Epic 'Jeopardy!' tournament filled with celebrity cameos, crazy wagers, and major shade - Yahoo Celebrity

The Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time two-night primetime tournament literally got off to a perfect start Monday night. Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter and James Holzhauer were flawless in the first round, and by the end of the first night they had given viewers exactly what they were hoping for.

The tournament takes place over two nights, with each night consisting of two traditional games. In the end, all four games will be added together to determine the winner.

The tournament had everything fans could hope for; from megastar cameos like Kevin Hart, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie offering up star-studded video clues to hilarious clues from legendary host, Alex Trebek. According to Twitter, the most popular of Alex's clues was, "Hey Babe, I made you a bitchin' mixtape to play on this Sony item that dominated the 80's and began in the U.S. as the "Soundabout.'" The answer was, "What is Walkman?"

Maybe it was the fact the contestants were all juggernauts, or maybe it was that the game was on at primetime, but there was definitely a fun electricity in the room. In fact, James used it to shock Brad, who happens to have grown up in Pennsylvania, by taunting him while answering a question about Philadelphia. 

I'm not sure if I've ever seen a Jeopardy! contestant openly mock another for not buzzing in first.#JeopardyGOAT is amazing.

— Ben Fawkes (@BFawkesESPN) January 8, 2020

Daily Doubles proved to be the deciding factor on the first night, as Brad was lucky to land on all but one of them and as Twitter was quick to point out, he didn't do much with the opportunities. Brad bet all his points three times, and three times he lost. This ultimately left him far behind the other two contestants, and makes his chances of winning incredibly slim.

During the first game, Ken bet it all on the only other Daily Double of the night. This proved to be a big difference maker for him, as he went into the first Final Jeopardy! with an 10,800 points lead over James.

James came roaring back in the second game, however. As a result of somewhat conservative betting by Ken, and aggressive play from James, the two finished the night only 200 points apart. Heading into Wednesday's final, Ken has 63,400 points and James has 63,200 points. Brad finished the evening with 10,400 points.

Ok, I’m not going to lie, #JeopardyGOAT is the better than I could have dreamed even if it is making me feel dumb

— Dan Wade (@Dwade) January 8, 2020

#JeopardyGOAT is the best contest of the year. It just goes down after this. Superbowl, World Series, pshaw. Give me three geniuses throwing subtle shade over obscure minutia any day.

— Amy Thomas (@Pickwick12) January 8, 2020

Based on the initial reaction from social media, it appears the first night was a major success. It was the number one trending topic on Twitter, as thousands of people shared their mostly positive takes on the epic game.

The Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time  tournament concludes Wednesday night, check you local listings or visit Jeopardy.com for more information.

Checkout the haunting 'Bohemian Rhapsody' performance that sent 13-year-old singer to the finals round of AGT:

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Duke and Duchess of Sussex drop by Canada House in London to thank officials for hospitality - CNN

The Duke and Duchess recently returned from Canada, where they spent the Christmas holidays with the Duchess' mother, Doria Ragland.

They were met at Canada House by Janice Charette, the high commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom.

"The Duke and Duchess have a strong connection to Canada. It's a country The Duke of Sussex has visited many times over the years and it was also home to The Duchess for seven years before she became a member of The Royal Family," the royals said on their Instagram page, Sussex Royal.

The Duke and Duchess posted a video of their tour, which included seeing exhibits and meeting the staff.

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2020-01-08 05:12:00Z
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'Bachelor' Ignored Contestants To Focus On Hannah Brown And Sex - The Federalist

On Monday night’s season premiere of “The Bachelor,” the spotlight of the first episode was stolen from the 30 beautiful contestants and centralized around two topics: Hannah Brown and sex. This season follows Bachelor Peter Weber, better known as “Pilot Pete,” on his journey after coming as third runner-up in Brown’s season of “The Bachelorette.” The couple was best known for having sex in a windmill — four times.

While Bachelor Nation thought they were watching “The Bachelor,” the episode oddly started to feel like a rerun of “The Bachelorette.” At the beginning of the show, Weber was awestruck when Brown stepped out of a limo arriving at the Bachelor Mansion. Last season, when Weber arrived at the Bachelor Mansion for “The Bachelorette,” he handed Brown a pilot pin. Brown came back to return the pin, telling Weber to give it to the girl he falls in love with.

At first, it was an “aww, that’s cute” moment, perfectly wrapping up the previous Bachelorette season for Brown. But the moment was destroyed when Brown decided to make a second appearance in the same episode.

During the second “group date,” Weber and his chosen group of women entered a venue to find Brown standing on stage next to none other than — a windmill. She proceeded to tell all the women in the group about the time she had sex with Weber, in a windmill, four times.

After the incredibly awkward sex story was revealed, Brown announced that each women would get up in front of a live audience and tell her own sex story. While episode one did not showcase the women’s stories, it’s imminent that episode two will be filled with uncomfortable, personal bedroom stories.

