The Five Q's With Gabby!
Gabby shares the wonder of lav mics and a rocky lake expedition in her 5 answers.
Image: A photo of Gabby Valdivieso smiling in a field, wearing a lav mic.
If there was a movie about your life, who would play you?
I’m going to flatter myself and say Emma D’Arcy. Or Keanu Reeves.
What is your favorite piece of Media Factory technology, and why?
Lav mics - they’re tiny, they’re cute, and there is a special art to figuring out best placement on someone’s clothes.
What is the funniest thing that has happened to you recently?
Swam at Rock Point for my girlfriend’s birthday and we ended up slicing our feet open on the rocks and having to lie upside down on the beach and split one pair of socks between us for the hike back.
Tell us something we might not know (a fact or piece of trivia that you know for no apparent reason).
The first time Julie Andrews sang in film after she lost her four-octave range in a botched 1997 throat surgery was in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement opposite co-star Raven-Symoné for the song “Your Crowning Glory.”
If you had to put your life bio into one run-on sentence, what would you say?
Midwest princess Gabby grew up playing pretend and strives to use her imagination every day as an adult who tries not to take herself too seriously but should maybe take a few things more seriously instead of just watching scary movies, listening to show tunes, and playing video games but having fun is important and so is public media and animal welfare which is why she works in both of these fields speaking of fields I want to go fly a kite…