A childhood dream came true for one El Pasoan who found herself on national television beside her favorite late-night talk show host.
“I am still shaking,” Laura Reyes said. “It was like an out-of-body experience.”
Reyes ventured to New York for a business trip in mid-June and decided to try her luck at getting into The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon .
“I’ve been obsessed with him since I was born,” she said. “I’m the biggest fan of his.”
Reyes would have to line up at the iconic 30 Rockefeller Plaza early to snag a spot in Fallon’s audience. For two mornings in a row, she ran — dressed in pajamas — through the Big Apple’s bustling streets.
“They only let a certain number of people in,” Reyes said. “I didn’t get in the first time.”
Finally, June 12, Reyes made it inside Rockefeller Center, where The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is taped.
“I passed through security, and they took us to the peacock room,” she said. “When they came and got us, a girl from security told me to follow her.”