The explicit talk of Weber’s sex life exemplifies how “The Bachelor” franchise has put a greater emphasis on sex in recent years. Netflix recently released the 2009 season of “The Bachelor” in which single-father Jason Mesnick falls in love with one woman. They get married, and have a family. It was the happy ending Bachelor fans wanted and still have 11 years later. Jason’s final choice, Mollie, is still his wife to this day.

In 2019, Bachelor Colton Underwood’s season focused almost explicitly on sex and the inability of many women to commit to Underwood. Allegedly, Underwood was a virgin at the beginning of the show and his virginity was discussed in virtually every episode.

In 2009, sex was a taboo subject on “The Bachelor,” but as the seasons progressed, so did the women who found it less and less taboo to discuss their sexual behavior on television. I can’t help but see a slight correlation between the uptick in sex talk and the inability of these reality TV stars to commit to each other.

During an episode that should have been all about getting to know the 30 contestants who came to California to meet Weber, the entirety of it was overshadowed by talk of sex in a windmill. It was disappointing to watch “The Bachelor” franchise cling to a previous relationship solely to discuss intimate moments on national television.

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2020-01-07 12:01:24Z
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‘Joker’ Leads Bafta Nominations - The New York Times

LONDON — “Joker,” the acclaimed film that tells the back story of the comic book villain, received 11 nominations on Tuesday for the EE British Academy Film Awards, Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars, the most of any film.

One of those was in the best film category of the awards, commonly known as the Baftas, where it will compete against Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” and Sam Mendes’ “1917,” a World War I epic that won best drama at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday.

The directors of all those movies will also compete for the best director prize.

As in the United States, “Joker” received rave reviews in Britain when it was released, but also received criticism for its depiction of mental illness and violence. Another flap centered on the movie’s soundtrack, which included a song by Gary Glitter, a British singer and convicted child abuser.

Joaquin Phoenix, who played the title role in “Joker,” has been nominated for the Bafta’s best actor award, a prize he also won at the Golden Globes on Sunday, and is favorite to take at the Oscars.

Phoenix will compete against Taron Egerton, whose performance as Elton John in “Rocketman” earned him the best actor in a comedy award at the Golden Globes, as well as Leonardo DiCaprio for “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” Adam Driver for “Marriage Story,” and Jonathan Pryce for “The Two Popes.”

Renée Zellweger leads the nominations for the best actress category for her role in “Judy,” and will compete against Jessie Buckley for “Wild Rose,” Scarlett Johansson for “Marriage Story,” Saoirse Ronan for “Little Women,” and Charlize Theron for “Bombshell.”

The best acting awards were immediately criticized on social media for their lack of racial diversity. “Baftas so white” wrote one Twitter user, echoing the hashtag and campaign that followed an all-white list of lead- and supporting-actor nominations for the 2015 Oscars. Guy Lodge, a London-based film critic, wrote “in this of all years,” the lack of people of color was “not good enough.”

Twitter users also criticized the list of nominations for best director, which featured no women.

“I’m very disappointed,” Amanda Berry, Bafta’s chief executive, told BBC radio on Tuesday morning when asked about the nominations’ lack of diversity. She had “hoped we’d see at least one female director,” she added.

Bafta would be resurrecting a scheme to support female directors, she added. “Bafta has a role to play here. It can’t tell the industry which films to greenlight and who to hire, but what it can do is make sure it is finding and supporting talented people,” she said.

The Baftas are often seen as a rough bellwether for the Academy Awards, because there is some overlap between the 6,500 voting members of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, which organizes the Baftas, and the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who vote for the Oscars.

This year’s Bafta prize ceremony will take place on Feb. 2 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. It will be hosted by Graham Norton, an Irish television star.

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2020-01-07 10:22:00Z
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Er, People Are Hating on Hannah Brown for Showing Up on Peter Weber's 'Bachelor' Season - Cosmopolitan.com

[This post contains spoilers for the season premiere of The Bachelor season 24.]

• In a twist that we all saw coming (thanks to the Bachelor teaser) Hannah Brown and Peter Weber had a tearful conversation about how they both still have feelings for each other on The Bachelor's season premiere.
• In a twist that we did not all see coming, Twitter is now annoyed with Hannah for potentially giving her relationship with Peter another chance.

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I am EXHAUSTED. And not only because ABC put us through a three-hour—3! hour!—season premiere, but also because the Hannah Brown and Peter Weber drama will just not stop, and, again, we are one—1!—episode in.

Hannah showed up on the first night to give Peter back his pilot wings, and then she also showed up a few days later to host one of his group dates. After Hannah recounts that time she had sex in a windmill with Peter four times for his new contestants, she starts crying to a producer, saying she "doesn't know" how she's feeling about seeing Peter again.

