2 minutes ago, applcin said:

And one thing I saw I've never seen on the US version...a same sex team.

 

Oh, how I wish there WERE a same-sex team on the US version.  If only to see the heads of all those perky, (faux) blonde soccer moms from the Midwest who still watch the show explode.  (Figuratively, of course.)

2 hours ago, Khan said:

 

Oh, how I wish there WERE a same-sex team on the US version.  If only to see the heads of all those perky, (faux) blonde soccer moms from the Midwest who still watch the show explode.  (Figuratively, of course.)

This particular team, the celeb was a middle-aged guy who wasn't very good. If the couple was that caliber over here, anybody who wasn't aghast would probably see it as a joke. If DWTS ever wants to push that envelope, one hopes they would pick someone who turned out to be a good dancer.

A slight aside....I subscribe to a couple of Italian cable channels and some of their game shows are a lot more risque than normally you see here on mainstream channels. Very scantily-clad buxom models and references to them, guys in the audience wolf calling, women charging the stage to kiss the supposed male hottie, contestants' weights, looks and quirks being made fun of, skits where people are made up to look and act like ethnic stereotypes (Japanese, Russian, Sicilian, etc.). Some of their game shows are like game/variety shows combined. One show is a competition where celebrities have to imitate famous singers each week, including being made up to look like them, which includes white people being made up to look black. They also seem to have a greater fascination with their versions of the reality shows like Big Brother, Survivor, etc., not only airing them often and longer (sometimes episodes are 2-3 hours) but talking about them on other programs often. At least, those are my impressions based on what these 2 channels choose to air for their US viewers. I'm a first generation Italian-American so, while I understand the language (some of it), seeing their pop culture and just how they behave and think overall is an interesting contrast. They do seem to really enjoy American pop culture, past and present, as well.
 

Edited April 29, 20187 yr by applcin

With Mr. Five Minutes of Fame Adam Rippon competing this time you'd think they would pair him with a guy.

Oh, you just *know* Adam and Bruno will be doing lots of staged flirting.

I still don't get the big deal where Adam is concerned. He didn't win a medal and has never completed a quad. He isn't even that attractive....IMO

Edited April 29, 20187 yr by Soapsuds

6 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

I still don't get the big deal where Adam is concerned. He didn't win a medal and has never completed a quad. He isn't even that attractive....IMO

The big deal is that he is the first gay American male in his sport to compete out of the closet.  Not come out later, but at the height of his career so far.

 

Gus is more my type, but I have nothing but pride for Adam.

2 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

The big deal is that he is the first gay American male in his sport to compete out of the closet.  Not come out later, but at the height of his career so far.

 

Gus is more my type, but I have nothing but pride for Adam.

Gus is better looking but Gus's bf is even hotter.....lawd.....HOT!

Carole Shelley (the...entertaining temp recast for Bev McKinsey on AW back in 1979/80, and quite a theater actress) has a brief appearance at the start of John Mulaney's latest Netflix special. 

Alicia Minshew is on The Blacklist tonight.

 

Rome Flynn made an appearance on Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots

 

Lloyd Bremseth (Andy Andersson, The Doctors, 1975) made headlines this week for foiling an attempted robbery. After leaving show biz some years ago, he became owner of an exotic bird store in Van Nuys, CA. Here he is being interviewed:

 

https://www.google.com/amp/losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/05/07/bird-theft-owner-store/amp/

5 hours ago, Cheap21 said:

Rome Flynn made an appearance on Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots

 

What’s he doing with Jeffrey? Did they make out?

4 hours ago, Faulkner said:

What’s he doing with Jeffrey? Did they make out?

Both in jail. Rome's character gave head to the same cop that Jeffrey has been screwing. 

Brittany Allen (Marissa #1, AMC) - so reviled on AMC - has forged quite a respectable career in genre films over the last few years, mostly with writer-director Colin Minihan but also in the last Saw sequel. She stars again in Minihan's latest film, LGBT horror flick What Keeps You Alive. She's almost unrecognizable.

 

 

http://deadline.com/2018/05/tell-me-a-story-billy-magnussen-cbs-all-access-thriller-series-liz-friedlander-direct-1202386627/