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Jeopardy! guest host Ken Jennings issues apology for posting 'insensitive' tweets... weeks after he was slammed for writing there was 'nothing sadder than a hot person in a wheelchair' Ken Jennings, who is guest hosting Jeopardy! following the death of Alex Trebek, faced backlash for a 2014 tweet he posted about 'hot' people in wheelchairs He had apologised for the tweet back in 2018, calling in an 'inept' post, but it garnered more attention last month after he was announced as a Jeopardy! host  Jennings, 46, is the first of a series of guest hosts announced to replace beloved TV host Trebek, following his death from cancer at age 80 last month Former contestant Jennings, a 74-time champ, claimed the long-running quiz show's  coveted 'Greatest Of All Time' title in a competition last year By Ryan Smith for MailOnline Published: 11:12 GMT, 31 December 2020 | Updated: 12:23 GMT, 31 December 2020 Jeopardy! guest host Ken Jennings h...

Photo: Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images When you’re deciding which network’s coverage you’ll watch this New Year’s Eve (the answer is, as it is every year, flipping between every channel’s programming, in a nonstop loop, for hours), ABC hopes you’ll throw your vote behind their Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve special, which will feature a guest appearance by President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Dr. Jill Biden . The Vice President and the future First Lady will join host Ryan Seacrest for what Variety notes will be “the future president’s last interview of the calendar year,” unless, of course, the Bidens find themselves in some sort of time-bending Tenet -type situation, and have to repeat the last few months in reverse, which would just be the most fitting end to 2020, wouldn’t it? Times Square’s annual crowded gathering won’t be happening due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but New Year’s Rockin’ Eve will feature performances in New York, where Seacrest will be joined...

The social media sleuth who sparked Hilaria Baldwin’s Spanish-accent scandal said in a new interview that the popular yoga guru should “own what she did” — and called her claims of being born in Spain “offensive and wrong.” The woman, who started a thread Dec., 21 under @LeniBriscoe that questioned Baldwin’s claim she was born in Mallorca, told the Daily Mail that she has few regrets about being behind the brouhaha. “People were asking me don’t you have anything better to do and the answer is: no I don’t,” she told the news outlet on condition of anonymity. “It’s a pandemic, it’s cold outside and I don’t celebrate Christmas.” On Monday she said in her infamous Tweet : “You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person.” Amid the firestorm, Baldwin was forced to admit that despite speaking with a questionable accent and claiming she was born in Spain, she’s actually just a “white girl” from Boston. The Twitter denize...

A federal judge has denied WME ’s request for a preliminary injunction that would have ended the WGA ’s boycott of the agency until the antitrust case can go to trial. It’s a major legal victory for the guild, and should add pressure on WME to settle the long-running dispute and sign the WGA’s franchise agreement, as have all the other major talent agencies. In his ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge André Birotte Jr. said that he denied WME’s request because “The Court lacks jurisdiction to enter an injunction because this matter involves a labor dispute as defined by the Norris-LaGuardia Act.” According to the Norris-LaGuardia Act, “No court shall have jurisdiction to issue any injunction in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute except in a strict conformity” with the act’s requirements. “In short,” the judge ruled, “the Court lacks jurisdiction to issue an injunction because the NLGA precludes it from doing so. Because injunctive relief is precluded, the Cour...

Dawn Wells, the actress who went on a fictional "three-hour tour" in 1964 and found lifelong fame as the bubbly girl-next-door Mary Ann Summers on the TV sitcom "Gilligan’s Island," died Wednesday of complications from COVID-19 — one of more than 341,000 Americans to die in the pandemic. Unfortunately, Wells’ life that ended at age 82 was not as neat and tidy as the television show about tour boat passengers shipwrecked in a storm on a deserted island somewhere in the Pacific. We all have our storms in life, of course. And in real life, none of us have all our problem resolved every 30 minutes once each week. Wells was no exception. On TV, Mary Ann miraculously managed to not only survive but thrive during three years of shenanigans on the island. She made it through misadventures with her hapless fellow castaways, navigating floods, volcanoes and even the arrival of uninvited visitors. Implausibly, the stranded group managed to find all sorts of ways to cope wi...

Meanwhile, the agency is claiming that the guild didn't reply to its updated overture before a rejection: "There was no counter to our proposal, nor any offer to meet and engage." After its Dec. 22 overture to make a deal to represent scribes for the first time in 20 months was denied by the Writers Guild of America, talent agency WME is claiming that the guild didn't counter its updated proposal before the rejection. "WME presented an updated proposal that made a series of concessions just four days following our hearing on December 18. We made clear our willingness to engage in further dialogue with the WGA at any point during the holidays. We know this is how every other agency finally reached a deal — they had the opportunity to have a discussion with the Guild to address their specific needs, and that is what we have continuously tried to do in an effort to get a deal done," read a statement from a WME spokesperson. The WME rep added: "However, ...