Drake was on Late Night yesterday and Jimmy Fallon challenged him to a game a of Beer Hockey. You’d think because Jimmy Brooks is Canadian that the game would be easy peasy for him. Well, he thought so too and went into it all confident. But after downing his second beer, he’s grateful that Canadians love Degrassi as much as hockey or he might not be allowed back in.
Hopefully things will go much better for him when he hosts Saturday Night Live tomorrow on NBC.
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In just over a year Drake has gotten in to a fight with Chris Brown over Rihanna, had Amanda Bynes Tweet him some really weird stuff and yesterday he was rejected from the Miami Heat locker room after their amazing Game 7 win. The actor turned rapper tried using his all access pass to congratulate his friend LeBron James, but the security guard wasn’t having it. He said that the locker room was only open to the media, so Drake claimed that he was. Sadly for the Degrassi star the line “I am media” didn’t work. On that note is it too soon to say that Jimmy Brooks was shot down?
Hey Drake, If you are still sad about not being let in the Miami Heat locker room, I am sure Amanda Bynes will let you heat up her locker room anytime and that might cheer you up.
Before Sandra Oh was a doctor on Grey’s Anatomy, she was a waitress in Degrassi High: School’s Out. She looks the same now as she did when she was 20 in that 1992 movie.
Neil Hope who played Wheels on Degrassi passed four and a half years (November 25, 2007) ago at the age of 35 from natural causes, but his death is first being reported today according to Toronto.com.
Degrassi’s Executive Producers Linda Schuyler and Stephen Stohn from Epitome Pictures released a statement about his passing, “We were terribly saddened to hear the news. Neil made an important contribution to our lives, to the lives of our television team who are like a family to us, and indeed to the lives of the many Canadians and others around the world who were influenced by Neil and the roles he played starting from the early days of The Kids of Degrassi Street. His life was not an easy one, but the time he spent with us was a shining example of determination, hard work and hopeful optimism, and he is sorely missed.” Stohn added on Twitter, “We are all terribly saddened by this news. Neil and his character Wheels in the early Degrassi deeply touched many lives. We have respected the privacy of the family by not saying anything until now, but our entire team is very emotional about his passing”
Hope is one of the few actors who acted in almost every version of Degrassi from The Kids of Degrassi all the way up until the latest installment of Degrassi: The Next Generation. He last appeared on the show during D:TNG’s third season.
Hope’s death is hitting me hard because I had such a crush on him when I was growing up. Wheels has always been my favorite character in the Degrassi franchise.
So today take some time to remember him by watching him in an episode of Degrassi Junior High or Degrassi High. Or better yet belt out Everybody Wants Something and let him know we are will never give up loving him.
Below is one of his of greatest episodes:
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Two of Canada’s biggest stars under 25 got together at the premiere of Justin Bieber’s movie and it looks like Drake’s sweatpants are saying Never Say Never will they hide what makes him a bigger man than the Baby singer. Seriously am I the only who feels dirty looking at Jimmy Brook’s junk? I know he is 24, but he will always the kid who got shot in the back on Degrassi.