Peter and Hannah then get into a conversation about their ~feelings~, and he ends up inviting her to join the other women on his Bachelor love journey. Peter says that when he saw her that first night, "a little bit of me was hoping that you weren't drop something off, but that you were coming in...no matter what, you're always going to mean something to me."

And this is where the plot thickens, friends, cause Hannah then admits that she questions her decision to eliminate him "all of the time." Then Peter asked why she didn't ask him out after the show (ya know, when Jed proved to be a cheater) and said that his "heart sank" when Hannah asked out Tyler instead. Hannah's response? Tyler was reaching out to her after the show wrapped, and she thought that Peter wanted to be The Bachelor, so HERE WE ARE.

It's all very messy, especially since ABC cut off the episode before we find out whether or not Hannah will join Peter's season. But either way, it seems like people are not so amped on Hannah considering restarting things with Peter—in fact, people are majorly hating on her, because she kinda already had her shot with the guy:

Personally, I'm still team Hannah, but what do you think?

Alanna Lauren Greco Alanna Greco is the weekend editor at Cosmopolitan.com and a freelance writer based in New York.

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2020-01-07 05:18:00Z
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Ricky Gervais blasts Apple at the Golden Globes for China 'sweatshops' - CNBC

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., smiles while speaking about Apple TV+ during an event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019.

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Apple came home with no awards and a punch to the gut after Sunday's Golden Globe Awards.

Comedian Ricky Gervais, who hosted the event, used Apple's nominations for "The Morning Show" as an opportunity to skewer the company over its business dealings. The series, which premiered last year on the new streaming service Apple TV+ and follows a morning news show that becomes embroiled in workplace scandal, was nominated for best television series drama and received two nominations for best performance by an actress in a television drama series.

"Apple rolled into the TV game with a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China," Gervais saidas the camera panned to Apple CEO Tim Cook in the audience.

"So, you say you're woke, but the companies you work for, unbelievable," Gervais said, referring to actors working on programming for streaming services from large tech and media companies. "Apple, Amazon, Disney. If ISIS started a streaming service, you'd call your agent, wouldn't you?"

Apple has taken steps to promote healthy workplace environments in places where its devices are manufactured. The company says in its supplier responsibility report that it requires suppliers have appropriate safety protocols and fair working hours. In 2018, the report says, 96% of the 1 million supplier employees tracked complied with fair working hours.

Cook has frequently taken a moralistic tone in acceptance speeches, preaching about the importance of privacy, a feature Apple emphasizes in its own products and often criticizes peers for lacking. Cook has received awards for combating hate speech and for Apple's sustainability initiatives from the Anti-Defamation League and the nonprofit Ceres, respectively.

Gervais warned against such a speech in the event that Apple were to win a Golden Globe.

"If you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech," Gervais said. "You're not in a position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real-world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. So, if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your god, and f--- off."

Apple did not respond to a request for comment.

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2020-01-06 13:44:00Z
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Harvey Weinstein arrives in court ahead of sex assault trial - Fox News

Harvey Weinstein's lawyers and a judge are handling the final preparations Monday for his trial on charges of rape and sexual assault.

After more than two years since the allegations first came to widespread public attention and catalyzed the #MeToo movement, jury selection is scheduled to start this week.

Weinstein, using a walker following a recent back surgery, arrived at a New York court Monday morning sporting a dark suit and disheveled hair. When asked how his back was outside the courtroom, Weinstein responded with a thin smile and a so-so gesture with his hand.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN VOWS HE'LL BE 'FULLY EXONERATED' AT NEW YORK TRIAL

The disgraced movie mogul faces allegations that he raped one woman in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 and performed a forcible sex act on a different woman in 2006.

The 67-year-old has pleaded not guilty and says any sexual activity was consensual. If he's convicted of the most serious charges against him, two counts of predatory sexual assault, Weinstein faces a mandatory life sentence.

For that to happen, prosecutors must demonstrate Weinstein had a habit of violating women. To that end, they plan to call actress Annabella Sciorra, who says Weinstein forced himself inside her Manhattan apartment in 1993 or 1994 and raped her after she starred in a film for his movie studio.

They also want jurors to hear from some of the more than 75 women who have come forward publicly to accuse Weinstein of sexual misconduct ranging from harassment to assault. The first allegations were brought to light by The New York Times and The New Yorker in October 2017.

WEINSTEIN ACCUSER REVEALS SHE STILL HAS 'NIGHTMARES'

Weinstein's lawyer, Donna Rotunno, has argued the case is weak and said she plans to aggressively cross-examine the accusers.

Picking a jury for Weinstein’s trial could take a while, in part because immense media attention on the case could mean some potential jurors already have their minds made up. Weinstein's lawyers tried to get the trial moved out of Manhattan, but a court rejected that.

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2020-01-06 13:30:29Z
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