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Is it harder to live on an island or locked in a house for three months? Xavier Prather knew he had to keep an eye on the former Survivor players as they went to compete on The Challenge: USA, a spinoff of the MTV reality competition series..
“Survivor players are built different. They just are,” the attorney, 28, exclusively tells Us Weekly in an interview, which you can watch above. “To be trapped on an island and win, that’s just different. The three people from Survivor were all the winners that I [was] made aware of, like, Tyson [Apostol], Ben [Driebergen], Sarah [Lacina]. Tyson’s done Survivor several times, so he’s either built different or he’s just insane. I know Ben and Sarah have also done it several times and each one of them had won before. Dom [Abbate]’s a runner-up, Danny [McCray]’s a former NFL player, Desi [Williams] is an absolute tank. The Survivor group, I was like, ‘Yeah, they’re going to be a problem.’”
In fact, he saw “anyone who’s won their show before” as a threat – including Amazing Race winner James Wallington, “a formidable competitor” in his eyes – so his plan was to stick with his Big Brother 23 crew.
“I felt like because of our numbers, [we were going to be targeted] regardless,” Xavier explains. “I was focused on us internally. There [are] nine people from Big Brother, six people from my season specifically. If we’re able to put aside what happened on Big Brother, we can work together and work together well.”
The Michigan native and Tiffany Mitchell, a fellow member of The Cookout alliance that ran BB23, had similar thoughts going into the game. “Big Brother and Survivor are two big groups in the house,” he says. “There was an unspoken assumption that people were going to work with their
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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterAt the box office, Jordan Peele is in rarified company as a director who needs only his name to draw audiences to the big screen. Even more impressive, it took only one film, 2017’s social thriller “Get Out,” to achieve that cachet.After the breakout critical and commercial success of “Get Out,” which opened to $33 million and tapped out with a mighty $176 million at the domestic box office, Peele electrified the box office again with 2019’s “Us,” which smashed expectations by debuting to $70 million and ended its North American run with an impressive $175 million.So it’s reasonable to believe the director will hit the box office trifecta with his next nightmarish vision “Nope,” which stars Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun and opens in theaters on Friday.
Call Me By Your Name actor as giving tours at a hotel in the Cayman Islands. It was later reported that he’s been selling timeshares in the Caymans, but now Hammer is seemingly shutting down these rumors by showing himself out in public in the United States. Following one of Armie Hammer’s attorneys, Andrew Brettler, claiming that the flyer that circulated on social media was fake, and an unnamed employee from the hotel in question saying that it was made as a prank, the Sorry to Bother You star was photographed outside of the Great White restaurant in the Venice area of Los Angeles on Monday.
Box office for most Broadway shows – Funny Girl and Mr. Saturday Night included – was up a bit last week, as the hits – Into The Woods and MJ included – stayed strong and even some struggling shows saw a slight uptick in attendance.
US comic - who starred in Netflix’s Big Mouth and Peacock show Bust Down - died on Thursday night in Los Angeles, his family confirmed. No cause of death was given. Knight was most recognised for his voice work on the 2017 series Big Mouth which he also co-wrote for five seasons.
Limp Bizkit have postponed their upcoming 2022 UK and European tour due to frontman Fred Durst’s “personal health concerns”.The band were set to play four shows this September, including two gigs at London’s Brixton Academy, in support of recent album ‘Still Sucks’.They have now announced that their frontman Durst has been advised to take an “immediate break from touring” by a medical profession, and that the dates will be rescheduled.Durst and the band wrote: “For personal health concerns and based on medical advice given by my personal physician to take an immediate break from touring, Limp Bizkit will sadly have to postpone their 2022 Uk and European tour.“We truly apologise for any inconvenience this may cause to our loyal fans, promoters and support staff. Stand by for further news.
A surprise exit. Big Brother 23 fan favorite Tiffany Mitchell was eliminated alongside Love Island partner Cashel Barnett in a wild episode of The Challenge: USA on Wednesday, July 13.
No regrets. Javonny Vega and Cely Vazquez may have been the first ones eliminated on The Challenge: USA, but they seem to be taking it in stride.
The inaugural network broadcast of The Challenge: USA was a boon to CBS on Wednesday in primetime. The spinoff of the successful MTV franchise, together with the 24th season of Big Brother, helped CBS to win the night overall with 2.95 million viewers.
The Collaboration, Anthony McCarten’s hit London play about artists Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, will make its American premiere on Broadway this winter, with Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope as the two painters.
Her showmance days are over. Big Brother 23 alum Alyssa Lopez was focused on winning when she signed on to compete in The Challenge: USA, the new CBS iteration of the MTV franchise.
Kyland Young, one of six members of The Cookout alliance that ran Big Brother 23, was a little concerned when he saw so many of his former castmates on The Challenge: USA.
J. Kim Murphy It’s a 20th century showdown at the domestic box office this weekend, with the baby boomer epic “Elvis” contending against Gen X revamp “Top Gun: Maverick” for the top spot on domestic charts.Director Baz Luhrmann’s biopic about the King of Rock and Roll is projected to draw $30 million from 3,906 theaters in its opening.
Elvis film exists, including scenes that show the legendary singer meeting Richard Nixon.Speaking to Radio Times in a new interview published yesterday (June 20), Luhrmann explained that the longer version exists, but needed to be worked into a smaller cut to for audiences.“I have a four-hour version, actually,” he said. “I do.
K.J. Yossman Director James Marsh is set to direct a new hybrid animated documentary feature for Submarine and Sandpaper Films.“Oasis, Saving the Baghdad Zoo” (working title), is a feature-length animated documentary partly based on “Babylon’s Ark,” the book about a year-long rescue mission of animals abandoned across Baghdad by Saddam Hussein and his son Uday.Billed as a 21st century Noah’s Ark, the film will show how a team of American soldiers, Iraqi zookeepers, and international volunteers tended to lions, camels, bears, exotic birds, monkeys, pigs and even an ocelot in the middle of a brutal war, risking their own lives in the process.
David Bowie, explaining how they almost worked on a project together in Berlin.The director, who worked with the late musician on the soundtrack for 2001’s Moulin Rouge!, told NME about how Bowie’s classic track ‘Changes’ impacted his life.“From the moment I first heard this song, I was a huge Bowie fan,” Luhrmann said. “I eventually worked with him [on the Moulin Rouge! soundtrack] and then towards the end of his life, he became a very good friend.“He used to come round and we’d walk the dogs.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaDisney and Pixar’s “Lightyear” blasted off with a respectable $5.2 million in Thursday previews.The film, a spinoff of the “Toy Story” franchise, looks at the fictional astronaut character who was in a movie the inspired the Buzz Lightyear action figure who enchanted Andy and who later became BFFs with Woody (got that?). But this Buzz Lightyear, much to Patricia Heaton’s rather evocative dismay, is voiced not by Tim Allen, whose dulcet pipes graced all four “Toy Story” flicks, but by the Star Command-ing cadences of one Chris Evans.“Lightyear” is expected to launch to between $70 million to $80 million and will screen in 4,200 North American theaters. That should be a big enough number to secure first place at the box office, as well as all the attendant bragging rights that come with that perch.