MTV will honor the year’s best in comedy with a new comedy awards franchise — aptly-titled The Comedy Awards. Billed as the VMAs of The Funny Bone Circuit, on Monday, MTV Networks and network executive producer Don Mischer announced that they’ll be handing out prizes during the first annual Comedy Awards ceremony, set for March [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Whoopi Goldberg’
Susan Boyle “The View†Snafu [VIDEO]: SuBo Stops LIVE Performance Mid-Song
November 30th, 2010 |
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Morning show viewers were left scratching their heads with glum faces after Susan Boyle’s debut on ABC’s The View ended up disaster early Tuesday. Boyle was on the show to promote her hit holiday album, The Gift, but ran into trouble as she tried to make it through “O Holy Night.†Susan, who struggled with [...]
Joy Behar Explains Bill O’Reilly Feud
October 16th, 2010 |
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PopEater’s Rob Shuter found himself backstage at Joy Behar’s hit HLN show, just hours after the widely reported walk-off she stages with Whoopi Goldberg on “The View.” Â Joy & Whoopi walked off the set during the live show, when O’Reilly insisted it would be “inappropriate” to have a Muslim place of worship so close to [...]
“Sister Act†Musical Broadway Opening April 2011
October 6th, 2010 |
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Sister Act: The Musical — a stageplay based on Whoopi Goldberg’s hit 1992 comedy Sister Act — is finally hitting the Broadway stage. A theatrical adaptation of the movie is set to open on April 20 following a successful run on London’s West End, which debuted at the London Palladium in 2009. Performances of the [...]
Whoopi Goldberg opens up about her pain after motherâ€s death
October 5th, 2010 |
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Whoopi Goldberg has opened up about her pain following her mother”s death in August (10). Emma Johnson suffered a stroke and passed away on 29 August (10), leaving Goldberg shattered. And the Ghost star admits she”s still coming to terms with her mum”s death and is concentrating on work to cope with the tragedy. “I”m [...]
Whoopi Goldberg mourning mother’s death
September 8th, 2010 |
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Goldberg was appearing in the London theatre production of Sister Act when she had to return to the U.S. after discovering her mother Emma had a stroke. The 54-year-old was due to headline the West End show until the end of August this year, but the summer ended on a sad note – her mother [...]
Whoopi Goldberg’s Mother Dies
September 7th, 2010 |
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The new season of The View got off to a somber start for Oscar-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg. The outspoken television personality’s beloved mother, Emma Johnson, passed away Aug. 29 after suffering a stroke a few days earlier. Goldberg, who had been appearing in the London theatre production of Sister Act, cut short her run aftr [...]
“Ghost†Musical Set For UK Stage
September 1st, 2010 |
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Ghost – the 1990 romantic drama starring Demi Moore and late actor Patrick Swayze — is being revived as a musical, set to hit stages across the UK in 2011.Bruce Joel Rubin has inked a deal to adapt his Oscar-winning screenplay into Ghost: The Musical, which will launch a seven-week tryout Opera House in Manchester [...]
Whoopi Goldberg Quits “Sister Act†Musical As Mom Recovers From Stroke
August 27th, 2010 |
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Whoopi Goldberg has cut her run on the West End production of Sister Act short after her mother — Emma –suffered a stroke this week. The Oscar winner had been set to depart her role as Mother Superior in the London show at the end of the month, but producers say the actress flew [...]
Whoopi Goldbergâ€s return to ‘Sister Act’ onstage is a hit
August 19th, 2010 |
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Whoopi Goldberg”s limited run in the West End production of ‘Sister Act’ is attracting fans in huge numbers, so much so that people are camping out for days in a bid to secure tickets. The actress-turned-U.S. TV personality played nightclub singer Doloris in the hit 1992 movie and its sequel the following year (93). And [...]
Madame Tussauds London Celebrates Whoopi Goldberg’s Debut On West End
August 19th, 2010 |
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To mark her run in the West End musical Sister Act, Madame Tussauds London unveiled a re-dressed wax figure of Whoopi Goldberg, wearing an exact replica of the costume she wears on stage for her role as Mother Superior. As cinema buffs will recall, The View host played Deloris Van Carte — a lounge singer on [...]
Whoopi Goldberg pays UK Prime Minister surprise visit
August 12th, 2010 |
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Whoopi Goldberg paid a surprise morning visit to US PM David Cameron on Wednesday. Goldberg is currently in London for her stage performance of 1992 comedy ‘Sister Act’. After making her West End debut on Tuesday (11Aug10), she spent the following day taking in the capital”s sights. Cameron obliged and even took the star on [...]
White House gatecrasher says Whoppi Goldberg didn’t hit her
August 6th, 2010 |
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: The White House gate-crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi have backtracked over their earlier claims that Whoopi Goldberg got physical with Michaele Salahi during a taping of ‘The View’. The allegation led to a backstage battle between the show’s host and the couple. “I never said the word hit,” the New York Daily News quoted [...]
Whoopi Goldberg Offers “No Apologies†For Feud With “Real Housewives Of DC†Star Michaele Salahi
August 5th, 2010 |
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Do you think Whoopi Goldberg went too far on The View yesterday? Whoopi Goldberg will be offering “no apologies” for the backstage Battle Royale that broke out on the set of The View Wednesday after the Sister Act actress allegedly “hit” White House Gatecrasher/reality personality Michaele Salahi. In the words of our favorite viral celeb, Antoine Dodson: [...]
Whoopi Goldberg White House Party Crasher Michaele Salahi Embroiled In Backstage Feud
August 5th, 2010 |
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On ABC’s The View Wednesday, White House Gatecrasher Michaele and host Whoopi Goldberg clashed when the cast of the new Bravo docu-soap The Real Housewives of DC dropped by the morning gabfest, prompting an encounter between Goldberg and Salahi that allegedly ended with Whoopi “violently shaking” the waify fameseeker.Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, [...]
Goldberg, White House gatecrashers in backstage fight after â€The View†filming
August 5th, 2010 |
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The View’ host Whoopi Goldberg and White House gatecrashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi indulged in an obscenity-laced backstage battle after wrapping up Wednesday’s episode of the ABC show. Tareq Salahi, upset that Goldberg touched his wife during a segment of the show, had an “elevated and heated” exchange after the live telecast. Michaele and other [...]
Whoopi Goldberg Accused Of Hitting Michaele Salahi, White House Crasher & “Real Housewifeâ€
August 5th, 2010 |
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Oh snap! Michaele Salahi — one-half of The White House Party Crashers who flim-flamed their way into The Obamas’ State Dinner last November — is back in the news again. The star of Bravo’s new reality docu-soap, The Real Housewives of DC, has accused Academy Award-winner Whoopi Goldberg of striking her during a promotional appearance [...]