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Frasier” star Kelsey Grammer had an interview with the BBC cut short by Paramount+ representatives after the actor began to voice his support conversation turned to his support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. According to host Justin Webb, Grammer, mentioned comedienne, actor and producer Roseanne Barr during the segment which aired on BBC Radio 4’s Today program The 68-year-old “Cheers” alum allegedly explained that the idea for the “Frasier” revival came after the success of 2018’s “Roseanne” reboot, which returned after a 21-year hiatus.The ABC series was later canceled after Barr, a fellow Trump supporter, tweeted some controversial remarks including a a racist joke about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett.

NBC News’s Laura Jarrett will co-anchor Saturday Today this fall, joining Peter Alexander as the weekend broadcast moves back to Studio 1A in New York after originating from Washington.

Barr joked about holocaust denialism and Jews controlling the media. YouTube said the video — which was uploaded to comedian Theo Von’s channel — violated its hate speech policies and prevented him from uploading new content for a week.Amid the controversy, Musk backed Von’s support for Barr and chimed in, “Comedy is legal on this platform!” Enter Publicsq, founded by CEO Michael Seifert in 2021 with the aim of becoming the next big online shopping destination.

John Goodman has no regrets when it comes to his decision to stand up for his friend and former co-star Roseanne Barr.The ABC sitcom “Roseanne” first aired from 1988 through 1997 and was rebooted in 2018.The reboot was canceled after Barr, 70, posted a string of tweets that led to accusations of racism and antisemitism. ABC ultimately revived the series without her and renamed it “The Conners.”Later in 2018, Goodman, 71, defended Barr to the Sunday Times, saying, “I was surprised at the response. And that’s probably all I should say about that … I know, I know, for a fact that she’s not a racist.”Now, Goodman is standing by the comments he made after Barr compared former President Barack Obama’s adviser Valerie Jarrett to an ape.In an interview with Variety at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, “The Conners” star was asked if he regrets speaking up for Barr.“No.

John Goodman played Roseanne Barr's husband on TV for over 10 years, but that changed after Barr made some questionable comments on Twitter in 2018. Speaking about Barr now, Goodman expressed that he had some strong emotions about the circumstances of Barr's firing from their show, but he does not know if those feelings would be enough to make him consider working with her again. After playing Dan and Roseanne Conner on "Roseanne" from 1988 to 1998, Goodman and Barr agreed to do a reboot of the show with the same name.The nine-episode season aired from March through May 2018, but that summer, Barr made a series of racist comments about Valerie Jarrett, a former advisor to former President Obama, and she was fired from the show.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor “The Conners” and “The Righteous Gemstones” star John Goodman says he misses his “Roseanne” co-star Roseanne Barr, but he’s not sure he’d work with her again. Hit sitcom “Roseanne” was canceled by ABC in 2018 after a racially-charged tweet by Barr about Valerie Jarrett, an African-American woman who was a senior adviser to Barack Obama throughout his presidency. Barr later apologized. Later that year, Goodman told the Sunday Times: “I was surprised at the response. And that’s probably all I should say about that … I know for a fact that she’s not a racist.” He added that Barr was “going through hell.” Barr then thanked Goodman “for speaking truth about me.”

went on a bizarre Twitter rant falsely claiming Chelsea ​Clinton ​is married to George Soros’ nephew​, repeated a false rumor that the billionaire is a Nazi sympathizer​ and made a racist comment about President Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. In a recent interview on SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Barr blamed her former co-star Sara Gilbert, 48, for the backlash against her. In the aftermath of Barr’s Twitter meltdown, Gilbert tweeted, “Roseanne’s recent comments about Valerie Jarrett, and so much more, are abhorrent and do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew or anyone associated with our show.

Twitter message, taken by many as being racist towards Valerie Jarrett, a former adviser to President Barack Obama. The actress posted several racist conspiracy theories, referring to Jarrett as the offspring of Planet of the Apes. Dozens of celebrities spoke out against Barr's offensive comments at the time, including Sara Gilbert, who played Barr's daughter in the original series and the 2018 reboot.

Hollywood celebrities who have been "cancelled". The star was ousted from ABC back in 2018 after posting a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, a senior aide to President Barack Obama. Five years after being fired from the revival of her hit sitcom, Roseanne is making her return to the world of Showbiz.

Barr is performing in her first stand up special in 20 years, “Cancel This,” set to debut later this month on Fox Nation. When Kilmeade said he felt Chappelle can’t travel or perform without people trying to “upset him” over the things he says in his comedy shows, Barr said Chappelle is “lucky” to have people who will come to his defense. “…The people that he does his jokes for, the people he performs for always back him, so that’s the difference between him and me and other comics,” said Barr. “He always has the backing of the people on Netflix.

The Los Angeles Times. "And it was terrifying. It was."Back in 2018, the comedian was on top of the world, as the "Roseanne" reboot was having wild success on ABC.

