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New York Post
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- New York Post
Pedro Pascal look-alike's wife demands to meet the real actor after he wins contest
The Pedro Pascal look-alike winner has a plea for the real Pedro Pascal. Brooklyn dad George Gountas appeared on Tuesday's episode of 'The Daily Show,' where he works as a lighting designer, and spoke to host Jon Stewart about his big victory at the look-alike contest — including his wife Jenny Gania's reaction. 'Her position is, 'I'm cool with you getting all this attention, if I can meet Pedro Pascal,'' Gountas, 42, said. 9 George Gountas won the Pedro Pascal look-alike contest on Sunday in New York City. LP Media 9 Pedro Pascal at the 'Ballerina' film premiere in London on May 22. Alberto Pezzali/Invision/AP Gountas then looked directly at the camera and delivered a message to the 'Last Of Us' actor. 'Hey Pedro, this is Pedro #5 from New York,' Gountas said. 'It would be a great, great, great gift if you could meet my wife, Jenny. It would mean the world to her. We need to make this happen.' As the audience cheered, Stewart told Gountas, 'I don't see how Pedro #1 could turn down Pedro #5.' 9 George Gountas talking about winning the contest on 'The Daily Show.' TheDailyShow/YouTube 9 George Gountas beat out 30 people for the title, which came with $50 and a year's supply of burritos from the Son Del North Mexican restaurant. TheDailyShow/YouTube 9 On 'The Daily Show,' Gountas said he didn't expect to win the contest. TheDailyShow/YouTube On Father's Day, Gountas won the Pedro Pascal look-alike contest at the Lower East Side's Son Del North Mexican restaurant. He beat out 30 other people for the title, which came with $50 and a year's supply of burritos from the eatery. 9 George Gountas is announced the winner of the Pedro Pascal look-alike contest. LP Media 9 George Gountas had not even reserved a spot in the competition. LP Media Gountas' wife told The Post that he was first told about his resemblance to Pascal when 'Game of Thrones' came out. Pascal portrayed Oberyn Martell in the hit HBO series. 'Then some kids started noting it, too, so I was like, when we saw this [contest], I was like, 'It's Father's Day. You have to go. It's going to be your Father's Day treat,'' Gania recalled to The Post. 'It's funny,' she added, 'because he's not on social media at all. But now he's going to be everywhere.' 9 Pedro Pascal in a selfie posted on June 11. pascalipunk/Instagram On 'The Daily Show,' Gountas said he didn't expect to win the contest when he arrived without even having reserved a spot. 'I rolled up and I'm like, 'Yo, I'm here,'' he told Stewart. 'And they were like, 'You're going to win.'' 9 George Gountas at the contest in the Lower East Side on June 15. LP Media The Greenpoint resident also said that the attention he's gotten from winning the contest has been 'f—ing insane.' 'So, none of this bothers me,' Gountas added. 'I've been in the industry for many years. I've been around famous people.' 'But the thing that I was most, not scared of, the most uneasy about, was coming here today,' he admitted to Stewart, who said the staff of the Comedy Central show have been 'going bananas' about the contest.
Yahoo
22-04-2025
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- Yahoo
'The Office' star pushes back on MSNBC host blaming Trump, Musk for distrust in media
"The Office" star Rainn Wilson pushed back on MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle for suggesting that President Donald Trump's win and Elon Musk's "media machine" were to blame for overall distrust in the press. "President Trump won and tons of people were shocked or angry or frustrated and they're tuning out, and at the same time, you have the Elon Musk media machine, because they want you to leave traditional media, they want you to go to X, which is a bastion of misinformation," Ruhle said during an appearance on Wilson's "Soul Boom" podcast released on April 17. "What we need to do is just cover what's happening in America, right? We have to cover Democrats trying to figure out what their lane is and how they're going to get back on their feet, and we have to simply cover what this White House is doing." However, Wilson suggested there was a lack of interest among left-leaning media to aggressively cover problems during the Biden administration. Rainn Wilson Calls Out Anti-christian Bias In Hollywood After 'Last Of Us' Episode: I Knew He Was A 'Villain' "This is where I would push back, when I see this kind of insight and passion being directed at the current administration and the lack of this kind of insight and passion being directed at the previous administration, where again, I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about left-leaning news media organizations were kind of like, 'La la la la, everything's fine,'" Wilson told Ruhle in a clip flagged by The Daily Caller. Read On The Fox News App "'Look, the economy is great, la la la, immigration's not that much of a problem,' and really being Cleopatra, 'queen of denial.' Thank you. Boom," he said, imitating left-leaning media. Ruhle pushed back on Wilson and argued that the media "regularly" talked about how the Biden administration wasn't doing enough on immigration. "I can specifically remember when Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida sent those buses of migrants to different cities, different parts of the country which ended up being politically genius for both of them," she said. "The media regularly talked about the fact that Biden was not doing enough in his first two-and-a-half years on immigration." Msnbc's Stephanie Ruhle Calls Out Harris For Dodging How She'd Raise Taxes: 'She Doesn't Answer The Question' Ruhle went on to defend the media and referenced her own interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris last year on MSNBC. Ruhle explained one of the questions she posed to Harris was about immigration, specifically about how voters were feeling frustrated about immigration in their local communities. "I remember her answer was, 'Well we had this immigration bill and Donald Trump blocked it.' And she's right, she's right. Donald Trump did block the bill, but that doesn't address how people in the country feel," Ruhle said. Ruhle did question Harris' role in helping with the border crisis as she was tasked by former President Biden to deal with the root causes in 2021. "How about the message from our Vice President?" Ruhle asked at the time. "Where is she? She was supposed to be in charge of all of these migration issues, going to those Northern Triangle countries that's obviously not Haiti." Click Here For More Coverage Of Media And Culture Ruhle argued to Wilson that Republicans were successful in being willing to talk about the "unpleasant things that people feel," and pointed out that they're often deemed xenophobic or racist for doing article source: 'The Office' star pushes back on MSNBC host blaming Trump, Musk for distrust in media
