Piers Morgan Uncensored is joined by winner of 59 Grand Slam tennis titles, and widely regarded as one of the best tennis players of all time, Martina Navratilova, for an exclusive interview after recently announcing she had beaten both throat and breast cancer.
Martina opens up about the struggle of being diagnosed with cancer and how she felt after being diagnosed with a second cancer whilst still treating the first. She goes on to explain that not knowing the severity of her condition and how long she had left, changed plans with her wife Julia, as they had intended to adopt a child but decided against it.
Piers asks Martina about the moment she had beat cancer and rang the bell to signify the end of cancer treatment and goes on to explain that it has changed her whole perspective on life.
The tennis legend also revealed that she smuggled her dog Lulu into hospital during cancer treatments to keep her company.
I just love the unexpected things that YouTube can bring into your life. I’ve been binge-watching the old Marlo Thomas sitcom That Girl! which has aged shockingly well so that must be why episodes of The Paul Lynde Show popped up as a suggestion.
The television sitcom aired on ABC from September 13, 1972 to March 14, 1973 and it’s no wonder it didn’t last longer. It’s bloody awful and yet I watched with interest how a clearly homosexual actor fared playing the head of a “traditional” family with wife and kids. Paul Lynde, best known for Bewitched, The Hollywood Squares and Bye Bye Birdie, doesn’t try to butch it up one bit which makes this kind of fascinating.
The series starred Lynde as Paul Simms, a general-practice attorney and the father of a family that consisted of his wife Martha (Elizabeth Allen) and daughters Barbara (Jane Actman) and Sally (Pamelyn Ferdin). The Simms family lived in the fictional city of Ocean Grove, California.
It also starred John Calvin as Barbara’s husband, Howie Dickerson, an eccentric university student who was of genius intelligence (IQ 185) and was a whiz with everything and full of advice, but inexplicably, he could not manage to hold down a job. In other episodes, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara appeared as Howie’s divorced parents, Barney and Grace Dickerson. Howie’s misadventures around the house and his lack of steady employment brought his father-in-law to a state of slow-burn anger and drove him to distraction.
Lukas Gage recently paid a visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live talks about filming The White Lotus in Hawaii during COVID, bonding with Molly Shannon over reality TV, starting a group chat with former members of the NXIVM cult and 90 Day Fiancé, watching the second season of The White Lotus, shooting the new season of “You” in London, and thinking his eyebrows were uneven which led to a Botox mishap.
Happy birthday to the amazing Rosie O’Donnell who turns 61 today.
I’m thrilled that the outspoken, authentic and candid Rosie will have a new podcast on iHeartMedia, the No. 1 podcast publisher that has launched Outspoken, a new podcast network that will amplify, elevate and reflect the diversity, richness and humanity of the voices throughout the LGBTQ+ community.
There are many reasons why I have loved and respect Rosie. I missed her on Star Search all those years ago but I’ve been a fan since her short-lived Fox series Stand By Your Man with Melissa Gilbert. Soon after was the film career phase with A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, The Flintstones, Another Stakeout, and my favorite Rosie film role of all: Beautiful Girls.
Loved, loved, loved The Rosie O’Donnell Show and am still hoping for some kind of a DVD boxed set of the highlights from six seasons the way Oprah Winfrey and Larry King did with their show.
I watched her on The View where she tried to balance out Elisabeth Hasslebeck who would memorize the White House/Fox News talking points each day and loved when she came back years later for another stint on the show. In between there was The Rosie Show on OWN and Rosie Radio on Sirius XM. Rosie was also a prolific blogger and social media presence early on and received an honorary Tony Award in 2014 “for her commitment to arts education for New York City’s public school children.
Rosie has won 11 Daytime Emmy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, written two memoirs, hosted the Grammys, hosted the Tonys, and done many television acting roles including a recurring role on The Fosters and more recently a co-starring role on the comedy series SMILF. In recent years she also guest starred on the series Run the World and The L Word: Generation Q and starred as Detective Sunday in a series reboot of American Gigolo on Showtime.
