Golden Globe-winning actress Rachel Bloom is scheduled to be honored at today’s Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting for her work in promoting West Covina, the setting of the CW’s musical comedy “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” which she co-created and in which she stars.
Bloom will receive a scroll from board Chair Hilda L. Solis for the positive publicity she has generated for West Covina, which is part of the First District, which Solis represents.
The West Covina setting stemmed from a desire to do a “fish out of water story,” the lack of previous series about “Inland Southern California — it’s way different than other parts, it’s really fascinating” — and because “a guy I used to have a crush on lived in Glendora and I would find excuses to try to go to Glendora all the time,” Bloom, who was raised in Manhattan Beach, told City News Service in an interview last year.
Scenes are regularly filmed at the Big League Dreams Sports Park in West Covina and other locations in the city.
