Kate Gosselin has made it no secret that she wants to return to TV, following the cancellation of her TLC series "Kate Plus 8." However, landing a new gig is proving to be much harder than she thought.
“Kate had no idea it would be this difficult to sell another show based around her and her family,” one TV executive tells me. “It’s hard to be on the cover of magazines one week and just a few months later not have people return your calls.”
On Monday morning, Kate revealed on the "Today" show that her kids are doing great, but admitted they do miss filming.
“They’ve recently been saying, ‘When are we going to go here or there? We miss the crew,'" Kate said. "We’re hoping our TLC contract is over -- so we’re hoping to move forward and do more fun projects. Fans are begging, 'They’ve grown up, they’ve turned eight, what are you doing?’ and so we’re hoping to put that out there for them.”
Unfortunately for Kate, fans don't green-light TV shows, network executives do.
“Once you have a show canceled, it's almost impossible to sell the same idea to another network,” a TV insider tells me. “TLC is the non-Hollywood network and the perfect home for her. If they no longer want her, I’m not sure which other network will.”
Park officials say a man died Tuesday after falling over the edge of the Grand Canyon's South Rim.
Rangers rappelled down and located his body about 600 feet below the rim, according to Shannan Marcak, a Grand Canyon National Park spokeswoman. On Tuesday evening, crews were using a rope mechanical advantage system to raise the body, Marcak said.
About 12:20 p.m., witnesses reportedly notified canyon officials that a man had fallen over the edge at Pipe Creek Vista, about one mile east of the Desert View Drive and South Entrance Road junction.
The National Park Service is investigating the incident.
The man's body will be turned over to the Coconino County Medical Examiner's office, Marcak said.
No additional information was immediately available.
Check back with azcentral.com for updates.
It's been exactly two years since the series finale of "Lost" and you probably still love it/hate it as much as you did that night.
No matter your stance on "Lost's" mystical ending, the fact that a series could polarize fans so instantly means that it did its job -- even if you didn't get all the answers you wanted. The "Lost" series finale will go down as one of the most controversial in TV history, and that's saying a lot.
But was it one of the best series finales? With the "Lost" anniversary and "House" and "Desperate Housewives" both recently being laid to rest, HuffPost TV thought it'd be a good time to round up the most iconic, hilarious, touching and perfect series finales of all time -- click through our gallery to see what we deemed the top 14. Then, share your thoughts in the comments.
College grads who majored in actuarial science or astrophysics have a practically nonexistent unemployment rate.
Actuary job in hand, before the degree
Courtesy: Drake UniversityBette Wiebke
Majored in Actuarial Science, Class of `12
Drake University
Why become an actuary? My parents kind of planted the idea in my head from an early age, because math was always my favorite subject in school. Plus, they knew it would be a lucrative profession.
An actuary is basically supposed to predict the future, estimating future risks and costs. Being able to do that well is so valuable to a company.
This weekend, I graduated with my bachelor's in actuarial science. I've already had a job lined up since September, and I would say the same is true for the majority of my classmates, who have also had job offers for a long time.
I'll be working at Travelers Insurance in St. Paul, Minn., in their property and casualty business.
Overall, 0% unemployment in our field may be a bit of an overstatement. I know a couple students who haven't decided what they're doing yet.
But the fact that most of us can get jobs coming straight out of college, definitely says something good about the occupation.
No shortage of options in astrophysics
Courtesy: Matt BenjaminMatt Benjamin
Astrophysics, Class of `05
University of Colorado Boulder
I was a business major when I started college, and science was a hobby more than anything else.
But after I took two semesters of astronomy, I was hooked. Learning about business at that point almost felt as boring as learning about cardboard.
I studied astrophysics and planetary science, and worked in the planetarium as a student employee. I had thought about going to grad school afterward, but when my boss decided to leave, I took this job.
I now run the planetarium and its education programs. My job is to take complex science and information and put it in the public vernacular.
It goes against the idea that to be part of science you need a Ph.D. That's a gross misconception.
I think you can have a 0% unemployment rate in astrophysics, because it's constantly evolving. The universe is huge and there just aren't enough eyes to study it. There's really never going to be a shortage of jobs.
Authorities in Louisiana are searching for a college student who disappeared while bicycling Saturday.
Michaela "Mickey" Shunick, a 22-year-old senior anthropology major at the University of Louisiana, was last seen at about 1:45 a.m. Saturday, when she left a friend's home on Ryan Street in Lafayette. Shunick was cycling to her home on Governor Miro Drive, a distance of about four miles, when she vanished without a trace, the Lafayette Police Department said.
Shunick is an avid cyclist and had regularly made the trip, her mother, Nancy Shunick, told The Huffington Post.
"She has a car but she likes to rides her bike," Nancy Shunick said. "She rides her bicycle everywhere, and the route she would have taken Saturday is not a bad area. It is one residential neighborhood after another."
Family members reported Mickey Shunick missing Saturday. They told police it was "uncharacteristic" of her to be out of contact with them. Shunick was also a no-show at her younger brother's high school graduation Saturday, an event her family said she was looking forward to attending.
"She is just a nice, normal kid. She has hung out with the same group of friends since kindergarten," Nancy Shunick said. "She works teaching horse-riding lessons to little kids and she attends school."
There have been plenty of stories recently about lost pets reunited with their owners thanks to microchips. But in this case, it wasn’t only the dog who was returned. The microchip implanted in a South Carolina dog helped police return the 3-year-old girl who was with him to their family as well, WJBF News reported.
While her parents slept, the child apparently followed their newly adopted dog, Angel, outside.
