An Applebee’s waitress who posted a receipt on Reddit showing a note from a pastor complaining about the automatic suggested gratuity has reportedly been fired. After the pastor complained to her manager, no less. Chelsea Welch, the waitress, tells Yahoo News that the pastor (since identified as Alois Bell) told Welch’s manager that the ensuing firestorm “ruined” her reputation. “I give God 10%,” the pastor wrote on the receipt , scratching out the automatic tip and scribbling in an emphatic “0” where the additional tip would be. “Why do you get 18?” There were more than eight people in Bell’s party, triggering the auto-tip … on a bill not even totaling $35. Still, the pastor was apparently not a fan. Welch, who snapped a photo of the bill and uploaded to Reddit, defended her right to post the receipt online, along with how insulted she felt by it. “I thought the note was insulting, but also comical,” she told the Consumerist about her decision. “And I thought other users would find it entertaining.” Bell, a pastor at Truth in the World Deliverance Ministries Church, was not amused when word got around, and called Welch’s manager to complain. “[It was] a lapse in my character and judgment,” Bell said, noting that her signature ID’d her to a friend in St. Louis, who said, “it’s all over Yahoo. You went viral!” “My heart is really broken. I’ve brought embarrassment to my church and ministry.” Didn’t stop her from bringing up the issue to her server’s employer, of course. A spokesman for Applebee’s said it apologized for violating Bell’s “right to privacy” and confirmed that Welch “is no longer employed by the franchise.” Welch was surprised that Applebee’s fired her, “especially because there was nothing specific in the employee handbook admonishing this behavior.” “I had no intention of starting a witch hunt or hurting anyone. I just wanted to share a picture I found interesting,” she said, still in shock from her dismissal. Welch also isn’t buying Bell’s “embarrassment” over the note she wrote. “If a person wrote this, obviously they wanted it seen ,” she said. “I’ve been stiffed on tips before, but this is the first time I’ve seen the Big Man used as reasoning.” What do you think? Is Bell being sincere? And should Welch have been fired?
An Applebee’s waitress who posted a receipt on Reddit showing a note from a pastor complaining about the automatic suggested gratuity has reportedly been fired. After the pastor complained to her manager, no less. Chelsea Welch, the waitress, tells Yahoo News that the pastor (since identified as Alois Bell) told Welch’s manager that the ensuing firestorm “ruined” her reputation. “I give God 10%,” the pastor wrote on the receipt , scratching out the automatic tip and scribbling in an emphatic “0” where the additional tip would be. “Why do you get 18?” There were more than eight people in Bell’s party, triggering the auto-tip … on a bill not even totaling $35. Still, the pastor was apparently not a fan. Welch, who snapped a photo of the bill and uploaded to Reddit, defended her right to post the receipt online, along with how insulted she felt by it. “I thought the note was insulting, but also comical,” she told the Consumerist about her decision. “And I thought other users would find it entertaining.” Bell, a pastor at Truth in the World Deliverance Ministries Church, was not amused when word got around, and called Welch’s manager to complain. “[It was] a lapse in my character and judgment,” Bell said, noting that her signature ID’d her to a friend in St. Louis, who said, “it’s all over Yahoo. You went viral!” “My heart is really broken. I’ve brought embarrassment to my church and ministry.” Didn’t stop her from bringing up the issue to her server’s employer, of course. A spokesman for Applebee’s said it apologized for violating Bell’s “right to privacy” and confirmed that Welch “is no longer employed by the franchise.” Welch was surprised that Applebee’s fired her, “especially because there was nothing specific in the employee handbook admonishing this behavior.” “I had no intention of starting a witch hunt or hurting anyone. I just wanted to share a picture I found interesting,” she said, still in shock from her dismissal. Welch also isn’t buying Bell’s “embarrassment” over the note she wrote. “If a person wrote this, obviously they wanted it seen ,” she said. “I’ve been stiffed on tips before, but this is the first time I’ve seen the Big Man used as reasoning.” What do you think? Is Bell being sincere? And should Welch have been fired?
Justin Bieber continues to have bad luck with that whole driving thing. This time, however, the singer cannot be blamed for any faulty action behind the wheel. Law enforcement officials confirm to TMZ that Lil Za borrowed Bieber’s wheels and was cited by police today at 1:30 a.m. due to the vehicle’s tinted windows. It didn’t help that this Lil Za character was also driving without a license and was lucky to only receive a ticket for that offense, as opposed to an arrest. Just a month ago, Lil Twist also borrowed Bieber’s car… also got pulled over… and tragedy stuck when a photographer trying to get pictures of the vehicle was hit by a passing car. This time around? Lil Za flipped off a reporter while sitting in the back of the squad car. Might it be time for Justin to find new friends?
