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Roseanne Barr-less ‘The Conners’ loses 25 percent of viewers from series premiere: Industry insiders speculated that many of the premiere’s viewers simply tuned in to see how Barr’s character would be killed off, and wouldn’t return for the second installment. The concerns turned out to be warranted, since viewership dropped from an already underwhelming debut. Perhaps Rosanne Barr is getting the last laugh.
Jennifer Garner Has A New Boyfriend: He’s John Miller, a 40-year-old California businessman. Miller’s the CEO of the Cali Group, a robotics company. Miller is still legally married to his first wife and they’re waiting for a judge to sign off on their divorce paperwork.
The Big Bang Theory may be ending soon, but it’s going out making some serious noise. On Wednesday, Forbes released its highest-paid TV actors list and four of the top five slots belonged to the show’s stars. Jim Parsons earned the top spot, raking in $26.5 million from June 1, 2017 to June 1, 2018, while Johnny Galecki nabbed $25 million, Kunal Nayyer snagged $23.5 million, Simon Helberg earned $23.5 million and NCIS’s Mark Harmon rounded out the top five with $19 million.
COCO BREASTFED BABY DURING ICE T’S ARREST: On Wednesday, actor/rapper Ice T was busted by police for blowing through a toll on the George Washington Bridge without paying. But his wife Coco took it in stride, even taking time to breastfeed their tot during the arrest, Page Six reports. She and baby weren’t in the car with T, but were in a blue Range Rover behind him. He was processed and released after the arrest. T says he didn’t have his E-Z Pass with him, and he wasn’t carrying cash, thus the blow-by.
NBC talk show host Megyn Kelly is on the verge of losing her job. The 9 a.m. show, which follows the Today show, will likely be canceled in a matter of weeks. Behind-the-scenes, she’s talked with her bosses about returning to her news and politics roots. NBC poached Kelly from FOX News with a contract worth $70 million. This week’s blackface controversy brought unwanted attention to Kelly and how poorly she’s performed in the TV ratings. She apologized on Wednesday, but her management agency still dropped her. Sources say negotiations to move Kelly within the NBC News division started well before she stepped in it. Megyn is off the air for the rest of the week, with NBC airing reruns.
No, that wasn’t actor David Schwimmer stealing beer from a restaurant in Blackpool, England on Oct. 20. Hilarity ensued when the Blackpool Police Facebook page shared a photo Tuesday of a suspect stealing an armful of beer cans, who looked awfully similar to the “Friends” actor. “Do you recognize this man?” the post read, accompanied by a photo of the alleged criminal. “We want to speak to him in relation to a theft at a Blackpool restaurant on the 20th September.” After the post went viral, the actor himself got in on the fun, posting a video of himself sneaking through a grocery store carrying a similar number of beers.
WHICH LEADS US TO TODAY’S CELEBRITY TWEET OF THE DAY:
Officers, I swear it wasn’t me.
As you can see, I was in New York.
To the hardworking Blackpool Police, good luck with the investigation.#itwasntme pic.twitter.com/EDFF9dZoYR— schwim (@DavidSchwimmer) October 24, 2018