Ouch. A popular Nashville TV personality/radio host/author has been arrested in a prostitution sting. According to The Tennesseean, 73-year-old Teddy Bart was one of nine men who responded to an Internet offer of sex-for-pay: “They were cited after agreeing to pay a female undercover officer for sexual activity.” A staple on the Nashville broadcast scene for decades, Bart is the author of A Particle of God, due out this spring and described at his web site as a “metaphysical novel,” as well as other books including The Mensh and Inside Music City USA. On the site’s “About Teddy” page, Bart writes: “I am extremely proud to have been voted Nashville’s Best Talk Show Host five years running. In 2003, my peers in the Nashville Broadcaster’s Association honored me with their Lifetime Achievement award…. When not on the air or writing, I spend my down time reading or walking the land of the farm where my wife Jana and I live in Coffee County, Tennessee.” Double ouch.
Author Arrested in Prostitution Sting
Posted by Anneli Rufus at 4:00 pm, Friday, March 6, 2009
Stacy Harris Says:
March 6th, 2009 at 7:30 pmVisit Stacy Harris
For those
Music Row
types who are stunned by the news of former (1982-1983) TNN “Off Stage” host and
Inside Music City
author TEDDY BART’s
arrest
on prostitution charges, consider my July 24, 2005
comments to the
Nashville Scene
following the demise of a TV version of the erstwhile radio program, Teddy Bart’s Round Table: “There is much more to this story and it will probably be up to me to tell it. Assuming I get the answers that will allow me to fill in the blanks.
”The answers to the larger questions which, in turn, provoke most of questions others have posted here, are as old as Teddy’s association with NANCY HAMER.
”And where are the reporters who even know to seek out ELAINE GANICK, DEBBIE RUNIONS…?
”Talk to SPJ and ask why KARLEN EVINS wasn’t a part of this year’s return of the Gridiron show… and why my involvement was as limited as it turned out to be, following, when asked, my agreeing to volunteer the time I gave, as well as the time I was prepared to give, to a venture that, like the Round Table, has always been portrayed by the local press as the noblest of pursuits.
”I think a lot of people who’ve been around Nashville since the early ’70s know how dicey all of this is, or seems to be, but there are too few of us left willing to risk the abuse inflicted solely for posing the questions that, it could be argued, are none of our business.
”But engaging Teddy (whose real name and family genealogy suggest we are kin)
on this subject is pointless.
”If anyone would have a right to do so, it’s me. I’ve asked Teddy the questions that are my business, because they involve me. But as Teddy responded when we last spoke a couple of years ago, about my early role in this strange drama, ‘You could drive yourself crazy asking ‘Why?’
”In spite of everything, I have always wished Teddy well, because if it weren’t for his mentoring me and implied promise of a job at WSM-TV (as Channel 4 was then known), I would never have permanently returned to Nashville, at my first opportunity, following my visit here during Vanderbilt’s 1972 summer session, where I studied prior to finishing up my Speech/Radio-TV degree from the University of Maryland the following year.
”Like the valleys in Teddy’s career, I fully expect a peak will follow the Round Table’s demise. But, if not, Teddy, who turns 70 in February, more than anyone, understands that this may be a case of what goes around comes around.”
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Nancy Evins (use Ella for my signature) Says:
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The reason Karlen Evins was not on the Gridiron Show that year was because she was involved in various other projects, some of which were book signings for her book, “I Ddn’t Know That” If you are speaking of the same year that I am, her brother was one of the three male leads and the there were only three female leads, six in all. The Gridiron Show has not been resumed in the past two years, to my regret.
Your accusations are vague regarding Miss Evins and may border on libel. You seem to be in a snit because you didn’t get a job that you hoped for and the reason you didn’t may come from your lack of pesonality, wisdom, and tact.
avery Says:
November 19th, 2009 at 10:41 pmVisit avery
Don’t know why Nancy Evins is slandering Stacy Harris.
Wasn’t Stacy writing about Teddy Bart?
Karlen Evins got the same ink as Nancy Hamer and Elaine Ganick. No more.
To quote Nancy from the November 18, 2009 edition of The Tennessean (http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091118/OPINION02/91117051/Middle-age-trauma-influenced-by-parents)
“Parents, be very careful in how you handle your little one’s tender minds. Constant name calling or belittling can have effects long past middle age.”
avery Says:
November 26th, 2009 at 10:00 pmVisit avery
Don’t know why Nancy Evins is slandering Stacy Harris.
Wasn’t Stacy writing about Teddy Bart?
Karlen Evins got the same ink as Nancy Hamer and Elaine Ganick. No more.
To quote Nancy Evins from the November 18, 2009 edition of The Tennessean (http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091118/OPINION02/91117051/Middle-age-trauma-influenced-by-parents)
“Parents, be very careful in how you handle your little one’s tender minds. Constant name calling or belittling can have effects long past middle age.”
RJ Says:
April 21st, 2011 at 1:05 amVisit RJ
What a shame. An author with such credibility and reputation gets hooked with a prostitution case. This is a big slap on the face not just for him but his family and community.