Streetz FM DJ Williams ready for his D-Day

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This article was published 21/12/2011 (5007 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

Abstinence COUNTDOWN: Marcel “No Sex” Williams, now a DJ for Streetz 104.7 FM, publicly swore off sex for one year last New Year’s Day. His countdown meter at www.marcelnosexwilliams.com records the days, hours, minutes and seconds to D-Day (Do it again Day). “I still haven’t had sex,” says the hot-looking 24-year-old, who swears up and down he has kept his resolution and not just the Bill Clinton definition. Is he glad he kept his jeans on for a whole year?

“Best decision I ever made in my life! I got to know more about myself and people as a whole, and rebranded myself.” Williams said he was tired of his promiscuous lifestyle. “Also, I’d had some health scares the year before.”

Yours truly first interviewed Williams for The Insider at the end of March, 283 days to D-Day, when he was in the nightclub promotion business of attracting people — mostly women — into bars and keeping them happy. At first women found the born-again virgin a challenge, but then they drifted away.

“For a very long time this year, I felt as if I was almost quarantined from society.”

Now he’s a step removed from the bar scene, but women still groove to his voice at the hip hop/R&B station — and the vultures are circling overhead.

“I’ve had offers but I’m not considering them. Anyone who wants to break my resolution wants the notch, the status of being the one who was able to break me down.” Williams says he’s looking for Miss Right, not Miss Right Now.

“I want something more valuable than a one-night stand. I want a relationship before I get to the deed.”

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PSST: At the wedding reception of Thompson Dorfman Sweatman’s Drew Mitchell and his beautiful bride Christine Nowell, his beloved was definitely up to something. She whispered to the band at the Fort Garry Hotel on Friday that her husband gets a kick out of substituting his name “Drew” where a song says “you.” She requested a certain song, and promised the audience was primed. The musicians started up and guests sang at the top of their lungs, “How sweet it is to be loved by DREW!”

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ST. KNICKERS: General manager Crystal Cunard, of the BraBar & Panterie, says they’ve dubbed December “St. Knickers” month. We’re sure St. Nicholas won’t mind. Winnipeg women have been asked to bring in “gently used bras and $10 donations to buy new panties.” Everything will be donated to the Siloam Mission “to be distributed to women in need.”

Cunard says women often refuse to take off the new bra they just bought to put in the bag.

“They throw them in the garbage, and just wear the new one out the door. They’d tell me they had a drawer full of bras that don’t fit right and say, ‘What can I do with them?’ ” Cunard had volunteered with Siloam and knew street people really need undergarments. “This is our first year and we’ve got 30 so far. We really need a lot more though.”

Drop-offs can be made at the two store locations, 554 Des Meurons Rd. and 1765 Kenaston Blvd. all this month.

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WE ARE FAMILY: Andrew Yorke, a long-time drummer, hopped onstage at the employees’ Christmas party at the Winnipeg Convention Centre on Saturday night to play We Are Family. Immediately, a crowd of staff jumped onstage to show solidarity for the popular boss. They were grabbing mics, with arms waving and people jumping up and down. No one wanted to stop, so Yorke ran a drum beat, the rhythm guitar kicked in and they jammed five minutes with the chorus turned backwards to watch their boss going wild on the drums. Nothing like a Winnipeg Christmas party when the crowd gets heated up!

Yorke’s wife, Lori Yorke, stood beside the stage watching her handsome husband with the British accent who appears to have gotten a lot younger this year. He’s lost 47 pounds since Aug. 5 because “I just needed to.”

Yorke is no novice when it comes to the drums. He says he played in four for five bands in the U.K. before leaving university, including a group called High Tension — and he’s played a lot for his church since he got to Canada.

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