We’ve just received news that “Mama” June Shannon has been rushed to the hospital after passing out at her home earlier today. According to TMZ, the Here Comes Honey Boo Boo star collapsed after walking down the stairs in her Georgia house. She reportedly regained consciousness but then fainted again several times afterwards, prompting her 16-year-old daughter Lauren “Pumpkin” Shannon to drive her to the hospital. Mama June had vomited multiple times and complained of feeling unwell throughout the day. Apparently, she had been trying to stick to a diet and admitted she hadn’t eaten much. Doctors are still unaware of the reason behind Mama June’s mystery illness, but are moving forward with blood work and a CT scan to determine the cause. Mama June has dealt with her share of controversy over the years. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo , which features June as the mother of a child pageant contestant, has been described by many as “trainwreck” programming that viewers loved to hate. The mother of four most recently appeared with her ex, Mike “Sugar Bear” Thompson, on Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars , on which the pair tried to save their relationship. On the show, Sugar Bear revealed that he’d cheated on her several times with different women and had experimented with men. However, a lie detector test taken for the show also proved that Mama June had not cheated on Sugar with her ex Mark McDaniel, a convicted child molester. We’re sending positive vibes to June and her family during this time.
All this time we thought Ozzy Osbourne was an eccentric, unique individual, but it turns out he’s just another cliche – at least in one area of his life. Today on The Talk , Ozzy’s wife Sharon revealed that back in the day, she’d caught the Black Sabbath singer in bed with not one, but two of their nannies. Yep, the old celeb banging the nanny trope. (See: Gavin Rossdale , Ben Affleck .) The host explained that because of her busy work and travel schedule, the couple employed four nannies who would rotate schedules so they would always have coverage for their children, Kelly, Jack and Aimee Osbourne. “I’m telling you, they were the bane of my existence,” she said of the nannies. “They were all wanting to be celebrities. They were all wanting money.” “But not all , right?” interjected co-host Sara Gilbert. “Unlucky me!” quipped Sharon. “I caught two of them in bed with Ozzy!” Funnily enough, while Sharon describes the nannies as “the bane of her existence,” she dismissed her husband’s bad behavior, blaming the drugs and alcohol Ozzy had been known to partake in. “Maybe it’s Ozzy you should be mad at,” Sara suggested, half-jokingly. “No way, he’s out of his mind,” Sharon responded. “He’s calling them his first wife, he’s calling them me.” But she did manage to put the kibosh on the affairs in a strategic move that we kinda have to admit we LOVE. “At the end of the day, I hired a manny called Big Dave,” she said. GAME. OVER. View Slideshow: 25 Most Shocking Cheating Scandals of All-Time
With two weeks to go until Christopher Nolan ‘s The Dark Knight Rises hits theaters, Warner Bros. has made available nearly 50 pages of detailed production notes online that offer behind-the-scenes tidbits on character, plot, costume design, the crazy practical stunts Nolan & Co. pulled off, Batman ‘s new toys, and some of the new faces joining the trilogy. The question is, how much do you want to know? (Bonus: Get the new IMAX poster after the jump!) Given TDKR ‘s set-up — it takes place eight years after the events of The Dark Knight , with Batman in semi-retirement/hiding — and the two new adversaries joining Bruce Wayne/Batman straight from the pages of the comics (i.e. supervillain Bane and super-minx Selina Kyle/ Catwoman ), some of this is already familiar to Bat-fans. And while the production note dossier includes only a few semi-spoilery details on certain scenes and characters, unless you’re committed to going into TDKR with as pure and spoiler-free a mind as possible, the doc is fairly safe to peruse, and chock full of geeky details. The bigger discoveries here concern the supporting characters in Batman/Bruce Wayne’s life, including Gary Oldman’s Commissioner Gordon and new characters Miranda Tate (Marion Cotillard) and Gotham City police officer John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Below, read a few select passages and get the pretty new TDKR IMAX poster: [BEWARE SPOILERS! WHO KNOWS WHAT YOUR VIRGIN BAT-EYES WILL DISCOVER!] On Gordon, who’s now wrestled with Batman’s secret for eight years: “Gary Oldman returns to the role of Gotham City’s top cop, Commissioner Gordon, who withheld the truth of Harvey Dent’s demise at great personal cost. ‘He respects Batman’s sacrifice, but allowing the citizens of Gotham to be fed a lie goes against everything that Gordon believes in,’ the actor says.” “…to a certain extent, Gordon was more useful to the political leaders of Gotham when the city was overrun by organized crime,” Nolan points out. “Now that is under control, so there are people eyeing his job, presuming he’s no longer needed. But Gordon has been struggling with the fact that all of this is based on a false foundation.” “It’s a secret that’s eaten away at him for years,” confirms Gary Oldman. “Crime is at an all-time low in Gotham, but Gordon knows that it’s tainted. Now he’s ready to come clean, but there doesn’t seem to be a right time or place, and he also