The Witcher has everything it needs to be Netflix’s next success: popular source material, a massive marketing campaign, a well-received performance by Henry Cavill, and an iconic meme in the form of the hit song “Toss A Coin To Your Witcher.” Yet, while certainly popular, it doesn’t seem like The Witcher is going to become “must see” television like other recent hits, such as The Mandalorian on Disney+ or Watchmen on HBO. At least part of the reason why is how Netflix released it: in a single, all-you-can-eat drop — like almost all of its other shows — instead of a more traditional weekly rollout.
Weekly releases have numerous benefits for fans: continued and focused conversation every week around the latest episode, a chance to digest and process events, and fewer demands on viewers’ time upfront.
By dropping every episode at once, Netflix is sacrificing weekly discussions around The Witcher for a short burst of popularity, after which it trickles off into the void as people’s attentions are quickly grabbed by the next big thing. That extra time between episodes would let viewership build over time, as more people hear about the show or proselytize it to their friends.
Compare that to a weekly release, like The Mandalorian, which captured a burst of attention with each new Baby Yoda GIF, or the weeklong discussions and theorizing that would fill the time between episodes of Watchmen. Not everyone may have been on board with The Mandalorian at first, but when everyone else on the internet started talking about it and sharing GIFs, they may have been willing to give it a shot.
Weekly releases (at reasonable hours) also transform streaming shows into the kind of appointment television that viewers flock to and watch together, reacting in real time. The weekly release schedule means everyone is roughly at the same place in the series; for the most part, no one is confused about why the song from the bard is a big deal because they haven’t gotten up to that episode yet.
A weekly release also makes it less of a slog to actually watch a show. Give someone one episode, with the promise of more, and you’ve given them something to look forward to without demanding too much time upfront. Netflix dumps hours of content on viewers at once, demanding that they watch it all in a binge session that the site used to be famous for.
It’s not that The Witcher isn’t popular, either: at least one data firm says it’s more popular than The Mandalorian, at least for its first weekend debut, per Business Insider. But even if that number is correct, it’s just a single week, compared to the months that The Mandalorian dominated the conversation. How long can The Witcher keep that success going with no new episodes to drive viewers back and plenty of other new content waiting in their queues?
None of this is to say that Netflix’s traditional “dump it all in a single day” strategy isn’t always effective. Some of its original series — the three seasons of Stranger Things, for example, The Umbrella Academy, or any of the various Marvel shows it used to make — are filmed and designed as what amounts to a single 10-or-so-hour-long movie that just happens to have convenient episode breaks. While weekly releases still might make more sense, at least from a mindshare perspective, the release strategy there is at least understandable given the nature of the content.
There was a time when Netflix’s approach was seen as a breath of fresh air, especially compared to the bloated, 24-episode and months-long seasons that dominated traditional broadcast. Netflix’s strategy killed the cruft, and promised an almost cinematic-like experience where the entire show hit at once. But hours-long TV show seasons aren’t movies, and trying to force episodic stories into a cinematic box just doesn’t work.
Even among Netflix’s shows, though, The Witcher in particular feels designed for a weekly release, given the literal “monster-of-the-week” style plotting that (at least for part of the season) sees Geralt go somewhere and fight something in fairly self-contained chunks. Add in the twisting timelines and developing storylines, and you’ve got a show that’s almost tailor-made for today’s Game of Thrones / Westworld / Watchmen-style cottage industry that loves to theorize and debate over shows. It’s hard to have a Witcher podcast series, for example, when all the discussion happens over the course of a weekend.
Game of Thrones style juggernauts are few and far between, even as more and more companies try to hit whatever magic combination of popularity and quality makes a show so hyped. Not every show will be the next Game of Thrones or Mandalorian — take Apple TV Plus’ See, which had a weekly release, huge budget, and star-studded cast but still flopped by virtue of not being very good.
The Witcher probably won’t be the next Game of Thrones. It’s probable that no show ever will be: the success of Thrones looks increasingly like a once-in-a-generation type of occasion. But Netflix’s release strategy isn’t giving its best shows the chance to even try, with the service choosing to burn off all its content in a single shot instead of a slower burn that could see it rise to greater heights.
Peter Morgan's third season will be up for best television drama series at next week's coveted Hollywood awards ceremony, while Olivia Colman and Tobias Menzies - who have taken over as the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh - are up for best actress and actor respectively.