Justin Bieber continues to have bad luck with that whole driving thing. This time, however, the singer cannot be blamed for any faulty action behind the wheel. Law enforcement officials confirm to TMZ that Lil Za borrowed Bieber’s wheels and was cited by police today at 1:30 a.m. due to the vehicle’s tinted windows. It didn’t help that this Lil Za character was also driving without a license and was lucky to only receive a ticket for that offense, as opposed to an arrest. Just a month ago, Lil Twist also borrowed Bieber’s car… also got pulled over… and tragedy stuck when a photographer trying to get pictures of the vehicle was hit by a passing car. This time around? Lil Za flipped off a reporter while sitting in the back of the squad car. Might it be time for Justin to find new friends?
So to make up for that lame Terry Richardson photoshoot from the other day, here’s a much better one of Victoria’s Secret hottie Barbara Palvin , this time for Vogue Spain . There’s no condiments, way more skin, and best of all, no pants. Sure, I don’t quite get the multicolored surgical masks, but hey, when you get a booty shot this good, you’ve earned the benefit of the doubt as far as I’m concerned. Keep ‘em coming.
Because the only thing better than Candice Swanepoel bikini pictures is more Candice Swanepoel bikini pictures, here’s another set from what I’m guessing is another Victoria’s Secret shoot. Only this time, they’ve got Candice looking ridiculously hot on a boat instead of on the beach. Genius. I can’t wait to see what they come up with next. » view all 14 photos Related Articles: Candice Swanepoel Is A Sexy Little Devil Candice Swanepoel Smells Amazing Candice Swanepoel Sexy Artsy Photoshoot Candice Swanepoel Nude Photos: FameFlynet
Twenty-six directors devise terrible ways to die, from A to Z, in the horror anthology The ABCs of Death. And in his first foray into the horror-film world, TV animation veteran Jon Schnepp ( Metalocalypse , The Venture Bros. ) dives headfirst into chaos with “W Is For WTF,” a stoner’s fever dream that mashes zombie clowns, a mysterious chem trail, animated depravity, and Schnepp himself into the most random and, yes, WTF-inducing segment of the bunch. Movieline spoke with Schnepp about his “W Is For WTF” (behold the exclusive image above!), how he lobbied producer Ant Timpson for the slot, why he poured his own money into his ABCs of Death short, and what he learned from his time editing Adult Swim’s Space Ghost Coast To Coast at the start of his career. He also updated us with the latest on Grimm Fairy Tales , his ambitious Heavy Metal -esque animated project. (Interviews with all 26 ABCs of Death filmmakers will be available to read on The ABCs of Death Tumblr page.) Your name stands out among the two dozen mostly genre filmmakers because you come from a slightly different world. How were you approached to take part in the ABCs of Death ? I actually contacted Ant [Timpson]. I had heard of The ABCs of Death as I was working on Metalocalypse , and I’ve done a bunch of live-action television shows but they’ve mainly been comedy. After I did those I got into the world of animation, and looking for things outside of animation to do, and that one sounded really cool. I just sent a cold email saying, ‘Hey, this is Jon – I direct Metalocalypse …’ He wrote me back pretty quickly saying ‘I love your work, but we’re totally staffed up. We have all the directors. But I’ll keep you in mind for the future.’ Cut to five months later I get an email from him saying, ‘Hey – one of our directors dropped out and you’re at the top of the list. Do you want to do it?’ And I was like, ‘Fuck yeah!’ It’s nice to hear that in this town sometimes it doesn’t hurt to reach out to a stranger. I strongly advise it! I think if you do it in a cool way and you’re not weird… it comes with a caveat: It doesn’t hurt to ask people, but make sure that you can back that shit up, and also that you’re not crazy. Just how hard is it to come up with a concept like “W is for WTF” when you’re tasked with creating something with such specific yet wide open guidelines? I came up with a bunch of ideas that weren’t fully formed, like “W Is For Wake,” or “W Is For War” and as I started to write them I [realized] I wasn’t sold on them myself. I sent a ton of these ideas, the dumbest one I could possibly think of was “W Is For Werewolf.” Then somehow that devolves as people devour this chem trail and everything they’re thinking comes to life. Is that your actual production staff acting in the short? No – actually it’s the company I work at. They were cool enough to let me shoot there. And that’s my office and my friend Tommy [Blacha] who I work on Metalocalypse with. Because the budget is so minute. I ended up spending like $9,000, which sucks [each director was given a $5,000 budget], but at the same time was totally worth it because you want it to be awesome. I guess that’s what happens when you factor in all the decapitations, and eaten faces and eyeball-chewing. I come from this school of, I pay everyone I work with. I’ve never liked the idea of free anything. In choosing “WTF” as your letter W theme, you really allow yourself to go just about everywhere at once, no limitations. You’ve got zombie clowns, a laser walrus, something I might describe as a muppet… A star-muppet! Was that really just your way of not having to choose just one concept? I’m used to working in television where you whittled stuff down. It’s good practice to get to the core of a story – even if your story is about fantasy and mind meltdowns. The chaos in your short is ADD-optimized, but it really is about something – art and the creative process. This is what I imagine you going through every week working on your shows. Yeah – definitely the subtext is there. I’m glad you got that. Every single person has weird ideas in their mind. The general idea of it is that there are a lot of ideas for anything. How do you eventually execute them? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. We all die eventually. You didn’t know many of the other filmmakers beforehand, and you’re working on your own with your own budget and crew on your part of the ABCs . What was it like to see “W Is For WTF” with the 25 other shorts when the entire film was put together and polished? I’ll be honest with you, there are about seven of them that I don’t like, that I just don’t think are good. Then there are a couple I think are in the medium area, but an overwhelming bunch of them I think are incredible. The one that follows mine, “X Is For XXL” [by Xavier Gens] is horrifying and such a gut punch in so many ways. It’s just so disgusting and well done. That is pure horror. And you know what? I’m sure there are people who saw mine and hated it. “Who is this goofball and why is there animation? Why is there a dude with his dog on his face?” You just get used to that, though. At least I’ve got the body armor for that now from doing shows like Metalocalypse . There are people who are going to totally hate on you, which sucks. I used to look at the boards and you can’t defend yourself against AppleCat433, you know? Sizzler315 hates you! It’s like, what are you going to do? Still, you worked on so many beloved shows over the years. The Venture Bros. , Metalocalypse … what did you learn most from working on Space Ghost early in your career? I learned comic timing. All the editors of Space Ghost are also the directors. The guys who wrote it give you the audio takes and you would cut it together; it was like a live television show so you would already have all the angles, but then you would animate their mouths yourselves, in Avid. It was a real primitive setup. It was literally like four people working on Space Ghost – the two writers, an executive producer, and the editor, and that was it. For four to eight weeks you would edit and make the show, then you would send the edit decision list to the online guys who would take your actual edit and reassemble it. And then they would put their name on it too, which kind of sucked. But whatever. Hollywood has a lot worse injustices in credits and whatnot. But Space Ghost was a great experience for me because I got to do the weirdest, most fucked up editing and people loved it. I did a loop edit of Harland Williams triggered on some weird word he was saying, and then I put outtakes of George Lowe saying to one of the engineers, like, ‘What’s going on over there?’ And made Space Ghost leave his set, fly over to Moltar and go, ‘Moltar, is there a problem?’ I think it was 1995, I flew out to Atlanta for eight weeks. There was no Adult Swim, none of that – it was a giant aircraft hanger and they were building TBS and TNT and all that. I remember they put me with a bunch of lawyers. Before Aqua Teen Hunger Force was a show, I worked on the pilot and designed the backgrounds, back in 2000. I built Carl’s swimming pool, all that shit – it was fun to work on. We were like, ‘Yeah, we’re doing this weird thing called Aqua Teen Hunger Force .’ I was actually there when they made up ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force,’ in 1999, when they came up with the show. Originally it was a Space Ghost episode, and I was editing the last episode of Space Ghost of that year, it was called ‘ King Dead .’ That’s the one I wrote a bunch of stuff in. I made up House of the Barking Dead which is on the TV Space Ghost is watching. That was one of my contributions. They were like, ‘That’s good. You can animate that!’ You’re also moving on your animated Grimm Fairy Tales . Where’s that project at now? I just finished the color correction and the sound mix and right now we’re editing all the behind-the-scenes stuff. Our cast is incredible and it was so much fun to do. If you’ve ever seen Heavy Metal , it’s in that vein. I wanted to hire a bunch of kickass artists to do different Grimm fairy tales. I’m trying to turn it into a TV show, that’s why we did the Kickstarter. There’s tons of gore, there’s metal music, there’s nudity… I don’t even know if it will sell. We live in a different world. Everyone I’ve shown this to is like, ‘I can’t wait to see this in a series!’ But I have to get through all these other people sitting in offices who say, ‘It seems to me things that are PG-13 make money.” THE ABCs OF DEATH is now available on Cable VOD, iTunes, Amazon, Xbox Zune, Playstation Market, VUDU and Google Play; in theaters starting March 8 from Magnet Releasing. MORE ON JON SCHNEPP: What The Kal-El? The Seriously Weird Superman That Nicolas Cage Almost Played Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
In today’s installment of hotties in leggings, we’ve got Leighton Meester walking around a parking lot. Exciting stuff, I know. Anyway, I barely recognized Leighton with the short hair, and it’s too bad the paparazzi didn’t get a booty shot. That definitely would’ve kicked these pictures up a few notches. Instead, you’ll just have to make do with zooming in to see if you can make out any camel toe. So I won’t take up any more of your time, you’ve got a busy afternoon ahead of you. » view all 11 photos Related Articles: Blake Lively Forgets Her Pants Blake Lively’s Got Legs Part 2 Leighton Meester Gets Oral Leighton Meester Gives Us A View Photos: PacificCoastNews
