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It looks like Pat Sajak is ready to leave “Wheel of Fortune” sooner than expected — or so it seemed.The April 1 episode of the popular game show opened with Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto coming onto the set with Vanna White as part of an April Fools’ Day joke.“Ladies and gentlemen, here are the stars of our show — Jared Leto and Vanna White,” the announcer said as the pair walked out arm in arm, as they waved to the audience.The duo then thanked everybody.“Thank you and have a great show. See you soon,” Leto told White before she walked…
A pair of real-life murders bookend this series starring Kumail Nanjiani and Murray Bartlett. Most people, when they think about striptease, probably view it as a campy, tongue-in-cheek parody of erotic desire. If that’s your main impression, then your expectation of a show about the rise of the Chippendale dancers would probably be pretty similar. It’s hard to overstate, then, what a wild contrast Hulu’s Welcome to Chippendales will be to the unsuspecting viewer: an eight-part series that fixates on the mechanics of power and racial dynamics, the lure of the hustle in ’80s LA, toxic masculinity, and the slow,…
Jared Leto can add Wheel of Fortune host to his long list of credits! On Monday, the 52-year-old musician and Oscar-winning actor subbed in as a host on the beloved game show alongside Vanna White as part of an April Fools’ Day prank. “Here are the stars of our show, Jared Leto and Vanna White,” the show’s announcer said as the pair walked out arm-in-arm and waved at the cheering audience. Leto then told White, 67, “Have a great show and see you soon,” before taking his place at the wheel with the show’s three contestants. “All right everybody, grab…
A recently published Sony patent reveals development on a controller integration that would output braille, increasing accessibility for players. A recent patent publication has revealed that Sony is working on a braille integration system for the PlayStation 5 controller, which would allow visually impaired players to use the PS5 controller touchpad to feel vibrations that can be read as braille. This latest patent joins a growing number of recent Sony patents targeting accessibility that have given audiences some insight into the company’s research and development efforts. An undeniable powerhouse in the technology and gaming industries, Sony has pioneered a number…
More than 70% of Americans say a rewarding career or job is extremely important to live a fulfilling life — more important than family, friends or wealth. CBS News interviewed a broad array of workers who chose unique jobs, for a series we call: Unique jobs, extraordinary lives.A decade ago, Marielle Henault was living in Montreal and had just been laid off from her job at a large telecommunications company.A friend of the 24-year-old Canadian knew she liked to swim and thought a video of a mermaid school in Germany could cheer her up while she was in a rough spot. “I just…
From easter egg hunts to visiting the bunny, here are the cutest photos from how your favorite stars celebrated Easter with their families. Image Credit: Getty Images Easter 2024 was a success for celebrities and their families! Whether they got a visit from the Easter bunny or held massive egg hunts, the stars pulled out all the stops to make their celebrations special — primarily for their children. Celebs such as Keke Palmer, Ashley Tisdale and Khloé Kardashian shared moments from their day to social media, and they made sure their kids had a fun time. Scroll down to see…
Anticipate was the most common word that echoed through the Tour of Flanders mixed zone at the start in Antwerp as riders were pressed to answer how they would beat heavy favourite Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) at the second Monument of the season.With the Dutchman’s key rival Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) out of the race following a huge crash at Dwars door Vlaanderen and the best team of the Flemish Classics so far – Lidl-Trek – also hampered by the same incident, the two-time winner enters the 108th edition as the man to beat.The defending champion Tadej…
A six-vehicle car crash on Saturday in Dallas, led to a police search for Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice, according to the Dallas Morning News. The report states that a vehicle believed to be registered or leased to Rice was involved in an accident at 6:20 p.m. local time on Saturday. According to CBS Sports HQ senior NFL insider Josina Anderson, Rice has retained counsel, and his attorney released a statement on Monday.”On behalf of Rashee Rice, his thoughts are with everyone impacted by the automobile accident on Saturday,” lawyer Royce West said, via The Dallas Morning News. “Rashee is…
Sixty-three percent. That’s the proportion of mammal species that vanished from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula around 30 million years ago, after Earth’s climate shifted from swampy to icy. But we are only finding out about it now. Compiling decades of work, a new study published this week in the journal Communications Biology reports on a previously undocumented extinction event that followed the transition between the geological periods called the Eocene and Oligocene. That time period was marked by dramatic climate change. In a reverse image of what is happening today, the Earth grew cooler, ice sheets expanded, sea levels dropped, forests…
Execution Dock was a scaffold in London on the River Thames for hanging pirates, smugglers, and mutineers under sentence of death by the Admiralty courts for crimes committed at sea. The exact location of Execution Dock is speculated, with suggested contenders being the Warf building, the Captain Kidd pub, the Town of Ramsgate pub, and the Prospect of Whitby pub – where a replica gallows has since been erected on the Thames shore. Those sentenced by the British Admiralty were held in the Marshalsea, a notorious prison in Southwark which would later be used as a debtors prison (being the…