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Pat Sajak has hosted Wheel of Fortune since 1981. That’s thousands and thousands of episodes. It takes a lot for him to be surprised by an answer, but that happened this week with a contestant’s endearingly terrible solve.

During a Triple Toss-Up in Tuesday’s episode, the category was Show Biz and the board read “TH_ _RITI_S _GR_E.” Contestant Gishma Tabari, who according to TV Insider “revealed she had a Disney-themed bridal shower earlier in the episode,” attempted to solve the puzzle. “THE BRITISH OGRE,” she said. Her guess caught Sajak by surprise. “Say it again,” he said, as if to give her time to reconsider things. Nope: “THE BRITISH OGRE.” That was not the answer, because that’s not a thing (a Scottish ogre, on the other hand…).

Eventually, fellow contestant Lora Stamps, a nurse from Magnolia, Arkansas, jumped in and gave the correct answer, “The Critics Agree,” leaving Tabari embarrassed.

It worked out fine for Tabari, who “managed to rake in $15,853 and even won a cruise trip,” according to Page Six. Plus, now she’s a fan favorite. “This girl guessed ‘The British Ogre’ on wheel of fortune and the second hand embarrassment was overwhelming. She wouldn’t even look at the camera for a sec. I feel bad but man that sh*t was funny,” one viewer wrote on X, while another added, “OK, the puzzle was clearly THE CRITICS AGREE but to be honest I prefer THE BRITISH OGRE because the puzzles could use some more wacky originality sometimes..”

(Via TV Insider)

Andre Braugher‘s cause of death has been revealed after the beloved actor passed away on Monday, leaving behind a sea of tributes as colleagues and fans hailed his career-defining performances. The Brooklyn Nine-Nine star was only 61 years of age.

When his death was announced, Braugher’s publicist only disclosed that the actor suffered from a “brief illness.” Further details have now been revealed, according to The New York Times:

Andre Braugher, the Emmy-winning actor who died this week at 61, was diagnosed with lung cancer a few months ago before succumbing to the disease on Monday, his longtime publicist, Jennifer Allen, said on Thursday.

When Ms. Allen confirmed his death this week, she said he had died after a brief illness. A 2014 profile by The New York Times Magazine said that Mr. Braugher was intensely private and “stopped drinking alcohol and smoking years ago.”

Braugher became an actor to watch following his performance in 1989’s Glory, where he went toe-to-toe with acting legends like Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman. He later landed a career-defining role in Homicide: Life on the Streets where his portrayal of Detective Frank Pemberton is still raved about to this day.

Following the news of his death, Braugher’s work as Pemberton was mentioned just as frequently, if not more, than his more recent and beloved portrayal of Captain Raymond Holt on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

(Via The New York Times)

Recently, Olivia Rodrigo has been spotted spending time with Louis Partridge, the 20-year-old English actor known for playing Lord Tewkesbury in the Enola Holmes movies and Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious in FX’s Pistol. This has naturally led to some dating speculation.

Are Olivia Rodrigo and Louis Partridge dating?

It certainly looks like it, especially after yesterday (December 13): TMZ shared photos of the two outside of a New York City gas station, and they were holding each other (with Partridge putting a hand in a spot usually reserved for somebody you’re really familiar with) and kissing.

This is the culmination of a series of sightings over the past handful of weeks. In late October, the two were seen in London, which got the dating rumors rolling. Fast-forward to earlier this month: Partridge was seen supporting Rodrigo at her NYC Jingle Ball performance on December 8. The next day, he was also spotted at the December 9 Saturday Night Live afterparty on December 9, for the episode on which Rodrigo performed as musical guest.

All that said, neither Rodrigo nor Partridge have publicly confirmed that they’re officially an item, so despite how it may seem, we do not yet know for certain that they have labeled it and are in fact dating.

