Wednesday, March 19, 2025 — Edition: #7917
Tomorrow’s Show Prep Today!
BS SHOW BIZ BUZZ:
[***UPDATE***] ★ Tracy Morgan is “doing OK” following his medical emergency on Monday at the New York Knicks vs. Miami Heat game. From his hospital bed, he wrote on Instagram: “Thank you for all your concern! I’m doing OK now and doctors say it was food poisoning.” That was a day after he was seen vomiting courtside at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He continued: “Appreciate my MSG family for taking such good care of me and I need to shout out the crew that had to clean that up. Appreciate you!” And comedians being comedians, he ended with: “More importantly, the Knicks are now 1-0 when I throw up on the court so maybe I’ll have to break it out again in the playoffs #goknicks.” LINK: https://tinyurl.com/yck728k8
-PageSix
★ Adam Sandler is getting back into the swing of things in the first teaser trailer for “Happy Gilmore 2.” In it, ‘Happy’ returns to the world of pro golf, but he has some doubts about facing off against a few PGA heavyweights nearly 30 years after the events of the first film. But he returns to the golf course with confidence and all you-know-what breaks loose. Julie Bowen, Bad Bunny and Ben Stiller all have their own moments in the clip, while Christopher McDonald, Dennis Dugan and Allen Covert are set to reprise their roles. Also starring are Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Margaret Qualley, Benny Safdie, and Kym Whitley. Happy Gilmore 2 premieres July 25 on Netflix. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/yj3rk7mm
-TheWrap, Variety
★ Jonathan Majors admitted to choking ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari in newly unearthed audio. In footage from Sept. 2022 obtained by Rolling Stone, the “Creed III” actor and Jabbari, who dated from 2021-2023, were discussing the aftermath of one of their explosive fights that allegedly took place in London. Majors can be heard saying, according to the magazine: “I’m ashamed [as] I’ve ever [been]…I’ve never [been] aggressive with a woman before. I’ve never aggressed a woman — I aggressed you.” She then says: “You strangled me and pushed me against the car”, to which he agrees. In December 2023, Majors was convicted of assault and harassment following a fight with Jabbari inside a hired car in New York City.
-PageSix
★ “9-1-1: Nashville” has found its leaning man — Chris O’Donnell. The “NCIS: Los Angeles” actor has joined the ABC series as ‘Captain Don Sharpe’, who is described as “a rugged fire captain and rodeo rider who runs Nashville’s busiest firehouse with his beloved son.” While he is described as a “devoted husband and family man,” “he has his secrets,” the official description teases. O’Donnell is one of the first cast members to board “9-1-1: Nashville,” which landed a series order in February.
-TheWrap
★ Kim Kardashian is reportedly considering changing her custody agreement with ex-husband Kanye West after he released a song featuring their eldest child, daughter North West, without her approval. TMZ says “The “Kardashians” star is seriously debating taking the hip-hop star — who now goes by Ye — to court to ask a judge to strip him of joint legal custody in light of the drama. The exes, who married in 2014, settled their divorce in 2022 and agreed to joint physical and legal custody of their 4 children, ages 5 to 11.
-PageSix
TODAY’S SHOW BIZ SKED:
• “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (ABC/Global): Lauren Graham, Danielle Brooks, Damiano David
• “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (NBC/CTV): Eva Longoria, Katt Williams, Dove Cameron
• “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (CBS/Global): Drew Barrymore, Bong Joon Ho (R)
• “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (NBC/CTV): Colman Domingo, Paula Pell (R)
• “After Midnight” (CBS/Global): Danny Pudi, Jessie Ennis, Ashly Burch (R)
• “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo): Ciara Miller, Amanda Batula
• “The Daily Show” (COM): Anthony Carrigan, host Jordan Klepper
• “The View” (ABC/CTV): Robert De Niro
• “Today” (NBC): Grand Ole Opry 100th Anniversary Special Celebration with Blake Shelton; Martha Stewart, Dennis Quaid, Michelle Monaghan, Donna Farizan co-hosts
• “GMA3” (ABC): Tory Johnson
• “Live With Kelly and Mark” (ABC/CTV): Hugh Jackman
• “The Kelly Clarkson Show” (Check local listings): Chrissy Teigen, Anthony Michael Hall, guest host Andy Cohen
• “The Drew Barrymore Show” (Check local listings): Stanley Tucci, Kristina Zias, John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois
• “The Jennifer Hudson Show” (Check local listings): Gabriel Iglesias
• “Opry 100: A Live Celebration” (NBC): Honoring 100 years of the Grand Ole Opry; Performers include Ashley McBryde, Brad Paisley, Carly Pearce, Carrie Underwood, Clint Black, Dierks Bentley, Garth Brooks, Kelsea Ballerini and Lainey Wilson. Blake Shelton hosts.
