There’s more than one fashion plate in this famous family.
While appearing on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” music and style icon Madonna revealed her son David Banda, 16, is already out-dressing her, The NY Post reported.
“He can put on any outfit and look swag as you know what,” she told Fallon on Wednesday night.
“It’s really irritating. He wears my clothes and looks better in them. He can even wear a dress and look butch.”
The “Material Girl” wasn’t joking. Back in May, the mother-son duo matched in Adidas outfits at the WBA World Lightweight Championship at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Banda, who’s known for his gender-fluid fashion choices, stole the show in a bright red three-stripe dress from Adidas’ collaboration with Gucci. The teen paired the eye-catching look with a pair of yellow sunglasses, layered silver jewelery and black sneakers.
But David inherited more from his mother than just her fashion sense.
The “Like a Virgin” singer went on to tell Fallon that her son, whom she adopted in 2006, is working on music of his own.
“He’s going to end up being one of your guests,” the 63-year-old gushed about Banda, saying he has “everything” needed to be a star.
Fallon agreed with the Queen of Pop, saying, “He’s got ‘it.’ He’s got magic. He’s funny, he’s charming, he’s athletic, he’s a good-looking dude.” During the same interview, the hit maker revealed the moment she believed her career was “over with” after accidentally flashing the crowd during her performance of “Like a Virgin” at the first-ever MTV Video Music Awards in 1984.
According to Madge, after her stiletto slipped off onstage, she dived to grab it — accidentally flipping up her dress and exposing her backside to the audience.
“Those were the days when you shouldn’t show your butt to have a career,” the singer joked. “Now it’s the opposite.”
Although her reps thought her career would crash after the incident, the superstar went on to become one of the best-selling female artists of all time.
This article was originally published by The NY Post and was reproduced here with permission.
Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, he was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday (Saturday morning AEST) by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man confront Rushdie on stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing him 10 to 15 times as he was being introduced. The 75-year-old author was pushed or fell to the floor and a state trooper at the scene took the suspect into custody, New York police said.
Rushdie was taken by helicopter to a hospital, police said. His condition was not immediately known. The moderator at the event was also attacked and suffered a minor head injury, police said.
Rushdie was taken by helicopter to a hospital, police said. His condition was not immediately known (Grant Pollard/Invision/AP)
Rabbi Charles Savenor was among the roughly 2,500 people in the audience. Amid Gasps, spectators were ushered out of the outdoor amphitheater.
The assailant ran onto the platform “and started pounding on Mr. Rushdie. At first you’re like, ‘What’s going on?’ And then it became abundantly clear in a few seconds that he was being beaten,” Savenor said. He said the attack lasted about 20 seconds.
Another spectator, Kathleen Jones, said the attacker was dressed in black, with a black mask.
“We thought perhaps it was part of a stunt to show that there’s still a lot of controversy around this author. But it became evident in a few seconds” that it wasn’t, she said.
A bloodied Rushdie was quickly surrounded by a small group of people who held up his legs, presumably to send more blood to his chest.
Rushdie has been a prominent spokesman for free expression and liberal causes. He is a former president of PEN America, who said it was “reeling from shock and horror” at the attack.
“We can think of no comparable incident of a public violent attack on a literary writer on American soil,” CEO Suzanne Nossel said in a statement.
“Salman Rushdie has been targeted for his words for decades but has never flinched nor faltered,” she added.
His 1988 book The Satanic Verses was viewed as blasphemous by many Muslims. Often-violent protests against Rushdie erupted around the world, including a riot that killed 12 people in Mumbai.
Rushdie and moderator Henry Reese were set to discuss “the United States as asylum for writers and other artists in exile and as a home for freedom of creative expression” (AP)
The novel was banned in Iran, where the late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death. Khomeini died that same year.
Iran’s current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has never issued a fatwa of his own withdrawing the edict, though Iran in recent years hasn’t focused on the writer.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday’s attack.
A bounty of more than $US3 million ($4.22 million) has also been offered for anyone who kills Rushdie.
The death threats and bounty led Rushdie to go into hiding under a British government protection program, including a round-the-clock armed guard. Rushdie emerged after nine years of seclusion and cautiously summarized more public appearances, maintaining his outspoken criticism of religious extremism overall.
He has said he is proud of his fight for freedom of expression, saying in a 2012 talk in New York that terrorism is really the art of fear.
Rushdie rose to prominence with his Booker Prize-winning 1981 novel Midnight’s Children, but his name became known around the world after The Satanic Verses (Getty)
“The only way you can defeat it is by deciding not to be afraid,” he said.
