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Daily Mirror
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
ITV SHARK! Celebrity Infested Waters viewers left tearful over mention of late celeb
SHARK! Celebrity Infested Waters launched on Monday evening, with a number of celebrities heading to The Bahamas to dive with sharks ITV audiences were touched during the premiere of SHARK! Celebrity Infested Waters when a beloved late celebrity was mentioned. The new reality series kicked off on Monday (14th July), with a group of seven celebrities, including Lenny Henry and Helen George, jetting off to The Bahamas for a daring shark diving adventure. In the opening episode, the stars were informed they would be swimming with wild stingrays, which immediately sparked fear among some participants. Helen, known from Call the Midwife, turned to Lenny with concern, asking: "Are rays dangerous? Are you scared of rays? Are they a thing to be scared of? Can they kill you?" Lenny Henry whispered to fellow contestant Ross Noble: "I'm just not going to talk about Steve Irwin at all," which caused Helen to suddenly worry and question: "Wait, hang on. Didn't Steve Irwin die of a ray sting?" Danni Washington, the show's expert, stepped in to calm the celebrities, explaining that Steve Irwin's passing was a "freak accident" and aimed to alleviate their concerns about the upcoming swim. Steve Irwin, affectionately known as The Crocodile Hunter, was an Australian wildlife expert and TV personality who rose to fame in the 1990s through his wildlife documentaries. He tragically passed away in September 2006 at age 44 after being pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while snorkelling at the Great Barrier Reef for a television segment, reports the Express. An unexpected mention of the late TV legend in Monday's episode of SHARK! Celebrity Infested Waters struck an emotional chord with many viewers as they reminisced about him. One emotional ITV fan stated on social media: "I will never get over Steve Irwin's death. I still tear up when I watch him. #shark #celebrityinfestedwaters." "'We're not going to talk about Steve Irwin' #Shark," quipped another, while a third expressed outrage, commenting: "I've turned it off how dare they mention Sir Steve Irwin like that." The debut episode of SHARK! Celebrity Infested Waters sparked mixed reactions, with some critics describing it as "unwatchable" and others hailing it as "amazing". The programme, released during the 50th anniversary year of Jaws, intends to shift celebrities' perspectives on sharks and promote conservation by observing them in the wild. The line-up boasts names such as Dougie Poynter, Ross Noble, Lucy Punch, Helen George, Lenny Henry, Rachel Riley and Ade Adepitan.
Indianapolis Star
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Indianapolis Star
Man wins $1M prize during game show celebrating release of 'Jaws'
A northeastern Massachusetts man is taking home $1 million after a game show hosted at Martha's Vineyard in honor of the theatrical release of the 1975 thriller 'Jaws'. The live game show was held on July 13 at Martha's Vineyard, where the Steven Spielberg movie was filmed over a 5 ½ month period in 1974. This year, Martha's Vineyard is hosting a series of events in honor of the film's theatrical release on June 20, 1975. David Ouellette was part of the game show, dubbed the Massachusetts State Lottery's '$1,000,000 Jaws Game Show,' and took home the game's $1 million top prize before taxes, the Massachusetts State Lottery said in a news release. Video captured the moment he won. Here's how he ended up taking home the top prize, and what Martha's Vineyard has in store for the rest of its 'Jaws' 50th anniversary celebration. Read more: Will we need a bigger boat? Martha's Vineyard awash in 'Jaws' at 50 mania Ouellette, who was at the vineyard with his wife, Lynn, was one of 30 contestants selected to participate. The tickets went on sale in March of 2024. To be eligible to compete, contestants submitted non-winning Jaws instant tickets through the Mass Lottery mobile app and website. Six winners were chosen from five Second Chance drawings, earning a paid weekend trip to Martha's Vineyard with one guest, and participation in the '$1,000,000 JAWS Game Show' at the Martha's Vineyard Film Center. During the game show's first round, Ouellette and the other contestants selected a tile to turn around and reveal their prize, including cash amounts ranging from $500 to $5,000. Two of the contestants selected tiles, revealing they were moving forward to the second round, while one contestant would win the top prize of $1 million and the other would receive a $10,000 prize. In the second round, Ouellette and another contestant took turns selecting tiles until Ouellette made his final decision. The first to choose five '$1,000,000' tiles to win it all. 'Number five!' Ouellette yelled in a video captured that day, waiting to see if the tile he chose would bring him victory. As he and onlookers waited in anticipation inside the theater, suspenseful music blared throughout. 'Thank you all,' he said. 'The lottery is great!' Another contestant, Joe Candido of Quincy, about 9 miles southeast of Boston, won the $10,000 prize. The rest of the contestants took home prizes including $500, $1,000, $2,000, and $5,000. When Ouellette and his wife were asked what they planned to do with the money, the couple wasn't quite sure yet. 'It hasn't hit us yet,' the couple said. In addition to the lottery's live game show, Martha's Vineyard guests can also check out 'The Shark is Broken,' a comedic stageplay, as well as an art exhibition, film memorabilia, and 'JAWS'-themed clothing and accessories. More information on the 50th anniversary festivities can be found at