• “Shifting Gears” (ABC): Season 1 finale. When Jimmy returns with a new job and a proposition for Riley and the kids to move in, Riley is torn; Matt’s feud with Eve flares up once again after she damages his car.
• “The Masked Singer” (Fox): Group B Finals
• “2025 NCAA Tournament” (TRU, TSN+): First Four: American vs. Mount St. Mary’s; Texas vs. Xavier.
BS MUSIC NOTES:
• Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco — are giving fans the chance to recreate their first-date meal. They teamed up with Thai restaurant Jitlada in LA to offer “Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco’s First Date Shrimp”, available through March. 23. The song inspired by their first date ‘Sunset Blvd’, was released last Friday. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/2s3n52tm
• Lady Gaga – Her “Mayhem” album has debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart with the biggest sales week of 2025 by a female artist. Her first #1 since 2020’s “Chromatica” and her 7th #1 overall sold 219,000 units in its first week. Gaga also enjoyed her biggest streaming week ever — the album’s songs racked up more than 108 million.
• Eddie Vedder — made a surprise appearance at Jack White’s show in Tokyo on Saturday. The 2 jammed out on Neil Young’s classic ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’. The collab took place during the concert’s encore, which also included the White Stripes’ ‘Hypnotize’ and ‘Seven Nation Army’. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/2ws3xtbr
• Collective Soul and Live — will join forces for the “Summer Unity Tour”. They have announced 30 summer shows together, starting July 8 in Auburn WA. The ‘90s icons also co-headlined a tour in 2008.
• Def Leppard — have announced a run of 2025 U.S. tour dates — along with an assortment of special guests including Bret Michaels of Poison, The Struts, and Extreme. The first of 7 shows (so far) will happen June 23 at the Walmart AMP in Rogers AR, with Brett Michaels. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/mwec7fs8
• Warren Zeiders – has a good reason for the fact he’s pictured leaning against a classic Mustang on the cover of his new album “Relapse, Lies & Betrayal.” Quote: “My love for cars came from my grandfather…I grew up going to car shows with him.” Zeiders said that thanks to gramps, he has a special love for “old American muscle cars”. He eventually bought the 1967 Shelby GT500 seen on the cover.
• Bailey Zimmerman – has been teasing new music left, right and center. And fans have been following along, hoping some guest stars will appear in the mix. One commented on his TikTok teaser: “manifesting. a morgan wallen x bz collab”. Other fans flocked to the post to agree. And Zimmerman himself even chimed in, commenting: “hahahaha would be fireeee.” LINK: https://tinyurl.com/4x4rxdaa
• Eric Church – His fans were right: His social media tease over the weekend led to the announcement of the new single ‘Hands of Time’. Monday, he posted a photo of himself in the studio, and wrote that the song drops tomorrow. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/4x9p55ka
• Anne Murray — will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2025 JUNO Awards, March 30, in Vancouver. The most-awarded artist in JUNO history, she will appear at the show, hosted by Michael Bublé.
SHOOTING THE BULL
FACILITATING SEPARATE FACILITIES:
A new article in Britain’s Daily Mail says that taking part in a new trend could end up being the thing that saves your marriage. And what would that be? It’s called a “bathroom divorce”. Similar in concept to the recently-coined term “sleep divorce”, where partners carry on with their coupledom, but sleep in different rooms, a bathroom divorce involves each partner having their own bathroom in the home, which they are able to use at their leisure, decorate and clean to their personal whims, and even (ahem!) spray air freshener to their heart’s content – or not at all. It seems that when a couple each has their own “personal sanctuary”, there are no arguments about “How much longer are you going to be in there?”, no lining up to use the shower, and perhaps most importantly, no fights about the…um… “condition” that the other person left the room in. Former US first-lady Michelle Obama went as far as to say that separate bathrooms were the key to a successful marriage. And Melania Trump, Joan Collins, and Sarah Michelle Gellar have all shared similar sentiments in regard to their own marriages and separate facilities.