Iran’s government has long since distanced itself from Khomeini’s decree, but anti-Rushdie sentiment has lingered. The Index on Censorship, an organization promoting free expression, said money was raised to increase the reward for his killing of him as recently as 2016, underscoring that the fatwa for his death of him still stands.
In 2012, Rushdie published a memoir, JosephAnton, about the fatwa. The title came from the pseudonym Rushdie had used while in hiding.
Rushdie rose to prominence with his Booker Prize-winning 1981 novel Midnight’sChildrenbut his name became known around the world after The Satanic Verses.
The Chautauqua Institution, about 120 kilometers southwest of Buffalo in a rural corner of New York, has served for more than a century as a place for reflection and spiritual guidance.
Rushdie has authored 13 novels (Frank May/dpa via AP)
Visitors don’t pass through metal detectors or undergo bag checks. Most people leave the doors to their century-old cottages unlocked at night.
Police said a state trooper was assigned to Rushdie’s lecture.
The Chautauqua center is known for its summertime lecture series, where Rushdie has spoken before. Speakers address a different topic each week.
Rushdie and moderator Henry Reese were set to discuss “the United States as asylum for writers and other artists in exile and as a home for freedom of creative expression.”
Chris Hemsworth has been spotted carving up the Byron surf with his twin boys Tristan and Sasha while making the most of some unexpected time off after production on his upcoming film was paused.
the hunky Thor actor, 38, was reportedly seen flexing his superhero skills in the waves, stopping his sesh at one point to help a woman navigate away from a rip.
It comes as filming for Mad Max: Furiosastarring Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy, has been suspended after director George Miller tested positive for Covid-19, the Daily Mail reported this week.
The publication reports that the multimillion-dollar production based in Kurnell, just south of Sydney will resume filming next week, once legendary director Miller, 77, has finished his isolation period and recovered.
In the meantime, Hemsworth has been soaking up the time with family, taking his 8-year-old twins Tristan and Sasha for a surf and a spot of takeaway after picking them up from school in Byron Bay this week.
Mad Max: Furiosa is a prequel to post-apocalyptic blockbuster furyroad, with Anya Taylor-Joy playing a younger Charlize Theron.
Details of Hemsworth’s character in the film are yet to be disclosed, but the actor was pictured on set in early July looking dramatically different in a long red wig, beard, and curly mustache.
Olivia Newton-John’s funeral plans revealed: Grieving family accept state memorial service after Grease star’s death
By Jade Watkins for Daily Mail Australia
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Australians will get a chance to publicly mourn Olivia Newton-John, with the beloved entertainer’s family accepting an offer for a state memorial service.
Newton-John’s daughter Tottie Goldsmith accepted the offer on the family’s behalf while speaking with Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews on Thursday morning.
A venue and date for the service have yet to be announced, with further discussions under way between the family and the premier’s department.
Olivia’s death was announced on Monday, after a 30-year battle with cancer.
Australians will get a chance publicly mourn Olivia Newton-John, with the beloved entertainer’s family accepting an offer for a state memorial service
But Mr Andrews flagged the event will be more of a concert than a traditional funeral service.
‘The family were quite touched at the prospect of Victorians being able to come together and celebrate Olivia’s life,’ Mr Andrews said.
‘As tough as this time is… it’s made a little easier by all the outpouring of grief and support, and the very fond memories people are sharing of such an amazing person.’
Newton-John’s niece Tottie Goldsmith accepted the offer on the family’s behalf while speaking with Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews on Thursday morning
‘The family were quite touched at the prospect of Victorians being able to come together and celebrate Olivia’s life,’ Mr Andrews said
The actress, singer and activist was reportedly planning to write an introductory letter to new Victorian Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas, federal Health Minister Mark Butler and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to push for greater access to medicinal cannabis.
Ms Thomas said she had not received any correspondence from Newton-John but was aware of her passion to support people living in pain with cancer and other chronic illnesses.
The Grease star lost her battle with stage-four metastatic breast cancer on Monday morning.
The actress and singer died peacefully at the age of 73 at her home in southern California, surrounded by family and friends. Her husband John Easterling announced her death on her Facebook page.
‘Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends,’ Easterling wrote.
The actress and singer died peacefully at the age of 73 at her home in southern California, surrounded by family and friends. Ella’s husband John Easterling announced her death on her Facebook page
‘Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends,’ he wrote
‘We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time.
‘Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer.
‘Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer,’ he added.