I remind people of this because Rosie doesn’t really get the respect she deserves and has earned for being a mom of five, for being talented, for being funny, for being honest, for being generous, for being outspoken, for being smart, for being brave, and for being many other admirable things.
So happy birthday to Rosie, a survivor of losing a mom she loved when she was so young, a survivor of sexual abuse, a survivor of a heart attack, and a survivor of ugly personal attacks by the only US President to be impeached twice.
Thankfully, Rosie is still here and she deserves only the best.
I’ve been a tremendous fan of Murray Bartlett’s since seeing him in the 2011 film August at the Outfest Film Festival and meeting him at a post-screening reception. I thought he was just dynamite and hoped big things would happen for him after that.
He always worked steadily but took a little while before I saw him in another significant role and that was as Dom Basaluzzo in the HBO comedy-drama series Looking (2014–2015) which really deserved to last longer.
But it was enough to launch Murray, who turns 52 today, into a series of wonderful roles in high-profile projects including that of Michael “Mouse” Tolliver in the Netflix revival of Tales of the City, Nick De Noia in the Hulu miniseries Welcome to Chippendales, Vinnie Green in the Apple TV+ series Physical, and, of course Armond in the first season of the HBO dark comedy series The White Lotus for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
Most recently, he portrayed Frank in the episode “Long, Long Time” of the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us.
Happy birthday to this sensational out and proud actor. Wishing him many more years of success and creative fulfillment!
As a regular listener of NPR. I’ve long been aware of the work of Ari Shapiro, co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered. But I knew nothing about his life including the fact that he is gay and has been married to his college sweetheart since 2004. In his new memoir, The Best Strangers in the World, Shapiro explains how storytelling plays out in his roles as journalist, and as singer with the band Pink Martini. CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Rita Braver talks with Shapiro about his life and career; NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg, who “discovered” Shapiro; and actor Alan Cumming, who performs a nightclub act with Shapiro, called “Och & Oy,” also weigh in.
Carlos Alcaraz is biggest star in men’s tennis right now for good reason: He’s charismatic, he’s great looking, he’s thoughtful, and he knows how to win.
He reclaims the number oner ranking tomorrow following his victory today in the final of the BNP Paribas Open over Daniil Medvedev who was on a 19-match winning streak.
Alcaraz, the reigning US Open champion, had to miss the Australian Open due to injury and has only played three tournaments this year. But he’s won two of them and lost in the final of the other.
Next up is the Miami Open for the Spanish teenager!
What a pity this didn’t come too pass because it really should have.
Wild Things director John McNaughton is sharing one steamy twist that didn’t make it into the film’s final cut. The characters played by Kevin Bacon and Matt Dillon were supposed to take the film’s memorably homoerotic shower scene featuring a full frontal Bacon was supposed to go much further.
“In the original version of the scene, Matt walks into his bathroom to take a shower and there’s Kevin,” McNaughton told Yahoo Entertainment in a new story for the film’s 25th anniversary. “They were supposed to look each other up and down and then wham — go at it.”
The 1998 thriller centered around two high school students, Suzie Toller and Kelly Van Ryan (Neve Campbell and Denise Richards, respectively), who, alongside their guidance counselor Sam Lombardo (Dillon), attempt to steal a multimillion-dollar settlement from Kelly’s mom — all while crooked cop Ray Duquette (Bacon) is hot on their trail. The end of the movie offers a doozy of a shocker: Ray and Sam have actually been in cahoots the entire time.
Entertainment Weekly reports that McNaughton removed the sexual sparks from the scene after some pushback. “I love surprise, and I love stuff that I don’t see coming,” he said, refusing to specify which star did not want to shoot the homoerotic tryst. “But in that moment it was like, ‘You win some, you lose some; we’re moving on.’”
Here’s what the leading men said in past interviews about the cut scene:
Bacon: “I thought it was great because the whole movie is about secrets coming out, right? As reveals go, that one was just huge. Unfortunately, the financiers didn’t like the idea of men making out. They felt it went too far. They felt it wasn’t right.”