(Finally! A place where I won’t have to pretend I can tolerate lavender-scented EVERYTHING!)
(A bathroom divorce might work, but I still want joint custody of the good shampoo!)
-DailyMail, Vice
SCIENTISTS SAY:
❑ Children who eat fish regularly are friendlier. A study published in the European Journal of Nutrition found that, perhaps thanks to increased intake of omega 3s fatty acids, which have been shown to help brain development, kids who eat seafood regularly show better prosocial behavior—meaning they’re more likely to help others, share things, and show consideration. The researchers say this gives parents a food recommendation that could help their children develop socially. (Still not worth the fight!)
❑ Chewing on wood, of all things, may help improve your memory. Researchers from several South Korean universities found that test participants who chewed on wooden sticks showed increases in glutathione (GSH) levels in their brain. This this increase was associated with improved memory function, suggesting that something as simple as vigorous chewing could have meaningful benefits for brain health. And it’s possible that it doesn’t have to be wood. Chewing any hard material results in elevated “brain antioxidant levels such as GSH, potentially influencing cognitive function”, the researchers said. (Yeah, it apparently improves your memory so much, you forget that chewing on wood will wreck your teeth!)
-StudyFinds
TOOTH TRUTH:
We’ve been told since we were kids about the importance of flossing our teeth. But the key thing that many people seem to be missing in the message is this: When flossing your teeth, it’s important to use floss – or another suitable tool. The makers of Waterpik, an oral health device, commissioned a poll to find out what “unusual items” people use to remove food stuck between their teeth. 61% of respondents indicated that they have used a fingernail to remove pieces of food lodged between their teeth (Just 61%?), while others said they have used folded paper or cards (40%), cutlery (21%), safety pins (14%), or strands of hair (7%, ewww…). Perhaps surprisingly, just 16% said they floss once per day. 20% only floss when they decide it’s necessary, and 8% don’t floss at all. The most-common excuses for irregular flossing habits? In order: It’s too time consuming (55%), it’s painful (16%), and it’s gross (9%). Another common reason for not flossing, if you can believe it, was the expense.
(Too expensive to floss? What are they flossing with, Lil Wayne’s gold chains?
(Flossing is gross? Buddy, wait until you hear what happens if you DON’T floss!)
-StudyFinds
ODDEST TEAM NAMES IN THE 2025 NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT:
⇒ Maryland Terrapins
⇒ Ole Miss Rebels
⇒ Wisconsin Badgers
⇒ Illinois Fighting Illini
⇒ St. Bonaventure Bonnies
⇒ Saint Mary’s Gaels
⇒ Oklahoma Sooners
⇒ Purdue Boilermakers
⇒ Akron Zips
⇒ Oregon Ducks
(There are also 6 teams named Bulldogs, 4 Tigers, 3 Cougars, 2 Eagles, 2 Spartans, 2 Aggies, a Red Storm, a Red Flash, the Red Raiders, and, of course, the Tar Heels!)
-Sourced from ESPN
MOST-COMMONLY MISSPELLED ENGLISH WORDS:
Separate. Common Misspelling: Seperate
Embarrass. Common Misspellings: Embarass, Embarras
Definitely. Common Misspelling: Definately
Receive. Common Misspelling: Recieve
Necessary. Common Misspellings: Neccessary, Necesary
Convenient. Common Misspelling: Convinient, Convenent
Accommodate. Common Misspellings: Acommodate, Accomodate
Recommend. Common Misspellings: Reccomend, Recomend
Pronunciation. Common Misspelling: Pronounciation
Privilege. Common Misspellings: Privilage, Priviledge
Maintenance. Common Misspellings: Maintainance
Their/They’re/There. Common Misspellings: Their for There, There for Their
Rhythm. Common Misspellings: Rythm, Rhythmn
Entrepreneur. Common Misspellings: Entreprenuer, Entreprenure
Publicly. Common Misspelling: Publically
(Me? Yeah, definitely “misspell”!)
