Peterborough's Sebastian Deery IMGUR Posts Go Viral About Being D-List Actor

image via @sebastianjdeery

A little known actor from Peterborough is now well known around the world.

Sebastian Deery, 27, gained overnight internet fame after amassing more than a million views from posts on the popular visual storytelling website Imgur.com. His posts were a self-deprecating series about what it's like to be an "unknown" in the acting world.
 
His original anonymous post, entitled “Actor Problems”, gained hundreds of thousands of views, as did a subsequent post.

The posts poked fun at the unreasonable demands made of actors, often at short notice (see samples below).

via Imgur.com

Sebastian then posted a reveal of his name due to popular demand—he says he had no particular reason for being anonymous in the first place—and that post has received nearly 500,000 views.

Sebastian has tweeted about the overwhelming attention he's now getting from around the world, which has ranged from marriage proposals to industry advice...

It's taken me two days to go through all of the messages and emails and reply to them. Marriage proposals,... http://t.co/Q4LsQOYP9N

— Sebastian Deery (@SebastianJDeery) May 13, 2015

You can find out more about Sebastian Deery on IMDB.

And Sebastian, well played. Very well played.

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Powerful Video From Steve Montador's Former Teammate And Best Friend In Hockey On Mental Health

Dan Carcillo

An emotional and moving new video from NHLer Dan Carcillo has been posted to YouTube about his former teammate and best friend in hockey Steve Montador, who played for the Peterborough Petes in junior hockey.

Montador, who played with Carcillo with the Chicago Blackhawks, was found dead in his home at age 35 back in February.

Montador suffered through concussions, depression and substance abuse, and had retired from hockey in 2013 after multiple concussions.

The powerful video focuses on the death of Montador and why the NHL community can't be silent about mental health issues anymore and has to look out for its own. 

Watch the video below...

It was early Sunday afternoon, and I was taking off my shoes in our players' lounge when I kept hearing my phone buzz. Someone was calling repeatedly. I immediately got an uneasy, sick feeling when I looked at the screen and saw who was calling. It was my close friend Missy.

—post by Scott Arnold

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Yet Another Person From Peterborough Just Won The Lottery

Remember that post we did earlier this year called Peterborough People Keep Winning In The Lottery?

Well yep, another person from Peterborough just won in the lottery.

Penelope Baptie

Congrats to Penelope Baptie of Peterborough, who won $100,000 in the April 10th ENCORE draw. She purchased the ticket at the Canadian Tire Gas Bar on Lansdowne St. W.

Baptie plans to buy a car, take a vacay, pay the bills, and invest the rest.

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St. Peter’s/Trent University Grad Stephen McCarthy Working To Stop Ebola In Its Tracks

Stephen McCarthy at U of T with his supervising professor Dr. Donald Branch

Peterborough's Stephen McCarthy is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto studying novel ways to treat Ebola and HIV.

McCarthy doing research with Dr. Branch

The former St. Peter's Secondary School student ('05) and Trent University grad ('09) will be competing at a contest at Western University on his research findings.

It's called "Three Minute Thesis" contest, and McCarthy will be sharing his research to a broad audience—in three minutes or less—at provincial finals at Western April 23rd.

McCarthy beat out 14 other PhD candidates during the final round of the third annual Three Minute Thesis competition at the University of Toronto to get to the finals at Western.

The competition asks doctoral candidates nearing completion of their thesis to explain their research in less than three minutes, with no more than a single PowerPoint slide for a visual aid.

McCarthy sees the competition as a chance not just to share research results, but also to drive future research. He also hopes his work will serve as inspiration for current high school students to pursue the Sciences after graduation.   

You can watch live streaming of the contest April 23rd here.

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