While most of us were obsessed with Super Bowl weekend, Nancy played Texas Hold ‘Em with celebrities including Lou Diamond Phillips, Robert Iler (The Sopranos), Jesse Metcalfe (Desperate Housewives), Shaun Sipes (Melrose Place), Nicholas Gonzalez (Mental), Playboy Playmates Sara Underwood, Jessica Burciaga and Jessa Lynn Hinton, Dennis Haskins (Saved by the Bell), Cheryl Hines (Curb your Enthusiasm), Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho (The Amazing Race) and more. The occasion was the Trash Talk Championship of the World poker tournament benefiting the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. It took place at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Cartwright Entertainment was one of the sponsors of the no limit Hold ‘Em charity poker tournament, which raised more than $30,000 for the Colon Cancer Program. Nancy played well but Trishelle Cannatella of Real World Las Vegas was the deserving champion.

The Los Angeles Chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation is one of Nancy’s pet benefits. She has been called upon many times to help make “final wishes” come true by meeting Bart. In order to help finance these wishes, there was a wine tasting/auction at the Santa Monica Airport in one of the hangers. Literally thousands show up every year for this enormous extravaganza. Nancy donated a “Bart Basket” complete with t-shirts, dolls, DVDs, a signed script and an invitation for the donor plus guest to attend a table reading of “The Simpsons.” Nancy was surprised by being introduced in the audience and simply stated just as Bart might say, “Dig deep, people!” The quip worked because this prize garnered a hefty $2,000 for the foundation, all in support of helping some kids’ dreams come true during such stressful times in their young lives.