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Alex Trebek has passed away after a difficult battle with pancreatic cancer. The admired Jeopardy! host was 80 years old. A Jeopardy! spokesperson told TMZ, “Jeopardy is saddened to share that Alex Trebek passed away peacefully at home early this morning, surrounded by family and friends.” Additionally, the official Jeopardy! Twitter handle confirmed the devastating news. Trebek […]
Actor Jeff Bridges, who is 70, took to social media on Monday night to announce that he’s been diagnosed with lymphoma. “As the Dude would say.. New S**T has come to light,” Bridges wrote. “I have been diagnosed with Lymphoma. Although it is a serious disease, I feel fortunate that I have a great team of […]
One of the final performances by Chadwick Boseman was as Stormin’ Norman in Spike Lee‘s excellent Netflix drama Da 5 Bloods, also starring Jonathan Majors and Delroy Lindo. In a new cover story, the prolific Lee reflected on working with Boseman on the acclaimed Vietnam War-centric film. Speaking with Clayton Davis for a Variety piece published on […]
Drake surprised a 14-year-old fan with a personalized birthday video message, offering up words of encouragement and admiration. The Toronto rapper revealed that after hearing about Zelek Murray’s tough situation from Mustafa the Poet, the two wanted to send him a little something to help get him through his hospital stay. “I can’t imagine how tough […]
Legendary St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Famer Bob Gibson has passed away after his year-long battle with pancreatic cancer, reports St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Gibson, who led 17 MLB seasons as the Cardinals star pitcher from 1959 to 1975, was 84-years-old. The Nebraska native was a nine-time All-Star and double World Series champ. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in […]
California Rep. Katie Porter presented another masterclass in political interrogation. On Wednesday, the Democratic lawmaker began trending on Twitter after she grilled a pharmaceutical CEO on his wildly high salary and the significanct price surge for Revlimid—a cancer drug commonly used to treat multiple myeloma and myelodysplastic syndrome. Porter presented her argument during a House Oversight Committee hearing that centered on an […]
Letitia Wright took to Instagram to share a moving tribute to her late Black Panther co-star Chadwick Boseman. Wright played the character Shuri in the film, the sister of Boseman’s T’Challa and a Wakandan princess that posses genius-level intellect. “A soul so beautiful, when you walked into a room, there was calm. You always moved with grace and ease,” Wright said of Boseman […]
On Sunday, August 30, ABC will honor Chadwick Boseman, who tragically died at the age of 43 following a battle with colon cancer, by airing a slate of programming in tribute to the late actor, Deadline reports. Rest in Peace, Chadwick Boseman. 🕊 On Friday, August 28, the Black Panther star passed away at the age […]
As tributes continue to pour in across media platforms following the tragic news on Friday night of Chadwick Boseman dying from a four-year battle with colon cancer, a video has resurfaced from a 2018 panel where Boseman got emotional discussing trading letters with young cancer patients. It was revealed in a letter released by the Boseman […]
The legendary host of Jeopardy!, Alex Trebek, has had a very public battle with cancer, which moved him to share with The New York Times how he plans to cope with the illness. Trebek was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in March 2019. He received some optimistic reports from his physicians, but over time his diagnosis worsened. […]
