ABC On Sunday evening, Bob Saget will be memorialized by one of the shows that made him a household name, America’s Funniest Home Videos. The long-running show, currently hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro, will open on Sunday night at 7 p.m. Eastern time with a tribute to Saget, who was found dead in a Florida hotel room last Sunday. He …
Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc OWN, BET and TCM are paying tribute to the late Sidney Poitier with a series of special programming. On Sunday, the Oprah Winfrey Network will feature the Academy Award-winning actor’s 2000 and 2007 appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and his 1967 film To Sir, with Love, according to Deadline. The network will also rerun the 2015 special, Oprah Winfrey Presents: …
Craig Blankenhorn/Hulu While Hollywood wonders who will get the tap to host the 94th Annual Academy Awards, Variety says at least one name that has been bandied about “likely won’t” be behind the podium: Pete Davidson. The trade does confirm that reps for the Saturday Night Live cast member, and King of Staten Island star have been in touch with the Oscars’ …
Disney Enterprises/Joe Lederer Tim Allen will reprise his role from The Santa Clause movies in a limited series for Disney+. 1994’s The Santa Clause had Allen playing Scott Calvin, a divorced dad who has to contractually fulfill the role of Santa Claus after a mishap leads the death of the real McCoy in the line of duty. The movie was …
Photo by D Dipasupil/FilmMagic The Betty White Challenge, created in memory of the late TV icon who passed away on December 31 at the age of 99, has been a smashing success, to say the least. The challenge, an online event set for January 17 — on what would’ve been the star’s 100th birthday — encourages people …
Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images (NOTE LANGUAGE) On stage on Thursday night, Dave Chappelle mourned the loss of his friend and fellow stand-up Bob Saget, who was found dead in his Orlando hotel room on Sunday. His comments during a performance, which TMZ said was at West Hollywood’s Peppermint Club, were posted by the gossip site. “I didn’t see Bob coming,” admitted Chappelle of …
A South Dakota man charged this week with storming the U.S. Capitol last year performed rap songs about the riot in videos posted on his YouTube channel, federal authorities say. A relative told the FBI [Read More…]
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The chairman of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate offered South Dakota’s Legislature a history lesson on Thursday during the annual State of the Tribes address, as he emphasized tribal sovereignty and government-to-government [Read More…]
ABC/Randy Holmes As they say, “lemons to lemonade”: An ugly Christmas sweater that was park of a prank on Ryan Reynolds from his pals Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal back in 2018 has helped raise some $850,000 for a children’s charity. The hideous jumper — made to look like a wearable present, complete with an obnoxious gold bow at the center — was …
Rich Fury/Getty Images for LACMA Even the biggest celebrities can get starstruck when meeting their idols for the first time, and Jake Gyllenhaal recently recalled a disastrous run-in with Brad Pitt. It didn’t help that the meeting took place while Gyllenhaal was filming 2002’s The Good Girl, which featured “a lot of racy scenes” with Pitt’s ex-wife, Jennifer Aniston. “I …