Helena Bonham Carter rounds off the show's nominations with a nod in the best supporting actress category for playing Princess Margaret.
Netflix's top 10 most popular releases of 2019 in the UK
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
6 Underground
Murder Mystery
The Witcher
The Irishman
After Life
Stranger Things 3
Our Planet
Sex Education
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes: Limited Series
The list is thought to be based on the number of UK accounts that have watched at least two minutes of a title during its first 28 days on release this year. Netflix does not usually release exact numbers.
But in July, the streamer did release the figures for the third instalment of Stranger Things after it broke the service's record, with more than 40 million households around the world watching the show in its first four days.
Ricky Gervais's latest effort After Life appeared to have had more enduring appeal in the UK, listed as the second most popular series release this year behind US fantasy show The Witcher.
Responding to the news, Gervais wrote on Twitter that he "still can't quite believe" his show, about the emotional journey of a grieving husband and journalist, beat the latest edition of Millie Bobby Brown and co's slick sci-fi horror series and US psychological thriller show You.
Netflix's top 10 most popular series releases of 2019 in the UK
Williams, who recently split with musician Phil Elverum, was spotted with director Thomas Kail, 42, in London where she is filming “Venom 2,” according to People magazine.
A source told the publication that Matilda, Williams’ 14-year-old daughter with the late Heath Ledger, set up the two lovebirds and that they eventually decided to marry.
The actress was also spotted buying baby clothes, the magazine said.
Williams and Elverum — who performs folk music under the moniker Mount Eerie — divorced eight months ago.
Kail directed the 39-year-old actress in the F/X drama Fosse/Verdon, where Williams plays dancer Gwen Verdon.
In addition to “Hamilton,” Kail also directed the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical “In the Heights” on Broadway.
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Director J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has taken a lot of heat from fans since its December 20th release. Viewers have picked apart the entry for a number of different reasons, but the lack of screen time for Kelly Marie Tran’s Rose Tico was one of the more surprising developments in the film. So why did Abrams decide to reduce Tran’s involvement, despite teasing that she was going to play a big role in the Star Wars franchise?
‘Star Wars’ star Kelly Marie Tran | Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images
Tran gets bashed on social media
After the release of Star
Wars; The Last Jedi, Tran received a lot of backlash on social media in
regard to her character’s role in the movie.
The actress was harassed so much that she was forced to shut
down all of her social media accounts. Some of her co-stars even spoke out in
support of her, which goes to show how much it was affecting everyone.
Given her prominence in The Last Jedi, Tran’s character was clearly going to play an important part in the events in The Rise of Skywalker. Only that did not happen.
Somewhere in the development of the last Star Wars,
Abrams decided to significantly reduce Tran’s part, which has not gone over
well with fans. Abrams has not discussed why Tran did not appear more in the
movie, but it may have had something to do with the previous backlash.
How much screen time did Tran get?
After enjoying a bunch of screen time in Star Wars:The Last Jedi, Tran’s character barely
appeared at all in The Rise of Skywalker.
According to We
Got This Covered, Rose only had a whopping 76 seconds of screen time in the
film.
The character first appears at the very beginning of the movie when everyone is getting ready to leave the planet, Pasanna. Finn (John Boyega) is shown telling Rose that she is supposed to stay behind.
Rose is pretty much absent from the rest of the last movie
in the Star Wars saga. She later pops up during a battle between the
Resistance and the First Order, but her scene is very small.
The lack of screen time has been heavily criticized, and
some fans view it as validation for all the hate the actress received for The Last Jedi. While we would have loved
to see Rose in more scenes, she may have had a more prominent role in the
original plan.
Was Tran supposed to get a bigger role?
A previous cut of Star Wars reportedly shows Rose in
a much larger capacity than what fans watched in theaters.
In a recent interview, Tran revealed that she was looking forward to seeing her character and Daisy Ridley’s Ray in an epic scene together, which was mysteriously absent from the final cut of Star Wars.
“I think it’s really cool at all that they are even in
scenes together because in Jedi we weren’t in any scenes together,” Tran
shared. “It was really cool to have feminine energy on set. I wish I could tell
you more but I’m really excited for people to see [Rose and Rey] interact. They
both have the same objective which is to fight for the things you believe in
and the people you love.
