Wilmington student Evan Real, 17, danced his way to victory Wednesday at the fair's “Pants Dance Revolution” contest. Now, we hope he's hungry for some Subway sandwiches.
The dance event, sponsored by Triangle Subway restaurants, brought together Evan and four other groups of finalists from across North Carolina to dance in front of a crowd on the fair's Waterfall Stage. The finalists were selected from state residents who posted videos of themselves dancing on YouTube.
After he was judged best dancer of the finalists, Evan won a year’s supply of Subway sandwiches, a Nintendo Wii, a Wii Fit and a pair of 60-inch-waist pants signed by Subway spokesman Jared Fogle.
Fogle, who was at the fair, wears much smaller pants these days, after famously losing more than 245 pounds by eating Subway sandwiches and exercising.
The other dance finalists were Nicholas Springer, 4, of Raleigh; Devin Bazemore, 17, of Wake Forest; Austin Ward, 16, and Bobby Demoss, 17, both of Knightdale; and Sterling C. Franklin, 25, of Cary.
Our one question: Just what will Evan do with those giant pants? Think there's a market for them on eBay?
Thad Ogburn is The N&O's Metro Editor, overseeing most local news reporting. His previous jobs have included editor of North Raleigh News and Features Editor, during which he learned that comics attract more reader response than just about anything else we do. His guilty pleasure is reality TV, which he finds not very real at all. That's assuming, of course, there is room on his DVR amid his daughter's "iCarly" episodes and his wife's daily installments of "One Life To Live."
