Alistair Overeem, tonight's opponent for Brock Lesnar in UFC 141, lost a sushi eating contest to Japanese female competitive eater Natsuko "Gal" Sone last year (video).
Bobby Valentine was announced as the new manager of the Boston Red Sox today. The former New York Mets manager ate 120 pancakes to win an eating contest when he was in college. As a manager in Japan, he was visited by female competitive eater Natsuko "Gal" Sone at the Chiba Lotte Marines training camp in February 2008. and did a photo shoot with a lot of pancakes.
Video of Natsuko "Gal" Sone defeating MMA fighter Alistair Overeem in a sushi eating contest (via MiddleEasy)
Tonight's episode of the Japanese program "World Bullet Traveler" features Natsuko "Gal" Sone's trip to Los Angeles. According to the shopping list, she did not purchase any big meals.
Asahi.com reports that Natsuko "Gal" Sone made an appearance to promote Pizza Hut of Japan's new pizza made with rice flour (Gallery | Video)
Youtube has a video of a sketch Natsuko "Gal" Sone appeared in where all the actors wore traditional Japanese clothing.
Pandora.tv has a video of Gal Sone's tour of restaurants throughout Japan on Golden Legend A video of Gal Sone with two rapping "FBI agents" is also available.
Gluttonous Queen 2010 recording
Recording for the 2010 Gluttonous Queen finals has started at the Royal Hawaiian in Honolulu. Starlet Shay is posting twitter updates from the site.
update Maya has a twitpic. Gal Sone does not seem to have competed.
Facebook has information about Natsuko "Gal" Sone's appearance at the Royal Hawaiian Center on February 17 to record a program which appears to be the 2010 edition of "Gluttonous Queen"
AT Marketing reports that Natsuko "Gal" Sone will appear at the Royal Hawaiian Center on February 17 to record a program for TV Tokyo. The recording will be open to the public and start at 3pm.
Youtube has a video of Natsuko "Gal" Sone eating a 5kg meal while dining with sumo wrestlers.
Gal Sone vs. “Hard Gay”
Youtube has another video of Gal Sone competing disguised as an old woman Part 1 | Part 2. One of the members of the three person team she competes against is tarento “Hard Gay” who has the following description in Wikipedia:
While the official name is “Razor Ramon HG,” he is most frequently known as “Hard Gay,” or simply “HG.” Dressing in a tight black PVC gay fetish outfit, he goes around performing acts of charity (yonaoshi, “social improvement”) for unsuspecting bystanders while performing trademark pelvic thrusts and vocalizations, often accompanied by “Livin’ la Vida Loca” by Ricky Martin.
Youtube has a video of an eating contest between Natsuko "Gal" Sone and an eleven person team. 173brid has uploaded 3 videos of programs where Natsuko "Gal" Sone samples items from supermarkets and restaurants.
Ameba.jpg reports that Natsuko "Gal" Sone came in third place in a Japanese poll sponsored by Dove about what celebrity do you most want to see without makeup.
Gal Sone dyes hair black
Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s October 12 blog entry describes a trip to a salon where her hair was changed from its characteristic blonde color to a more natural hue. The dye job was reported by Ameba news.
Bald Gal Sone video
Youtube has a video of Natsuko “Gal” Sone being made up to appear bald. (There have not been many recent eating-related Gal Sone videos on youtube.)
JapanToday reports (in English) that Natsuko "Gal" Sone appeared at an event to promote the Japanese release of the DVD of Wall-E
Gal Sone appears in a list of attractive women who could kick you at something manly.
Subtitled Gal Sone / Shirota movie available on Netflix
Hacking Netflix reports that a movie called Gluttonous will be available tomorrow. The Netflix website has the following description for the movie:
Based on a popular Japanese manga, this pair of sidesplitting live action comedies follows the screwball exploits of a host of unconventional participants in the ferociously intense world of competitive eating. While most people try to temper their food intake, these competitors pride themselves on swallowing as much food as they can in the shortest possible time — and keeping it down long enough to win!
Gluttonous is known in Japan as Gourmet Fighter Both Natsuko “Gal” Sone and Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota appeared as competitive eaters in Gourmet Fighter. Volume 1 and Volume 2 are included in the Netflix rental.
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