Porn-monitoring app enthusiast and Random House Speaker Mike Johnson has his pet causes. That includes targeting strip clubs for potential/failed shut downs and protecting Jan. 6 rioters at all costs, but climate change does not appear on that list of Johnson’s concerns.

Granted, Johnson’s father (Patrick) wishes that his son cared about environmental causes, but that wouldn’t work out with his far-right GOP leanings, so he actually (and allegedly) declined to help him with a desperate request. This had to do with a toxic dump that had experienced an explosion, spreading dangerous fallout for miles and posing detrimental health effects for surrounding residents in Louisiana. Those residents included Johnson’s family, and according to Patrick’s stepmother, Janis Gabriel, the pair went to Mike’s office to appeal to him about authorities potentially green lighting this “open burn.” According to The Guardian, that led to disappointment:

“His father and I went to him and said: ‘Mike you need to get involved in this, this is really important. Your family really lives at ground zero.’ We basically begged him to say something, to someone, somewhere … He just wasn’t interested. He had other things to do. He was never interested in environmental things.”

Gabriel continued to express amazement at how “[h]e basically shut us down” and “wouldn’t give five minutes of his time to the effort.” This alleged incident occurred only a few weeks before Johnson ascended from mere constitutional lawyer to member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, and it goes hand in hand with how Johnson has denied climate change’s existence due to his strict adherence to “creationism.” Also conveniently, this stance is very pro-fossil fuel consumption, which surely wins him favor with the House GOP.

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs, however, has been enormously vocal about the hazards posed to human health and the environment by toxic burn pits. It’s a cause that Jon Stewart has championed while condemning congressional inaction on the subject. It’s also an example of a curious contradiction by members of the GOP, which is otherwise pro-military in almost every other way.

(Via The Guardian)

Olivia Rodrigo was spotted today seemingly confirming her relationship with Louis Partridge, as the two were photographed making out during a public outing.

However, they’ve apparently been together for a while. Here’s everything to know about Rodrigo’s new boyfriend.

Who Is Olivia Rodrigo’s New Rumored Boyfriend? Get To Know Louis Partridge

After being spotted together in London in October, Rodrigo and Partridge first sparked their dating rumors. Since then, Partridge attended Rodrigo’s performance on Saturday Night Live and other public outings.

Partridge is an actor, known for his work in Netflix’s Enola Holmes franchise alongside Millie Bobby Brown. He also played Sid Vicious in FX’s Pistol series. Before dating Rodrigo, his last relationship was seemingly with his Pistol co-star, Sydney Chandler, back in 2022. He attended the premiere of Don’t Worry Darling with her, as she was in the movie.

He and Rodrigo were also born in the same year: 2003. He is just a few months younger, being born in June and as a Gemini. According to People Magazine, Partridge was born in Wandsworth, London, and attended both Dulwich Preparatory School and Alleyn’s School. Finally, he’s a middle child, with two sisters.

Check out the recent photos of Rodrigo and Partridge below.

In George Clooney‘s The Boys in the Boat – based on the true story of the University of Washington’s junior varsity rowing crew competing in the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany – Hadley Robinson plays Joyce, a student who falls for Joe (Callum Turner), a blue collar guy who has just learned he’s a natural at rowing after trying out on a lark, basically to earn meal money. As Robinson says, at its heart there’s a old Hollywood, 1930s romantic aspect to The Boys on the Boat that Clooney taps into.

You might know Robinson from playing Sallie in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women. Or as Vivian in Amy Poehler’s Moxie. But sports fans might know her for her acclaimed role as Jeanie Buss on Winning Time, which was kind of unceremoniously canceled after two seasons. Which, as Robinson tells us ahead, yeah, she was kind of shocked that happened, too.

Before this movie, I did not know anything about rowing. If someone asked me now I think I could say, “I know a little bit about rowing now.”

Oh, good. That’s a good thing. It’s a good takeaway. I knew nothing either.

It would be funny if you were the world’s leading rowing expert before you made this movie.

