Source: Splash News / Splash News GMA Mistakes Regina Hall For Tiffany Haddish At The MET Gala We’ve come a long way since the days of only celebrating one Black actor/actress at a time, but clearly, we still have a long way to go. Black Woman magic was dripping all over the MET Gala pink carpet on Monday, but unfortunately, some publications just couldn’t get ish right. In a video package recapping their interviews from the gala, Good Morning America mixed up the names of Girls Trip stars Regina Hall and Tiffany Haddish ; labeling Hall as Haddish. excuse me @GMA .. this is NOT Tiffany Haddish.. this is the one and only Regina Hall.. #FAKEnews pic.twitter.com/eAiqvEh0Hz — drew 'B' (@lifesaDrew) May 7, 2019 Tiffany was featured in the package just two interviews before Regina, which made the slip up that much more noticeable on social media. SEEEEEEE!!!! This that BULL! But they can get every Single Chris in a Marvel Movie correct. I see you GMA https://t.co/KxCtj7YpMT — Ms.VA_Double_N (@MAmandaVann) May 7, 2019 She doesn't even look like Tiffany Haddish. I can understand if they were live, had the title ready to go and it was just a mistake, but this was a package piece. They produced it after the event. Morons. https://t.co/RIppc7nTgf — America's Next Top Cabinet Member (@TheRadioDude) May 7, 2019 I don't want to hear shit about an “honest mistake”. This is a fireable solely for abject stupidity. ‘Good Morning America’ Mistakes ‘Girls Trip’s Regina Hall For Tiffany Haddish In Met Gala Package https://t.co/iA8bDG6A9d via @Deadline — OLD MAN MOSS (@the79show) May 7, 2019 SMH. Was this just an “honest mistake”, or a careless screw-up?
Finally, Robin is making the money she deserves. Robin Roberts Signs Lucrative ABC Contract With all the health problems Robin has had to deal with, it is nice to see her win. According to Page Six reports: “Good Morning America” anchor Robin Roberts has quietly closed a long-term contract with ABC, multiple sources tell Page Six, and speculate that it’s worth between $13 million and $14 million a year. ABC reps declined to discuss the value of the deal — or even if one has been signed. However, a source close to the network insisted the pact is only in the “high-seven figures,” or just less than $10 million. “Over a month ago, they quietly inked a new, long-term, very high seven-figure deal with Robin that will keep [her] at the company for years to come . . . it was a friendly negotiation,” said an insider. “Robin’s been [at ABC News] for over 20 years . . . and will be a leader there for a very long time to come.” The source said that Roberts — who was on leave for six months after a bone marrow transplant — “was extremely grateful for the kindness and love shown by everyone while she was sick. “She made it clear to her reps that she wanted them to drive a fair deal but didn’t want to create any kind of bidding war,” our source said. Congrats Robin! This raise is well deserved.
Was Robin Thicke just busted for his wandering eye, er, hand? An obviously concerned Twitter user tweeted a pic of the singer posing with an unidentified fan that looked normal, except for the reflection in the mirror. See what we’re talking about below? Naturally, a worried Tweeter quickly pointed this out to Thicke’s wife, Paula Patton. Jen Leadley wrote “@PaulaPattonXO look at the reflection girl.” Indeed, it appears we can see Miley Cyrus’ Twerking partner and the young lady’s backs reflected in a mirror and his hand questionably close to her butt. It’s also not entirely clear if that’s even his hand/back, nor can we tell if the hand is grabbing arse, rather than just hanging there. It’s a mystery, people. Leadley, who has not responded to a request for comment, apparently got a few questions from Twitter about message to Paula Patton and she replied: “@britneyisland @hey_ceejay @csaleo @paulapattonxo idk but I hope it was all a misunderstanding cuz they look good together so waz happening.” Patton, who accompanied her husband to the VMAs and the afterparty at 10AK in N.Y. City (where, yes, they looked great together), hasn’t commented. However, being the coolest chick ever, she’s not likely to be bothered by mere rumors. If it is true, though, she won’t let him off the hook easily, either. She once hid in the bushes to make sure Thicke, her husband of eight years, wasn’t cheating on her (he wasn’t). As for Robin, he hasn’t commented either. Considering they hit the beach in Miami on Wednesday with their son, Julian, and were spotted playing in the sand, we don’t suspect it’s a high priority.
