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15 hours ago
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Jimmy Fallon Makes Shocking Admission About His Obsession With Getting On 'SNL'
Jimmy Fallon was set on getting 'Saturday Night Live' by the age of 25. The late night talk show host opened up about what he would do if he didn't land a part on the show by that time, during a candid interview with Steven Bartlett on 'The Diary of a CEO' podcast. 'I was going to kill myself,' the 'Fever Pitch' actor said. 'Were you actually?' Bartlett asked. 'Yeah,' Fallon answered. 'I wrote that in something ― in some journal or something. If I don't get on 'Saturday Night Live' by the age of 25, that I'll kill myself.' When Bartlett asked if Fallon was actually serious about what he'd written, he confirmed that he was. 'But again, I knew that I was going to be on 'Saturday Night Live,' so I guess I didn't really mean it,' the actor said, clarifying that his statement then 'wasn't really a threat.' 'I think I said, 'I will kill myself,'' he shared. 'But I definitely said ― you know ― yeah, 25 was my thing.' Fallon has revealed his intense drive to be on the show before, and said that his obsession with 'SNL' started at an early age. 'I wanted to be Dana Carvey,' Fallon told Carvey and David Spade on their 'SNL' podcast, 'Fly on the Wall,' back in 2022. 'That was my whole reason for getting on 'Saturday Night Live.'' 'I was such an 'SNL' nerd, I would record it every single Saturday night and I would be by myself,' he shared on the podcast. 'I didn't want friends over, I didn't want anyone around me, my parents ― I didn't want anyone near me. I just wanted to study the show.' Fallon ended up getting the show by his self-imposed deadline, and stayed on 'SNL' for six seasons, from 1998 to 2004. If you or someone you know needs help, call or text 988 or chat for mental health support. Additionally, you can find local mental health and crisis resources at Outside of the U.S., please visit the International Association for Suicide Prevention. Seth Meyers Names The 1 Thing He And Amy Poehler Would Fight About On 'SNL' Jimmy Fallon's Takeaway From Trump's Jet Gift Is Like No Other Jimmy Fallon Uses Kentucky Derby To Make A Horse's Ass Out Of Trump
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3 days ago
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'Sport Science' Host John Brenkus Dies At 54
John Brenkus, host of ESPN's 'Sport Science,' died Saturday at 54 years old after 'battling depression,' according to a statement. 'His heartbroken family and friends request privacy at this time and encourage anyone who is struggling with depression to seek help,' the statement reads. Brenkus created and hosted 'Sport Science,' which ran from 2007 to 2017 and and won six Sports Emmy awards. The network's 'SportsCenter' aired a tribute to Brenkus over the weekend. 'John was uniquely talented and singularly brilliant at not only analyzing sports but then translating sports and science to generations of fans in memorable ways, because John was memorable,' host Randy Scott said during the tribute. In 2023, Brenkus said on the 'Never Shut Up' show that while he was living in Utah after he sold 'Sport Science' to ESPN in 2010, he fell into a 'very deep depression.' 'The isolation that you feel living in a mountain town, the cold weather, injuries, things not going right, I spiraled into a deep, deep depression and I was flat-out suicidal,' Brenkus said. He credited his dog with refusing to leave him alone, prompting him to ask himself, 'What am I doing?' and call his mother for help. He later saw several different psychiatrists and 'found a solution.' Brenkus added he learned that depression 'is not about being sad.' 'It's about the way we are constructed as humans having thought loops,' he said. 'And people get caught in thought loops and they can't get out of their own way.' Brenkus wrote 'The Perfection Point' in 2010, in which he sought out the 'absolute limits' of nine athletic events. If you or someone you know needs help, call or text 988 or chat for mental health support. Additionally, you can find local mental health and crisis resources at Outside of the U.S., please visit the International Association for Suicide Prevention. California Sports Org Expands Finals Eligibility After Trump Tantrum Over Trans Athlete 'King Of The Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Shot And Killed By Neighbor: Police
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3 days ago
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'Sport Science' Host John Brenkus Dies At 54
John Brenkus, host of ESPN's 'Sport Science,' died Saturday at 54 years old after 'battling depression,' according to a statement. 'His heartbroken family and friends request privacy at this time and encourage anyone who is struggling with depression to seek help,' the statement reads. Brenkus created and hosted 'Sport Science,' which ran from 2007 to 2017 and and won six Sports Emmy awards. The network's 'SportsCenter' aired a tribute to Brenkus over the weekend. 'John was uniquely talented and singularly brilliant at not only analyzing sports but then translating sports and science to generations of fans in memorable ways, because John was memorable,' host Randy Scott said during the tribute. In 2023, Brenkus said on the 'Never Shut Up' show that while he was living in Utah after he sold 'Sport Science' to ESPN in 2010, he fell into a 'very deep depression.' 