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Global News
3 days ago
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- Global News
Ellen Pompeo says she was detained by TSA, bomb squad over sunflower seeds
Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo revealed that she was recently detained by the Transportation Security Administration when she was trying to catch a flight, all due to a snack she was bringing on a plane. 'I had a bag of sunflower seeds, like organic sunflower seeds from Erewhon, so they were probably the most expensive sunflower seeds money can buy,' Pompeo told Travel + Leisure in an interview. 'They literally held me for an hour, and they brought the bomb squad in.' The 55-year-old actor said she couldn't believe what was happening and thought it was a joke at first. 'They said it was most likely a chemical on the packaging of these super expensive, fancy, organic, clean sunflower seeds. My protein on the plane!' she said. Pompeo said she asked the TSA agents whether they could just throw out the sunflower seeds, but they said they needed her to wait for the bomb squad to assess them. Story continues below advertisement 'I almost missed the flight. It was really like no one would ever believe this! I was texting my publicist saying, 'I might not get on this plane, and you're never gonna guess why,'' she added. Pompeo also admitted that she is a nervous flyer and tries to lie low on flights so fans don't recognize her. 'People recognize my voice, so I try not to talk,' she said. 'I try to use sign language with my kids. The minute I open my mouth, everybody turns.' 5:25 Good American Family: Ellen Pompeo's 1st project since leaving Grey's Anatomy This isn't the first time a celebrity has had a run-in with TSA over items in their luggage before a flight. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy In 2017, The Flight Attendant star Kaley Cuoco said she got stopped by security for having two wine openers in her luggage. Story continues below advertisement 'We were travelling to Australia and Karl (Cook) ends up getting the pat-down every time we go through security,' Cuoco said of her now ex-husband in an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.'He's so unassuming, there's no reason why he should be getting a pat-down.' 'So the last travel, I walk in and he said, 'Something bad is going to happen. I know something bad is going to happen,'' she said, before noting that she told him everything was going to 'be fine.' Cuoco said the woman working at the airport asked who had the Gucci purse and she said it was hers, thinking she was going to 'get a compliment on my purse.' 'She goes, 'We need to look through your bag.' And I go, 'It's Gucci,'' Cuoco said. Story continues below advertisement She said the TSA agent went through her bag and found a wine opener. 'Like the arms one, like a rabbit. And I was like, 'Oh, my God! That's a weapon,'' she said, adding that her ex-husband had already been taken to 'another room.' '(I go,) 'Sorry, I don't know why I carry a wine opener.' So then in my big bag, I have all these little bags. She goes, 'We need to search the rest of the bags,'' she recalled. She said that once the TSA agent started going through all of her bags, she found a second wine opener. 'Somehow subconsciously I stuck it in there,' she said. 'I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I'm going to be on a no-fly list.' She goes, 'You can't have these on the plane.' I go, 'I know, I know. I just like alcohol.''
Black America Web
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Black America Web
Watch: Kerry Washington Confirms ‘Wisteria Lane' Series
Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE Source: Maya Dehlin Spach / Getty Kerry Washington has officially confirmed what fans of soapy suburban drama have been buzzing about: Wisteria Lane , a reimagined take on Desperate Housewives , is in development. Read and watch her slight reveal on The View inside. During her recent appearance on The View to promote her action film Shadow Force with Omar Sy, Washington addressed Deadline's exclusive report about the upcoming Onyx Collective project, which is being produced by her Simpson Street banner. Although co-host Ana Navarro referred to the series as a remake, Washington was quick to clarify. 'It's inspired by Desperate Housewives ,' she said. 'It's very newly announced, it's in development. The idea is that it's new times, there's new challenges… what happens on that cul-de-sac now? It's really exciting.' Washington kept quiet about plot specifics or whether familiar faces might return, even when prompted about casting possibilities. 'I can't say too much,' she insisted, flashing a knowing smile but offering no confirmation on whether 'old women' from the original series would be making a comeback. According to Deadline , Wisteria Lane is being penned by Natalie Chaidez ( The Flight Attendant ) and will retain the DNA of the original series: a fun, sexy, darkly comedic soap-meets-mystery. It centers around five very different women—friends and sometimes frenemies—living on the iconic cul-de-sac. While their curated lives appear flawless on social media, behind closed doors lurk secrets that threaten to unravel everything. Executive producers on the project include Washington and Pilar Savone of Simpson Street, along with Stacey Sher of Shiny Penny. Although Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry was not involved in the pitch, he's reportedly aware of the project and could join in some capacity. The reboot will be developed by 20th Television, the same studio behind the original hit series, which ran for eight seasons on ABC from 2004 to 2012. While there are currently no plans for characters from the original series to appear, Wisteria Lane is expected to carve out its own identity, reflecting modern-day dilemmas, digital facades, and the complexities of community life in today's world. With Washington at the helm, Wisteria Lane promises to stir up fresh intrigue on familiar streets—and fans are eager to see just how juicy the new neighborhood secrets will be. Are you ready to return to Wisteria Lane? SEE ALSO Watch: Kerry Washington Confirms 'Wisteria Lane' Series was originally published on
Hamilton Spectator
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
The versatile actor T.R. Knight gets eerie on Broadway with the ‘Stranger Things' play