I missed Stoker at the Sundance Film Festival , where the buzz was decidedly mixed, but based on the first GIF posted the below the jump, Chan-wook Park ‘s thriller looks like it may be the second movie of that last year that stars Nicole Kidman and features a weird urination scene. Unlike The Paperboy , in which Kidman pees on the face of Zac Efro n to treat him for a jellyfish sting, Mia Wasikowska appears to be the one shaking the dew off her lily, so to speak. That’s an educated guess, though because all that’s seen in the GIF are a pair of saddle shoes and a puddle. Fox Searchlight is posting these clips — and correspondence depicting memorable lines from the movie — at letterstoindia.com , (Wasikowska plays India Stoker in the movie, and the website helps establish why, as the trailer shows, she’s going to be a barrel of fun by the time she’s an adult. Here are some of the more unusual GIFs from the site: I don’t see any jellyfish there, do you? And here’s the devil-in-training making a snow angel on her bed: And here, Wasikowska manages to even chew her food with smoldering malevolence: Put those all together, read the postcards and letters on the site, and you won’t be surprised when you see young India is shouldering a sniper rifle in this trailer. MORE ON STOKER: SUNDANCE REVIEW: Splendidly Demented ‘Stoker’ Should Quench Park Chan-Wook Fans’ Thirst Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
My name is Hannah. My Bieber experience happened on January 22nd 2013! (I’m the one with the light purple sweater) I had already bought great tickets for the concert in Charlotte, Floor 1 row R, seats 1 & 2. I bought them the day they came on sale, so I had been waiting for this concert for over 200 days! I had a countdown on my computer that counted down to the very second. On November 20th I entered this contest with B93.7 in Greenville to win meet and greet tickets for the concert in Charlotte. You could enter it once a day but I only choice to enter the contest one time only. On January 21st 2013 around 10, my mom and I were making a poster. The poster said, “We believed in you from the beginning.” While making the poster I told my mom lets leave at 9 AM just to go stand out side the Ritz Carlton (his hotel) until the time of the concert which started at 7 incase we could see him. My mom said, “We’re not standing outside in the freezing cold, you’re not gonna meet him stop thinking you are.” After we finished making the poster, I went and picked out my outfit for the concert the next day. I was sitting on my bed when 11:11 came. My wish that night was: “I wish I could meet Justin tomorrow,” and went to bed. I had my alarm set for 7:30 a.m. to get my shower and get my mother up. It was 8:55 when I got a call from a random number. I usually don’t answer calls from numbers that I don’t know but somehow I just felt this was a good phone call. I answered and said “Hello,” the lady on the other side of the phone said, “Is this Hannah?” I replied “Yes?” she then said “Good morning this is Keira from B93.7 and I just wanted to let you know that we have picked you to win meet & greet tickets for you and a guest to meet Justin before the show.” I thought she was joking so I said, “You’re not serious. You have to be kidding.” She was like “No I’m being dead serious, I just need to make sure that you can be at the box office by 3:15 to pick up your passes.” By then I was crying and freaking out so I had to hand the phone to my mom. She didn’t know what was happening so she talked to the lady and got all the details. While we were waiting in line, we met Scrappy and he told us that Justin was a very nice kid. Justin was suppose to be there at 5 but got there at 5:45. As soon as he got there the line started moving really fast. We then met Kenny and he told us that Justin was excited to meet us. Then Pattie walks by I said, “Hey Pattie.” She goes, ”Hey how are you” I said good. Kenny then hid Pattie from Justin’s view because he didn’t know that she was coming to see him yet! Kenny then stuck his head in the curtain and told them “The next one’s a solo, the next one’s a solo.” When Pattie walked in, this is the first time we heard Justin speak. He said “Hey mom, I missed you!” Then I started freaking out. Kenny then told me to calm down or I wouldn’t be able to meet him. When it came time to met Justin we walked in and I said, “Hey I love you so much,” and he said, “Thanks I love you too, thanks so much for the support.” I couldn’t believe he just talked to me! Before we even took the picture I told Justin, “Be sure to smile!” He just laughed. After taking the picture I hugged him and he scratched my back and told me he loved me again! We then found our seats at the concert and they were amazing! While watching the concert Fredo and Allison were walked by looking for the OLLG. I told Fredo that I loved him and was so happy to see him in person. He said, “Thanks love you too. Justin loved the support.” Allison also hugged me and talked to me. I also met some of Justin’s dancers. By winning those tickets to meet Justin showed me that he was right all along – NEVER SAY NEVER! -@SoFetchHannah See the rest here: My name is Hannah. My Bieber experience happened on January 22nd…
