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Homeless man with golden voice becomes new US hero
Saturday January 08, 2011 12:14:34 PM,
DPA
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Los Angeles: The US has
a new rags-to-riches hero - a homeless man who has been inundated
with job offers after a video of him went viral this week.
Even by the warp-speed standards of the internet age, the
transformation of Ted Williams has been incredible. At the
beginning of the week he was begging for change at a busy junction
in Columbus, Ohio, when a local journalist persuaded him to show
off his deep-toned radio voice on a video clip for a local news
site.
The video quickly became an internet and TV hit and the offers
started rolling in immediately for the 53-year-old hobo. He signed
a contract with US food conglomerate Kraft Wednesday, and his
commercial for the company aired Friday.
Homeless since 1996 after battling drug and alcohol addictions,
Williams has also nabbed a dream job with a two-year contract to
be the announcer for the local NBA basketball team the Cleveland
Cavaliers. Other job offers came from cable news site MSNBC and
the National Football League.
But it was not his sudden fame and the chance to leave the streets
for good that had Williams in tears of joy Friday morning. Instead
it was his reunification after more than a decade apart with his
90-year-old mother Julia.
"I was just gone," he said of the reunion on the Today Show. "We
didn't even say anything. Man, it was like a dream finally came
true."
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