-OHLA
DID YOU KNOW?
A scientific professor says that in order to help save Earth, we should drop pronouns and land acknowledgements from email signatures – more or less. Western University’s Joshua M. Pearce wrote in a column for The Conversation that, as many are aware, sending emails is an everyday activity, but it comes with an environmental cost. Emails use energy, and that energy often comes from burning fossil fuels. He calculated that the extra characters required in using those 2 relatively new additions to email signatures in Canada results in enough resulting carbon emissions to contribute to the death of one person per year. And after all, since we tend to email the same people repeatedly, most of the content in email signatures is redundant. One solution he put forward is to replace email signatures with a hyperlinked name, which would lead to additional information on the sender. (By that logic, I’m pretty sure my out-of-office reply is responsible for melting glaciers!)
-TheConversation
BS CHRONOMETER 03.19.25
TODAY’S BS REASONS TO PARTY . . .
• “Let’s Laugh Day”. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases antibodies, boosting your immunity to all sorts of illness and disease. Laughing also helps relax your muscles and helps you chill out. Plus, it improves your blood pressure and decreases pain. And, laughing actually burns calories – how about that?
• “Client’s Day”, a day created for the purpose of letting all of your clients know just how glad you are that they’ve chosen your company. (Except when they show up at closing time…) LINK: https://clientsday.com/
• “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Day”, celebrating the media franchise that follows 4 anthropomorphic turtles – ‘Leonardo’, ‘Raphael’, ‘Donatello’, and ‘Michelangelo’ – who became ninja warriors, living in the sewers of Manhattan, and battling criminals and aliens (and eating pizza…).
• “Chocolate Caramel Day”, an annual celebration of everything great about chocolate and caramel. (Like cavities?)
• “Poultry Day”, celebrating chicken, turkey, and other farm-raised fowl that we commonly consume. Plus, they give us eggs. (If they had a say in it, we’d celebrate by eating pork!)
• “Backyard Day”, a place for fun, happiness and freedom. Today, we celebrate all the creative ways we embrace and enjoy our backyard, from gardening to scavenger hunts to campouts and sports. (I know how my dog celebrates our backyard…)
• “Certified Nurses Day”, an annual day of recognition for and by healthcare leaders dedicated to nursing professionalism, excellence, recognition, and service.
• “St Joseph’s Day”, the day that the swallows traditionally return to the Mission San Juan Capistrano in California, an excuse for the annual “Fiesta de las Golindrinas”. Every March 19th since 1776 (with few exceptions), the birds have come back to usher in Spring in the Southern California seaside town. Their return is now an annual tourist attraction.
AND REMEMBER…
[Thurs] Absolutely Incredible Kid Day
[Thurs] Ravioli Day
[Fri] Common Courtesy Day
[Sat] Goof-off Day
This Week is…Clean Out Your Closet Week
This Month is…Optimism Month
TODAY’S CELEBIRTHDAYS . . .
1936 [89] Ursula Andress, Ostermundigen Switzerland, model/movie actress (“Dr. No”, “Clash of the Titans”)
1946 [79] Ruth Pointer, Oakland CA, pop/R&B singer-songwriter (The Pointer Sisters-‘Jump’, ‘I’m So Excited’)
1947 [78] (Glenda) “Glenn” Close, Greenwich CT, movie actress (“Guardians of the Galaxy”, “Fatal Attraction”)/TV actress (“Damages” 2007-12)/Broadway actress (“Sunset Boulevard”) COMING UP… “Wake Up Dead Man” 2025
1952 [73] Harvey Weinstein, Flushing NY, disgraced film producer (“Silver Linings Playbook”, “Pulp Fiction”)/former studio executive (co-founder of Miramax and The Weinstein Company)/currently serving 23 years in prison for rape
1953 [72] Billy Sheehan, Buffalo NY, rock bassist (Mr. Big-‘To Be With You’, David Lee Roth-‘Just Like Paradise’)
1955 [70] Bruce Willis, Idar-Oberstein Germany, movie actor (“Pulp Fiction”, “Die Hard” movies)/TV actor (“Moonlighting” 1985-89)/married to Demi Moore 1987-2000
1976 [49] Zach Lind, Mesa AZ, rock drummer (Jimmy Eat World-‘The Middle’, ‘Pain’)
THIS DAY IN SHOW BIZ . . .