USA Today
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Man wins $1M prize during game show celebrating release of 'Jaws'
A northeastern Massachusetts man is taking home $1 million after a game show hosted at Martha's Vineyard in honor of the theatrical release of the 1975 thriller 'Jaws'. The live game show was held on July 13 at Martha's Vineyard, where the Steven Spielberg movie was filmed over a 5 ½ month period in 1974. This year, Martha's Vineyard is hosting a series of events in honor of the film's theatrical release on June 20, 1975. David Ouellette was part of the game show, dubbed the Massachusetts State Lottery's '$1,000,000 Jaws Game Show,' and took home the game's $1 million top prize before taxes, the Massachusetts State Lottery said in a news release. Video captured the moment he won. Here's how he ended up taking home the top prize, and what Martha's Vineyard has in store for the rest of its 'Jaws' 50th anniversary celebration. Read more: Will we need a bigger boat? Martha's Vineyard awash in 'Jaws' at 50 mania How did the big win happen? Ouellette, who was at the vineyard with his wife, Lynn, was one of 30 contestants selected to participate. The tickets went on sale in March of 2024. To be eligible to compete, contestants submitted non-winning Jaws instant tickets through the Mass Lottery mobile app and website. Six winners were chosen from five Second Chance drawings, earning a paid weekend trip to Martha's Vineyard with one guest, and participation in the '$1,000,000 JAWS Game Show' at the Martha's Vineyard Film Center. During the game show's first round, Ouellette and the other contestants selected a tile to turn around and reveal their prize, including cash amounts ranging from $500 to $5,000. Two of the contestants selected tiles, revealing they were moving forward to the second round, while one contestant would win the top prize of $1 million and the other would receive a $10,000 prize. In the second round, Ouellette and another contestant took turns selecting tiles until Ouellette made his final decision. The first to choose five '$1,000,000' tiles to win it all. 'Number five!' Ouellette yelled in a video captured that day, waiting to see if the tile he chose would bring him victory. As he and onlookers waited in anticipation inside the theater, suspenseful music blared throughout. 'Thank you all,' he said. 'The lottery is great!' Another contestant, Joe Candido of Quincy, about 9 miles southeast of Boston, won the $10,000 prize. The rest of the contestants took home prizes including $500, $1,000, $2,000, and $5,000. Man now swimming in cash uncertain of what to do with prize money When Ouellette and his wife were asked what they planned to do with the money, the couple wasn't quite sure yet. 'It hasn't hit us yet,' the couple said. Martha's Vineyard offering 'Jaws' themed events all summer In addition to the lottery's live game show, Martha's Vineyard guests can also check out 'The Shark is Broken,' a comedic stageplay, as well as an art exhibition, film memorabilia, and 'JAWS'-themed clothing and accessories. More information on the 50th anniversary festivities can be found at Saleen Martin is a reporter on USA TODAY's NOW team. She is from Norfolk, Virginia – the 757. Email her at sdmartin@
Times
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Times
Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters review — Get Me Out of Here! but in the sea
Who'd be a shark, eh? You mind your own business for millions of years, then along come humans and a film called Jaws, whicht gives you terrible PR — and makes them so terrified they want to trophy-hunt you to death. Then what happens? Everyone suddenly feels so bad that your numbers have been ravaged, the penny drops that you actually need protecting from humans (not vice versa), and the next thing you know celebrities are flying halfway across the world to peer at you while standing in the sea shrieking things like, 'Are my testicles safe?' Haven't sharks suffered enough? Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters (ITV) marks 50 years since the making of Jaws, which it said made them one of the most feared and persecuted animals on the planet. And what better way to educate the public about them than transporting seven celebrities 4,000 miles away to the Bahamas to say repeatedly how frightened they are? Especially Helen George, aka Trixie in Call the Midwife, who revealed that she has a phobia about putting her head under water and then was required to go in an underwater cage circled by bull sharks. Er, Helen, maybe have a word with your agent. Wouldn't you be better off with a gig on Celebrity Sewing Bee? And what better way to calm their nerves than by introducing them to one of their instructors, Paul, who is missing an arm and a leg because they were bitten off by, yes… a bull shark! Cue exaggerated 'gulp' faces all round. This smacks of I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here but in the water, not the jungle and with no Ant and Dec. And, hopefully, no horrible, performative eating of animals. I can't imagine anyone will tuck into a bowl of shark's fin soup. Anyway, there's also Sir Lenny Henry, Lucy Punch (aka the brilliant Amanda from Motherland), Ross Noble, Ade Adepitan, Rachel Riley and Dougie Poynter from McFly — but by the end of episode one only one of them had been bitten. Noble took a slight nip on the leg from a lemon shark and the comedian was quite funny about it. 