Oh, man. I feel like somehow that would interfere with the character because Joyce doesn’t really know anything about it.

So if you walk in and you say, “Hey, I’m the world’s foremost rowing expert,” you might not get the role.

Possibly. I mean, there’s a scene where, I don’t want to give anything away, but I’m intentionally not supposed to be that into rowing, I believe – or good at it.

Is that really a spoiler? I don’t think that’s a spoiler.

Depends.

A spoiler would be like, “Who wins?” But I don’t even think that’s a spoiler. If the Nazis had won the race, I don’t think this movie exists.

We wouldn’t have a movie, it would be just part of a movie.

We wouldn’t.

So I’m really glad, for many reasons, that they did not.

So we did spoil the movie. The Nazis do not win in the end.

Yeah, just so everybody knows, the Nazis lose. Oh, man.

Did you audition? Did someone call you? How does this work?

Yeah, I auditioned. I did a tape, and then, pretty soon after, I think it was a week in, I didn’t even do a callback. I got a call a few days later. And it was like, “Hey, you got the offer?” And I was like, “Wow, that happened very quickly.” But yeah, I did the tape. I felt okay about it. So it was a huge surprise.

Is that unusual? When you say you felt just okay about it and then you get it? Or is that how it sometimes works? Where there are times you feel like, “Hey, I think I nailed it,” and then, you don’t get it.

Any time I nail it, I do not get the part. “That’s okay,” then I get the part. So I’m starting to think maybe I should just lean into being a mediocre actor.

Wait, I can’t imagine your tape was mediocre, but what do you think happened there?

You know, I’m my worst critic. I think it was good. I mean, who knows? Who’s to say? I’m sure it was fine. But I was miming rowing in the tape, so it was me doing this [rowing motion], and faking it, and I just was like, “Hadley, you’re not selling it. You’re not selling it, honey. You got to sell the rowing thing.” And I think that was the issue I had.

That will be my headline: “I don’t know why they hired me, to tell you the truth.”

But it ended up being the perfect fit. And everybody got along so well and everybody’s incredible in this movie. I just think everybody’s so talented, and was perfect for the part. All the boys look exactly like the real-life person they’re playing, and they capture their energy and essence perfectly.

It is weird watching this, because everyone does have a kind of ’30s look to them. I mean, I’m sure that has to do with the makeup and the dress, but there is a world-weary look on a lot of faces.

It’s like, dusty, cheek bone-y, kind of thing going on. I know what you mean. I don’t know how that all happened, but everybody does look very 1930s-edque.

Did you like living in the ’30s for awhile? I don’t think I would. I don’t think I’d want to live in that era.

Right, Depression-era…

I’d say no on that.

But this was the Hollywood version.

That’s true.

So we were kind of leaning into the romance. What little romance there was from that time, we definitely leaned into it. And it’s so beautifully done. I think I learned a lot through living through that time, to be honest.

What did you learn?

I think the themes behind this story are all about scrappiness, and guts, and resilience. And you had to be, to exist in this time. It wasn’t about competition for the sake of winning, for the sake of money, for the sake of glory. It was competition out of a need to survive, because you didn’t know how you were going to eat at the end of the day. And I think having that mindset for a little while isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

When you’re in a George Clooney movie he’s directing, is that weird at first. Like, hey, that’s George Clooney.

Yeah, that was pretty wild. He’s George Clooney. He’s the household name. He’s a star, in every sense of the word. So, to sort of see him every day, I would be double-taking. I had whiplash at the end of the shoot day. I mean, he’s just the most gracious, in general, and humble guy though. So that kind of balanced it out.

So when you get this part, how many times do you just drop in conversation, “Well, I’m the co-lead in the new George Clooney movie?” I’d be saying that nonstop.

Well, I actually tried to avoid saying it, because I think people would have full-on meltdowns. I’d be like, okay, you’re freaking me out here. You’re making me nervous. If you could have less of a reaction, please?