The family asked for donations to be made to her cancer organisation, the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, instead of flowers.
Easterling also paid tribute to his late wife on social media this week, talking about their love for one another.
Using Newton-John’s Instagram account, Easterling wrote: ‘Our love for each other transcends our understanding. Every day we expressed our gratitude for this love that could be so deep, so real, so natural.
‘We never had to “work” on it. We were in awe of this great mystery and accepted the experience of our love as past, present and forever.’
The actress famously beat breast cancer twice but was diagnosed again in 2017.
She spent the last few years at home, campaigning for animals’ rights and raising money for her charity online.
She was also a strong campaigner for the use of medical cannabis for treatment in Australia.
Olivia is survived by husband John and her daughter Chloe Lattanzi
The author Salman Rushdie has been stabbed in New York.
The 75-year-old was about to deliver a speech at the CHQ 2022 event in Chautauqua, Buffalo, when he was attacked on stage, according to witnesses.
An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced, the outlet reported.
The author was taken or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained. Rushdie’s condition is not immediately known.
“Just witnessed the horrific assassination attempt on #SalmanRushdie’s life. He was stabbed multiple times before attacker was subdued by security,” author Carl Levan tweeted shortly after the stabbing. “Some intrepid members of the audience went on stage. What courage will be expected of us next to defend even the smallest freedoms?”
The Indian-born novelist previously received death threats for his writing, particularly for his book the Satanic Verses in 1988.
Pakistan banned the book after uproar and he was issued a fatwa – a death sentence – by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989.
Khomeini’s threat forced Rushdie into hiding for the best part of a decade and the writer claimed to receive a “Valentine’s card” from Iran each year reminding him that they wanted him dead.
Rushdie won the Booker Prize in 1981 for his second novel, Midnight’s Children.
He has lived in the US since 2000, and he was named a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University in 2015.
He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, for Midnight’s Children, in 1983 for Shame, in 1988 for The Satanic Verses, in 1995 for The Moor’s Last Sign, and in 2019 for Quichotte.
Constance Hall OWNS the ‘desperate, lonely and sad’ man who sent her ad**k pic – as she publishes his vile text to her
Australian mummy blogger Constance Hall has called out men for explicit pics
The 38-year-old mother shared the text messages on her Facebook page
She tried to ‘put herself in their shoes’ but couldn’t make sense of the situation
Ultimately she ‘felt sorry’ for the men who feel the need to send such images
By Matilda Rudd For Daily Mail Australia
Published: | Updated:
An Australian mummy blogger has unleashed on creepy men after she was sent an unsolicited explicit photo of a stranger’s genitals and a series of graphic text messages.
Mother Constance Hall, who lives in Western Australia, took to Facebook with a photo of the texts – and a censor over the male genitalia – to talk about the ‘assault’ that is receiving such low rent content.
‘I just got sent ad*** pic but unlike all the other lonely boys that have sent me them in the past, this came through to my private phone number on an app I downloaded two days ago to message my paranoid friends on,’ she captioned the photo.
‘Aside from the obvious victim on the other end of this assault, what is going on with these blokes? So I tried putting myself in their shoes.’
Mother Constance Hall, who lives in Western Australia, took to Facebook on August 7 with a photo of the texts – and a censor over the male genitalia – to talk about the ‘assault’ that is receiving such low rent content
Despite ‘trying to be open minded’ Mrs Hall couldn’t see how sending these types of images would be gratifying – for the sender or the receiver
Despite ‘trying to be open minded’ Mrs Hall couldn’t see how sending these types of images would be gratifying – for the sender or the receiver.
The message she had received read: ‘Weren’t you after this? Did you text me after something big and throbbing?’
‘Could it be depravity? If I had never met anyone who actually wanted to see my stimulated v**** could I be driven to send it out there anyway? Umm that’s a no,’ she concurred.
‘Maybe to get even? If I found out that my husband was sending his genitals to a number of people who didn’t want to see them would I then be inclined to ‘get even and show him that two can play at the game of assaulting strangers with our genitals? I don’t think that’s how I’d frame that particular revenge.’
Mrs Hall couldn’t actually come up with a single instance in which she thought the photos were okay to send without the receiver first acknowledging that they wanted to see them first.
‘And I do realize that it’s not always possible to understand someone who’s lived a different life to yours, male privilege can be hard to fully grasp when you have been served the privilege of it,’ she said.
