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Late-night shows suspend scheduled production
One day after choosing to tape shows without studio audiences, three major late-night talk shows have suspended production of new episodes until at least March 30 due to the coronavirus risk.
Late Thursday, CBS’S “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” announced plans to postpone three original episodes planned for next week, leading into a weeklong scheduled hiatus during the week of March 23. The show will monitor the situation, with plans to return March 30.
NBC’S “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers’ “Late Night” also said they would suspend production through their previously planned hiatus, also scheduled for the week of March 23.
NBC said it will monitor the situation before making a decision about when to
Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson taking diagnoses ‘one day at a time’
Tom Hanks said he and wife, Rita Wilson, were taking their new coronavirus infection “one day at a time” while Australian television hosts who had interviewed Wilson were awaiting test results Friday.
Hanks and Wilson are isolated and in stable condition in a hospital on Australia’s Gold Coast. The couple used a social media post to thank “everyone here Down Under who are taking such good care of us.”
“We have Covid-19 and are in isolation so we do not spread it to anyone else,” Hanks said in a post. “There are those for whom it could lead to a very serious illness. We are taking it one day at a time.”
Hanks had been in Queensland state shooting an untitled Elvis Presley biopic
Naomi Campbell, Howie Mandel sport hazmat suits
Naomi Campbell and Howie Mandel are not playing when it comes to their health.
Amid coronavirus concerns, the supermodel decided to take extra precautions while traveling and wore a hazmat suit to the airport.
Campbell, 49, shared a photo of her travel attire to Instagram with a hazmat suit, face mask, purple gloves and goggles. “Safety First NEXT LEVEL,” Campbell captioned the post.
Mandelwore a full hazmat suit and gas mask to a recent taping of the competition reality series.
He shared a picture of his outfit side
Rapper Kodak Black pleads guilty
Rapper Kodak Black pleaded guilty Thursday to a weapons charge stemming from a stop at the Canadian border crossing near Niagara Falls last April.
The music artist, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, was arrested after he drove a Cadillac Escalade across the Lewistonqueenston International Bridge into the United States with three other men. State police say the men had marijuana and a loaded pistol without a permit when they were detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers.
Kodak Black pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in Niagara County Court, WKBW in Buffalo reported. He faces two to seven years in prison when he’s sentenced on March 24.
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