Legendary fitness instructor Richard Simmons has died ..
Simmons, who turned 76 Friday, died just 24 hours after he thanked fans on social media for their birthday wishes.
The health guru, who stepped away from the public eye a decade ago, rose to fame in the 1970s and ’80s after opening several gyms across the country and releasing his iconic high energy fitness tapes.
For several years there has been intrigue over his physical and mental health..
May he rest in peace.
The crime was known in 1996. But no one did the time. Then or now. While no one was ever named a suspect, the old event has come back again with a new report being issued..
Initially fearing food poisoning, all had in fact unknowingly eaten lobster chowder spiked with the drug phencyclidine, which is also known as PCP and angel dust.
The wild story continues..
“Some people were laughing, some people were crying, some people were throwing up,” actor Bill Paxton told Entertainment Weekly at the time.
The commissioner’s report was made in response to a freedom of information request complaint. While Halifax police initially released 10 pages of records, much of it was heavily redacted.
“The responsive records consist of HRP’s rapid incident report,” Nova Scotia information and privacy commissioner Tricia Ralph explained. “This report is essentially 10 pages of narrative text regarding HRP’s investigation into the alleged lacing of food with PCP. It details who HRP officers talked to and what those people said.”
Halifax Regional Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A suspect was never named and the case was reportedly closed in February 1999.
The “Titanic” crew was in Atlantic Canada to film the movie’s modern-day scenes, which did not involve stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. The crew members all recovered from the unexpected experience.
There’s no business like show business.
Person of the year. Huge ticket seller. People dying with heat exhaustion just to see her. A wild 2023 for Tay Tay..
But Pennsylvania went one step further.. the state House in the Keystone State now officially declared it all the Era of Taylor Swift..
And even this vote was divisive and along party lines..
The resolution celebrates how Swift has ‘transcended the role of pop star,‘ and recognizes her achievements in 2023 – including being named TIME’s Person of the Year
Most Republicans voted against the honorary measure, as did a few Democrats, despite it being introduced by eight Pennsylvania progressives..
She is from Wyomissing, PA, in Berks County.
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Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, a Republican, responded by questioning what the guidance, in reality, actually meant, before labeling it an empty gesture by the progressive left.
‘What a joke of the State House Assembly of Pennsylvania,’ Borowicz said of the proposal, which would go on to be barely passed after some back-and-forth.
‘This is the Democratic party though, idolizing Hollywood,’ the lawmaker continued. ‘Giving Taylor Swift an era while our veterans get a day.’
Rep. Russ Diamond, another Republican, was even more pointed with his remarks, reminding the more than 200 lawmakers how Swift broke up with her home state when she moved to Tennessee to pursue her singing career.
4 million plus subscribers and success as an alternative YouTube star suddenly screeching to a halt?
Russell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse over a seven-year period at the height of his fame.
The allegations were the result of a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4 Dispatches. Brand denies the allegations.
The Times titles said they contacted Brand’s representatives with details of the allegations – as well as information to help him recall the incidents in question – in advance of its planned publication, giving them eight days to respond.
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In a video posted to his social media accounts, Brand denied the allegations and said his relationships have all been consensual. He said he received “extremely disturbing” communications from a mainstream TV company and a newspaper “listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks.”
Developing..
Let the conspiracy theories flow!! Is it really Britney, Bitch?
PEOPLE magazine led the way with reports that Britney Spears and Sam Asghari calling it splits.
IF they were ever married to begin with. IF she really even exists anymore to begin with!!
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Spears’ and Asghari’s reps have not commented on or confirmed the information.
Spears’ marriage to Asghari marked her third wedding and second marriage. She was previously married to Jason Alexander in 2004 in Las Vegas for just 55 hours, and then married Kevin Federline that same year. Fourteen months ago, Britney walked down the aisle in a Donatella Versace dress, and had the time of her life on the dance floor with Madonna and several other famous guests.
Rumors that the couple was struggling began in March of 2023 after both were spotted without their wedding rings, but Asghari’s reps quickly shut those rumors down, saying he took off his ring to film a new movie.
There have been so many rumors about Britney’s well being since her conservator-ship ended, with many people thinking most if not everything on her Instagram social account was faked or phony..
This will add to the intrigue.
Save Britney.. from who. Or from herself?
TINSELTOWN, FOR ALL ITS MIGHT, OFTEN SUCCUMBED TO THE INFORMATION THAT NIKKE FINKE KNEW AND REPORTED..
The site she founded, DEADLINE, was a must go..
She often reminded me of the real life version of Gale Weathers, the news reporter from SCREAM.
She was there for most gossipy of gossips.. the most scandalous of scandals. Drudge linked to her often and gave her a siren or two..