The interview came right after Tran watched an early
screening of the movie, which apparently contained the scene in question. But
in the theatrical release of Star Wars:The Rise of Skywalker, Abrams cut the scene between Tran and Ridley
altogether.
We have no idea what the scene entailed, but it is a shame
that it was removed. Hopefully, it is included when the movie is released on
DVD.
Star Wars fans speak out
So far, The Rise of Skywalker has been met with mixed reviews from Star Wars fans across the globe. The same holds true for the lack of screen time for Tran’s character.
Some fans were really looking forward to seeing what Abrams
had in store for Rose, while others were happy with the decision to cut her
from the action.
Taking to Twitter, fans expressed their varying views on the
subject. The discussion has led to the creation of the hashtag, #RoseTicoDeservedBetter,
though not everyone is on board with the movement.
One fan even shared a photo of a bunch of Rose action
figures on a clearance rack at a store as a way to prove that the character is
not that popular with fans.
Whatever the case, it will be interesting to hear what
Abrams has to say about why he choose to cut Tran’s scenes. In the meantime,
fans can watch Star Wars: The Rise of
Skywalker in theaters.
Stone, 61, best known for starring in 1992 drama "Basic Instinct", said she was locked out of her account after other users claimed it was fake.
"I went on the @bumble dating sight [sic] and they closed my account," she wrote in a Twitter post.
Stone said other users thought the profile "couldn't possibly be me!!"
She added, "Hey @bumble, is being me exclusionary? Don't shut me out of the hive."
Bumble, which describes itself on Twitter as "bringing good people together," later restored her account.
"There can only be one 👑 Stone. Looks like our users thought you were too good to be true," the company wrote on Twitter. "We've made sure that you won't be blocked again. We hope that everyone in our community takes a sec to verify their profiles. (Catherine Tramell from Basic Instinct gets a pass today!)"
Bumble's editorial director, Clare O'Connor, added that she hoped it would now be easier to " find your honey."
In 1984 Stone married producer Michael Greenburg but the pair split three years later.
Her second marriage was to journalist Phil Bronstein in 1998, which lasted until 2004 when their divorce was finalized.
In 2018 she told Grazia magazine she has high expectations for the men in her life. "I was just not that girl who was told that a man would define me," she explained. "I was told that if I wanted to have a man in my life, it wouldn't be an arrangement, it would be an actual partnership. And those are hard to find."
Madonna and her 25-year-old BF aren't exactly rushing to the altar ... but all signs point to them taking things to the next level cause his dad tells us SHE dropped the L word!!!
So, here's the deal ... the rumors have been swirling for months about Madonna dating Ahlamalik Williams ... one of her backup dancers. Williams' father, Drue, tells TMZ ... his son and Madge are 100% definitely an item ... and it's gotten serious.
For starters ... Drue says us his son's been dating Madonna for a little over a year now. Drue says they first met back in 2015 when his son auditioned for Madonna's Rebel Heart Tour ... and Madonna personally picked Ahlamalik out of the group.
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Fast-forward to September ... Madonna met her boy toy's parents in NYC after one of her shows. And, just last month ... Madonna hosted Ahlamalik's parents at one of her Ceasar's Palace shows. And, get this ... Drue says Madonna invited them to her suite ... where Madonna's personal chef cooked them all dinner.
Drue says the 61-year-old singer told them she loves their son unconditionally and wants to take care of him. Drue says, "Love has no age." He added, "My son is livin' la Vida Loca, and I'm just happy for him."
The Material Girl and her man's parents clearly got along ... 'cause Drue says Madonna's invited them to her shows in London and France in early 2020. Drue says they've already booked their flights. Bitch ... she's Madonna!!!
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Another year, another Star Wars film that has divided fans and critics so intensely that it’s created an internet flame war that threatens to burn us all alive.
Ironically, it’s the opposite of the last battle we had two years ago. Back then, critics loved Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi while many fans absolutely loathed it. Critics were calling it one of the best Star Wars entries ever while other fans were declaring it the worst.
Now, it’s flipped. Rise of Skywalker now has some critics calling JJ Abrams’ finale effort one of the worst in the series, oftentimes even more so than the dreaded prequels. In contrast, a good chunk of fans seem to enjoy the finale and think it’s a fitting end to the series, and “fixes” much of what went wrong from with The Last Jedi.
