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Perth Now
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Roseanne Barr trapped under a tree following horror crash
Roseanne Barr became "trapped" in her tractor when she crashed into a tree in her garden. The 72-year-old comedienne has been "doing a lot of mowing" lately but has been subject to a number of injuries, and one of her most recent ones saw her hit a tree on her property and become stuck under a branch that fell off. She told FoxNewsDigital: "I'm doing a lot of mowing. I've got a really fantastic tractor out here, and I'm mowing. The only problem is I don't clear the trees quite as good as I should, and I'm always hitting a tree and knocking it over, and it always hits me in the head. "So, I've had several injuries recently. I had this one tree, I guess it was two nights ago, I knocked it and a great big old branch fell right on my head and trapped me in my tractor. "So I knew I had to get out of there, and it weighed about a hundred pounds." The former 'Roseanne' star - who lives in Texas - prayed to God that she would be able to get herself out of the situation and summoned all of her might to "flip" the fallen branch over. She said: "I was like, 'Oh, I'm 72 years old,' but I just said my mighty prayers that always work. I said, 'Come on God, I am 72 years and I just want to be able to harness all this strong Russian energy that I know I still have in there if you're with me.' And I just flipped it." There had been talk of Roseanne relocating to Florida, but she has now decided that a permanent move to the Sunshine State is not for her because of the intense heat, She said: "I love it down [in Florida]. I really do, and I was considering doing it, but then there was this one day that was so damn hot. And I [was] just like, 'I think I'd rather burn in hell than live here in the sun.' It was so hot. I mean, Texas is hot, too, but oh my God. I like to go to a place where you can smoke cigarettes in the summer. I couldn't even smoke a cigarette over there, and I can't have that."
New York Post
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Roseanne Barr makes explosive claim that ABC ‘spied' on her before firing
Roseanne Barr is speaking her truth. The comedian-turned-Hollywood pariah has made explosive claims about her former employer, ABC, with which she worked for over 10 years. Barr, 72, first graced the network with her sitcom 'Roseanne' in 1988. The hit show, which also featured John Goodman (Dan Conner), Sara Gilbert (Darlene Conner), Laurie Metcalf (Jackie Harris), Johnny Galecki (David Healy) and more, lasted 10 seasons until 1997. Advertisement ABC revived Barr and her TV family's characters for a 'Roseanne' reboot over two decades later — but her comeback was short-lived. 14 Roseanne Barr on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' in 2018. Getty Images for NBC 14 Roseanne Barr attends the premiere of ABC's 'Roseanne.' Getty Images Advertisement The star was abruptly fired for her outspoken tweet about former Barack Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, which she said the political aide looked like the offspring of the 'Muslim brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.' ABC bosses killed the show despite its high ratings, blasting Barr's comment as 'abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.' The network later created the spinoff 'The Conners,' featuring several of Barr's former co-stars and killing off her character. The spinoff lasted seven seasons and recently ended, with the finale airing in April. However, Barr is now addressing the fourth wall in a defiant new interview with the Daily Mail published on Friday, May 30, claiming the cancel culture mob — which she alleged included her bosses — came for blood. Advertisement 14 Roseanne on the spinoff show. ABC 14 Roseanne and co-stars in a scene for the reboot. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images 14 Roseanne Barr claims her ABC bosses were watching her every move. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images 'They were waiting for me to slip up,' the comedian alleged in the interview, confirming she meant the left-leaning executives at the network, who she claimed were already on high alert about her outspoken support for Trump. Advertisement 'They spied. They monitored everything I did,' she claimed. 'They wanted to censor me from the very beginning.' She also accused her ABC liberal bosses of allegedly hijacking her words about Jarrett. 'They hijacked that tweet and made out it said something that it didn't,' Barr insisted. 14 Roseanne was fired after she tweeted about Obama's political aide. Getty Images Still, Bob Iger, chief exec of the Walt Disney Company, ABC's corporate parent, said at the time, 'There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing.' The comedian said she was unaware of Jarrett's background, which includes being born in Iran and having African-American parents. Following the backlash, Barr blamed her prescription medication for the comment, claiming she was 'Ambien tweeting' when she published her tweet. 14 She claimed the left-winged ABC execs were 'monitoring' her. Getty Images Advertisement 14 She later apologized for the tweet but it was too late. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection However, the former star who fell from grace now insisted it wasn't about race at all. 'I'm not stupid. I would never refer to a black person as the product of an ape,' Barr told Daily Mail, insisting it was about Obama's Iran nuclear deal, which the comedian opposed. 'The Planet of the Apes movie is about a fascist takeover of the world – and that is what I was talking about. The tweet was intended as a humorous political statement and not a racial one. But liberals in Hollywood are so racist, they automatically think of a black person,' Barr explained. Advertisement She's also taking back her apology for the tweet, in which she claimed she was 'truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and looks,' saying her joke was 'in bad taste.' 14 She nows says that apologizing was a mistake. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection 14 Roseanne also claimed she had behind the scenes drama with men in charge during her 'Roseanne' days. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection 'The worst mistake you can do is apologize to the left. Then they are on a crusade against you,' she said in the new interview. 'Once you admit a mistake, they will keep on until you're dead.' Advertisement Barr said she was butting heads with several men behind the scenes of 'Roseanne' decades before the tweet, insisting they had no grasp of what the average person at home wanted to watch. She wanted a more humorous presence on the sitcom, accusing them of saving the best and most funny lines for her TV husband, Goodman. 