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New York Post
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘Yellowjackets' star Steven Krueger on his ‘amazing' bond with fiancée Candice King's kids — and their wedding plans
It was love at first bite. Steven Krueger and Candice King first met in 2013 while filming 'The Vampire Diaries' spinoff 'The Originals,' and now they are engaged. Not only is Krueger, 35, marrying King, 38, but he's gaining two step-daughters, as the 'Kingshighway' actress is mom to daughters Florence, 9, and Josephine, 4, with ex-husband Joe King. Advertisement 10 Steven Krueger attends the 2025 Emmys Pickleball Slam presented by the Television Academy Foundation at The Calabasas Pickleball Club. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP 10 Steven Krueger talks to Alexandra Bellusci of the New York Post. 'It's amazing. They are the sweetest children,' Krueger gushed exclusively to The Post at a fundraiser for the Widows, Orphans & Disabled Firefighter's Fund put on by the Television Academy Foundation last Sunday. (The actress filed for divorce from the Fray guitarist in April 2022 after nearly seven years of marriage.) Advertisement 'I have two nieces, so I've been around young girls before, but they are truly the most wonderful human beings ever, and we have such a great relationship. It's very sweet I get to take them on as well.' After going Instagram official in 2023, the 'Yellowjackets' star and the 'Supernatural' alum have been inseparable, so popping the question was inevitable. 'I think it's been a long time coming,' Krueger admitted. 'We've been together for a couple of years now, and it's something I've been thinking about for a while. She has kids, so we wanted to make sure they were ready as well.' 10 Steven Krueger and Candice King attend the 'Yellowjackets' S3 Global Premiere at Chateau Marmont. Getty Images for Paramount+ Advertisement The day of the proposal came as a shock to Candice, though. 'I think she knew at some point,' he continued, 'but it was definitely a surprise on the day when it happened.' Right now, the pair are sinking their teeth into engaged life. 'We are starting to have conversations,' said Krueger about wedding planning. 'I think, for the moment, we are enjoying the engagement; we're not going to rush it. We want to see how work stuff goes over the next year. But we are starting to toss around some ideas about where we want to do it [and] exactly what we want to do. There's a lot of possibilities.' Advertisement 10 Candice King with her kids Josephine and Florence. Candice King/Instagram The actor shared that 'right now, we are really debating if we want a big, traditional, fancy wedding or if we do a smaller thing with family and friends somewhere exotic.' 'I think once we settle on one of those, then we'll have some things to bite into.' Candice starred as Caroline Forbes in the CW drama and later the spinoff, while Krueger came into the universe as Josh Rosza. The supernatural world also included Nina Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, Zach Roerig, Kat Graham, Michael Trevino, Joseph Morgan and Daniel Gillies. The TV family will always be bound by blood, so much so that the cast will score invites to the upcoming nuptials. 10 Zach Roerig, Matthew Davis, Paul Wesley, Michael Malarkey, Ian Somerhalder, Katerina Graham and Candice King. Penske Media via Getty Images 10 Candice King on 'The Vampire Diaries.' ©CW Network/Courtesy Everett Collection 'I would assume most of them,' Krueger confirmed. 'We are going to our friend Michael Trevino's wedding, who is also on 'Vampire Diaries,' in a few weeks. So there will be a lot of the cast there, and we'll have most of the people at ours.' Advertisement 'We have a bunch of group chats,' noted Krueger. 'Little ones going and then these fan conventions all the time. It's so fun because a few times a year, we all get together and reminisce about old times and just catch up with each other, and we don't see each other all that much outside of it.' 10 Steven Krueger in 'The Originals.' ©CW Network/Courtesy Everett Collection / Everett Collection 10 Candice King and Joseph Morgan on 'The Originals.' ©CW Network/Courtesy Everett Collection / Everett Collection While all the players in 'The Vampire Diaries' universe have branched out to separate projects, the actor would love to get back on the screen with his real-life fiancée. Advertisement 'I think that's in the cards,' he teased. 'I think if we could star in some sort of rom-com together, that would be amazing. That's where we're heading.' 'I was this close to being a lawyer and almost went to law school,' he explained, 'and took a sharp left turn and ended up doing this instead. So I've always said at some point, it will come full circle, and I will get to play a lawyer on TV. So I think that's in the future. You can never have too many [legal dramas].' 10 Steven Krueger as Ben Scott in 'Yellowjackets.' Brendan Meadows/SHOWTIME He might have more free time to take on a prestigious lawyer now that his character, Coach Ben Scott, died in Season 3 of the Showtime thriller 'Yellowjackets.' Advertisement Despite playing the soccer team's mentor, Krueger understood why Coach Scott had to go. '[The showrunners] said, 'Hey, this season is going to be the end for Coach Ben,' which I kind of had an inkling,' he recalled to The Post earlier this month. 'We had discussed it kind of informally at the very beginning of the show. So, I kind of knew Season 3 was about the time range.' 10 Steven Krueger in season 3 of 'Yellowjackets.' Colin Bentley/Paramount+ with SHOWTIME Krueger's co-stars shared that his death was the hardest for them to come to terms with — a sentiment the star appreciated along with being told his impending death was coming. Advertisement 'I've never been given like the courtesy of being told well, in advance, you know,' expressed Krueger. 'This was, like, four months before we ever started filming. So truly everything was done in such a kind way, and it allowed me to kind of also prepare for exactly what I needed to do for kind of the overall arc of the season.'
