This time last year, Christine Sherrill was teaching fifth graders American history in Kenosha, Wis. Now she’s making Broadway history. The 54-year-old actress and teacher is playing Donna in “Mamma Mia!” at the Winter Garden Theatre. When she got the news she’d landed the role, she had just finished teaching a unit on the American … Read more
Ronald McDonald is gonna be salty about this list. In a new nationwide ranking from Seating Masters, based on over 40,000 Yelp reviews, one burger chain’s golden spuds are un-fry-gettable, according to WWLP. In-N-Out Burger topped the list — scoring a crispy 3.86 out of 5 average across 25 locations. In-N-Out Burger was named as … Read more
A quarter of U.S. adults give the nation’s physical health a failing grade, according to a new survey. A survey of 2,000 health and wellness consumers explored perspectives on the country’s overall health, finding that a similar percentage graded mental health nationwide just as poorly (25%). Nine in 10 respondents revealed that they’re just as … Read more
Ed Mintz, a mathematician who created an exit polling system for films called CinemaScore, which asks people leaving theaters on opening nights to grade the movies they have just seen — a precursor of the website Rotten Tomatoes, which aggregates and scores critics’ opinions — died on Feb. 6 in Las Vegas. He was 83. … Read more
Jake Johnson has his mother’s intuition to thank for saving his life. The “New Girl” alum, 45, revealed on an episode of the “Dope as Usual” podcast that he narrowly missed a 1988 school shooting after his mom barred him from going in. Johnson attended Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Illinois, and on May … Read more
One sibling has been left scratching their head at their younger brother’s Year 5 maths exam. The question, shared to Reddit, asks students to figure out how many pages are in a book. “Klein read 30 pages of a book on Monday and one eighth of the book on Tuesday,” the question read. “He completed … Read more
An elementary school teacher from Mexico said she had to put her students’ thirsty fathers in timeout after they followed her online. Diana Laura Castañeda teaches first-graders in Guadalajara and also entertains her 426,000 TikTok followers and 69,000 Instagram fans with sexy outfits and dances. The voluptuous 26-year-old brunette downloaded TikTok in 2018, but it … Read more
Oscar winner Hilary Swank stars in ABC’s Alaska Daily as an investigative journalist who moves to Alaska to start over — but did this week’s premiere move you to add the new drama to your season pass list? Swank plays Eileen Fitzgerald, who we meet as she’s hounding a source to hand over dirt on … Read more
CBS’ So Help Me Todd, perhaps better thought of as Take Your Hot Son to Work, is the story of a private investigator forced to investigate the most private thing of all — his relationship with his mother. When we meet Skylar Astin‘s titular sleuth in Thursday’s premiere, he’s busting a woman in the middle … Read more
ABC’s Shark Tank went live Friday night for its Season 14 premiere, culminating in an offer unlike any other. For the first time ever, Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John and Kevin O’Leary were joined by a studio audience as they were presented with unedited, unfiltered pitches from hopeful entrepreneurs — … Read more
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Wednesday’s Abbott Elementary premiere. Proceed at your own risk! Janine was feeling pretty good about herself during Abbott Elementary‘s Season 2 premiere, and why wouldn’t she be? After all, the teacher had scored quite the coup: She got Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty to agree to make an appearance during … Read more