Great news this week out of Good Morning America. Robin Roberts will resume her full-time duties with the program following Labor Day, making the announcement in an interview with Vanity Fair and joking about how she’s managing to sneak in one more four-day work week due to the holiday. Robin Roberts to Make Full-Time GMA Return The anchor underwent a bone marrow transplant last September after she was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder. She returned to Good Morning American in February, after taking more than six months of medical leave and has slowly been working her way back up to regular status, even interviewing Michelle Obama along the way. She also hosted ABC’s red carpet coverage of the Academy Awards and received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at ESPYs in July. We send Robin our very best and, wait, if you listen closely… that sound you hear is Matt Lauer crying.
Whether or not Robert Pattinson carries Cosmopolis to box-office glory this coming weekend, I hope he’s around the movie business for a long time. Unlike Kristen Stewart, who, I’m convinced, is Oscar material, Pattinson has yet to blow me away as an actor, but I do think he should win an award for the cheeky way in which he keeps showing us that contemporary celebrity journalism is a joke. Pattinson’s hysterical media tour for Cosmopolis has been underway since Monday when Jon Stewart — Mr. I-Schooled-Jim-Cramer-and-President-Obama-on-national-TV — served the actor melted ice cream and a bunch of runnier questions on The Daily Show . And then on Wednesday, things got even sillier. Pattinson appeared on Good Morning America, where host George Stephanopoulos informed the actor that the show’s staff had done some research and come up with Pattinson’s favorite breakfast food: Cinnamon Toast Crunch. (Good to see the ABC News budget going to good use.) The interview that followed was a lot like that cereal: sickly sweet and full of empty calories, although the winning and witty Pattinson never went soggy in the milk bath of Stephanopoulos’ aimless questioning. I couldn’t help but admire the actor’s response when Stephanopoulos, attempting to get the “elephant in the room out of the way” asked Pattinson “How are you doing? And what do you want your fans to know about what’s going on in your personal life?” Behind the two men, a small horde of those fans stared hungrily at their Twilight idol through the glass walls of GMA ‘s Times Square studio. If Pattinson, who we keep being told has no publicist, was going to play the game, that was the moment where he was supposed to drop some morsel about his supposed relationship drama with Kristen Stewart. Instead, he used GMA’ s cereal shtick to his advantage. “I’d like my fans to know that Cinnamon Toast Crunch has 30 calories per bowl,” Pattinson said with a vampy grin, reducing the idiocy of contemporary celebrity journalism to a single line. Make that two: “Pretty much everything that comes out of my mouth is irrelevant,” he added. Nice. “I take it that you don’t want to talk too much about it,” replied Stephanopoulos, which made me spit my breakfast back into my bowl. Really? “Is that the way you handle all of this craziness?” the former Clinton Administration adviser continued. “You get into to it to do movies,” said Pattinson. “I’ve never been interested in trying to sell my personal life. And that’s really the only reason people try to bring it up. The reason why you go on TV is to promote movies.” The thing is, even though GMA showed a clip and Pattinson talked about the role, I don’t think the TV audience left with a better idea of whether they would want to see Cosmopolis , or why Pattinson wanted to appear in it. If director David Cronenberg — whose films provoke and inspire even when they don’t work as conventional entertainment — was discussed at all during the interview, I don’t recall a single significant thing that was said. Instead the interview became more about Pattinson’s celebrity. Fortunately, he is capable of being introspective. “If you start getting used to it, it means you’re going crazy,” the actor told Stephanopoulos, adding: “It’s like being on the craziest theme-park ride. It’s exciting, but, eventually, at some point, you’ve got to have a break.” Pattinson, who plays an increasingly unhinged billionaire in Cosmopolis , even suggested a way that henpecked celebrities like him could get a break from the paparazzi: “If you put the lives of people who control billions on the front page of every single paper, the world would be a better place,” he said. (Except Rob, that many of those billionaires also control much of the media.) To those same ends, the actor without a publicist had a few choice words to say about “spin culture” that, I suspect, raised some hackles at the high-powered publicity firms that represent celebrity’s finest. “If you took away publicists” and those who relied on them “spoke for themselves, then they’d have to be responsible for their words.” the actor said. I think that’s what I like best about Pattinson. He knows he’s part of the problem, but he sounds like he’d prefer to be part of the solution. