After Disney declared victory in its proxy battle with activist investor Nelson Peltz, CEO Bob Iger went on a theme-park offensive during the company’s annual shareholder meeting.
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Bob Mortimer has revealed that he saw a white light at the end of a tunnel while undergoing hearth surgery.The Gone Fishing star, who rose to fame as part of a comedy double act with Vic Reeves (real name Jim Moir) in the ’90s, underwent triple heart bypass surgery in 2015 after it was discovered that 95 per cent of his arteries were blocked.Speaking on Kathy Burke’s Where There’s A Will, There’s A Wake podcast, Mortimer admitted that seeing the white light made him believe in life after death.“I did see the light at the end of the tunnel. I experienced going towards the light and feeling happier than I have ever felt, ever.”He continued: “It was quite extraordinary, and then I woke up a day later and I was OK.
I thought, ‘This is great. I no longer fear death and everything’.”However, after mentioning his near-death experience to fans, Mortimer’s optimism about the afterlife was soon quelled.“Loads of people wrote to me and said, ‘It’s because your body gives out loads of PCT, some chemical to get you through that and it gives you these hallucinations’.
I was a bit sad about that,” he said.Earlier this month, Mortimer provided fans with update about his wellbeing, admitting that he is “not very healthy right now”.In addition to concerns about his heart, the comedian confirmed that he has also been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, having had the condition before in his mid-20sMore recently, in the latest series of Gone Fishing, Mortimer was forced to miss an episode after contracting shingles. His co-star Paul Whitehouse was instead joined by comedian Lee Mack.In an interview in Metro, he said that the viral skin condition cost him the use of several muscles.
“The muscles I’ve lost, I’ve lost,” he said. “But other
.After Disney declared victory in its proxy battle with activist investor Nelson Peltz, CEO Bob Iger went on a theme-park offensive during the company’s annual shareholder meeting.
Scoring a big and costly win Wednesday against Nelson Peltz’s second attempt to get on the Disney board, Bob Iger was both gracious and a little biting in victory.
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Q&A’s are a staple of indie opening weekends since they tend to sell tickets but Bob and Jeanne Berney’s Picturehouse has raised that bar, offering audiences seven-minute live burlesque revues before selected screenings of documentary Carol Doda Topless At The Condor. The ode to the woman, and to 1960s San Francisco where she broke out topless, opens in limited release in New York, LA, San Francisco and San Rafael. Dancers in what Bob Berney called a “Doda-esqe burlesque” will not be topless,” he said — “but pretty close.”
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performed “Rainbow Connection” as a duet Thursday at Nelson’s 2024 Luck Reunion festival. The Muppet also joined the legendary stoner for the 12th annual festival at his Texas ranch for a gospel medley of “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” “I’ll Fly Away” and “Hard to Be Humble.”Kemit’s version of “Rainbow Connection” appeared on 1979’s “The Muppet Movie” soundtrack and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. Nelson, 90, released his cover of the song in 2001 on his album of the same name.
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Disney CEO Bob Iger called the proxy fight being waged by two activist investors a campaign that “is, in a way, designed to distract us, to take our eye off all [that’s] necessary to do what we need to do to generate returns for shareholders.”
Amber Davies has become the eighth celebrity to be eliminated from ITV's Dancing On Ice during Sunday evening's semi-final show, after a gruelling week of training as they hoped to make it to the final.The Love Island star, 27, and her partner Simon Proulx-Senecal found themselves in the skate-off against Adele Roberts and Mark Hanretty, being forced to fight for their place in the competition but ultimately losing out. It was then time for judges Ashley Banjo, Oti Mabuse, Christopher Dean and Jayne Torvill to decide who made it to the final next week, as they all voted in Adele's favour and shared that she had a 'cleaner' performance during the skate-off.
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Bob Mortimer has given fans an update on his medical status, noting that he is “not very healthy right now”. Mortimer underwent triple heart bypass surgery in 2015 after it was discovered that 95 per cent of his arteries were blocked.The comedian, 64, who rose to fame as part of a comedy double act with Vic Reeves in the ‘90s, also fell ill shortly after the filming of an episode of Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing in 2022, forcing him to miss the following episode of the BBC2 show. Furthermore, he confirmed in a recent interview that he has also been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, after having had the condition in his mid-20s.