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Survivor host Jeff Probst used to travel by sea and sky to deliver votes, but those days are no more. His “official” explanation is that “we don’t want to do it just to do it and waste time out of our finale,” but there’s a more convincing reason: he doesn’t want to die.

While filming an episode of Survivor: Vanuatu in 2004, Probst hacked his way through a jungle and boarded a plane to deliver the vote. So far, so good. But then he had to jump out of the plane. “When you skydive, they tell you two things. Check your altimeter, which tells you how high you are, and check your horizon line to make sure your body is oriented right. And you’re supposed to pull your chute at 5,500 feet,” he said on the On Fire with Jeff Probst podcast).

But on the sixth jump, Probst got distracted. “I check my altimeter, and then I look at the horizon, and I decide to take in beautiful California,” he said. “I’m looking at the horizon and thinking, this is amazing. I look down at my altimeter and it says 4,500 feet.” Uh oh.

“So suddenly I go, ‘Oh my God!’ And what they teach you to do is wave your arms together like an X. That lets everybody know, I’m pulling my chute. And they tell you very specifically, when you reach back to pull you chute, when you grab it, punch out to make sure none of your clothing gets tangled up. So I reach back and I punch out and my chute goes up. I’m like, oh, thank God.”

One problem: the chute doesn’t open. “In that case they said to scissor kick,” Probst explained. “So I’m at 4,400 feet. I’m quickly getting close to the ground, and I scissor kick, and the chute opens.” Thankfully, he made it to the ground, safe and sound, but it was “one of the scariest times of my life.”

Former Survivor contestant Mike White should recreate the plane jump for The White Lotus season 3. Maybe cast Probst to relive his trauma, as a thank you.

(Via EW)

Karen O and Yeah Yeah Yeahs are fresh from Shaky Knees Festival last weekend in Atlanta, as the band is simultaneously headlining a tour that will stretch into this summer. Meanwhile, Azealia Banks made headlines earlier this week for torching Australia as “one of the most culturally stale white nations on the planet.”

Both will be at the Just Like Heaven festival this Saturday, May 13, at Brookside at The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are headliners, and the lineup also prominently features MGMT, Future Islands, Empire Of The Sun, and M83.

On May 1, the festival shared all set times across the Orion and Stardust stages.

The day will kick off with Them Jeans and Eli Glad on Orion and Stardust, respectively, at noon local time. The Orion stage will host The Sounds (12:35-1:20 p.m.), Strfkr (1:25-2:10 p.m.), Metronomy (2:15-3:05 p.m.), Ladytron (3:15-4:05 p.m.), The Bravery (4:15-5:05 p.m.), The Walkmen (5:15-6:05 p.m.), Future Islands (6:15-7:05 p.m.), Empire Of The Sun (7:20-8:20 p.m.), MGMT (8:35-9:45 p.m.), and Yeah Yeah Yeahs (9:55-10:55 p.m.).

Over on the Stardust stage, Cults are set to go on at 12:30 p.m., followed by The Faint (1:30-2:05 p.m.), Azealia Banks (2:30-3:10 p.m.), Fever Ray (3:35-4:20 p.m.), Peaches (4:50-5:35 p.m.), Hot Chip (6:05-6:55 p.m.), Caribou (7:30-8:25 p.m.), and M83 (8:55-9:55 p.m.).

See the full schedule below and other information about the festival here.

Another day, another pronunciation scandal for Jeopardy! Eagle-eyed watchers are always quick to pounce on both the hosts or the contestants for seemingly flubbing a word, but this time around, fans criticized the entire show for denying a win to all three players.

This latest conundrum happened during a Double Jeopardy for the category “The Quotable Alex.” The clue read, “An author & former prisoner: ‘Socialism of any type & shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit,’” but things went south for all three players when it came time to pronounce the Russian author.

Via Decider:

While all three of them buzzed in with the correct answer — Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — host Mayim Bialik was looking for a slightly different pronunciation than what the three contestants gave.

“This is a tricky one to pronounce,” Bialik said.

Jeopardy! fans took to Twitter to blast the show for having a clue that should’ve provided a bit more flexibility, which is pretty surprising if you know how strict Jeopardy! fans on social media can be about answers.

“Even with weeks of practice, I don’t think I can properly pronunciate ‘Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’ and I think #Jeopardy needs to loosen the standards,” one fan tweeted. “It is getting ridiculous.”

“If you’re not going to accept anyone’s attempt to pronounce Solzhenitsyn, don’t write a clue about him,” another Jeopardy! watcher wrote.

“This seems particularly egregious when some answers (e.g., player had read the word only, didn’t know how it was pronounced) are routinely accepted,” a fan added in response. “This feels very arbitrary. It can also throw the players off their game which is equally unfair.”