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Whether or not Robert Pattinson carries Cosmopolis to box-office glory this coming weekend, I hope he’s around the movie business for a long time. Unlike Kristen Stewart, who, I’m convinced, is Oscar material, Pattinson has yet to blow me away as an actor, but I do think he should win an award for the cheeky way in which he keeps showing us that contemporary celebrity journalism is a joke. Pattinson’s hysterical media tour for Cosmopolis has been underway since Monday when Jon Stewart — Mr. I-Schooled-Jim-Cramer-and-President-Obama-on-national-TV — served the actor melted ice cream and a bunch of runnier questions on The Daily Show . And then on Wednesday, things got even sillier. Pattinson appeared on Good Morning America, where host George Stephanopoulos informed the actor that the show’s staff had done some research and come up with Pattinson’s favorite breakfast food: Cinnamon Toast Crunch. (Good to see the ABC News budget going to good use.) The interview that followed was a lot like that cereal: sickly sweet and full of empty calories, although the winning and witty Pattinson never went soggy in the milk bath of Stephanopoulos’ aimless questioning. I couldn’t help but admire the actor’s response when Stephanopoulos, attempting to get the “elephant in the room out of the way” asked Pattinson “How are you doing? And what do you want your fans to know about what’s going on in your personal life?” Behind the two men, a small horde of those fans stared hungrily at their Twilight idol through the glass walls of GMA ‘s Times Square studio. If Pattinson, who we keep being told has no publicist, was going to play the game, that was the moment where he was supposed to drop some morsel about his supposed relationship drama with Kristen Stewart. Instead, he used GMA’ s cereal shtick to his advantage. “I’d like my fans to know that Cinnamon Toast Crunch has 30 calories per bowl,” Pattinson said with a vampy grin, reducing the idiocy of contemporary celebrity journalism to a single line. Make that two: “Pretty much everything that comes out of my mouth is irrelevant,” he added. Nice. “I take it that you don’t want to talk too much about it,” replied Stephanopoulos, which made me spit my breakfast back into my bowl. Really? “Is that the way you handle all of this craziness?” the former Clinton Administration adviser continued. “You get into to it to do movies,” said Pattinson. “I’ve never been interested in trying to sell my personal life. And that’s really the only reason people try to bring it up. The reason why you go on TV is to promote movies.” The thing is, even though GMA showed a clip and Pattinson talked about the role, I don’t think the TV audience left with a better idea of whether they would want to see Cosmopolis , or why Pattinson wanted to appear in it. If director David Cronenberg — whose films provoke and inspire even when they don’t work as conventional entertainment — was discussed at all during the interview, I don’t recall a single significant thing that was said. Instead the interview became more about Pattinson’s celebrity. Fortunately, he is capable of being introspective. “If you start getting used to it, it means you’re going crazy,” the actor told Stephanopoulos, adding: “It’s like being on the craziest theme-park ride. It’s exciting, but, eventually, at some point, you’ve got to have a break.” Pattinson, who plays an increasingly unhinged billionaire in Cosmopolis , even suggested a way that henpecked celebrities like him could get a break from the paparazzi: “If you put the lives of people who control billions on the front page of every single paper, the world would be a better place,” he said. (Except Rob, that many of those billionaires also control much of the media.) To those same ends, the actor without a publicist had a few choice words to say about “spin culture” that, I suspect, raised some hackles at the high-powered publicity firms that represent celebrity’s finest. “If you took away publicists” and those who relied on them “spoke for themselves, then they’d have to be responsible for their words.” the actor said. I think that’s what I like best about Pattinson. He knows he’s part of the problem, but he sounds like he’d prefer to be part of the solution. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Cuba Gooding Jr. went a lil’ overboard on Good Morning America this week. You gotta see this isht…SMH Cuba Gooding Jr. Tosses Child High Into The Air On Good Morning America Cuba Gooding has seen his share of troubles lately, but this lil’ incident might just be the butter on the biscuit. Thursday morning Cuba appeared on Good Morning America to promote his new film “Firelight”, as host Robin Roberts tried to introduce the actor, he decided to tap into his inner attention-slore and stand on his chair to rally applause from the crowd in New York’s Time Square. Mr. “Show Me The Money” seemed to clearly be in an “altered state of mind”, but what he did next is just as curious as it is out-of-pocket. Hit the flipper to watch the video and tell us what YOU think…
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