President Joe Biden and comedian Trevor Noah wrapped up their routines at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with appeals for the work of journalists and freedom of the press.
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America's Next Top Model. According to published on Monday, the environment fostered by Top Model host and executive producer Tyra Banks and her fellow producers was, in the words of one contestant, tantamount to “psychological warfare.”The Insider story, written by , recounted that Banks and fellow producers, including ANTM creator Ken Mok, exploited contestants emotionally and physically on the extremely popular reality competition series—which ran for 24 seasons from 2003 to 2018.
The abuse, as reported by Insider, included but was not limited to producers bringing up contestants’ past traumas in order to play on their emotions, as well as intentionally creating dangerous work environments to add to the drama. One contestant, season seven's Eugenia Washington, recalls walking a runway that consisted of a path of wooden planks seesawing in a pool while wearing 6-inch heels, a pencil skirt, and two corsets.
According to the story, Washington fell and cracked her knee to avoid falling into the water. Sixteen years later, she said she still has visible scars from the incident."I felt like my life was being put on the line for ratings," Washington told Insider.
Contestants on signed contracts saying that the show was not responsible for any injuries sustained while on the program. The Insider story goes on to recount more horror stories about injuries models incurred while on the show, many of which happened while undergoing “Ty-Overs”—mandatory makeovers orchestrated by Banks—that sometimes left contestants with welts, burns, and bald spots. One contestant, season 12's Aminat Ayinde, made her stylist aware that she was allergic to relaxers, salon-grade chemicals used to straighten curly hair; she was forced to continue
.President Joe Biden and comedian Trevor Noah wrapped up their routines at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with appeals for the work of journalists and freedom of the press.
Amber Heard must be immediately discounted, a prominent psychologist has said. Dr Taylor says similar arguments can be made about borderline personality disorder which she branded ‘yet another junk diagnosis thrown at women’ Dr Jessica Taylor’s warning comes after a psychologist hired by Johnny Depp’s legal team to evaluate Ms Heard, his ex-wife, testified she has borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder.
The general counsel of the ACLU testified that the foundation believed that billionaire Elon Musk was behind a $500,000 payment to help the actress fulfill a $3.5 million donation pledge to the organization.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAl Ortiz, a veteran CBS News executive who is also the current executive producer of “CBS Evening News,” is set to leave the Paramount Global unit this summer after working his way up through the ranks over 43 years.Ortiz and CBS News executives announced the decision during a morning editorial call Wednesday. A search for a new top producer at “CBS Evening News” is expected to start in the near future. CBS News recently came to new terms with anchor Norah O’Donnell to extend the contract that keeps her behind the desk through 2024.
Johnny Depp is suing Amber Heard over what she wrote in her 2018 Washington Post op-ed, describing for the first time many months and several incidents of domestic violence. But it all started with that first accusation.
Johnny Depp’s love life is currently hitting the headlines as his relationship with his ex-wife Amber Heard is unpicked in court. The pair are currently going through an explosive defamation trial in Virginia which Johnny, 58, filed against Amber, 35, as a result of her penning a Washington Post op-ed about experiencing domestic violence.
Johnny Depp’s House Manager Ben King said he heard “hysterical sobbing” as he entered the house where Mr Depp and Amber Heard were staying in Australia on Sunday 8 March 2015. He said it “sounded like Ms Heard to me,” adding that she was “crying . .
Out on the town. Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson enjoyed a date night in Washington D.C., where the comedian took part in an event honoring Jon Stewart.
Lizzo is hitting the road for a North American tour!
Bill Maher took aim at the Republican party in a big way on Friday night’s “Real Time,” saying that the GOP’s new platform is “making the world safe FROM democracy.”The Washington Post’s assertion that “democracy dies in darkness” is wrong, according to the comedian and late-night host. “It dies in plain sight because enough people think democracy is a luxury America can no longer afford. That is pretty much the position of the Republican party now, that you can vote for anyone you like but it doesn’t count if it’s not us,” he said during his New Rules segment.
Joe Kahn has been named the next executive editor of The New York Times, as he takes on one of the most prestigious jobs in journalism and succeeds Dean Baquet.
A family vacation on Long Island is interrupted by two strangers bearing news of a mysterious blackout. As the threat grows more imminent, both families must decide how best to survive the potential crisis, all while grappling with their own place in this collapsing world.Producing are Sam Esmail and Chad Hamilton via their Esmail Corp, along with Julia Roberts, Lisa Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill producing through Red Om Films banner.
What happened to Matthew Taylor Coleman, and subsequently to his children, is pretty clear at this point.
Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground has come aboard Sam Esmail’s upcoming film Leave The World Behind for Netflix.
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard engaged in “mutual abuse” throughout their relationship, a therapist for the couple has said. Laurel Anderson, a clinical psychotherapist who saw the pair on multiple occasions, said Mr Depp told her that his former wife “gave as good as she got” during their fights. The actor is suing Ms Heard for libel over a 2018 op-ed written in the Washington Post which his lawyers say contained false allegations that he physically and sexually assaulted her while they were married.
on her Instagram.The international pop star posted a photo of a pink tea cup next to a tea spoon surrounded by pink carnations when she announced her pregnancy on Monday. Fans were ecstatic to hear the news — especially after Spears, 40, made the shocking revelation that she was forced to have an IUD birth control inserted in her body during her 13-year long conservatorship, despite her desire to have more children.