Willard Scott — the iconic “TODAY” show weatherman who preceded the Al Roker era — has died. Al himself confirmed the news this weekend, taking to IG with an honorary post for Willard and writing … “We lost a beloved member of our @todayshow family this morning. Willard Scott passed peacefully at the age of
Month: September 2021
Willard Scott Lawrence Lucier | FilmMagic | Getty Images Willard Scott — the legendary TODAY weatherman known for his exuberant personality and launching the tradition of celebrating fans who reached the century mark — died this week, TODAY’s Al Roker has confirmed. He was 87 years old. Scott, who joined TODAY in 1980, may have
Beyoncé celebrates her milestone 40th birthday today, and Harper’s Bazaar celebrated Bey’s big day and their September cover star by getting a multitude of celebs, from Oprah and First Lady Jill Biden to Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift, to send their well wishes to Beyoncé. Swift’s tribute was particularly striking and marks a very rare
Comedian Fuquan Johnson died this weekend of an apparent overdose — along with two others — while a fourth person is in the hospital … the recent girlfriend of one Darius Rucker, TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … there was a get-together Saturday night at someone’s house in the Venice neighborhood of
Waitress, the Broadway hit that, along with Hadestown, brought music back to the New York stage last night after many dark months, grossed $197,878 in tickets sales today, breaking the single-performance house record at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The previous record – $184,476 – was set by the 2013 production of Betrayal starring Daniel Craig
Salma Hayek took to Instagram to share a hilarious video that showed her ‘teaching’ Angelina Jolie how to do the ‘Mexican mordida’ with her birthday cake while surrounded by a group of friends. Salma Hayek proved she had a very eventful 55th birthday with her latest Instagram video! The actress was surrounded by family and
A lot of old things are racist. Mickey Mouse’s white gloves, for example. The concept of a peanut gallery. But public libraries? Impossible, right? Well, public libraries have a lot of race-related issues, from over-policing to an exclusive Master’s degree (I wrote about some of this here.) But one of the biggest obstacles to manifesting
Image: Gucci In the second instalment of Gucci’s high jewellery collection, creative director Alessandro Michele takes cues from the ever-changing nature of the sky and captures its mesmerising hues through a 130-piece collection divided into four chapters. Called Hortus Deliciarum (meaning “garden of delights” in Latin), the collection brings Michele’s signature maximalist style into the
A more than 40 per cent surge in donations resulted in the Charities Aid Foundation distributing a record £958m to charities in 2020/21, new figures show. The amount passed to good causes through CAF accounts rose by £300m in the year to the end of April 2021 compared with the previous year, according to the
A woman waits in a line outside a temporary unemployment office in Frankfort, Kentucky in June. Bryan Woolston | Reuters Misty Todd has used unemployment benefits to pay bills since losing her convenience-store job in March last year. But the 37-year-old Las Vegas resident is unsure how she’ll afford rent, groceries and essentials for her
Canadian actress Tennille Read has had a juicy and fun role on Workin’ Moms and played one of the original Merriwick witches, Patience, on Good Witch. Now, she’s one of the talented ensemble of actors on Syfy’s SurrealEstate, where she plays Megan, a woman who inherited a stigmatized property, which, in turn, brought her into
Just last week, Hearst Magazine collaborated with Hearst Black Culture and HearstLab to debut the first Celebrate Black: A Virtual Style Summit. Hearst partnered with Nike to host three-day series that was moderated by Hearst’s very own staff members as they spoke and the important work being done within the company that helps amplify the
American Airlines flight 718, the first U.S. Boeing 737 MAX commercial flight since regulators lifted a 20-month grounding in November, takes off from Miami, Florida, December 29, 2020. Marco Bello | Reuters American Airlines and Alaska Airlines will no longer cover Covid-19 quarantine time for employees who aren’t vaccinated against the virus, the latest push
Shares of Chewy sank in extended trading Wednesday after the online pet retailer’s second-quarter results and third-quarter outlook fell short of Wall Street forecasts. The stock was down more than 11% at one point, before parring some of the losses to trade down roughly 9% at 5:30 p.m. in New York. Chewy saw revenue rise