I’m sad Winning Time is not coming back. I really enjoyed you in that show. What happened there?

I think it was multiple reasons why it didn’t come back. And I think it had a lot to do with… I think it was really difficult for a lot of actors to be performing at that level, physically, for that long. I think it was a lot of different reasons, which I wasn’t completely sure of, but I know that there was a fan base there and people really enjoyed it, which made me happy.

Were you surprised? I was surprised.

Yeah. I was a little surprised. I think for a little bit there had been talks, or at least, the question, yeah. And then it was surprising, for sure.

Well, you have more time to do movies like this now.

Exactly.

I’m trying to look at the bright side.

Exactly. And I want to continue doing movies like this, so it all works out.

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On Friday, January 12, the Chicago Bulls will introduce its Ring of Honor, something almost every franchise has in some form but, somehow, the Bulls haven’t until now. The inaugural class features 13 individuals, with Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Phil Jackson, Jerry Krause, Artis Gilmore, Jerry Sloan, Toni Kukoc, Bob Love, Chet Walker, Johnny “Red” Kerr, Tex Winter, and Dick Klein all being inducted.

The ceremony will take place at halftime of the game against the Warriors that night, and it’s not entirely clear exactly who all will be on hand for the celebration in person.

There is the chance that it could be an incredibly awkward reunion if Jordan and Pippen both decide to show up, as those two are at odds over Pippen’s anger at his portrayal in Jordan’s The Last Dance documentary. He’s called Jordan a “horrible player” before he showed up in Chicago, and has made clear that he is not on friendly terms with his longtime teammate. The prospects of Jordan and Pippen being in the same building is fascinating not just to fans, but to another former Jordan friend who has been shut out by the legend, as Charles Barkley was informed of the Ring of Honor night by Dan Patrick and is now determined to go just to watch the trainwreck in person.

As Barkley notes, “uncomfortable won’t do it justice” if all those guys are all on hand for the celebration, and he just wants to go sit in the corner and stare. Chuck was excited to learn this will be on one of his off nights and he can go, and it would be incredibly funny if he’s just sitting there courtside grinning ear-to-ear while the most awkward induction ceremony of all-time is happening. That said, I would personally be shocked if both Jordan and Pippen are on hand for this, but if they do, I too will be locked in on watching the awkwardness from afar.

A paparazzo caught actor Jennifer Garner performing a touching act of kindness. Instead of being annoyed at having the moment filmed by the photographer, she asked him to help.

Garner was at the beach in Santa Monica, California, handing out bags of necessities to the homeless when she came across a man in a wheelchair who had no socks or shoes. Garner took the socks off her feet, gave them to the man and then attempted to hand over her shoes, but they were too small.

Garner then briskly walked over to the photographer filming her and asked him for assistance.

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“What size feet do you have?” she asked the photographer repeatedly. “Can I buy your shoes for him? He needs a shoe.” When the random paparazzo asked what size feet the homeless man was, Garner replied, “10 and a half.”

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“Oh, I’m 11! Want me to give it to him? I can give it to him,” he responded, adding that Garner didn’t have to pay him for the shoes. The photographer had a blanket to give to the homeless man as well.

When Garner came across the man in the wheelchair, she was handing out plastic bags filled with necessities, similar to those Upworthy reported on in March of 2022. Garner created a viral video for Instagram that showed how the average person could make bags to give a “random act of kindness” to someone in need.

The underlying message of the post is that with a bit of forethought and preparedness, we all can help people experiencing homelessness.

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“Gather these essentials in a quart-sized Ziploc bag and keep them in your car to give away when you see someone in need,” she wrote on the post before listing some items that can really help a homeless person get through the day. “A pair of thick socks. Kleenex. Hand wipes. Disposable toothbrushes. Chapstick. A couple of granola bars. I forgot this time, but like to add feminine hygiene products, too. Add $5, $10, $20 and a smile.”

