A former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader is suing the team, claiming they owe her money. And she also accuses the team of unfairly paying her less than half of what they paid the MASCOT, who was a guy. She says she was making $8 per hour, but that the mascot “Rowdy” made $25 per hour and about $65,000 per year, compared to the $16,500 she made. She says she and the cheerleaders did work that required “equal skill, effort, and responsibility under similar working conditions,” but were paid “significantly less” than Rowdy. There’s no comment from the team. Or Rowdy.
The “Hollywood Reporter” has a rundown of the ‘most powerful people in comedy,’ and it includes Dave Chappelle, Tina Fey, Donald Glover, Kate McKinnon, Adam Sandler, Amy Schumer, and Jerry Seinfeld.
When LEA THOMPSON and TOM CRUISE did “All the Right Moves” together in 1983, Lea was supposed to do two nude scenes. But Tom stood up to the producers and got her out of one. And for the second, he volunteered to get naked, too.
A ceremony planned for Friday to unveil Michael Jackson Avenue has been canceled. Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and Marlon Jackson were under the impression that the Jackson 5 would be honored with the street name. However, the city of Detroit prohibits ceremonial street designations for groups or organizations. The Jackson brothers from Gary, Indiana signed with Detroit’s Motown label in 1968.
Radar Online says BILL COSBY’s wife CAMILLE has left him, and she took the staff with her. Even his kids don’t visit him anymore. Bill is basically living alone with one employee, as he awaits his sentencing in September.
We’ve heard CHASE RICE talk about playing linebacker at the University of North Carolina until injuries ended his dream of going pro. Well, he’s very serious about the “going pro” part. He’s convinced it would’ve happened if he could’ve stayed healthy. He says, “[Music] is a deviation. Football was my plan. It was, ‘Go play in the NFL. And then I got hurt. And I was a good enough player. To play in the NFL, there’s so many great players out there, everything’s got to go your way, which it didn’t for me.” It’s interesting that after Chase’s dream ended, he became a country singer, which is a dream that so many other people have but never even get close to realizing. Chase spent time in a NASCAR pit crew, AND was a runner-up on “Survivor” in 2010.
“Bachelorette” contestant LINCOLN ADIM was convicted last month of indecent assault and battery on a woman. The show says its background checks didn’t catch that.
KENNY CHESNEY is donating proceeds from the sale of his “Songs For The Saints” album to the Hurricane Irma recovery efforts. It drops July 27th and it features appearances from Jimmy Buffett, Ziggy Marley, and Mindy Smith.
Keith Urban, Blake Shelton, and Kelly Clarkson will be performing on this year’s “Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular”. Ricky Martin is also on the show, which will be hosted by “American Ninja Warrior’s” Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila. It starts at 8:00 P.M. on NBC.
BRANTLEY GILBERT’s son Barrett was born back in November, so Sunday will be extra special for him. “My first Father’s Day I don’t know what to expect, but I know being a dad is more than I could ever ask for to begin with, so I can’t imagine. My wife will probably have something up her sleeve, but I feel like every day’s Father’s Day right now.”
The first full trailer for the live-action Dumbo movie directed by Tim Burton has been released. In the clip, Colin Farrell meets a newborn elephant named Dumbo in a circus run by Danny DeVito. We see Dumbo’s mom being taken away. The piece concludes with a diving fly-by of the famous flying elephant.
Mama June Shannon says her failing vision is to blame for her weight gain following her dramatic transformation last year. The From Not to Hotstar, 38, reveals that while she’s already completely blind in her right eye, she’s undergone four surgeries to repair what little vision she has in her left. “It’s been physically and emotionally draining. Losing my independence and having to rely on other people for everything has been crazy.” Shannon says the vision loss in her right eye is the result of childhood cataracts that were never properly treated, and her left eye was damaged by retinal detachment. Still healing from the multiple operations and dealing with shooting pain, she has to lay down most of the time.
For months, rumors swirled that Brad Pitt was wooing an insanely popular MIT professor. Well, it turns out that she is — and has been — in a committed relationship with another man. On June 13 Neri Oxman made a trip to Paris to see her activist investor beau Bill Ackman as he competed in the Finance Cup tennis tournament.
President Donald J. Trump is 72.
Boy George is 57
