died on April 22 at South Tyneside hospital in Newcastle. In an emotional post on Instagram, his brother Philip revealed how he "tried so desperately to help him". Philip wrote: "The little boy I grew up with has left me.
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The sky’s the limit for Tyler Perry!
ET’s Nischelle Turner visited Perry at Tyler Perry Studios, on the set of his new movie, “Six Triple Eight”, where he revealed that there’s truth to the rumours about him buying a majority stake in BET — in fact, he’s very interested in purchasing the network.
“Rumour? No, it’s not a rumour,” Perry shared. “I’ve been there for four years now and had tremendous success. I wasn’t expecting this to happen, so, yes — if that is possible, I’m very, very interested in taking as much of it…”
He continued, “If it’s possible, I’m gonna take as much of it as I can.”
Perry isn’t the only one who wants a piece of the network, with both Byron Allen and Diddy vying to buy into BET.
“Part of it is — and I’ve read about Byron Allen and Puffy and everybody wanting to bid and so on and so forth, and I think it’s really great,” the filmmaker began. “This is what I love about it — when Bob Johnson sold it in 2000, I think it was, there wasn’t one Black person who could buy it. So now, to see all of these Black people, men and women, who are able to be in a position to buy it? Man, that makes me feel really, really excited.”
Perry, who already has the No. 1 show on BET+ with “All the Queen’s Men”, is looking forward to the network being Black-owned again.
“I think there was sadness when Bob sold it, and I think there’ll be happiness when it’s Black-owned again,” Perry said. “And even though Shari (Redstone) and what is it? Viacom and Paramount? They’ve done a phenomenal job with it. They didn’t let it fall by the wayside; they didn’t let it go into dust. They nurtured it and took care of it.”
He continued, “And to see Shari at this position saying, ‘I think it should be returned to a Black owner?’ I
died on April 22 at South Tyneside hospital in Newcastle. In an emotional post on Instagram, his brother Philip revealed how he "tried so desperately to help him". Philip wrote: "The little boy I grew up with has left me.
EXCLUSIVE: “I’ve always boiled it down to there’s something very simplistic to Mason,” Perry Mason star Matthew Rhys admits about the iconic and haunted lawyer he portrays on the HBO prequel series. “It’s not necessarily his sense of justice but sense of right and wrong,” the Emmy winner adds. “What is right and wrong, and how he goes about righting that, righting that wrong, is, at times, very questionable. But fundamentally, his sense of pure form justice is so strong that everything else becomes very difficult, and the playing of that was just magic.”
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