'The isolation that you feel living in a mountain town, the cold weather, injuries, things not going right, I spiraled into a deep, deep depression and I was flat-out suicidal,' Brenkus said. He credited his dog with refusing to leave him alone, prompting him to ask himself, 'What am I doing?' and call his mother for help. He later saw several different psychiatrists and 'found a solution.' Brenkus added he learned that depression 'is not about being sad.' 'It's about the way we are constructed as humans having thought loops,' he said. 'And people get caught in thought loops and they can't get out of their own way.' Brenkus wrote 'The Perfection Point' in 2010, in which he sought out the 'absolute limits' of nine athletic events. If you or someone you know needs help, call or text 988 or chat for mental health support. Additionally, you can find local mental health and crisis resources at Outside of the U.S., please visit the International Association for Suicide Prevention. California Sports Org Expands Finals Eligibility After Trump Tantrum Over Trans Athlete 'King Of The Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Shot And Killed By Neighbor: Police
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Health
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Bella Ramsey Says This ‘Intense' Fear Kept Them From Leaving The House For Months
Bella Ramsey said they once suffered from an 'intense' fear of vomiting that left them stuck in their house for months as a teen. While appearing on the 'Louis Theroux Podcast' earlier this week, the 'Last of Us' star, now 21, revealed that battling emetophobia, the intense fear of vomiting or seeing others vomit, made them see 'everything outside [as] a threat.' 'The concept of having a stomach bug or having norovirus is enough [to activate the phobia],' they explained. 'It's such an all-encompassing fear. It's the unpredictability…' The actor said their emetophobia got so intense around age 13 that they felt they 'couldn't leave my house,' adding that 'the only safe place in the world was home, and even that wasn't safe at times in terms of germs.' The 'Game of Thrones' alum, who uses they/them pronouns, said that the phobia caused them to hyperfixate on sickness and to 'see germs.' 'You go out ... it's like you can see germs, you see like sickness, everywhere. Terrifying … it used to affect me on set as well.' They continued, 'Say, if I've been in contact with someone who has got norovirus, for the next like 2 weeks, it's a thing of monitoring how I'm feeling. Like, what if I go out and go on the [London Underground] Tube and then the symptoms come and I start to feel unwell? Now I throw up on the Tube, and how bad is that?' At one point, Ramsey said they felt so consumed by having emetophobia that they thought they 'would rather die than throw up.' Ramsey told Theroux that they sought help for their phobia by reading a book called 'The Thrive Programme' written by Rob Kelly. They shared they don't feel emetophobic anymore, but admitted they still have 'a slightly stronger reaction to vomit than the average person' and are 'more averse or afraid of it.' Listen to Ramsey's appearance on the 'Louis Theroux Podcast' here. If you or someone you know needs help, call or text 988 or chat for mental health support. Additionally, you can find local mental health and crisis resources at Outside of the U.S., please visit the International Association for Suicide Prevention. Related...
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03-05-2025
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Steve From 'Blue's Clues' Got Honest About His Earnings, And It's Not What You'd Expect
Steve Burns, from the popular '90s children's show 'Blue Clues,' is revealing a surprising detail about his time sitting in the infamous Thinking Chair. While appearing on the podcast Soul Boom, hosted by actor Rainn Wilson, Burns shared candid reflections on his time with the beloved series, which he hosted from 1996 to 2001. 'I got 'Blue's Clues' early, but every waiter I ever knew made more money than I did for the first many seasons of that show,' he revealed. Burns went on to call the show his 'side hustle' based on the modest pay, and credited voiceover work as his main source of income. 'My real gig was, I was a voiceover guy. I fell into that early,' Burns said. He explained commercial voiceovers 'would kind of sustain him,' though he confessed those early years in New York City were 'grim.' As he tells it, he ended up on 'Blue's Clues' by accident just after finishing theater school. 'I thought it was a voice thing, I went to the audition,' Burns said. 'And when I got there, there was a camera in the room. And I thought, 'Oh, shit. I better do something.' And I looked at the script, and, you know, I figured … I'm gonna act the shit out of this.' Burns also opened up about how rumors of his death impacted his mental health. 'I was in kind of the throes of this depression after I left the show,' he explained. 'But what a lot of people don't understand is that, that during the show, the internet was beginning to internet, and the world decided, or a large portion of the world decided, that I had died.' The suicide rumors were 'not what you want to hear when you're severely clinically depressed,' he said. If you or someone you know needs help, call or text 988 or chat for mental health support. Additionally, you can find local mental health and crisis resources at Outside of the U.S., please visit the International Association for Suicide Prevention. Steve From 'Blue's Clues' Checks In On Fans After Documentary On Alleged Child Star Abuse Steve From 'Blue's Clues' Shares Gutting Revelation About Fake Death Rumors Steve From 'Blue's Clues' Comforts Fans After The Election Without Even Saying Anything