A resident in a nearby apartment complex spotted the pair and called the police. But when the girl wasn’t able to tell them where she lived, the authorities used a scanner to check the dog for a microchip.
The chip gave the officers information on how to get the owner’s name, address and phone number, and they were able to return the girl and her faithful companion to their home.
The girl’s parents wanted to protect their daughter’s identity and didn’t give reporters her name or theirs — but they did want everyone to meet the canine they called a “hero dog.”
Even though he’s been a member of the family for only a week, the girl’s mother said Angel kept the child in his sight the whole time. A police officer said Angel didn’t even want to get into a separate police car from the girl for the ride home.
In Chicago, three bakery workers claim they're owed dough--their fair share of $118 million in winnings from the Illinois State Lottery. They say they were part of a betting pool at the Pita Pan Old World Bakery in Chicago Heights that won the windfall in a May 4 drawing.
"What happened was this," says attorney Michael LaMonica of Fisher & LaMonica, the law firm representing Jose Franco and Marco Medina, two of the three claimants. "This group had been running a pool since 2011. Normally, they collected money for the pool on Mondays and Thursdays." His clients, he says, contributed to the pool for a May 1 drawing.
The group's ticket won $9, and the modest winnings were re-invested in the drawing for May 4.
"The collector came around again," says LaMonica. "But because some auditing was going on at the bakery, he switched the day of his collection to a Wednesday. For whatever reason, he didn't ask my clients for any additional money."
The ticket that the contributors bought won $118 million on May 4.
Now Franco and Medina say their co-workers are refusing to give them their fair share. Why do they feel they deserve part of the windfall? They paid into the ticket that won $9. And, since the $9 went into the purchase of the next ticket, they had an ownership stake in the $118 million winner.
The pool, they contend, had a standing agreement to divide its winnings equally. They say that if they'd been asked to contribute their customary share for the purchase of the winning ticket, they would have. Only nobody asked them for their money.
A third claimant, J. Santos Bello, is represented by Chicago attorney Steven J. Seidman. A colleague of Seidman's told ABC News that Bello did not want to discuss the suit and had instructed his lawyers not to comment. His complaint, however, tells virtually the same story as the one filed by Franco and Medina.
MTV reality star Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio may have won the last two installments of "The Challenge," but he lost his defamation lawsuit against HBO, Time Warner and "Entourage" creator Doug Ellin, which the New York Superior Court threw out last week.
"Johnny Bananas" had hired Lindsay Lohan's former attorney, Stephanie Ovadia, and alleged that Johnny Drama's "Entourage" cartoon, titled "Johnny's Bananas," infringed on his nickname, constituted defamation, and had caused him both emotional distress and financial harm.
HuffPost TV talked to a dejected, but resolute "Johnny Bananas" about how he was dealing with the legal setback, and tried to understand why he went forward with the lawsuit in the first place.
Sorry to hear about the lawsuit getting thrown out.
Yeah, it's kind of a bummer, man. But it's kind of the risk you run ... you're kind of taking a chance when you go into the legal realm. We always knew it was a possibility ... I see it more as a hurdle or roadblock that we're gonna have to figure a way around.
So why did you file the lawsuit? What about the Johnny Bananas "Entourage" character felt like a personal attack?
It's a situation where I've spent six years of my life creating a brand, and becoming a public figure being known by that name. So then for a show like "Entourage" to come along, who basically appeals to the same viewing audience as my show does, and turn my character into a cartoon monkey, that just didn't sit right with me.
The example I use is they have their own characters on that show. What would HBO do if I went on my show and started calling myself Johnny Drama? ... I'm sure HBO would have had a problem with that if it was the other way around.
Do you think they would have sued?
I have no idea. They probably would have threatened to.
Did the "Entourage" character actually cause you any financial harm?
Basically what this is about is I make a large part of my living doing appearances, just being at bars and clubs and colleges at different events. The problem that this posed is that there started to be confusion, where people started saying, "Well, who are we booking? Are we booking you, or are we booking the Johnny Drama character? Are people gonna know it's you?"
I've been to clubs before, and people have been like, "Where's Kevin Dillon at? We thought he was appearing here." That's basically what the basis of our law suit was: This has the ability to cause me harm financially and create confusion.
According to TMZ, UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon "Bones" Jones was arrested for DUI during the early hours of May 19, after crashing his Bentley into a pole in Binghamton, NY. Jones wasn't seriously hurt in the accident, but he was taken into custody by officers who arrived at the scene. He made bail a few hours later.
"I can confirm that Jon Jones was arrested early this morning on suspicion of DUI," Jones' manager, Malki Kawa, said in a statement. "While the facts of this situation are still being gathered and situated, First Round Management fully supports Jon and we are asking for fans and media to respect the privacy of Jon and his family during this time."
The youngest champion in the history of the UFC, Jones has always kept a squeaky clean image, so it's a little shocking to see him get in any kind of trouble. Given the fact this will be Jones' first brush with the law, the chances of him serving jail time are pretty low, and he'll probably get off with a fine and possibly probation.
Still, UFC president Dana White will have some work to do, to preserve the image of a young man many consider to be the future of MMA.
Jones isn't the first UFC fighter to be arrested for DUI, and it's highly unlikely that his current situation will have any serious effects on his MMA career. At only 24 years old, Jones will get some leeway from the fans, and I'm pretty sure the UFC will stand firmly behind him.
Jones is currently scheduled to defend his light-heavyweight title against Dan Henderson at UFC 151, set for Sept. 1 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, NV. He'll probably still be dealing with the fallout of his legal trouble when the fight takes place, and it'll be interesting to see how he deals with the extra pressure heading into his showdown against the former Strikeforce champion.