You can actually see this play out in the numbers. I went through and measured the critic score versus the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes for every Star Wars film. And here’s what I found:
Rise of Skywalker – 55% critics V. 86% audience (+31% gap)
Return of the Jedi – 82% critics V. 94% audience (+12% gap)
The Phantom Menace – 53% critics V. 59% audience (+6% gap)
Rogue One – 83% critics V. 86% audience (+3% gap)
The Empire Strikes Back – 93% critics V. 96% audience (+3% gap)
A New Hope – 93% critics V. 96% audience (+3% gap)
The Force Awakens – 93% critics V. 86% audience (-7% gap)
Solo – 70% critics V. 63% audience (-7% gap)
Attack of the Clones – 65% critics V. 56% audience (-9% gap)
Revenge of the Sith – 80% critics V. 66% audience (-14% gap)
The Last Jedi – 91% critics V. 43% audience (-48% gap)
As you can see, the biggest gap in favor of fan approval, by a huge margin, is Rise of Skywalker, with fans rating it a full 31% better than the critical average. And then it’s no surprise to see The Last Jedi on the other end of the spectrum, with critics rating it 48% higher than fans. In general, if we add up all the changes, fans are actually a little harsher than critics in most cases, especially when it comes to the prequels (including Solo), and they were a more skeptical of JJ Abrams’ initial effort with The Force Awakens as well.
The Mandalorian
Disney
Want to know what the least controversial Star Wars property is on the list? Well, it’s not even on the list. That would be The Mandalorian, with only a 1% difference between critic reviews (94%) and audience reviews (93%).
But what’s going on here, really?
To me, the impression I’m getting is that critics have overreacted to Rise of Skywalker’s flaws just like fans overreacted to the problems with The Last Jedi. Neither of these films are even close to the worst Star Wars film in the grand list. Critics are insane to say that Rise of Skywalker is worse than movies like Attack of the Clones or Phantom Menace, so much so that it almost seems spiteful to try and make that case. And the same goes for The Last Jedi haters who would rate it as the worst Star Wars move in history by a 13% margin under the worst prequel, Attack of the Clones. Just…absolutely no way.
To sum up what happened, fans were mad that The Last Jedi took traditional Star Wars arcs and shattered them, ignoring questions like the mystery of Snoke and Rey’s origins, and that the film turned Luke from shining hero to grumpy sacrificial lamb. And that’s exactly what critics liked about the film, that it broke away from tropes and tried something new.
That’s why those same critics are so mad now, because JJ Abrams did everything possible to undo so much of what Johnson did in The Last Jedi, providing specific answers to those questions that Johnson said weren’t important. Abrams sidelines lambasted characters like Rose, he mocks Last Jedi moments like the Holdo maneuver or Luke throwing away his lightsaber. It’s such a complete rewrite of The Last Jedi it actually feels vengeful.
The Last Jedi
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But fans like it A) because they got those Last Jedi “fixes” they were looking for and B) it was specifically…made for fans. The film is rife with fan service, which is often viewed as a negative by critics, but you know who likes fan service? Fans. And that’s what’s happened here. Rise of Skywalker doesn’t care about erasing tropes, it embraces them, and gives us an ending that is pretty much an exact replica of Return of the Jedi. And it’s an admittedly satisfying end to the saga, albeit not a terribly original one. But it’s enough to satisfy most fans who felt burned by The Last Jedi, so here we are, with these wildly different takes on two movies that I would say, are both pretty great in their own ways, despite each of them having flaws.
We do not know what comes next for Star Wars. It seems that Disney has learned a few lessons here, namely that one person should be in charge of an entire film series, and it shouldn’t be split by director. And that maybe we don’t always need a trilogy, and stories should be as long as they need to be (technically JJ Abrams’ Force Awakens and Rise of Skywalker could have just been a two-film set, given how much of The Last Jedi was flat-out erased).
My guess is that we will see more Mandalorian-type content that pleases everyone and less hyper controversies like this, now that we’re moving on from the Skywalkers, Solos, Vaders and Palpatines. It’s time to write new stories, or at the very least, adapt different old ones.
Twin brothers who starred in TLC's "My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding" are dead after an apparent joint suicide.
The 32-year-old siblings, Bill and Joe Smith, were found hanging in a tree in Sevenoaks, England ... this according to law enforcement.