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Wink Martindale, the king of the television game show, dies at 91
Wink Martindale, the king of the television game show who hosted "Tic-Tac-Dough," "Gambit," "High Rollers" and a slew of other programs that became staples in living rooms across America, died Tuesday in Rancho Mirage. He was 91. Martindale, a longtime voice of Los Angeles radio who had an unexpected hit record in the late 1950s, died surrounded by family and his wife of 49 years, Sandra Martindale, according to a news release from his publicity firm. Throughout a long career in radio and television, Martindale was frequently asked how he came by his unusual first name. As he would explain, one of his young friends in Jackson, Tenn., had trouble saying his given name, Winston, and it came out sounding like Winkie. The nickname, shortened to Wink after he got into radio, stuck — with one exception. After Martindale signed to host his first national TV game show in 1964, NBC's head of daytime programming felt that the name Wink sounded too juvenile. So, for its nearly one-year run, 'What's This Song?' was hosted by Win Martindale. Not that he particularly minded having the 'k' dropped from Wink. 'Not really, because I loved those checks [from NBC],' he said in a 2017 interview for the Television Academy Foundation. 'They can call me anything they want to call me: Winkie-dinkie-doo, the Winkmeister, the Winkman, you name it.' Read more: Wink Martindale gets back in the game with new show The genial, dapper TV host with the gleaming smile and perfectly coiffed hair had hosted two local TV game shows in L.A. before going national with 'What's This Song?' Over the decades, according to his website, Martindale either hosted or produced 21 game shows, including 'Words and Music,' 'Trivial Pursuit,' 'The Last Word' and 'Debt.' 'That's a lot of shows,' he acknowledged in a 1996 interview with the New York Daily News. 'It either means everybody wants me to do their show or I can't hold a job.' Martindale was best known for hosting 'Tic-Tac-Dough,' the revival of a late 1950s show, which aired on CBS for less than two months in 1978 but continued in syndication until 1986. Unlike tic-tac-toe, in which two players simply try to get three Xs or three Os in a row in a nine-box grid, 'Tic-Tac-Dough' required contestants to select a subject category in each of the nine boxes, everything from geography to song titles. Each correct answer earned the players their X or O in the chosen box. 'Tic-Tac-Dough' achieved its highest ratings in 1980 during the 88-game, 46-show run of Lt. Thom McKee, a handsome young Navy fighter pilot whose winning streak earned him $312,700 in cash and prizes and a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records. 'Our ratings were never as big until he came on and were never as big after he left,' Martindale said in his Television Academy Foundation interview. As he saw it, the simplicity of 'Tic-Tac-Dough' and other TV game shows helps explain their continued popularity. Read more: After All These Careers, Deejay Wink Martindale Is Still on the Air People at home, he said, 'gravitate to games that they know. They can sit there, and they say to themselves, 'Man, I could have gotten that; I can play that game.' And when you get that from a home viewer or a person in the audience, you've got them captured.' Martindale left 'Tic-Tac-Dough' in 1985, a year before it went off the air, to host a show that he had created. Alas, 'Headline Chasers' lasted less than a year. As Martindale told The Times in 2010, 'There have been a lot of bombs between the hits.' Born Winston Conrad Martindale on Dec. 4, 1933, in Jackson, Tenn., he was one of five children. His father was a lumber inspector and his mother a housewife. While growing up, Martindale was a big fan of the popular radio shows of the day and early on dreamed of becoming a radio announcer. For years, he recalled in his Television Academy Foundation interview, he'd tear out advertisements from Life magazine and, behind a closed bedroom door, he'd ad-lib commercials as he pretended to be on the radio. All that practice paid off. After repeatedly hounding the manager of a small, 250-watt local radio station in Jackson for a job, Martindale was offered an audition less than two months after graduating high school in 1951. At 17, the former drugstore soda jerk was hired at $25 a week to work the 4-11 p.m. shift at radio station WPLI. On-air jobs at two increasingly higher-wattage local radio stations followed before he landed his 'dream' job in 1953: hosting the popular morning show 'Clockwatchers' at WHBQ Radio in Memphis, Tenn. For Martindale, working at WHBQ was a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Read more: Chuck Woolery, host of 'Love Connection' and other game shows, dies at 83 One night in July 1954, he later recalled, he was showing some friends around the station when popular DJ Dewey Phillips played a demonstration disc of a recently recorded song that had been given to him by Sam Phillips (no relation), the founder of Sun Records in Memphis. The song was 'That's All Right' and the singer was a young Memphis electric company truck driver named Elvis Presley. 