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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Ocean City Child Actor Pete Wiggins Featured in New Commercial

Wiggins is in a new commercial for Booking.com that was filmed in Cancun.

Local child actor Pete Wiggins has been spotted in a new television commercial for Booking.com. Wiggins, an 11-year-old fifth-grader at Ocean City Intermediate School, traveled to Cancun in Mexico with his family to film the commercial after he was cast from an audition in New York City. Booking.com is a website for hotel reservations, and the commercial focuses on Wiggins and his TV "family" booking through the site and finding a hotel paradise exactly as described. "The filming was a whole lot of fun," Wiggins said this week. "So was the hotel pool." Wiggins, who has been featured in many television commercials, played a bratty kid in "The Dictator" alongside Sacha Baron Cohen, and was even a guest on "The Ellen Show." The commercial can…

Friday, May 18, 2012

Ocean City's Pete Wiggins Gets Decked by 'The Dictator'

A local 10-year-old appears in a movie scene with Sacha Baron Cohen.

“The Dictator" opened in local theaters Wednesday, and amid all the usual Sacha Baron Cohen ethnic and cultural mockery, an Ocean City boy gets kicked to the ground by the movie's star. Pete Wiggins, a 10-year-old fourth-grader at Ocean City Intermediate School, stars in one brief scene with Cohen. In the scene, Wiggins encounters "The Dictator" in a convenience store and ends up on the floor. Wiggins has performed in other acting roles that range from Sesame Street to a Kaiser Permanente commercial. He has even made a guest appearance on “The Ellen Show.” In June 2011, Wiggin’s agent mentioned the part, and his family took him to audition. “The lady put her hands out and had me fall on the ground,” Wiggins said. “I was really excited when…

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