"Celebrity Big Brother" winner Paddy Doherty confirmed the news on Facebook, calling it a "terrible, terrible tragedy," adding, "I'm very sorry for their troubles from the bottom of my heart. May God look after them, may God have mercy on them, they are two angels, harmless, they were unbelievable."
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Bill and Joe starred in the 3rd season of the hit show. When they started they were 24 years old and working as gardeners.
"My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding" followed the lives of and traditions of Irish traveler families for 3 seasons from 2011 to 2015.
Authorities continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths, but cops seem confident they were suicides.
Ron Perlman was the driver of the out-of-control truck plowing through an indie movie set, injuring crew members and nearly setting the entire area ablaze ... and TMZ has the video.
Multiple sources tell TMZ ... the "Hellboy" star is behind the wheel in the footage, which shows a truck barreling into the camera department and video village tent on the set of "The Last Victim" last month at the Okanagan Indian Band in British Columbia.
Our sources say Ron, who stars as the local sheriff in the neo-western, ran over several propane heaters in the tent, where the script supervisor, director and producer were hanging out, wedging the heaters under the truck. We're told the heaters were lit, and it sounds like a miracle the propane didn't ignite!!!
We first reported on the scary car crash earlier this month, which left one person with a minor foot injury, but at the time it wasn't clear who was driving ... and now we know it was Ron.
In the video, you hear people screaming after the truck crashes, with some folks shouting, "Ron, stop!!!" Our sources say the only thing stopping the vehicle from continuing its wild ride was all the camera and gear grip Ron ran over.
It's pretty crazy ... we're told the accident happened on the first take of the day, and Ron complained about being uncomfortable driving in his size 14 cowboy boots before the scene. Our sources say he was also wearing an ankle brace, but we're told the first assistant director ignored Ron's issues, scrapped a rehearsal and instructed cameras to roll.
Sounds like Ron's concerns over his cowboy boots were warranted ... we're told his foot got stuck on the accelerator because of the humongous footwear.
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And, get this ... we're told the crash happened on what was supposed to be the last day of filming, and producers tried to continue shooting after the accident but the crew was pissed.
In additional video and audio, obtained by TMZ, a crew member is heard quitting. We're told producers finally relented and canceled filming for the day, telling the crew they'd pick up the following day.
We reached out to Ron and movie producers ... no word back, so far
The government of the United Kingdom apologized Saturday after it published a list of 1,000 celebrities and notables that included some personal information, such as addresses.
The New Year Honours 2020 list, which recognizes societal achievements and contributions by bestowing more than 1,000 honorees with terms of achievement, including knighthood for some.
The 2020 list of recipients, unveiled Thursday, included Sir Elton John (Companion of Honour), Olivia Newton-John (damehood) and director Sam Mendes (knighthood).
"The information was removed as soon as possible," the Cabinet Office said in a statement. "We apologise to all those affected and are looking into how this happened."
The office said that those whose addresses were revealed were being contacted.
The U.K. privacy group Big Brother published on Twitter remarks of its director, Silkie Carlo. She said the exposure was "inexcusable" and that government "doesn't have a basic grip on data protection."
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Thompson was there as a co-parent for his daughter, True. However, he’s also been adamant about getting back into the Revenge Body star’s good graces since he cheated on her with Jordyn Woods in February 2019.
Though she seems unwilling to let him back into her life romantically, she has spoken openly about forgiving Thompson for his past and building a friendship with him for the sake of their daughter. However, not everyone in the KarJenner family is in such a forgiving mood.
After playing a game in Cleveland on Dec. 23 against the Atlanta Hawks — Thompson rushed to Los Angeles to be a part of the Kardashian festivities. Though he and the KUWTK starlet took no pictures together, it’s clear that they attended and were even chatty.
This past summer, KarJenner fans were shocked when Kim Kardashian was seen in NYC dining with Thompson and a group of friends. However, the Skims founder was simply putting her best foot forward for the sake of her sister’s feelings. “They don’t hate him,” a source told RadarOnline about the KarJenner’s feelings towards Thompson. “He’s nice. They hate the way he treated her.”
