My Angel!

Ashley's Facts:

Full Name: Ashley Parker Angel

B-Day: August 1, 1981

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Hometown: Redding, California

Hair: Blond

Eyes: Blue

Favorite Shows: Friends, Seinfield, and MTV

Height: About 6 ft.

Famliy: mom-Paula, dad-Ronald, Brother: Taylor (34), sisters: Annie (21) & Emily (19)

Audition: Las Vegas, NE

girlfriend?: yes, he got back together woth Shelli

Fav Book: Illusions by Richard Bach

Fav Actor & actress: Robert De Niro & Susan Sarandon

Food: Cereal

Musical bakground: plays the guitar & piano and writes songs in his spare time

before o-town: he was taking acting classes in Redding Ashley's mother, a piano teacher, started to teach him to play when he was just four years old. His stepfather also taught him drums and guitar.

Ashley was named after Ashley Wilkes in "Gone With the Wind"

ideal girl: someone who is herself and also has a sense of humor,hates ackward silence, and just wants a girl who can have fun.(Chelly)

Favorite place in the world: St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.

Favorite movie: The Matrix

School: Shasta College

Earliest memory: Taking this thing of kite string and spilling it everywhere and making a big tangled mess. And he got in trouble, he was about three. Ashley says, "See, my first experience is of me getting in trouble and it still hasn't changed." More Info: Diet consists of: Lots of chicken and salads and fruit smoothies. And a lot of Starbucks coffee, but that tends to be a splurge. Ashley is very ticklish on the sides of his stomach.

What makes him laugh is ridiculous humor: Saturday Night Live, Monty Python, Robin Williams, Jim Carey Ashley loves Superman. He used to have a pajama suit with a red cape and he used to sleep in it every night ( how cute!). He was 6 years old and used to think he could really fly When he's not working you can catch Ashley at the movies.

O-Town 4 EVA Rating: 11

Ashley is my fav O-Town member!

Quotes:

"I'm not going to be tempted and those type of pitfalls because I'm totally driven into making myself successful" -Ashley on being a role model

"I was always the class clown since kindergarden and I was always onstage" -Ashley on the acting bug

"It was really cleansing because it brought it all up and dealt with it finally. I didn't care at that point that it took a camera being in my face to do it" -Ashley on his stepdad summit

"I've got the perfect rock star name" -Ashley on his name

"First phone interview and you hang up on her! I didn't like that question sorry! Beep!"- Ashley talking to Erik about the phone interview.

"This is what I've wanted to di my entire life. And now that I'm here, I'm not going to let anyrhing stop me from going as far as I want to go." -Ashley on making it in the music business.

"It's the coolest thins in the world to have people recognize you from the show, and say, 'Hey- You're from Making The Band that's such a cool show!'."- Ashley about being on a TV show.

"Growing up, I always know I would either go into music or acting, and now that I'm pursuing music, I know that later my path will be acting."- Ashley on his future.

"We've tried to clean the house about twenty times, do I look like I'm kidding? do I look like I'm even kidding? - Ashley to Jay, with a battery up his nose

"Girls be nice now." - Ashley, After the crowed booed some girl off stage

"People said our lives would get busy, but none of us could have EVER imagined how busy they meant!"

"I think I am the only 19-year old male left on earth that wears briefs. I think I'm going to have to change soon."

"Someone keeps grabbing my as--butt." "Now, who wants to spank me?" - Ashley, his 19th birthday on TRL

"Are you trying to get me to say that Cori has a nice butt..? Yeah Cori has a nice butt!" - Ashley to Mike Miller

"To say I haven't changed would be a lie." - Ashley on if he has changed since being famous

"Everytime we are around Boston, we all go to Jackie (Salvucci, one of the 25)'s house and his mom makes us dinner!" - Ashley talking about Jackie

"Hello and welcome to the Dusseldorf Hilton, my name is Stephan. Every morning there will be a complementary breakfast and beverage" - Ashley in Germany

"Guys...quiet, I have something important to say! -long pause-...Do I make you horney?!" -Ashley, doing his Austin Powers impression

"Tru dat....sister....tru dat!" - Ashley on the Kathy Griffin show

"Have we gone Platinum.... Aluminum... PLASTIC?!?!" - Ashley referring to the sales of their debut album

"Okay...I love you momma!" - Ashley talking to his mom on the phone

"Basically Dan got a phone call like this.'Hey Dan we need a fifth member but we're not sure so can you pack for a couple of days but you might be here for the rest of your life." - Ashley on Dan joining the group

Articles:

GiRLy ThiNG Interview

A FEW MINUTES WITH . . . O-TOWN!