A post shared by Tiffany (@tiffany_tunes)Tiffany, now 51, is also very active on social media and often posts selfies and images from performances. Some of the snaps are silly and mundane, whereas others are borderline provocative and busty. A post shared by Tiffany (@tiffany_tunes)The recent snaps are a far cry from Tiffany's looks as a younger woman, wherein she was often pictured with big hair and prudent fashion.Tiffany — who many consider a one-hit-wonder — shattered her conservative image in 2002 after posing for Playboy at the age of 30."I did it to break down those barriers so people couldn't say, 'Aww, she's still 14,' and I also did it because I couldn't get booked on shows and it was a chance for me to say, 'Hey, if that phone rings, yes, it'll be because of Playboy, but I can talk about my music,'" she told ABCNEWS Radio at the time.

After The Conners killed off Roseanne Barr’s eponymous character in 2018, the comedian is not interested in watching the sitcom.

Almost five years after ABC canceled her comedy following her tirade of racist and anti-semitic tweets, Roseanne Barr is returning with the stand-up special Roseanne Barr: Cancel This!, premiering Monday on Fox Nation.

Roseanne Barr is making her return to comedy in a new special on Fox Nation which will debut on Monday, Feb. 13. A teaser for Roseanne Barr: Cancel This! was dropped during the NFC Championship Game between the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers. Watch the preview in the video posted above!

Roseanne Barr will produce and perform in a new comedy special for Fox Nation, Fox News Media’s subscription streaming service.

Roseanne Barr is no stranger to controversy. Throughout her decades-long career, the 69-year-old actress has faced numerous occurrences of public scrutiny; however, nothing compares to the 2018 twitter scandal that led to her removal from the “Roseanne” revival.

and killed her off — her eponymous sitcom following controversial remarks way back in 2018.Barr’s new Reelz documentary — “Roseanne: Kicked Out of Hollywood” — gets raw about her ousting from the revival of her ’90s sitcom “Roseanne,” which is now known as “The Conners.” The outspoken star alleged that ABC always had issues with her contentious (the network president labeled them “repugnant”) tweets and comments — and engaged in “intellectual witch-burning” to silence her.In 2018, ABC cancelled the original “Roseanne” reboot after Barr’s racist tweet comparing former President Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to the offspring of the “Muslim brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.”‘I’m a comic. I’m a bad girl … I’m going to say f— it and f— you until I take my last breath.’“Any tweet that was not ‘I love Hillary Clinton,’ I got a call for,” Barr claimed in regards to the network’s management methods.The doc also dives deep into the moment Barr tweeted about a conspiracy theory about a Parkland school shooting survivor giving a Nazi salute at a rally for harder gun control.She would up deleting the tweet. “I removed it every time they called,” she said.

Smithsonian Channel has shared a clip promoting “One Thousand Years of Slavery,” a new docuseries that aims to tell the global story of slavery.The four-part series features interviews and discussions with notable Black actors, celebrities and leaders, who will dive into their own family connections to slavery and unpack the legacy it has left today. Some of the people interviewed for the series include Debbie Allen, Valerie Jarrett, Lorraine Toussaint, Soledad O’Brien, CCH Pounder, Senator Cory Booker, Marc Morial and Dulé Hill.The series is executive produced by Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance’s Bassett Vance Productions, with Vance narrating every episode.

Trayvon Martin in Florida also get attention.The post-George Floyd onset of racial reckoning and the subsequent backlash have coincided with the growth of streaming and its voracious need for content, a two-fold incentive for TV to pay heed to the sweep and nuance of Black experience.With broadcast networks and cable channels trying to keep pace with flush streaming services, there’s an impressive field of documentaries, profiles and more ahead. Among the highlights (all times are Eastern):—“One Thousand Years of Slavery,” Smithsonian Channel, Feb. 7-28.

The controversy continues to swirl around Whoopi Goldberg following her unacceptable comments on The View on Monday.

By Photography by In the lead up to Glamour's Women of the Year awards, entrepreneur and advocate Valerie Jarrett interviewed activist Dolores Huerta over Zoom. Joining the two was Samantha Barry—Glamour's editor in chief. At Glamour, it’s our job to think about what’s next—in fashion, in politics, on TV, and in particular, when it comes to issues that affect women’s lives.

Days before Joe Biden announced that he had chosen Senator Kamala Harris to be his running mate, Valerie Jarrett was among a group of women who put the media on notice.

Election Day may be six weeks away, but Valerie Jarrett thinks it’s never too early to figure out how and when you’re going to vote.

During her tenure as the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama found herself in a work-life tug of war. She discussed trying to strike a work-life balance in her best-selling memoir Becoming.

Meghan Markle has been announced as a surprise guest for the upcoming virtual When We All Vote summit.

Glamour editor-in-chief Samantha Barry have a message: If you need to register to vote before the , next week is a great time to do it. It's not just a few short weeks out from one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime, but also the centennial of women's right to vote. —a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to voter registration efforts—is launching a new initiative: The , held in partnership with the .

Michelle Obama will let her own voice be heard on a new podcast.

Michelle Obama is to host her own Spotify podcast, interviewing famous names and opinion formers.The Michelle Obama Podcast will feature the former U.S.

In her caption, Obama explained that in the first season of the show, she’ll talk to "some of the people most dear to me," including her mother, brother, friends, and colleagues. CNN some of those guests will also include late-night host Conan O'Brien, Obama White House advisor Valerie Jarrett, and journalist Michele Norris.

When Rosanne Barr is in the headline, you know the story is going to be out there. 

PASADENA – The cast of ABC's "The Conners" has a storied history with politics, and it looks like they have no plans to change that.