For her part, the Good American founder only wants a healthy environment for her daughter. “I don’t want to be with him, I don’t. I appreciate how nice he’s being to me and he should be nice to me,” she explained on a recent episode of KUWTK. “I want us to have a healthy, kind and loving relationship where True can see her mom and dad hug each other when they see each other. I know that he’s trying. We are slowly moving into the direction of being friends as well as amazing co-parents.”
Kim Kardashian shaded Tristan Thompson at the Christmas Party
During her speech, she gave shoutouts to her family including Kylie Jenner and Kourtney Kardashian’s exes Scott Disick and Travis Scott. However, she completely ignored Thompson though he was standing right in front of her. It’s going to be a long road for the NBA star to truly prove he’s sorry.
What a Babu Frik’in weekend this is for a galaxy far, far away. Just a few short days after J.J. Abrams brought the entire Skywalker Saga to a pretty divisive close with The Rise of Skywalker, Jon Favreau and Co. closed out the first season of the first-ever live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian. Now, Rise of Skywalker has the clear advantage in the amount of lines rendered unnecessarily horny by Billy Dee Williams, but I feel like The Mandalorian was the more satisfying conclusion overall; “Redemption” was an action-packed family affair directed by Taika Waititi that opened up more than a few avenues into season 2, but also answered its fair share of questions. First and foremost: Who is the Mando under the mask?
Image via Disney+
Surprise! He looks just like Pedro Pascal and his name Din Djarin. (Which, hilariously, Pascal himself accidentally revealed like two months ago, the scamp.) Mando’s past was revealed in grand fashion by Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito), season 1’s ultimate big bad who seems to know everything except that “until nightfall” is an absurdly long time to let captives hang around when it’s only like, 3 in the afternoon. The massive Wild West shootout on Navarro was The Mandalorian‘s fieriest set-piece so far, but things only took a turn for the emotional once the action moved into the sewers. Mando’s clan is mostly gone, routed by the Empire after they jet-packed their way into the public eye back in episode 3, but The Armorer (Emily Swallow) stuck around to harvest all that sweet, sweet Beskar left behind. She gives Mando a sigil, the Mudhorn—ensuring that every day Din Djarin can proudly look to his armor and remember the time an alien rhinoceros just absolutely fucked his entire day up—and a new mission: Return Baby Yoda to his home planet, wherever that may be.
IG-11 (Waititi), reprogrammed to protect Baby Yoda at all costs, valiantly braves a lava river and activates his self-destruct protocol to kill a squad of Stormtroopers, clearing the way for Mando, Greef Karga (Carl Weathers), and Cara Dune (Gina Carano) to walk right into a TIE fighter attack courtesy of Moff Gideon. One genuinely thrilling jet-pack altercation later and Gideon’s ship is in the dirt. Din Djarin and his beautiful green son blast off into the cosmos to find out how Baby Yodas are made, and we’re set up for an already-greenlit season 2.
But first! “Redemption” ends on an image that got Dave Filoni fans a-screamin’ and opened up a few dozen questions as we leave season 1 behind. Such as:
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After the series finale of “The Mandalorian” yesterday, fans are pining for even more Baby Yoda to cope. (Don’t worry, Season 2 will be airing next Fall!) Now they can cozy up with Baby Yoda in this amazing new Spirit Jersey, which has finally hit the shelves at Walt Disney World.
The seafoam green Spirit Jersey features Baby Yoda perched and peeking out from the top, almost as if he was in some sort of baby carrier.
Do note that it’s a graphic of Baby Yoda (“The Child”) and not a still from the series.
On the back, big puffy letters show off the show’s logo in dark blue. Mando is seen in the “A”.
The Spirit Jersey retails for $69.99. We found it inside MouseGear at EPCOT, so if you’re looking in Disney’s Hollywood Studios, you may want to have your tracker fob checked, or you’ll never collect this bounty!
Kevin Hart has shared his life with ultimate transparency and his new Netflix docuseries, Don’t F**k This Up, is no different. The six-part series follows the comedian and CEO over a year span and takes viewers on an inside look into the behind the scenes moments of his hectic tour and film schedule – and his life as a husband and a father. The show also chronicles the fallout from two of the biggest scandals of his career.
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One of the scandals documented is the media frenzy that ensued when the tabloids reported he cheated on his very pregnant wife, Eniko Hart. Eniko painfully recalled the moment she experienced the unimaginable heartbreak and how she was able to ultimately forgive her husband.