Finke was hated as much as she was appreciated. And few that followed her even liked her! She was just pleasant type of person. 🙂
When I do read her, I see that she can be nasty, abrasive and vindictive. I see that she trumpets “exclusives” that are no such thing. She is a prolific name-caller, a practice that is beneath the dignity of such a talented writer. She is not snarky, the way Perez Hilton was before he got nice. She is frankly bilious.
Now she has passed away from the grip of this planet..
Nikki Finke dead.
Hollywood probably relieved ..
This is how the AP reported it:
Veteran journalist Nikki Finke, who founded the entertainment trade site Deadline and who in her heyday was an elbows-out columnist serving up juicy industry scoops and gossip skewering Hollywood’s elite, has died at age 68.
According to a family representative, Finke died Sunday morning in Boca Raton, Fla., after a prolonged illness.
Finke was revered and feared in the industry for exposing secrets, first through her L.A. Weekly column, Deadline Hollywood, which she eventually built into a website.
She founded Deadline Hollywood Daily in 2006 on a Friday and quickly began building her audience by live-blogging the 78th Academy Awards that Sunday. T
he site was largely a one-woman operation until 2009, when Penske Media Corp. acquired it and hired Finke as editor in chief..
Not that Hollywood elites are prone to vicious or dark thoughts, *wink wink,* but we are sure that many are breathing a collective sigh of relief ..
For as many times Nikki Finke gave us a juicy celeb tidbit, she probably took two to the grave with her..
May she rest in peace..
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Will Smith will not be allowed to attend the Academy Awards for the next 10 years, as a result of his slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage during this year’s Oscar ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced in a statement obtained by CNN.
“The Board has decided, for a period of 10 years from April 8, 2022, Mr. Smith shall not be permitted to attend any Academy events or programs, in person or virtually, including but not limited to the Academy Awards,” Academy President David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson said in a statement on Friday.The decision was made during a Board of Governors meeting held earlier in the day in Los Angeles.
The meeting, initially scheduled for April 18, was expedited after Smith announced his resignation from the Academy last week.
A few weeks ago we reported on circulating rumors that Bruce Willis was going to give up acting due to cognitive decline..
That sadly now has become true..
And it was almost getting dangerous according to some reporting.
Bruce Willis, who is stepping away from acting amid cognitive difficulties caused by aphasia, alarmed movie staffers two years ago when he misfired a gun loaded with a blank — and last year perplexingly asked what he was doing on a film set, according to a report.
The 67-year-old “Die Hard” star, whose family announced Wednesday he had received the brain disorder diagnosis, had been exhibiting signs of decline on set in recent years, nearly two dozen sources concerned about his well-being told the Los Angeles Times.
A Florida judge on Monday blocked the release of certain records related to the death investigation of actor and comedian Bob Saget.
According to court minutes obtained by CNN affiliate WKMG, Ninth Judicial Circuit Judge Vincent Chiu granted the Saget family’s petition for the permanent injuction.
The judge’s decision came nearly a month after Saget’s family filed a lawsuit to block the release of some records..
Developing..
Top star and voice of MEG from FAMILY GUY is noted in a new Yahoo Entertainment story as historically saying she was from Russia.
All of that changed when Vlad the Impaler ordered the invasion of Ukraine..
So why did she change the ancestry story?
Kunis explained the reason to Maria Shriver.
“I was born in Ukraine. I came to the States in 1991 and we were the last of my family to migrate,” Kunis explains, adding that she was about 8 years old at the time. “I very much have always felt like an American,” she continued, saying that growing up, “People were like, ‘Oh, you’re so Eastern European.’ I was like, ‘I’m so LA!’ What do you mean? Like, my whole life I was like ‘I am LA through and through.’” “[Russia’s invasion] happens and I can’t express or explain what came over me, but all of a sudden I was like, ‘Oh my God, I feel like a part of my heart just got ripped out,’” she explained. “It was the weirdest feeling.”
She now says:
“It’s been irrelevant to me that I come from Ukraine. It never mattered,” she explained of her upbringing. “So much so that I’ve always said I’m Russian. Like I’ve always been, ‘I’m from Russia’ for a multitude of reasons. One of them being when I came to the States and I would tell people I’m from from Ukraine, the first question I’d get was ‘Where is Ukraine?’ And then I’d have to explain Ukraine and where it is on the map… But if I was like, ‘I’m from Russia’ people were like, ‘Oh we know that country.’ So I was like great I’ll just tell people from Russia.” “Hell no! I’m from Ukraine. Everything’s changed,” she says now. “It is a sense of pride, and it’s not taking away from loving where I live now and everything that this country has given me.”