Dillon: “Man, I was relieved when they got rid of that scene. Kevin seemed pretty attached to it, though!” He also described the duo’s relationship as “one twist too many, man, one twist too many.”
Glenn Close, who turns 76 today, has consistently delivered memorable performances in movies and television and on stage for more than 45 years.
She’s won three Tonys, three Emmys, three Golden Globes, and many other accolades. All that’s missing from her resume is an Oscar despite eight nominations and front-runner status in 2019 for The Wife. I propose that the Academy bestow an honorary Oscar upon Miss Close THIS YEAR. No need to wait any longer, she is so deserving with a film career that includes Fatal Attraction, The Big Chill, The World According to Garp, Dangerous Liaisons, The Natural, Jagged Edge, The Paper, Hamlet, Reversal of Fortune, 101 Dalmatians, Air Force One, Albert Nobbs, Hillbilly Elegy, and many, many more.
We are still hoping for the long-awaited film version of Sunset Boulevard with Glenn in the role of Norma Desmond which she has twice played on Broadway decades apart and won a Tony Award for.
Her other career highlights include her hit TV dramas Damages and The Shield and the TV films The Lion in Winter, Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, South Pacific, and Sarah, Plain and Tall. On Broadway, she has been in many plays and musicals including Barnum, The Real Thing, Death and the Maiden, and A Delicate Balance, among others.
Adam Lambert just dropped his new album High Drama to celebrate the album I caught up with him to chat all about how he decided which songs he wanted to cover on the album. We chat about his incredible music video for Getting Older and discuss how he manages ageing gracefully. Don’t worry Glamberts I also asked your fan questions.
Patrick Duffy was one of my early TV crushes – the McDreamy of his day.
Patrick turned 74 earlier this week and he’s in a happy period in his personal life as he began a relationship with actress-singer Linda Purl in 2020. Duffy’s wife Carlyn Rosser died in 2017.
He still works regularly in television with recent guest roles on NCIS, All Rise, Station 19, and The Cool Kids.
He had a recurring role on the NBC comedy Welcome to Sweden 2014-15 and three seasons as Bobby Ewing on the TNT reboot of Dallas which was cancelled in 2014 . He also had roles in the TV movies Trafficked, The Christmas Cure, Hollywood Darlings, The Green Knight, and Lady of the Manor.
From 2006-11, Patrick played the role of Stephen Logan on the CBS daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful.. He had followed his decade-plus run on the original Dallas by starring for seven years on the ABC sitcom Step By Step with Suzanne Somers.
He made his first big splash on television in the late 1970s as the amphibious superhero on Man From Atlantis. But it was his role as Bobby Ewing on Dallas that made him a household name. He starred with Larry Hagman, Victoria Principal, Linda Gray and the rest of the prime-time soap’s large cast during most of its historic run from 1978-91.
After a few years, Duffy decided to leave the show and filmed a scene in which he “died.” Fans were upset at his departure, he recalled when we spoke this week.
“After the episode aired, a few days later I went shopping and a woman accosted me in the parking lot of Gelson’s,” he told me when we chatted in 2008. “She was wailing and crying and saying: How could you die?”‘
Duffy was persuaded to return to Dallas, and writers had to figure out a way to bring him back. In a plot twist that required viewers to suspend disbelief, writers made his death and the entire 1985-86 season, a really bad dream. He was reintroduced to viewers when Pam Ewing (Principal) opened the shower door, sees Bobby lathering up and tells him of her nightmare.
“That resurrected another three years of my life on the show and I appreciated it to no end,” he said. “Anytime you can be even a small percentage connected to an iconic moment in TV, it’s like a little Medal of Honor. I feel the same way about the shower scene and I know Larry feels the same way about the `Who Shot J.R.?’ episode.”
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Patrick Duffy was one of my early TV crushes – the McDreamy of his day.
Duffy was persuaded to return to Dallas, and writers had to figure out a way to bring him back. In a plot twist that required viewers to suspend disbelief, writers made his death and the entire 1985-86 season, a really bad dream. He was reintroduced to viewers when Pam Ewing (Principal) opened the shower door, sees Bobby lathering up and tells him of her nightmare.