Kevin Hart marries Eniko Hart
Kevin and Eniko met in 2009 at a nightclub in D.C. She spoke about their first meeting in the Netflix special and beamed when she detailed how Kevin serenaded her on stage. The attraction between the two was instant, with Eniko recalling how she fell in love with the comedian because of his ability to make her laugh.
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Kevin took Eniko with him on the road as he toured as a stand up comic. After getting the approval of his friends, Eniko passed the ultimate test after she met his two children from his previous marriage. Eniko’s ability to ignore the noise surrounding when and how the began dating – as he wasn’t officially divorced when they met – was an indicator to Kevin that she was the one.
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Kevin proposed to Eniko on her 30th birthday. They married in a lavish ceremony in August 2016.
Reports surface that Kevin Hart cheated on his wife
Things with Kevin and Eniko seemed to be going well and the couple announced they were expecting their first child together on Mother’s Day 2017.
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Rumors swirled that Kevin was unfaithful for months before it was confirmed that he’d stepped out on his wife. A few weeks prior to the public finding, a secret video of Kevin in a vehicle with a woman who was not his wife surfaced. Though it wasn’t clear that anything was taking place, Kevin was caught in a compromising position.
Several weeks later, he posted a video to his social media hinting that he’d done something wrong outside of his marriage. He also warned that more details were to come and he’d explain when the time was right. Kevin ended the video by apologizing to his wife and kids.
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It was later confirmed that Kevin was intimate with a woman named Montia Sabbag and it was all caught on video. After a wild night in Vegas, Kevin said that he screwed up majorly but cheating on Eniko. He later revealed that a close friend tried to extort him and was the culprit behind releasing the tape. Sabbag later sued him and his former friend for $60 million.
Eniko Hart reveals how she found out Kevin Hart was unfaithful
Eniko didn’t find out about Kevin’s infidelity from him directly. Instead, she received a notification on social media. She recalled the discovery in part three of the docuseries.
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“How I found out was a DM,” Eniko began. “I don’t know who it was, sent me an edited video of Kevin and another woman….I opened my phone and immediately I just lost it. I called him crying, I’m like pissed. Right then and there I kept saying, ‘How the f–k did you let that happen?’”
She says that she was humiliated and the commentary on social media didn’t help. Kevin’s poor choice led to daily arguments for the couple and she threatened to leave if he didn’t clean up his act.
Being so close to giving birth to her first child, Eniko believes she was able to get through the rough experience because of their unborn son. She focused on having a healthy remainder of her pregnancy.
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Kevin says that the immediate aftermath of the scandal and having difficult conversations with Eniko about his indiscretion was the hardest part of the experience. Knowing how badly he hurt her, he says it made him want to do better and never put himself or his family in the same predicament.
Ultimately, Eniko’s desire to raise their son in a two-parent household and keep her family together is what drove her to forgive Kevin. Their son Kenzo was born shortly after the hiccup and Eniko says the experience made Kevin a better man.
Mama June and her boyfriend, Geno Doak, left a filthy, bloody mess behind at a Georgia hotel ... and the incontrovertible evidence consists of photos allegedly snapped after they left.
Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... June and Geno have been bouncing around hotels south of Atlanta, and were shacked up at a FairBridge Inn & Suites a couple months back when they had a fiery argument and trashed their room.
We know cops were called to the hotel for a disturbance, but law enforcement tells us no report was filed and there were no arrests.
Based on the pics, their hotel room was completely wrecked after they split -- broken TV and lamp, garbage strewn about ... and a shattered mirror with what looks like a bloody handprint on it. Some $20 bills ripped to pieces for some reason also appear to have been left behind.
Our sources say, all in all, Mama and her man did $1,000 in damages. We've reached out to the hotel to see how the matter was settled, but we're told the place is under new management ... so nobody knows.
We also reached out to June ... no word back yet.
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As you know ... the troubled reality TV star has been living outta hotels with Geno since unloading her Hampton, GA home for $100,000 cash earlier this year. When we last saw them together, they were hitting up a casino in North Carolina on Black Friday ... not looking particularly lucky.
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What a Babu Frik’in weekend this is for a galaxy far, far away. Just a few short days after J.J. Abrams brought the entire Skywalker Saga to a pretty divisive close with The Rise of Skywalker, Jon Favreau and Co. closed out the first season of the first-ever live-action Star Wars series, 