14 Roseanne claims she wanted to tackle the political divide in the reboot but Goodman allegedly refused to play the Republican. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection 'They were aghast. They said people are not gonna go for this. I go, 'working class people are like this – they are not like your wife. They don't have servants,'' Barr said. Advertisement 'It's all just elitists from Harvard. They did think the audience was deplorable, [whether] Democrat or Republican, at that time,' she continued. At one point, Barr — who became the second-highest-paid woman on TV behind Oprah Winfrey — began rewriting her lines and threatening to boycott scenes. 14 She has since moved out of Hollywood and is living in Texas. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection 'I thought to myself, when this show goes to number one, here are the people I will fire. So I named everybody,' the comedian revealed. Once it happened, Barr followed up on her word. 'Right after that, everyone who was on the bad boy and girl Santa list, they were fired as a motherf–ker,' she shared. The comedian said that when she threw her support behind Trump in 2016, people were up in arms that she wasn't voting for the female candidate, Hillary Clinton. 14 Roseanne's character was killed off in the revival. Disney via Getty Images 'It was vaginal politics. It made me sick,' she said, adding that she wanted to tackle the political divide on the 'Roseanne' reboot. 'I wanted a Trump hater and a Hillary hater. They were pissed at each other but they loved each other,' she explained of her and Goodman's characters. Barr shared that she wanted Goodman to play the Republican supporter to take some heat off of her and the idea that she was a MAGA mouthpiece. 'John refused. It fell to me. I looked like a crusader,' she stated. 14 She's gearing up for her new documentary, which will be released next month. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection Barr also claimed that her Republican forward tweets made her ABC bosses sweat, claiming they allegedly asked her to delete several of them. The Post reached out to ABC for comment. Barr has since left Hollywood and is living on a ranch in Texas with her son, Jake, his wife and their daughters. She has no plan to return to Tinsel Town. 'It's a very liberal city, that's why I live outside of it,' the comedian said. That doesn't mean she won't be back on the TV screen. Barr is telling her side of the story in an upcoming documentary, 'Roseanne Barr is America,' by conservative filmmaker Joel Gilbert, releasing on several streaming platforms on June 10.
Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Roseanne Barr makes explosive claims about ABC's insidious tactics before they fired her... and reveals her biggest regret in a defiant new interview
The blue-collar queen of comedy was back on her primetime throne. Roseanne Barr had returned to ABC in 2018 after a two-decade hiatus, delivering sky-high ratings and even receiving a congratulatory phone call from President Donald Trump.
New European
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New European
Boris Johnson is finished – so of course he'll be back as Tory leader
There's no surer sign that an organisation is out of good ideas than when it brings back a face from the past, aware that it will keep the fans happy but almost certainly lead to disaster. Chelsea supporters wanted José Mourinho back until they got him back and were reminded of why he'd had to go in the first place. The same with EastEnders viewers and Leslie 'Dirty Den' Grantham. Multiple millions were sunk into new albums by Kanye West despite the rapper's new-found admiration for Adolf Hitler, and into new Star Wars films by George Lucas despite him not having directed a movie for the previous 22 years. Dallas and Roseanne were rebooted for TV, even though Larry Hagman was ill and Roseanne Barr was Roseanne Barr. Sean Connery returned (unofficially) as James Bond in 1983 despite having said he was too old for the role when he left it in 1971. None of these projects ended well, and no-one seriously expected them to. They just felt unavoidable. The return of Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party feels similarly inevitable and inevitably doomed. A More In Common poll suggests that he would beat both Nigel Farage and Keir Starmer if he were restored to the top of the Tory tree, which will be enough for many worried members of a party heading for oblivion under the useless Kemi Badenoch. The multiple reasons why he was kicked out in disgrace less than three years ago don't seem to matter. Some of these flaws were on show in his response to the UK-EU Brexit reset deal announced last Monday, more embarrassing and more misleading than anything managed by the routed and riled Brexiteers; Priti Patel, Mark Francois, David Frost, Bernard Jenkin and all the rest. Johnson's remarks, in a social media post and then in an interview with GB News, were ridden with lies, laziness, pomposity, fake numbers and cheap insults. The Tory faithful must have lapped it up. Keir Starmer 'is clearly bent on signing up to a deal on free movement which could give 80 million younger EU nationals the right to come to this country', Johnson said, echoing the garbage he peddled about 76 million Turks with their bags packed in 2016. He claimed Starmer had 'sacrificed UK fishing interests' by agreeing exactly the same fishing rights that Johnson and David Frost had signed off in 2019. 'Britain will once again be paying countless millions of pounds into EU coffers… what have we got in return?' he asked. Yes, apart from the defence and security pact, access to the £150bn Security Action for Europe (SAFE) arms fund, the vanishing red tape, the e-gates, the protection from steel tariffs and carbon tax and a predicted uplift to the UK economy of up to £25bn a year, what has the EU ever done for us? Britain was now the 'non-voting punk of the EU Commission' Johnson wrote, his use of the Shakespearean slang word for prostitute reminding us that he once accepted £88,000 for a book on the Bard of Avon, toiled on it (according to Dominic Cummings) when he should have been concentrating on the outbreak of Covid-19 and since then has been too idle to finish it. 'Two-tier Keir is the orange ball-chewing manacled gimp of Brussels,' he continued. That is language that seems likely to excite a certain type of older Conservative, but also language that winks at those who spend their time on TikTok, making up rumours about the prime minister that are so absurd even Isabel Oakeshott would think twice about spreading them. In this respect alone, Boris Johnson knows exactly what he's doing. Starmer, he told GB News, was 'taking us back into the sweaty embrace of Brussels'. Now, sweaty embraces are something Johnson knows plenty about. Will the Conservatives soon wrap him in one of their own?
Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Roseanne' and ‘The Conners' made me the progressive Appalachian I am today
ABC broadcast the series finale of 'The Conners' on Wednesday, closing out character arcs that began more than 36 years ago with 'Roseanne.' When the first run of Roseanne Barr's eponymous working-class comedy premiered on ABC in 1988, it stood in stark contrast to the prime-time glamour of 'Dallas' and 'Dynasty,' which then dominated television. Instead of sparkling gowns and champagne-fueled catfights, plots on 'Roseanne' involved unpaid electric bills, broken washing machines and kitchen-table spats. For many Americans, like the ones I grew up with in Appalachia, 'Roseanne' gave us a mirror, instead of an escape. It transformed working-class humor-as-a-survival-tool into a relatable sitcom format. It helped viewers — those seeing themselves for the first time and those seeing others for the first time — grow toward each other. 'Roseanne' and 'The Conners' had an almost magical ability to speak to the haves and the have-nots. The shows invited the wealthy to laugh with, not at, working-class struggles, which helped generate empathy. They invited white working-class audiences into progressive conversations from which they may have previously been excluded. Both shows discussed topics including racism, queerness, gender equality, LGBTQ youth, immigration — often characterized as issues for liberal elites or big-city residents — in the language of Lanford, Illinois. As a kid growing up in rural Kentucky in the 1980s and '90s, 'Roseanne' introduced conversations I wasn't having in church or the living room, and I'm not alone among my blue-collar friends in saying that it was 'Roseanne' that made me the political progressive I am today. The show made us aware that we, too, should be a part of these conversations, that we were worthy of being taken seriously, and that the issues we associated with others were intimately tied to our lives, as well. The power of the series to do this work — in its original incarnation, its reboot and in the renamed show after Barr's character, Roseanne Conner, was killed off — came from its capacity to invite and add. For rural or blue-collar viewers, the show presented new ideas in a world they were comfortable in. For others, the show presented ideas they were already comfortable with but in a world new to them. The show's legacy, then, is making progressive ideas digestible to poor and working-class people. This legacy may be surprising to some, given Barr's disappointing evolution. Now a controversial conservative figure, her 2018 reboot was canceled after a racist tweet. ('The Conners' starts after her character on the show has died.) In 2024, Barr released a pro-Trump rap video called 'Daddy's Home.' Those choices should certainly shape how we understand Barr, but they don't erase the complexity or impact of her earlier work or the original show's spinoff. In 2013, when I taught a course on gender and television, I had my students analyze shows using the Bechdel test, which asks only: Are there two women on screen talking about something other than men? It took 50 years of randomized TV episodes before we hit one that passed: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' a 1994 episode of 'Roseanne' that tackled homophobia, performative allyship, gender expression and included a same-sex kiss. Revolutionary doesn't begin to describe it. The show earned that moment because its viewers trusted the characters. Viewers, at least the ones I knew, felt like they were watching 'one of us' — which made room for growth. Throughout 17 years of the Conners' lives shown across two series, viewers were watching stories about difficult topics, but 'Roseanne' invited them in. It said: You're a part of this. To the same extent, the show said to Americans quick to dismiss the struggles of the poor and working class: This is how hard life is when you're living paycheck to paycheck — you, too, are a part of this. No one gets a pass because everyone is included. Few shows have had such political stamina. In the highly criticized original finale, the Conners win the lottery and live out their wildest dreams, but it's later revealed to be a story made up by the character Roseanne. 'The Conners' echoed the original series' finale in its final season, with a story arc involving a lawsuit the family filed over the opioid-induced death of Roseanne. Given the scourge of opioids in working-class America, that storyline made sense. This time, though, there is no big payout. In the end, the Conners get a check for only $700, which they use to throw a party with pizza and beer. Ultimately, this is a more fitting conclusion because there is no magical ending for America's problems. No lottery win. No glamour and champagne. Just moments of pain and fleeting relief. All we can do is care enough to see our own — and each other's — stories. 'Roseanne' and 'The Conners' gave us just that. One episode at a time. This article was originally published on