News Lorde No Longer Performing at MTV VMAs 2021 The awards show cited “a change in production elements” By Madison Bloom and Jazz Monroe September 4, 2021 Facebook Twitter Lorde (NDZ/Star Max/GC Images) Facebook Twitter Lorde’s scheduled performance at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 12 has been canceled, the awards show announced Friday
Regé-Jean Page has everything you would want for the role of 007, particularly the charm and screen presence. The actor is also young, which would give him plenty of time to make his own mark as the iconic character. In the meantime, the actor has plenty of projects in the works, but I’m hoping some
Simu Liu‘s life could be its own movie. Born in China, he moved to Canada at the age of five. Despite being forced to navigate unfamiliar terrain — not speaking the language at first, not knowing a soul — Liu excelled, even making it to Ivey Business School in London, Ont. After securing his first
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Image: Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce has displayed two of its bespoke commissions at Salon Privé 2021, an exclusive Concours d’Elégance held at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. The two cars on display are the Black Badge Wraith and the Black Badge Cullinan. Black Badge Cullinan The Black Badge Cullinan features a plethora of bespoke appointments, the most notable of
A scheme aimed at increasing innovation in social prescribing has been launched to meet an expected increase in demand. The Accelerating Innovation programme, which is being run in partnership between the National Academy for Social Prescribing, the Royal Voluntary Service, NHS England and NHS Improvement, also hopes to improve the availability of social prescribing services.
(CNN) — When Jordan Milano Hazrati was offered a job as a flight attendant with Virgin Atlantic, it was a dream come true. “It was everything I’d ever wanted — I still can’t believe I did it,” she says. “I was sitting in the flight deck landing at Heathrow on my first flight, and I’ll
Kaley Cuoco and her husband are breaking up after only 3 years of marriage … and they say it’s because they’re going in opposite directions in life. The actress and her hubby, Karl Cook, announced the split Friday in a joint statement to TMZ, saying … “Despite a deep love and respect for one another,
In this article XOM A view of the ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, May 15, 2021. Kathleen Flynn | Reuters Activist firm Engine No. 1 after winning three board seats at Exxon is meeting with other oil companies in its climate change fight, a source familiar told CNBC’s David Faber. The hedge
Production on The Offer, an upcoming limited series about the making of The Godfather, was put on hold over the summer after the show’s star, Miles Teller, reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. The Daily Mail reports that Teller is unvaccinated, and his positive test forced Paramount Television to halt production for nearly a month. In
A video has recently surfaced showing an intimate moment shared between Timothée Chalamet and director Denis Villeneuve during a standing ovation for Dune. First set for release last year, the film has been met with multiple delays as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. However, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune has definitively overcome its troubled release schedule and has
Beginners director Mike Mills’s latest film is his best so far—a sensitive and searching look at children and adults. By Richard Lawson September 3, 2021 Less than two months ago, at the Cannes Film Festival, director Joachim Trier offered up a beautiful rumination on life without children in the form of The Worst Person in
I am well into adulthood, and coloring is just as fun and soothing now as it was when I was a kid. Kids gain a lot of pretty neat benefits from the simple act of coloring: it helps them learn to focus, develop fine motor skills and coordination, build color awareness, and stimulates creativity. Most
Charities are being warned to watch out for bogus tax rebate or refund requests after officials said they had identified about 1.5 million scams during the pandemic. In a letter to the Charity Tax Group at the end of August, HM Revenue & Customs warned charities to be careful if they were contacted “out of
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former CEO of blood testing and life sciences company Theranos, arrives for the first day of jury selection in her fraud trial, outside Federal Court in San Jose, California on August 31, 2021. Nick Otto | AFP | Getty Images SAN JOSE, CALIF. – A jury of seven men and five women will decide
OK. It’s time to admit that I am not a critic’s critic. I’m a people’s critic. I just want to be entertained, you know? I find so many things enjoyable that are panned by critics. What else can it mean? When the first episodes of Succession dropped, I loved it. I was enamored. But so