua. This doesn’t happen to a kid who grew up in a small town in the coal country of Pennsylvania, “I told Karen, ‘I don’t think he wants another guy there.” Leach had invited them to his home in Jumby Bay in the West Indies.īoychuck, taken aback, hesitated. One day Rader came home with exciting news. Singer Celine Dion, whose Vegas show has been an attraction for years, said Friday on Twitter that she was saddened to hear the news of Leach’s death and remembered him as “a thoughtful and considerate man, and a great supporter of the entertainment scene in Las Vegas.But the real introduction to the “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” came a couple weeks later. The thing that I love about Vegas is, you are within 45 minutes of Hollywood without having to deal with the 405 and state taxes and fees.” “My business is resorts, my business is food, my business is TV. “Las Vegas has gone from being a gaming city to the world's No.

#ROBIN LEECH SERIES#

He popped into various entertainment, news programs and docuseries to provide commentary in his later years and also competed on the reality series “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here,” “Celebrity Wife Swap” and “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”Īfter falling into obscurity for a time, he set his sights in 1999 on the Las Vegas Strip, where he became a local celebrity who mingled with other famous faces while reviewing hotels and restaurants and covering showbiz for the Las Vegas Sun and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Leach became a celebrity in his own right and later hosted two “Lifestyles” spinoff series, “Fame, Fortune and Romance” and “The Surreal Life: Fame Games” on VH1.