'Dewey put it on the turntable and the switchboard lit up,' Martindale said in a 2010 interview with The Times. 'He kept playing it over and over.' The song caused so much excitement that a call was made to Presley's home to have him come in for an on-air interview. Elvis wasn't home, so Gladys and Vernon Presley drove to a movie theater, where their son was watching a western, and drove him to the radio station for his first interview. 'That was the beginning of Presley mania,' said Martindale. 'I think of that as the night when the course of popular music changed forever.' After WHBQ launched a television station in Memphis in 1953, Martindale branched into TV, first hosting a daily half-hour children's show called 'Wink Martindale of the Mars Patrol.' The live show featured a costumed Martindale, who would interview half a dozen kids in a cheaply built spaceship set, and segue to five- or six-minutes of old Flash Gordon movie serials. Then, influenced by the success of Dick Clark's still-local teenage dance show 'Bandstand' in Philadelphia, Martindale began co-hosting WHBQ-TV's 'Top 10 Dance Party.' He scored a coup in June 1956 when he landed Elvis, by then a show-business phenomenon, for an appearance and interview with Martindale on his live show — for free. Col. Tom Parker, Presley's manager, 'would never speak to me after that because he wanted to be paid for everything. We had no budget. They hardly paid me, for Pete's sake,' Martindale told The Times in 2010. Read more: Peter Marshall, affable host of NBC's original 'Hollywood Squares,' dies at 98 Because of Martindale's local popularity with his 'Top 10 Dance Party,' a small Memphis record company, OJ Records, signed him to a recording contract. His recording of 'Thought It was Moonlove' led to his signing with Dot Records, for which he recorded well into the 1960s. Martindale, who had a pleasant but not memorable singing voice, also played himself as the host of a teen TV dance show in the low-budget 1958 movie 'Let's Rock!,' in which he sang the mildly rocking 'All Love Broke Loose.' While working on radio and TV in Memphis, Martindale graduated from what is now the University of Memphis, where he majored in speech and drama. In 1959, he moved to L.A. to become the morning DJ on radio station KHJ. That same year, he scored a surprise hit in 'Deck of Cards,' which reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 11 on its Hot Country Songs chart. Martindale, who received a gold record for the recording, performed the piece on Ed Sullivan's popular Sunday-night variety show. While working at KHJ Radio in 1959, he began hosting 'The Wink Martindale Dance Party' on KHJ-TV on Saturdays. The popular show, broadcast from a studio, also began airing weekdays, live from Pacific Ocean Park in Santa Monica. Over the years, in addition to KHJ, Martindale worked at L.A. radio stations KRLA, KFWB, KMPC and KGIL. In 2006, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A year later, he became one of the first inductees into the American TV Game Show Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. 'I always loved games,' he said in his Television Academy Foundation interview. 'Once I got into the world of games, I just seemed to glide from one to the other. … I never looked down upon the idea that I was branded as a game-show host, because most people like games.' Martindale is survived by his wife, Sandra; sister Geraldine; his daughters Lisa, Lyn and Laura; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. McLellan is a former Times staff writer. Sign up for Essential California for the L.A. Times biggest news, features and recommendations in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
CBS News
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Wink Martindale, host of game shows "Tic-Tac-Dough" and "High Rollers," dies at 91
Game show host Wink Martindale, known for "Tic-Tac-Dough," "High Rollers" and "Gambit," has died, according to his official Facebook page. He was 91. "Wink was amazing, funny and talented," the post on his Facebook page reads. "Truly a LEGEND!" The host, born Winston Martindale, had a 74-year career, according to Nashville Publicity Group, which also confirmed Martindale's death. A cause of death was not given. "The entire Game Show Network family mourns the loss of Wink Martindale, the host of the original "Tic-Tac-Dough" and a true legend of television game shows," the Game Show Network posted on social media. "His charm and presence lit up the screen for generations of viewers and he will never be forgotten." Martindale's professional