1977 [48] The final episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” airs after 7 seasons, ending with a group hug, and a rendition of ‘It’s a Long Way to Tipperary’.
TODAY’S MUSIC EVENTS . . .
1957 [68] Elvis Presley buys the ‘Graceland’ estate in Memphis, Tennessee for $100,000 (current estimated worth: $400-600 million).
1988 [37] Michael Jackson begins construction on his 2,800-acre ranch in Santa Barbara, California which he names ‘Neverland’, after the fantasy location where children never grow up in “Peter Pan”.
2001 [24] Aerosmith, Michael Jackson, Paul Simon, Queen, Ritchie Valens, Solomon Burke, Steely Dan and The Flamingos are inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
TODAY’S FIRST . . .
1990 [35] The first-ever ‘Women’s World Hockey Tournament’ is won by Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
BULL’S BITS
BS WHACK FACTS:
✓ The first portable calculator weighed 2-and-a-half pounds. The first VCR was the size of a piano.
✓ Your pupils expand by almost 50% when you look at something pleasing.
✓ The average person consumes 3 bottles of ketchup a year.
✓ You’re more likely to be killed by a cow than a shark.
✓ Dirty snow melts faster than clean snow.
✓ Lamborghini gave Italian police the world’s fastest police car in 2008. It was crashed a year later.
-FactRetriever, BuzzFeed
Best of BS . . .
BS TIPS ON WINNING YOUR OFFICE ‘MARCH MADNESS’ POOL:
• Confirm with Siri that basketball is the game with the orange-y ball.
• Pick the team with the tallest players.
• Find out which star players have the least amount of homework due this month.
• Determine which coaches best implement the free-labor model.
• Pick the meanest-looking mascots.
• Don’t pick Saint Francis.
• Remember that the shot clock is longer in college basketball than it is in the NBA, so high-tempo teams can be forced to play out of their element by an opposing coach with a disciplined strategy. Then flip a coin.
-First published in BS in 2017
MORE BS ‘WHYZITS?’:
• Whyzit there are 5 syllables in the word ‘monosyllabic’?
• Whyzit your nose only itches when your hands are full?
• Whyzit the idiot in front of you in the supermarket express lane always manages to pick the 1 item in the store that just won’t scan?
• Whyzit your iron has a setting for ‘Permanent Press’?
• Whyzit that, no matter when you graduated, your yearbook picture keeps getting nerdier and nerdier as the years go by?
• Whyzit your nose runs and your feet smell?
-First published in BS in 2008
BS WEB GOODIE:
Quittin’ time: https://tinyurl.com/49ynvm3h
BS RANDOM JOKE:
Man-math is taking a “shortcut” that’s actually much longer, but “better” because you’re not stuck in traffic…
BS U-PICK TRIVIA:
(Spring arrives in the Northern Hemisphere tomorrow at 5:01am EDT…)
• Before ‘Spring’, ‘Spring time’ and ‘Springing time’, what was the season known as, based on an old English word?
a) Lent [CORRECT]
b) Advent
c) The Melting
d) Irish Spring
• According to folklore, what can we balance on the ground on the first day of Spring?
a) A stone
b) An egg [CORRECT]
c) A broom
d) Your check book
• When sheep get it on, it’s called ‘rutting’. What’s it called when horses get frisky?
a) Maring
b) Covering [CORRECT]
c) Blanketing
d) Giddy up!
-NewDaily, PopBitch
☎ BS PHONE STARTER:
What did you believe for way too long as a child?
BS WATER COOLER QUESTION:
The average female will do this 164 times as a teenager. What is it?
Answer: Slam a door
BS DEEP THOUGHT:
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