Homelessness has steadily risen in the United States by about 6% yearly since 2017. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, roughly 421,000 people were homeless in 2022, and nearly 128,000 were chronically homeless, meaning they didn’t have a place to stay for a year or more.

The rise in people on the streets is distressing, and we all hope our leaders can get together to stop the steady increase. But until then, we are all called to do what we can to help alleviate the suffering we see on the streets.

Garner is a beautiful example of taking direct action to make the world a better place. Whether she calls a senator to help pass gun control legislation, buys boxes of books to help school teachers, or helps the homeless, her philosophy seems pretty simple. If you see something wrong, do something. It’s everyone’s responsibility to make the world a better place.

This article originally appeared on 9.22.23

Forget Spotify Wrapped. The year-end results you’ve been waiting for are here: Pornhub‘s 2023 in Review.

The website released its findings for the year’s most-searched terms (hentai), performers (Abella Danger), countries by traffic (U-S-A!), and categories (lesbian). 2023 is also apparently the “golden age” of mature porn, as “the MILF category gained +1 spot to become the 5th most viewed category worldwide and the Mature category gained +1 to become the 7th most viewed worldwide, growing in popularity by 69 percent.” I’m doing everything in my power to stop myself from making the world’s most obvious “nice” joke.

The “2023 in Review” data also shows the most popular movies and characters, a list topped by Star Wars, Harley Quinn, Game of Thrones, Avatar, and Harry Potter. “Many of the other usual suspects showed up in 2023 as well: Wonder Woman, Black Window, Catwoman, Elastigirl, and Princess Leia,” according to Pornhub’s data. “Not as popular but also searched for were some of their male counterparts: Batman, Spiderman, Deadpool, [and] Superman.”

Also in the top 15: murder doll M3GAN. Is rival Chucky popular in the world of adult cinema, too? Actually, don’t answer. Further down the list is Magic Mike (makes sense) and John Wick. More like (sigh) John D*ck.

You can see the full findings here.

(Via Pornhub)

No amount of Bosch is too much Bosch, which is why the popular character has been inspiring spinoffs left and right. First, it was Bosch, Amazon’s detective drama based on the Michael Connelly novels of the same name. Then, there was Bosch: Legacy which just wrapped up its second season. Next up, there are not one but two new Bosch-adjacent shows coming up, so you will never be able to escape this man and his tattoos.

The upcoming series will bring in a new character by the name of Renee Ballard. While Ballard has not yet appeared on the show, she has her own line of novels, so there is surely enough material for a solid show. Here is everything we know so far about the currently-untitled Bosch spinoff.

Plot

The spin-off will follow night shift detective Renee Ballard. Ballard was first introduced in Connelly’s 2017 novel The Late Shift and appears in five more Connelly stories, though this will be her first time appearing on screen. Here is the official synopsis:

Renne Ballard is tasked with running the LAPD’s new cold case division — a poorly funded, all-volunteer unit with the largest case load in the city. She approaches these frozen-in-time cases with empathy and determination. When she uncovers a larger conspiracy during her investigations, she’ll lean on the assistance of her retired ally, Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver), to navigate the dangers that threaten both her unit and her life

Michael Connelly, Bosch author and creator, shared his excitement in a statement. “It is so exciting to bring Renée Ballard to the screen and to do it with Prime Video, my streaming partner for going on 10 years. This show will have the same authenticity and propulsive momentum of Bosch: Legacy. Fans of the books will love it,” he concluded.

Cast

The series is expected to bring back Welliver as a guest star, but nothing has been confirmed at this moment. In fact, it seems like Welliver will stick around for as long as they will let him, so it’s safe to say we will be getting a bunch of Bosch in the coming years.

Release Date

No release date has been announced at this time. We can assume the show will begin production in the new year, hopefully aiming for a Winter 2024 release.

Trailer

No trailer has been released at this time, but you can check out Bosch on Amazon Prime and Bosch: Legacy on Freevee. There’s enough Bosch to go around.