Mrs Hall couldn’t actually come up with a single instance in which she thought the photos were okay to send without the receiver first acknowledging that they wanted to see them first
‘But there isn’t enough empathy in the world that could help me understand how desperate, lonely, sad and full of self entitlement I’d have to be to send someone a close up of my aroused genitals who simply didn’t want to see them.’
She did acknowledge that there was a certain degree of sympathy for those ‘poor excited men’ who sat alone in their bedrooms taking these photos.
‘They’re dreaming about the wide world of sexual encounters being had all over the place, none of which he was invited to,’ Mrs Hall said.
Bizarrely when she snapped a screenshot of the photo it was naturally censored by the app it was sent in, preventing Mrs Hall from sharing it on even if she wanted to.
‘Of course, that thought moved on. And left me wondering what kind of an app blanks out d*** pics in screenshots? How the f*** am I supposed to process this if I ca n’t black out his nob de él and rip apart his bedroom with my queens?’ She said.
Some of her 1.3million fans praised the mother and clothing designer for her prose, and agreed that they couldn’t understand why men sent such photos (Pictured with her husband Denim)
Some of her 1.3million fans praised the mother and clothing designer for her prose, and agreed that they couldn’t understand why men sent such photos.
‘Never in my life will I understand why ‘men’ send a pic! Send back a pic of a scoring panel!’ One woman wrote.
‘I’m in a relationship now but before I wasn’t and I found this kind of behavior really disgusting and degrading … hard no, from me,’ another said.
While one woman said: ‘Weird that men think it is a turn on.’
Tomorrow is the birthday of Ron Mael from Sparks, so how could the Thursday quiz, where he has been a regular feature, be anything other than Ron-themed? You face 15 general knowledge and vaguely topical questions, all of them tenuously linked to the wonderful world of Sparks and some of the brilliant songs that Ron has written over the years. There is a playlist of all the songs mentioned to listen to as you do the quiz, and a very special bonus guest contribution too. To answer them you don’t have to be a Sparks fan – although of course you should be – and there are no prizes, it is just for fun. Let us know how you get on in the comments, and happy birthday, Ron!
The Thursday quiz, No 68 – Rum from Sparks special edition
If you do think there has been an egregious error in one of the questions or answers, please feel free to email [email protected], but remember, the quiz master’s word is always final, so only do it if you really think this town is big enough for both of us.
Yof Michael Caine is the quintessential London actor, Romain Duris could become his Paris equivalent. Born and raised in the city, he rose to international fame in 2005 playing the real-estate hustler with ambitions to be a pianist in Jacques Audiard’s The Beat That My Heart Skipped. Quick to the punch but nifty in his fingerwork from him, dropping rats in a sack on unwanted tenants while wearing Cuban heels, he was Parisian squalor and glamor in one snake-hipped paradox. Then he cashed in his tousle-haired bourgeois-bohème cachet in Christopher Honoré’s Dans Paris and Cédric Klapisch’s Paris. And now the pinnacle: he is starring in a new biopic about engineer Gustave Eiffel.
Duris couldn’t resist the man’s ubiquity. “I don’t know if it’s because I’m Parisian, but Eiffel is really a figure in France who matters,” he says. “He is everywhere – there are lots of Gustave Eiffel bridges, lots of buildings at the bottom of courtyards signed by him.” And, of course, that tower. The film shows the fraught atmosphere around the competition to design a showpiece exhibit for the 1889 Exposition Universelle; how Eiffel’s peers and the press deemed what was the world’s tallest structure at the time a dangerous act of hubris – and how he fought to make it happen.
He was, in Duris’s eyes, the Steve Jobs of his day: “He made it look easy, like a children’s game. A bit like Jobs, who had the intelligence to think of his computers as almost like toys that anyone could use. Eiffel fabricated the tower in sections in gigantic warehouses in Paris, and really assembled it as if it were a game for children with numbered pieces.” A quick, agile talker who pinpoints the eager aesthetic qualities of his projects, Duris is speaking on the phone from the set of the film he is working on in south-west France.
Duris makes it look easy too, playing Eiffel as a kind of dashing control freak, fretting over wind speeds and hydraulic pressures. And what kind of Paris picture would this be without some romance? Director Martin Bourboulon – who picked up the project after it had passed through many hands down the years, including Ridley Scott’s – gives Eiffel an unrequited love affair with a Bordeaux landowner’s daughter, Adrienne (drawn from cursory suggestions in his biography of him).