career began when he was just 17, according to his Hollywood Walk of Fame biography. The Jackson, Tennessee, man worked as a disc jockey for several years and even had his rendition of the spoken-word song "Deck Of Cards" chart on the Billboard Hot 100 . His television career began at WHBQ-TV as the host of "Mars Patrol," a science-fiction program for kids, according to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which Martindale earned a star on in 2006. While at WHBQ-TV, Martindale began hosting "Teenage Dance Party," where he was joined by Elvis Presley. The two were long-time friends ; Presley dated Martindale's wife, Sandy, before they married. In 1964, Martindale landed a job hosting NBC's " What's This Song ." Other hosting credits include "Words and Music," "Can You Stop This" and "Headline Chasers." He hosted more than a dozen game shows, according to his 2000 autobiography. He hosted "Tic-Tac-Dough" on CBS from 1978 until 1985, according to IMDB. Martindale hosted 185 episodes of NBC's "High Rollers" between 1987 and 1988. His show "Gambit," based on blackjack, was produced by Heatter-Quigley Productions. "I remember that they auditioned practically every possible host. It came down to Dick Clark and me, and this is one time I beat Dick Clark," Martindale told the Television Academy Foundation in 2018. He also told the Television Academy Foundation that he liked getting to meet so many different people while working on game shows. "I enjoy finding out what makes people tick," he told the Television Academy Foundation . "As you play a game, you see why one person is more successful than another. But I just love working with people, and I love talking." In recent years, Martindale made appearances on such programs as "Most Outrageous Game Show Moments," "The Chase" and "The Bold and the Beautiful," according to his publicist. He also appeared in commercials for Orbitz and KFC. Martindale is survived by his wife, his daughters and his sister.
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lāʻie native, generational fire knife dancer represents 808 at LA award ceremony
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Lāʻie born and raised fire knife dancer Alexander Galeaʻi didn't know what he was getting himself into when he agreed to star in a friend's project. The Saint Louis School alum said it became the opportunity of a lifetime — not just for himself but for the entire Hawaiʻi community. Four-time Super Bowl champion paves way for Polynesian players Alexander's story started when he was on a mission in Auckland, New Zealand where he met trainer Daniel White. When they finished in 2021, the pair kept in contact. Daniel knew of Alexander's fire knife abilities and when he needed help on a film project, he knew exactly who to call. 'I was like 'Oh, okay.' You know it was just for school. I just thought it was something small, I just thought it was a school project,' Galeaʻi explained. Alexander then hopped on a plane and flew to Utah for one night to film the project. Little did he know, Daniel and his team were entering the film in competitions and festivals result was a one-minute, eye-catching advertisement called 'Manumalo' or 'Victory,' which caught the attention of the Television Academy Foundation. Now, Alexander and his classmates at Brigham Young University are nominated in the Commercial, PSA or Promo category of the foundation's 44th College Television Awards. The ad features Galeaʻi's story, highlighting the generational roots of Samoan fire knife dancing. 'My last name is Galeaʻi and that is a pretty big name in the fire knife world. Started with my grandfather. He started the World Fire Knife Competition at the Polynesian Cultural Center.' His father, uncle and cousins would then go on to hold world championship titles. Fire knife competition returns to Sea Life Park 'We're a family of champions and I'm proud of it. We grew up all together, fire knife dancing. Fire knife has been in our family for a very, very long time,' Galeaʻi said. Even if the film doesn't win an award, Alexander said he is still grateful to represent where he comes from. 'Just the opportunity to even be considered or nominated, it's no greater feeling. To me, not much local opportunities are offered like this, especially in our own communities, in our own islands and so it is an awesome experience.' Alexander will attend the College Television Awards in Los Angeles on April 5. Check out more news from around Hawaii He will then graduate from Brigham Young University — Hawaii, where he will graduate with a Bachelor's degree in business management with an emphasis in economics and minors in political science and Pacific Island studies. 'It's worth it you know. I really think it's worth it being there for friends, for family no matter how small or big it may seem. Show up and be there.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
