#1 2014-02-07 23:59:03
(Not involving a Kardashian/Jenner, Kanye West or Miley Cyrus):
PETA wants a monument to chickens killed in a truck accident.
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#2 2014-02-08 08:16:50
Wow. That's really clucked up.
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#3 2014-02-08 09:30:44
On a wing and a prayer?
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#4 2014-02-08 18:48:38
Why not just put a bucket of KFC on the side of the road?
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#5 2014-02-08 19:00:58
And speaking of attention whore stunts: George Zimmerman's controversial celebrity boxing match has been officially canceled.
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#6 2024-09-05 16:46:13
Anna Sorokin will perform with an ankle monitor on ‘Dancing with the Stars’
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
Updated: 2:59 PM EDT, Thu September 5, 2024
Source: CNN
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Anna “Delvey” Sorokin is not shying away from her controversial past as she readies to compete on the new season of “Dancing with the Stars.”
Sorokin was convicted in 2019 of grand larceny and other financial crimes after pretending to be a German heiress with a trust fund. She served two-years in prison and an additional 18 months detained by immigration authorities for overstaying her visa.
Sorokin has recently been living under house arrest in New York with an ankle monitoring device while she appeals her deportation order. She told People she sought and received permission from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to travel to Los Angeles where the show is produced.
Netflix dramatized her story for the popular 2022 series “Inventing Anna.”
Far from staying away from all of that, both Sorokin and ABC appear to be leaning into what made her famous in the first place.
In a press release from the network to announce the Season 33 cast, Sorokin was listed as “Notorious ankle bracelet fashionista Anna Delvey.” She will partner with professional dancer Ezra Sosa for the season.
“Some view her as a cunning scam artist, while others see her as a charismatic and ambitious entrepreneur who took advantage of New York City’s social elite in an effort to open a prestigious art studio,” her bio on the press release states. “Her case has also sparked discussions about wealth, privilege and social climbing in modern society. Her story continues to captivate the public’s imagination.”
Sorokin’s press photo for the reality dance competition shows her wearing her court-ordered ankle bracelet.
CNN has reached out to ABC for comment.
The other contestants for the new season are as follows:
Super Bowl Champion Danny Amendola with partner Witney Carson
Notorious ankle bracelet fashionista Anna Delvey with partner Ezra Sosa
From “The Bachelor,” Joey Graziadei with partner Jenna Johnson
NBA Champion Dwight Howard with partner Daniella Karagach
TV star Chandler Kinney with partner Brandon Armstrong
Olympic rugby player Ilona Maher with partner Alan Bersten
Model and cover girl Brooks Nader with partner Gleb Savchenko
Olympic gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik with partner Rylee Arnold
Reality royalty Phaedra Parks with partner Val Chmerkovskiy
Movie star Eric Roberts with partner Britt Stewart
TV icon Tori Spelling with partner Pasha Pashkov
From “The Bachelorette,” Jenn Tran with partner Sasha Farber
Sitcom and movie actor Reginald VelJohnson with partner Emma Slater
The pairs will be judged by renowned ballroom experts Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough when the new season of the show premieres on September 17.
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#7 2024-09-05 17:12:05
They must be hurting for ratings.
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#8 2024-09-06 10:01:21
BorderCount wrote:
They must be hurting for ratings.
There isn't two people on that list that I'd walk across the room to talk to. Maybe Danny Amendola to ask him how crazy was his run with the Patriots.
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#9 2024-09-06 10:37:14
I don't even recognize half those names - and I'm not even including the dancers.
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#10 2024-09-06 14:21:37
BorderCount wrote:
I don't even recognize half those names - and I'm not even including the dancers.
We turned off the TV in 1996. Therefore, unless something interesting is actually happening/attached to these names that it makes the press and I am bored, I will look at "Entertainment". I recognize only one name here: Tori Spelling.
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#11 2024-09-07 12:55:25
A long, long, long time ago, before television came into the world, people were so exceedingly bored with their lives and had so much free time on their hands that they wasted their days with such banalities as leaves flapping about in the breeze, or gawking at the ripples made by ducks on the river, or staring for hours on end while ants scrabbled in procession up oak branches.
People picked flowers, walked aimlessly in circles, started wars, built pyramids, created feudal states, tamed horses, invented various irrigation techniques, scratched themselves endlessly, whittled away at pieces of wood, and pretty much did whatever else they could to combat the mind-numbing ennui of their existences. Often these pitiable ancestors of ours would become so weary and depressed with their lives that they would lie down in the grass and gaze up at the clouds, hallucinating them to be animals or clowns or boats or the misshapen profiles of certain elderly relatives. A depressing, monotonous life! We are fortunate they didn’t all kill themselves, for if they had, the television would never have been invented. On too many occasions these poor souls, while sprawled out miserably in the grass, would turn to one another and remark something to the effect of, “Don’t you just hate it that ‘Dancing with the Stars’ won’t come on for another five hundred years?”
Life groaned along, sad and repetitive, for many a long generation. (They don’t call it “the Dark Ages” for nothing.) To compensate for the lack of television, people were forced into abiding the most humiliating forms of entertainment. All that time spent watching flowers bloom and clouds laze overhead led many a talented person (who might otherwise have spent their time more productively, like penning episodes of “Glee” or “Lost”) to the practice of literature, or worse still, poetry. What else could be done? Nights were lonely occasions, with nothing but oil lamps to light up their drab, TV-less abodes. Thankfully, the written language is quite dead, now.
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