In truth, this forbidden-love plot – based on the Titanic blueprint – feels a bit schematic, even inadvertently comic: as Eiffel tries to win her back, the tower comes to seem less hubristic than horny – the biggest over-compensatory erection until the Trump Tower. But Duris feels the flashbacks energized the script, as did the casting of the Anglo-French Sex Education actor Emma Mackey as his lover de ella: “It’s like when you’re cooking a mayonnaise, and it takes.”
The film also came to serve as a tribute to Duris’s architect father Philippe, who died at the end of 2019, just before a Covid-enforced break in shooting. His dad’s job was another reason why he signed up: “It’s a profession that speaks to me.” Its specific mixture of flair and exactitude was one he was familiar with. “One thing my dad and Eiffel had in common was that they made their blueprints freehand, without rulers or computers. So I always used to see these huge blueprints in the house, traced by hand, and that always impressed me.”
Duris clearly inherited some of this talent, and originally trained as an illustrator. But his drawings of him were anarchic, sexual – deliberately so: “It was my way of doing things in relation to my father.” Life coaxed him further down the freeform artistic path as a teenager, when a casting director spotted him outside a school in Paris’s third arrondissement as he was waiting to pick up his girlfriend from him. “This had happened a few times before. I had a bit of an edgy look: my hair sticking up, trousers covered in paint. So people used to stop and ask me about doing adverts, films, photos. But I always said no.”
Bourgeois-bohème … The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005). Photograph: Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock
This time, a friend persuaded him to read the script that came with the offer for Cédric Klapisch’s rowdy 70s Paris youth memoir Le Péril Jeune. Luckily Duris liked it, and it was the start of a partnership that has seen them make seven films together. What does he think the casting director saw in him at that moment? “It’s hard to have that kind of distance,” he says. “But I think it was a nice mixture of fragility and modesty, but at the same time being a bit of a loudmouth.” I have scoffs. “You know, that kind of big I-am at school, the kind where you say: ‘Oh-la-la, either he’s going to end up badly or he’s going to become something.’”
Now he is one of the most sought after French actors, so not bad. The 48-year-old is currently shooting Le Règne Animal, a dystopic sci-fi picture about humans who turn into animals being interned in concentration camps. Production has been halted until the autumn because some of the sets burned down during the recent wildfires: “It’s a catastrophe, but that’s the world we live in,” says Duris.
The film sounds like another idiosyncratic turn in a recent unclassifiable filmography that has oscillated between more mainstream punts such as Eiffel and the 2018 post-apocalyptic thriller Hold Your Breath, gruff social realism such as 2019’s Our Struggles and a few dollops of period drama. It seems he is no longer penned into the charmers and chancers of his early career but rather searching for direction in that tricky post-40 phase. Despite his magnetic turn in The Beat That My Heart Skipped and a couple of films – Heartbreaker and Populaire – at the turn of the last decade that tried to position him in the Euro-swoon category, and a small English-speaking role in Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World, an international career has not happened for him.
Like cooking a mayonnaise … Duris with Emma Mackey in Eiffel.
But Duris is relaxed about it, saying he doesn’t think of his career as something that needs a direction: “I like to manage my present, my life. But managing a career or journey, that’s a pain in the ass.” He responds to projects on a one-by-one basis: “It’s a very sincere, instinctive feeling. There’s no calculation there. I’ve never done things calculatingly, never.”
What has been a constant is the vivacious tempo of his performances, which you could see as operating on Parisian rhythms. When his on-screen energy is contained and channeled, he is precise and decorous; but he often threatens to overspill into something nervous and ragged. He’s a delight in the 2018 crime black-comedy Fleuve Noir, as a prissy French teacher with grand literary ambitions, trying to outfox Vincent Cassel’s detective but always flirting with disaster.
Even as Duris gets older, gravitas isn’t his natural mode, he admits. “I have problems when I’m asked to play authority figures. It’s not something I’m at ease with. That kind of cold, calm authority that certain people can project very well – I have to work at that.” Even as the real-life father of two sons, his on-screen dads have n’t got any more commanding: “Fathers have changed these days. So I can play the modern ones better. My ones are either a bit quirky, or just as crazy as the kids.”
‘I always played the clown’ … Duris. Photograph: Marc Piasecki/WireImage
He’s never lost his natural anti-authoritarianism, he says. This kicks in when I ask him whether he admires Jobs, or the other visionaries of our age: “Anyone with too much power makes me suspicious. Anyone like that today at the head of a business or an empire can’t be spotless – so I don’t take much inspiration from that.” Remaining on the side of the poets, he was well cast as Vernon Subutex, the wastrel record-shop owner and alt.culture diehard on a Parisian odyssey in the recent TV adaptation of Virginie Despentes’ bestselling novels.