'When you've been through something like that you view life differently,' he said, observing the barely visible graze to his wetsuit. If this show does help undemonise sharks then all power to its elbow — even if it does mean watching George surrounded by stingrays and shouting, 'It's coming right for my vagina!' No word yet on whether the stingray's lawyer is suing for defamation. Hopefully it will end the ridiculous phrase 'shark-infested waters'. Sharks live in the sea — it's us who invade their sanctuary. Fair play to the title's accuracy, though: these waters are indeed 'celebrity-infested'. Wouldn't it be an interesting twist on I'm a Celebrity if, instead, the sharks were the ones snacking on some celebrities' genitals, declaring, 'Yuck, absolutely disgusting'? I daresay ratings would soar. ★★★☆☆
India Today
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- India Today
Jaws @ 50 The Definitive Story review: Steven Spielberg's shark saga still has bite
It's been half a century since 'Jaws' first made us terrified of the ocean - and honestly, we're still not over it. Steven Spielberg's 1975 thriller didn't just give us one of cinema's most iconic lines ('You're gonna need a bigger boat'), it rewrote the rules of blockbuster filmmaking when 'Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Story' dropped, it wasn't just another documentary - it felt like a long-overdue love letter to a film that defined an documentary opens with Steven Spielberg himself, now a seasoned legend, recounting the almost accidental way he landed the project. He spotted Peter Benchley's bestselling novel 'Jaws' lying on a producer's desk and picked it did he know that this moment would change his life, and the trajectory of Hollywood, forever. In classic Spielberg humour, he admits that when he first saw the title 'Jaws', he thought it was a 'history of dentistry'. Safe to say, it wasn' documentary is not your standard behind-the-scenes snoozefest. It's slick, gripping, and packed with bite (pun intended). Whether you're a hardcore fan who's memorised every frame or someone who watched the film during a random Sunday rerun and got hooked, this documentary serves up something for the get-go, it pulls you into the whirlwind that was the making of 'Jaws'. We're talking mechanical sharks that wouldn't swim, a young Spielberg trying to hold it all together, and a production so chaotic it's a miracle the film was even interviews are gold - raw, witty, and often emotional. Spielberg himself reflects on the pressure and madness of it all with the kind of candour that only comes with age (and a few Oscars in the bag). The docu doesn't just rely on Spielberg's anecdotes. It pulls in everyone from filmmakers James Cameron to JJ Abrams, actor and a self-proclaimed 'Jaws' fan, Emily Blunt, to shark biologists, oceanographers, screenwriters, authors, and film result is a rich, multi-dimensional look at 'Jaws' - how it blurred the line between art and panic, and how it left a permanent mark on film history and marine biology the trailer of the documentary here: One line that lingers long after the credits roll is when Spielberg says he wanted the film to feel 'realistically brutal.' And he nailed it.'Jaws' wasn't just about fear, it was about dread creeping in, slow and inevitable, much like the shark itself. And despite all odds (and a literal ocean working against them), the film made a massive splash: $14 million in its first week, and as of 2024, it's the first film to cross the $100 billion mark in lifetime bad for a movie whose lead antagonist was a plastic shark with mechanical really makes this documentary shine is how it weaves nostalgia with insight. It doesn't just fangirl over the film's success; it breaks down why it worked. The documentary gets into the nitty-gritty of John Williams' iconic score - those two ominous notes that made an entire generation afraid of swimming. It explores how 'Jaws' pioneered summer blockbusters before the term even also a strong emotional undercurrent, which hits surprisingly hard. You see the cast and crew - now much older - look back on the experience with a mix of pride and disbelief. Richard Dreyfuss's anecdotes are hilarious as always. The documentary doesn't shy away from the tough bits either - the production nightmares, the near career-ending pressure, and the unpredictable sea that became a character of its the documentary balances sleek editing with restored retro footage. You get sun-drenched beaches, chaotic BTS reels, and stunning underwater shots. The commentary is whip-smart without being pretentious. And if you're someone who loves a good Hollywood origin story with all its blood, sweat, and sea water - this is your goldmine.'Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story' is an absolute treat. It's part tribute, part time-capsule, and a full-on celebration of the film that redefined Hollywood. Whether you're a Spielberg stan, a film nerd, or just someone who loves a good story told well, this one's worth the dive.'Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story' is streaming on JioHotstar, Peacock and Hulu.- Ends4 out of 5 stars for 'Jaws @ 50 The Definitive Inside Story'