“What is with these super-lame pronunciations on Jeopardy lately?!” another fan tweeted. “Helen Keller could tell all the contestants were trying to say ‘Solzhenitsyn.’ So annoying.”

(Via Decider)

It’s no secret that rootin’ tootin’ Lauren Boebert loves guns. Still, she rants about (and stumbles upon, and creates unintentional comedy from) so many other subjects that some of her attempted maneuvers slip through the cracks.

Back in February, for example, Boebert introduced a bill that showcased her fixation with the Second Amendment. This actually shouldn’t be too surprising, given that Boebert recently posed with a t-shirt that jokingly (?) renamed guns as “hole punchers,” and that “humor” didn’t go over well, especially amid a fresh wave of U.S. mass shootings. Still, Boebert is triggered by criticism of her gun-filled Christmas photos, and she wants to enshrine the AR-15 as the “national gun.” Really!

In response, a constituent tore Boebert a new one in a letter published by both the Aspen Daily News and the Denver Post, posted below in part:

“An AR–15 style rifle chambered in a .223 Remington round or a 5.56x45mm NATO round is hereby declared to be the National Gun of the United States.”

The bolded quote above is the entire text of H.R. 1095, a bill introduced in Congress on Feb. 17 and cosponsored by our congresswoman, Lauren Boebert. One of her co-sponsors on the bill is none other than George Santos, the congressman who faked virtually every aspect of his life. Is this a cruel joke?

The AR-15 assault rifle Boebert wants to make our “National Gun” is a weapon of war. Its bullets are designed to tear human flesh to pieces by “yawing”, tumbling or fragmenting in the body, thereby causing maximum internal bleeding and tissue damage. I am a Vietnam War vet, and the M-16s we carried there were an offshoot of the AR-15. The Army always told us it was the best rifle in the world because of how efficiently it killed “the enemy”.

You can read the rest of the letter here, and that bill is truly bonkers stuff. Yet it seems characteristic for the owner of former restaurant Shooter’s Grill because Boebert even encouraged staff to open carry while… waiting tables.

(Via Aspen Daily News & Denver Post)

People have had since last November to get excited about the inaugural Sick New World festival. The headliners are System Of A Down, Deftones, Korn, and Incubus. Evanescence, Papa Roach, and Turnstile are also among the artists who will perform across the Purple, Green, Spiral, and Sick stages.

Sick New World is taking over Las Vegas Festival Grounds this Saturday, May 13, and the festival has revealed the day’s full schedule.

Doors will open at 11 a.m. local time, and 50 acts are crammed between then and System Of A Down’s headlining set, beginning at 10 p.m on the Purple stage, which will host Deftones at 7:20 p.m. Korn is scheduled to go on at 8:40 on the Green stage, following Incubus at 6 p.m. Evanescence is assigned to the Purple stage at 5:15 p.m., and Turnstile is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on the Green stage.

The Purple stage will be rounded out by Chevelle (3:55 p.m.), Death Grips (2:45 p.m.), Flyleaf with Lacey Sturm (1:35 p.m.), and P.O.D. (12:25 p.m.). Meanwhile, the rest of Green stage’s itinerary will be filled by Mr. Bungle (3:20 p.m.), Papa Roach (2:10 p.m.), Soulfly (1 p.m.), and Alien Ant Farm (11:50 a.m.).

Elsewhere, the Spiral and Sick stages will be going nonstop from Scowl at 11:35 a.m. on the Sick stage to The Sisters Of Mercy at 11 p.m. on Spiral. Sick New World left a comment on its own Instagram post noting that Loathe’s Sick stage set has been moved to 6 p.m. to make way for Hoobastank at 7:10 p.m.

See the full schedule of set times and other information about the festival below.

Concertgoers are having a tough time this year. Last month, Morgan Wallen fans were sitting at the Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi waiting for him to perform after all the openers went on. Then, he ended up canceling the show. At an Anita Baker concert in Newark, New Jersey left attendees similarly upset last night (May 10).

The audience waited two hours and were told it was due to a technical glitch. Babyface did not perform at all. However, he took to Instagram to share that it was because Baker apparently didn’t want him to.

“I am truly sorry to my fans who have been waiting for us to hit the stage this evening at the Prudential Center,” he wrote. “I was asked not to perform in order to give Ms. Baker her space and time to perform her show in its entirety. My band and I are extremely saddened we didn’t get to perform for y’all tonight.”

Fans are expressing their disappointment in Baker on social media, but she’s yet to comment on the situation.

In 2021, Baker made headlines for regaining control over her masters after her previous label refused to return them and then being praised by Taylor Swift for it.