Maybe this allergy to authority figures is why Duris remains reluctant to step up to directing – even if he’s happy to play a director, as in Michel Hazanavicius’s recent meta-zomcom Final Cut. He just hasn’t found the “life and death” subject matter that would justify him devoting all his time to it. “It has to be essential and visceral,” he explains. “And I already communicate that way through illustration. When I finish a film, I love drawing on my own, and I get to communicate certain things. That’s more natural for me.”
So for now Duris is still doodling, keeping it loose on screen. Next up are a pair of Three Musketeers films with Bourboulon, in which the actor gets to lark it up with Cassel and Pio Marmaï. Duris is Aramis, the conflicted seducer and would-be man of the cloth: “Either he’s doing one thing and regretting it, or doing the other and regretting that.” It sounds like a fun paradox to navigate freehand. No doubt it will be done with gusto, no different from his D’Artagnan days, when he was the ingenue on the Paris boulevards: “I always played the clown, I always made people laugh. I knew that the camera wasn’t going to be a problem.”
A US breakfast television host you have documented her frantic morning rush to get to the studio after accidentally oversleeping.
TODAY star Savannah Guthrie50, is on-air at 7am every weekday on the American TV show, but this morning was almost a very different story.
Guthrie nearly missed the show after she didn’t wake up on time and she shared her stressful sprint to the studio on Instagram.
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Savannah Guthrie almost missed her 7am show after oversleeping. (instagram)
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“Overslept big time. It’s 6.34am and I’m still in the car,” Guthrie captioned a selfie, just 25 minutes before the cameras were due to start rolling.
As she arrived in the building still undressed for the day, TODAY’S radio program director could be heard yelling out, “Oh Savannah!”
“I know. I can’t even,” the exasperated TV host responded.
At 6.40am, Guthrie filmed her stylist running a hairdryer through her air with only 20 minutes until showtime. “Miracle workers,” she captioned her clip of her.
The TV host had just 14 minutes to get ready. (instagram)
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Amazingly, it took the hair and makeup artists just 14 minutes to get the anchor camera ready.
Finally, just six minutes before the 7am show, Guthrie strolled into the studio and greeted her co-host Craig Melvin.
“This is a miracle,” she said as she joined them at the studio desk. “I’m gonna make it!”
After the show began, Melvin took the opportunity to tease his co-anchor about oversleeping.
She made it on-set with six minutes to spare. (instagram)
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“Savannah Guthrie rolled in about 15 minutes ago. She overslept. She is normal,” he told viewers.
“15 minutes ago with no hair, no makeup. It was a terrifying sight,” Guthrie joked in response.
“But some miracle workers upstairs rolled me in and I’m very happy to be here.”
After the show, Guthrie shared a sweet text message sent from her husband Mike, who was also amazed she made it on-air.
“You made it AND you look hot,” he quipped in a text.
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Guthrie is no stranger to the trials and tribulations of morning television. Earlier this month, the TV anchor revealed she had filmed the entire show with her shirt on backwards.
“Realizing you wore your shirt backwards all morning,” Guthrie wrote on Instagram.
In 2020, the TODAY host also admitted she wore her dress the wrong way while on-air.
“I have to point out, I’m sorry, sometimes when you get dressed in the morning – you all know this – things get backwards,” Guthrie laughed during the show.
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Han Solo’s original blaster, used by Harrison Ford in Star Wars: A New Hope, is expected to fetch up to $500,000 (£410,000) when it goes under the hammer later this month.
The prop firearm, which was previously missing and presumed lost, was rediscovered by Rock Island Auction Company (RIAC), and will be available at the company’s premier auction.
The gun is the sole surviving blaster prop remaining of the three used for filming the original Star Wars trilogy, according to RIAC. The pre-auction estimate for Han Solo’s BlasTech DL-44 heavy blaster is $300,000-500,000.
The prop was based on the German-made Mauser C96, one of the first and most recognizable semi-automatic handguns ever made.
Wanting an old west gunslinger feel for the captain of the Millennium Falcon, the designers selected the Mauser C96 as the basis of Han Solo’s iconic blaster.
Star Wars Hollywood memorabilia has become highly desirable in the field of collecting. In 2018, Han Solo’s blaster from Return of the Jedi sold to Ripley’s Believe it or Not! for $550,000. More recently an original X-wing miniature prop went for $2.3m in June 2022.