You've probably heard that boy bands are a dime a dozen. But, it's not often that you come across one whose personalities are genuinely authentic. Meet O-Town. No, wait -- you already have. TV stars in their own rights, this quintet, who are masterminded by "Big Poppa" Lou Pearlman, have made peeping Toms' out of thousands of tube addicts by filming a "Real World"-style documentary based on the creation of the next big thing. Trevor Penick, Jacob Underwood, Erik-Michael Estrada, Ashley Parker-Angel, and Dan Miller, are that five, who after many excruciating and seemingly endless cuts, were the chosen few. Not bad, considering they were five out of, oh...two-thousand. Here, GiRLy ThiNG chats with the new and true boy wonders, during their six-week radio tour stop at WiLD 95.5 in West Palm Beach, Florida...

GT: Of course, there'll be those who say you're the next Backstreet Boys or *N SYNC. What will make you different from those artists?

Jacob: Well, we all wrote music a lot before we came here, so our first album, we're hoping that we'll look different coming in having our own stuff on the album. We play instruments, and we're different...

Trevor: We're not them...and we're culturally diverse!

GT: Let us in your heads the day you found out you had made the final cut for the group. As you heard your name, what were your thoughts?

Ashley: Trevor will answer this one!

Trevor: Why do I have to do it?

Ashley: Because, you're the crybaby! I mean...the emotional one.

Trevor: I knew I had achieved my dream in life. It was such an emotional moment, especially since I was last [chosen]. For them to just say my name, it was amazing. After that, I just cried for two hours straight!

GT: It had to be heart-wrenching to say goodbye to the other guys. How did you get through that situation?

Ashley: It was really hard, because I roomed with Mike, who didn't make it. We would talk about how cool it would be to finally be in the position to have every single dream you've ever had come true. And, to know that you're on the verge of being one out of two-thousand guys. It was overwhelming! To have him pack his bags, and my stuff stay in the closet, it was really hard. We still keep in close contact with them, but it wasn't a celebration...bittersweet is the perfect word. We're happy we made it, but we were sad to see Bryan, Mike, and Paul go.

GT: Was there ever a time when you forgot the cameras were focused on you? What happened?

Ashley: Yeah -- one time, I had boxers on, and I jumped up on the dining room table. And, the guys were putting dollar bills in my boxers! It's on camera, but I don't think it'll make the show...

Trevor: You hope!

Dan: Also, one time, the camera guy caught Ashley naked...he left the camera on! He told Ashley he was turning it off, and Ashley proceeded to take all of his clothes off, [unaware] the camera was still on.

Ashley: Needless to say, that's on home video tape.

Erik: Maybe we can sell it on eBay...

GT: What are the advantages of being a member of O-Town?

Jacob: Just to have four other guys to hang out with. I never had any brothers or sisters growing up, and now I feel like I have four brothers.

Trevor: It's an incredible feeling that we all share music together. And, we all have the same love.

Jacob: We've been given the biggest platform that any band in history has ever had! With a TV show being put together the whole world knows us even before we were a band. We don't even have a single out, and we're doing a radio show! We have had the best opportunity...we've cut paths a lot in this industry. And, it's hard, because we get a lot of flack for it. But, we're lucky enough to be in this group.

GT: So, what would be the disadvantages?

Trevor: Exactly what Jacob was saying -- we're big before we even have a single out, so there are a lot of expectations for us to do well. A lot of added pressure on us!

Erik: Also, people look at us just as a cast for a television show. They don't know that when we auditioned for the group, we had no idea there was a TV show being taped. We auditioned to be in a vocal group and to make music. That's our primary focus and our first love! It's hard to get respect in this industry. There's a lot we have to prove!

Dan: A lot of people think we're just a TV show and not a real band.

GT: You've already done a couple of shows, although you're a fairly new group. How have those gone?

Trevor: Unbelievable! The crowd loves us, because they've seen the television show, and they have this connection with us. People are already singing along to our songs...and they're not even on the radio!

Erik: Something interesting...every performance we've done, there's been something unexpected that we've had to maneuver around. On the Disney Channel Sizzlin' Summer Weekend, we performed for the first time on national television, and they only gave us four microphones and no soundcheck!

GT: Any messages to your fans?

Ashley: It's been so awesome that at each destination on our radio promotion tour, there's been fans waiting there for us. And, I wanted to say thank you very much, because it means a lot to us!

Jacob: Dreams do come true!

GT

Midi: Be With You, Enrique Iglesias