CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Thirteen teams took part in the Real Men Wear Pink Dancing with the Coastal Bend event Thursday night at The Bay Jewel events center in Downtown Corpus Christi in order to raise money in the fight against breast cancer.
3NEWS anchor Leslie Adami was one of them! She strutted her stuff alongside some other Coastal Bend personalities in the competition, which was judged by local dance professionals.
Leslie trained for weeks for the competition, and as you can see, that paid off for her: She and her partner Donovan Reagan placed second.
The event was sold out well in advance.
Good job to everyone who participated, and thank you for your part in this cause.
Real Men Wear Pink is an American Cancer Society campaign in which men in the community show support for women and other men who have been affected by breast cancer by wearing pink during October -- Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The men also hold fundraisers to help support the American Cancer Society's mission. Thursday's competition is being hosted by Real Men Wear Pink ambassador Dennis Rinaldi.
Other local ambassadors include C101 radio personality Rex Gabriel, United Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce Membership and Engagement Director Efrain Franco, Feathered Friends and Co. owner Marcus Lozano, District 2 city councilman Ben Molina and Corpus Christi Medical Center CEO Eric Evans.
Lozano and Molina also performed in Thursday night's competition.