Dwayne Johnson is a good son, so he took his mom with him when he was on Good Morning America yesterday. He quickly regretted that decision when Michael Strahan revealed that he knew what DJ’s nickname was as a kid. Mamma Rock called him dew drop as a baby, then doo doo and finally, now she calls him Dewy! The former wrestler actually blushed when all those names were revealed, which was sweet.
Talking about wrestling, as you know The Rock’s dad Rocky Johnson was a very famous one. But did you know that his father was one of the first celebrities to grant a Make-a-Wish back in 1983? That is a tradition DJ has continued and will continue to do as long as he can. On every movie set, he makes sure to dedicate one day to make those kids feel very special. Whatever they want, he gets them and they all have a day they will never forget. Which is what Make-a-Wish is all about.
That is not the only tradition that he does on every movie set. He also has a different scent for each movie that he works on. He does not remember what they all are, but each time it is something new. Wonder what he will wear to taunt Kevin Hart when they film Jumanji 2. Because you know he loves to torture his buddy and we love to watch it happen.
Two days after ABC abruptly cancelled Roseanne over an abhorrent tweet by the show’s creator and star, the actress tweeted she tried to save the show and everyone’s jobs.
She wrote, “I begged Ben Sherwood at ABC 2 let me apologize & make amends. I begged them not to cancel the show. I told them I was willing to do anything & asked 4 help in making things right. I’d worked doing publicity4 them 4free for weeks, traveling, thru bronchitis. I begged4 ppls jobs. He said: what were you thinking when you did this? I said: I thought she was white, she looks like my family! He scoffed & said: ‘what u have done is egregious, and unforgivable.’ I begged 4 my crews jobs. Will I ever recover from this pain? omg.”
Sherwood has made a lot of bad decisions, how he handled Michael Strahan leaving Live, the Castle firings and getting rid of Paul Lee, but this was not one of them. I am sorry for all the people who lost their jobs. Roseanne was in the spotlight again and she should have been smarter with her tweets. But she has built a career getting away with stuff she should not have done, so what was going to stop her? I doubt even this will.
Although she might have learned a little lesson because she also tweeted, “I think I’ll b better tomorrow. The saddest part of all is 4 Jayden Rey on the show whom I grew2 love so much & am so ashamed of myself that she would ever think I do not love her bc she is African American. It’s the most gawd awful painful thing. I can’t let myself cave in tho.”
Words hurt and we all have to remember that the pen can be mightier than the sword. Or nowadays it would be the fingers are more deadly than an assault weapon.
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Did you know that there is a daytime talk show on ABC called The Chew and it has been on for 7 years? Turns out there was one. I say was, because today it got cancelled to make room for a third hour of Good Morning America at 1p.
I think they are going to have to dump the word morning from the title since it is on in the afternoon. That is just one of the things we will be waiting to find out before the show debuts in September. The other thing they are still deciding on is who will host it. I betcha a penny Michael Strahan gets that hour along with someone new.
One thing ABC won’t be answering is who asked for it and why it’s airing 4 hours after GMA goes off the air for the day. Do we really want to have a cheesy news program with our lunches? I do not think so. What we need is a new soap opera, something they got rid of to make room for The Chew. Which they finally cancelled.
When you think of Mandy Moore, you think of the sweet actress we watch ever week on This Is Us. Turns out, she is not that innocent.
Yesterday, on The Tonight Show she played Password against Jimmy Fallon and Shaquille O’Neal. When it came time for the second clue, Shaq gave the NBC host the clue, “hump,” and he did not get it. Then Moore said to Noah Cyrus, “toe.” and she got it immediately. Did you get it?
Who would have thought she would go there, but she did and it was freaking brilliant. As brilliant as her performances each week as Rebecca Pearson. I do not care what anyone says, she is the best one on the show and they are all really excellent.
Talking about being great on show, they need to book on her Michael Strahan’s Pyramid because she is really good at these type of game shows.
When you work in network TV news and something huge breaks, you are expected to come in to work no matter what day or time it is. Vacations do not have much pull when a hurricane hits your hometown. At least, it is not supposed to mean anything. Your instinct should be to call in and ask where do you need me.
Well, a vacationing Michael Strahan called in to his bosses at Good Morning America, but did not offer to come back to work early in order to cover Hurricane Harvey. A source told Page Six, “ABC News asked Strahan to come home from his vacation. He’s from Houston. But he refused and is still floating around on a yacht in Greece somewhere. ABC is really upset with him.” Although his rep and someone at GMA denied that they asked to come back in.
That is the difference between a face and a newsperson. A newsperson comes back in and says screw the vacation. A face continues on with his trip. Since ABC News is run by a real newsman, I think I know who is telling the truth.
Strahan’s vacation is over this weekend and will reportedly be going live from Houston starting this week.