questions if the city is ready for the truth. Then, because of Bane, he’s in the field again. I think he’s like a soldier who likes to be on the front lines, getting his hands dirty. He’s probably been doing a lot of paper pushing in the intervening years and that has dampened his spirits. Now you really feel like the old Gordon is back.” On John Blake, AKA the fresh-scrubbed idealistic young cop guy played by Joe Gordon-Levitt: Gordon finds a new protégé in policeman John Blake, whose devotion to the job impresses his boss. Emma Thomas says, “Gordon definitely sees something of himself as a young cop in John Blake. Everyone else seems to have lost focus because things have been so good, but Blake is the first to realize that something’s up, and Gordon recognizes those instincts by promoting him and putting him on his team.” Describing his role, Joseph Gordon-Levitt says, “John Blake is the kind of guy who probably always wanted to be a cop and dedicates himself to being excellent at his job. He is someone who believes in what he does and I admire that in anybody. In the midst of a lot of cynicism, he remains proud to be a police officer.” Nolan comments, “Commissioner Gordon and Bruce Wayne have become somewhat jaded, so we wanted to contrast that with a younger, more idealistic individual who, in a way, represents where they’ve come from. Joe really captured the strength and courage of a man who refuses to back down, regardless of the odds.” On Miranda Tate, a wealthy new love interest for Bruce Wayne played by Inception ‘s leading lady, Marion Cotillard: The character of Miranda Tate can also relate to Bruce, albeit from a place of affluence. Cast in the role, Marion Cotillard notes, “They both have a lot of money and are trying to use it in a good way, so they understand each other right away.” Bale agrees. “Miranda is somebody who is encouraging Bruce to use his resources for the betterment of Gotham through an environmental project. She is beautiful, smart and altruistic, and all the good that she aspires to earns his respect and also intrigues him a great deal.” A member of the board of Wayne Enterprises, Miranda’s affluence makes her a vital ally to Bruce when the company becomes the target of a hostile takeover. On a more personal level, Nolan says, “She is looked at by Alfred and Lucius as a woman who could perhaps bring Bruce out of his own exile and remind him that there is more to life than sitting alone in the Batcave. On Bane and his dastardly terrorist plans for Gotham City: “Working underground and undetected, Bane is plotting a multi-pronged attack on Gotham, involving firepower, finance and fear…” While the Scarecrow was a madman and the Joker an anarchist, “Bane is a terrorist in both his mentality and his actions,” says actor Tom Hardy, who plays Batman’s new arch-nemesis. “He is physically intimidating and he’s also very intelligent, which makes him even more dangerous.” Nolan relates, “In deciding on who the next villain would be, it was imperative that it was someone completely different from the Joker—that he be a brute force. The physical component of what Bruce Wayne does as Batman is of extraordinary importance, and we had not truly challenged that in the first two films. I really wanted to see Batman meet his match physically, as well as intellectually. Bane is raw strength with a fanatical devotion to duty, and that combination makes him unstoppable.” And finally, the newly unveiled IMAX poster for TDKR . It’s gorgeous in a painterly way, and in contrast to previous posters and promo images for the film, presents the Bat-sign in the sky as signaling a break in the clouds from all that chaos reigning down on Gotham City. Batman stands triumphant once more above his city shining his light through all the debris of Bane’s fiery terror, and stuff. Nice. For loads more on TDKR , including details on the 100+ piece Batsuit, Bane’s mask, the airborne new vehicle known as The Bat, and Nolan’s insane practical mid-air plane stunt, find the full production notes here . [via THR ] The Dark Knight Rises hits theaters on July 20. What do you make of these 50 pages of Bat-tidbits? (Did you cave in to curiosity?) 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Another Chris Nolan Batman movie poster, another juxtaposition of the Gotham City skyline in disarray featuring the Bat-symbol carved artfully in the air out of debris and angsty madness — this time, with more Batman! Get a gander at the new Batsplosion-ey poster for The Dark Knight Rises , which hits July 20 promising that “A Fire Will Rise.” (In your pants, amirite?) A second tagline also gives the poster a feeling of baddie Bane’s presence, even if he’s nowhere to be found: “The Legend Ends…” Or maybe that’s just Nolan’s way of telling us he’s almost done with his superhero opus. Either way, July’s right around the corner. [via Facebook ]
As you are probably aware, Anne Hathaway was cast as Selina Kyle earlier this week in Christopher Nolan’s new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises . Slightly buried in that news was the announcement that Tom Hardy will be playing the character Bane. Which — for non-hardcore Batman fans — led to a collective, “Tom Hardy? That’s cool, but who the eff is Bane?” So, for those not in the know — and for those who did themselves a great service and never watched 1997’s Batman & Robin — let’s take a look a five things that you probably don’t know about the other new Batman villain, Bane.