The disparity in free throw shooting in the lead-up to Game 5 of the Western Conference Semifinals between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors was the Lakers’ major edge at getting to the free throw line. Prior to the two teams squaring off at Chase Center on Wednesday night, Warriors coach Steve Kerr brought up their “gamesmanship,” telling the press that “you give them credit, but you lament the fact that, as a league, we’re gonna reward that type of play with … the game and the series and all that stuff at stake, you would hope that the officials would recognize when a guy just takes a dive.”

Golden State would go on to win Game 5, 121-106, with both teams getting to the line 15 times and the Warriors actually hitting two more. After the game, LeBron James was asked about Kerr’s comments, and stressed that the Lakers don’t do that.

“We’re just not a team that goes out there looking for flopping opportunities,” James said. “That’s just not us, it’s actually never been any team that I’ve played on in my 20 years where we’ve been a flopping team. But, it is what it is, they have the right to say what they want to say.”

Wednesday night marked the first game in the series that Golden State both had as many free throw attempts as and more points from the charity stripe than Los Angeles.

Beyoncé opened her Renaissance World Tour at Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden on Wednesday, May 10, and suddenly, the Beyhive had plenty of reasons to forget their collective displeasure over Beyoncé holding back the Renaissance visuals since the album’s July 2022 release.

The Renaissance World Tour featured Beyoncé in all her glory, and one person on Twitter did the Lord’s work by documenting every single outfit Queen Bey wore on stage throughout her all-encompassing set.

Vogue relayed that Beyoncé’s custom looks were designed by Anrealage, Jonathan Anderson, Olivier Rousteing for Balmain, David Koma, and more.

“Overall, the tour feels like a fabulous embodiment of the techno and ballroom-infused sound of Renaissance, which Beyoncé has described as an ode to dance music and queer culture,” Vogue‘s André-Naquian Wheeler wrote. “They also continue the singer’s streak of ostentatiously avant-garde couture fashion for the album’s innovative visual campaigns. A teaser for ‘I’m That Girl,’ which runs a little under two minutes, featured a chaotic flurry of over a dozen custom looks by Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, and others. Beyoncé is well and truly in her fashion girl era.”

Members of the Beyhive who weren’t present for opening night in Sweden have another chance at Friends Arena tonight, May 11, before the Renaissance World Tour moves to Brussels, Belgium on May 14. See all of the dates here.

Howard Stern didn’t hold back his thoughts on the Coronation of King Charles that consumed England over the past weekend. The shock jock blasted the event, which somehow culminated in an American Idol cameo, and the whole country for pretending that their new monarch is some sort of war hero.

“First of all Prince Charles is a p*ssy,” Stern said to begin his rant. “That’s number one. And people are acting – the whole ceremony they’re acting like that f*cking guy went to war or something and then beat up all the other people. They’re like ‘We swear our allegiance to you and you’re a great warrior. I mean the whole thing is f*cking nuts and in this day and age.”

After mocking the praise heaped on Prince Charles, Stern got serious and tackled the economic reality of the lavish event. Via Variety:

“It was disgusting and I’ll tell you why it’s disgusting,” said Stern. “It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to say this but England’s having its own economic problems and they spent a fortune on that coronation. And it’s just repugnant to watch a country who’s suffering through economic problems and then you see the pomp and circumstance.”

Of course, Howard had some thoughts on King Charles and Camilla the Queen appearing on American Idol, which is reportedly believed the deal that was reached to get Katy Perry and Lionel Richie to perform at the Coronation after several acts refused to serenade the event.

“They’re like two wooden boards, they’re like vampires, they’re stiff,” Stern quipped. “I thought they were cardboard cut outs at first they wheeled [on].”

(Via Variety)

Rihanna kicked off this year with a colossal Super Bowl halftime performance packed with hits and a pregnancy announcement. However, the name of her son who she had with her boyfriend ASAP Rocky (real name Rakim Athelston Mayers) last year has remained unknown… until now.

According to The Daily Mail, who obtained the birth certificate, the name is RZA Athelston Mayers. Since Rihanna has been spotted in Wu-Tang Clan merch, it’s safe to assume it’s a reference to the member of the group.

The “Diamonds” singer was also turning heads at the Met Gala earlier this month. She was fashionably late and discussed how her second pregnancy has been. “It’s so different from the first one! Just everything,” she said. “All of my… no cravings, tons of nausea, everything’s different. But I’m enjoying it, I’m enjoying it. I feel good. I feel energetic.”

In December of last year, Rocky talked about being a father. “Honestly, I think fatherhood gives me more time to do exactly what I want,” he said. “I don’t have time for anything that isn’t priorities. It helps you prioritize, honestly. I love it. Everything is just based around my newfound love for being a dad and a family man. It’s lit right now. I can’t even describe it. Yo, you see this smile! I’m all smiles right now, man.”