Jay Jay Phillips, a popular contestant on America’s Got Talent back in 2017, has passed away from complications related to COVID-19.
He was 30 years old.
According to TMZ, who spoke to a family member of the aspiring artist, Phillips was battling…
Unfortunately, “extreme” is the right word for these injuries… Jonathan Goodwin, the stuntman who suffered a terrible accident while filming a trick for America’s Got Talent: Extreme last week, is recovering. But with more insight into his life-threatening performance gone wrong, it truly sounds like a miracle that he even survived! If you missed it, […]
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NBC has temporarily stopped production on their new spinoff series, America’s Got Talent: Extreme, due a stunt that went horribly and dangerously wrong last week.
The shutdown was announced after stuntman Jonathan Goodwin was airlifted to a nearby …
Taking a step back… America’s Got Talent contestant Jane Marczewski has exited the show prematurely to focus on her ongoing cancer battle. The singer, who goes by the stage name Nightbirde, updated fans on Instagram Monday. She posted a stark black-and-white portrait of herself sitting on a bed with her head shaved bald (below). Related: AGT […]
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Chris Harrison is covering all of his bases, so at least it appears as though he can be prepared regardless of where the future goes within the longstanding Bachelor franchise. And in this case, as of Friday, this means the embattled (former?) host has hired a lawyer to represent him in the wake of his major […]
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Poor Simon Cowell! The former American Idol judge and current talent evaluation specialist on America’s Got Talent is going to need a few more weeks to be evaluated by doctors, as he continues to recover from that horrific bike injury. As we reported at the time, Cowell was injured severely in an e-bike accident at his home […]
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Surprise! Meghan Markle popped up on Wednesday night’s finale of America’s Got Talent in an unexpected virtual appearance! Why? To support one of the most well-liked contestants competing this season! Related: Is It About Time For Baby No. 2 For Meghan And Harry, Or What?! The Duchess of Sussex, who now makes her home in Montecito, […]
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Simon Cowell is on the road to recovery — and he’s bringing his patented dry sense of humor with him! The popular and tough America’s Got Talent judge took to social media on Sunday night, 24 hours after he severely injured himself while riding an electric bike at his Malibu home. As we previously reported, Cowell […]
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Here’s hoping Simon Cowell is OK after he recovers from an unfortunate injury while riding an electric bike! The 60-year-old music mogul and longtime reality TV competition show judge broke his back over the weekend when he fell off the new electric bike he’d been riding around the courtyard of his Los Angeles home, according to […]
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Gabrielle Union has not given up hope.
She wants her fans and followers to know this.
The 47-year old actress — who will not return as a judge to America’s Got Talent next season, presumably due to issues she took with the toxic culture on s…
Last month, reports brought to light that allegedly Gabrielle Union was fired from America’s Got Talent due to racism that she reported.
Sharon Osbourne was once a panelist on that same talent show, and she’s weighing in on her own experiences at that alleged “boy’s club.”
“It is a boys’ club, okay, it is,” Sharon Osbourne says of America’s Got Talent, on which she was a panelist for six years.
“And the boys take care of each other,” she adds. “And the women are not paid as much as the men.”
“I was on the show before Howie,” Sharon cites as an example, referring to Howie Mendel.
“I was one of them that helped put the show where it was. Simon wasn’t on the show,” she recalls.
“Simon owns the show and the time I was there, Simon was never on the show,” Sharon notes.
She points out: “So when the show was doing 16 million, 14 million, Simon was never there.”
“They brought Howie in. He got his own plane,” Sharon points out,
She does offer a disclaimer: “I love Howie, and I don’t begrudge anyone earning what they earn…”
“But, when my old ass has been there shooting the show,” Sharon argues. “And I get an American Airlines ticket and he gets a private plane.”
“And I get that because I’m me and I’m not in the club and I’m not one of the guys…” she complains.
Sharon then stops holding back, saying: “NBC can kiss my ass.”
Despite issues on the show itself, Sharon expresses that the network itself was her real problem.
“I left,” Sharon affirms. “And that’s the truth. I left because NBC, not because of the show.”
She explains: “I had my own problems with the network.”
“I don’t know about any of her concerns about the show,” Sharon freely admits, though she is of course not discounting Gabrielle Union’s experience.
Sharon wants to be as honest and accurate as she can, even if it means confessing that she didn’t see then what Gabrielle has seen now.
“Obviously, there wasn’t anybody of color on the panel when I was there,” Sharon admits.
That in and of itself sounds like a very reasonable grievance all on its own.
“So, I honestly can’t say,” Sharon admits, in terms of eyewitness testimony. “But when I was there it was, you know, a great show to work on.”
“The crew and everybody was amazing to me, everybody, except the network,” she repeats.
If America’s Got Talent was looking for some sort of exhoneration, they’re clearly not getting it from Sharon.
One, because a rich white woman not seeing racism firsthand doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist.
Two, because she laid bare other issues of sexism that were allegedly pervasive even years ago on the show.
Sharon’s issues may have been with the network, but clearly the show has more (alleged) problems than people initially realized.
If the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist…
… then the greatest trick Jay Leno ever pulled was convincing the world he was a nice guy.
Because, man oh man, does this guy ever suck.
The former l…
As has been proven time and again over the years, America has got talent.
But Gabrielle Union?
She has NOT got time for any BS from the folks behind one of NBC’s longest-running hits.
On Sunday — a few days after we learned the actress wo…
Gabrielle Union may no longer be able to judge who in America has got talent.
But perhaps she can take solace in the fact that Ellen Pompeo has totally got her back.
As detailed just a few days ago, Union will not return in 2020 as a panelist…
Just a little over a year after Gabrielle Union welcomed her miracle baby, she has parted ways with America’s Got Talent.
Now, the world is learning that her departure came after a series of offensive and even racist incidents on the set. Wow.
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Reality shows turn over their judging and/or panelist tables more often than Eli Manning turned over the football during his final couple seasons as the New York Giants staring quarterback.
Therefore, the mere news that Gabrielle Union will not be …