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the toughest things about appearing on Broadway might not be the acting or the hours. It's squeezing your resume to under 100 words for your bio in Playbill. T.R. Knight tried to include all of it, initially. 'I was getting angry at myself for getting precious about what to include and what not to include,' he says. 'I was like, 'You are being ridiculous.'' So instead of trying to fit in a career that has spanned Shakespeare and 'Grey's Anatomy,' a David Mamet play and ' The Flight Attendant, ' Knight changed direction. 'There once was an actor named Knight,' his Playbill blurb now reads. 'Who knew his stage-left from stage-right/He went to do some TV/But now he's happy to be/Back in front of the glowing footlights.' 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' What has lured him back on Broadway is the jaw-dropping prequel to the Netflix hit show 'Stranger Things,' a play with levitating cats, shattered mirrors and Vegas showgirls. Set in Hawkins, Indiana, 20 years before the events of the first season, 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' focuses on the creation of a monster, the villainous Vecna, played by — Louis McCartney. Knight portrays his father. We are introduced to a shy, awkward teen Henry Creel — who later will be Vecna — as he moves to Hawkins and goes to high school. He has strange powers and worries a lot. His father is not in a great place, suffering from PTSD and drinking too much. 'I think he desperately wants to be a good husband and a good father, and I think he knows that he is failing at both,' says Knight. 'He doesn't have the tools to stop it.' Knight was a 'Stranger Things' fan even before he joined the play, looking forward to every season. He was asked to audition for a different character but was drawn to the father after reading the script. 'Although our damage is different, I felt that I understood that damage in a way that I did not understand this other character,' he says. 'I just felt it strong enough in my gut that it felt like it could be a better match.' 'Renaissance man' 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' co-director Justin Martin says Knight is constantly changing his approach and always surprising, calling him a 'Renaissance man in terms of his acting' 'It's always about the work. He's very much interested in very, very different characters and different styles of acting. And so he constantly is pushing himself. Every time he does the scene it's slightly different,' says Martin. 'He's going, 'What else can I find? What else could I mine?' which I love in an actor.' The 'Stranger Things' play was also attractive to Knight because of its director: Stephen Daldry, the three-time Tony Award-winner who helmed 'Billy Elliot: The Musical.' Knight recalls being blown away by the way Daldry told the story without sentimentality of an 11-year-old boy who just wants to dance. 'The way he was able to distill that down in such a brutally beautiful, honest way left me — when I left that theater — I remember being both empty and filled up at the same time if that's possible.' Knight and his husband have moved back to the New York area after years in Los Angeles, wanting to do more theater, something he calls 'home.' 'It's still so challenging, still immensely challenging, maddeningly challenging to me — theater — but I love it,' he says. 'I just missed it.' Knight grew up in Minneapolis and spent two years at the city's storied Guthrie Theater before moving to New York at 25. He became a household name in the hit ABC medical drama 'Grey's Anatomy,' which he left after five seasons. He feels like a new chapter is opening, one with confidence and maturity. The move coincides with a change in his creative work and life. 'It's an exciting time and maybe it's a time where I can let go of a lot of the nonsense that I have maybe worried about — maybe? Do you like the way I said, maybe worried about in the past? The nonsense has kind of plagued me.'
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
The versatile actor T.R. Knight gets eerie on Broadway with the 'Stranger Things' play
NEW YORK -- One of the toughest things about appearing on Broadway might not be the acting or the hours. It's squeezing your resume to under 100 words for your bio in Playbill. T.R. Knight tried to include all of it, initially. 'I was getting angry at myself for getting precious about what to include and what not to include,' he says. 'I was like, 'You are being ridiculous.'' So instead of trying to fit in a career that has spanned Shakespeare and 'Grey's Anatomy,' a David Mamet play and ' The Flight Attendant, ' Knight changed direction. 'There once was an actor named Knight,' his Playbill blurb now reads. 'Who knew his stage-left from stage-right/He went to do some TV/But now he's happy to be/Back in front of the glowing footlights.' What has lured him back on Broadway is the jaw-dropping prequel to the Netflix hit show 'Stranger Things,' a play with levitating cats, shattered mirrors and Vegas showgirls. Set in Hawkins, Indiana, 20 years before the events of the first season, 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' focuses on the creation of a monster, the villainous Vecna, played by — Louis McCartney. Knight portrays his father. We are introduced to a shy, awkward teen Henry Creel — who later will be Vecna — as he moves to Hawkins and goes to high school. He has strange powers and worries a lot. His father is not in a great place, suffering from PTSD and drinking too much. 'I think he desperately wants to be a good husband and a good father, and I think he knows that he is failing at both,' says Knight. 'He doesn't have the tools to stop it.' Knight was a 'Stranger Things' fan even before he joined the play, looking forward to every season. He was asked to audition for a different character but was drawn to the father after reading the script. 'Although our damage is different, I felt that I understood that damage in a way that I did not understand this other character,' he says. 'I just felt it strong enough in my gut that it felt like it could be a better match.' 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' co-director Justin Martin says Knight is constantly changing his approach and always surprising, calling him a 'Renaissance man in terms of his acting' 'It's always about the work. He's very much interested in very, very different characters and different styles of acting. And so he constantly is pushing himself. Every time he does the scene it's slightly different,' says Martin. 'He's going, 'What else can I find? What else could I mine?' which I love in an actor.' The 'Stranger Things' play was also attractive to Knight because of its director: Stephen Daldry, the three-time Tony Award-winner who helmed 'Billy Elliot: The Musical.' Knight recalls being blown away by the way Daldry told the story without sentimentality of an 11-year-old boy who just wants to dance. 'The way he was able to distill that down in such a brutally beautiful, honest way left me — when I left that theater — I remember being both empty and filled up at the same time if that's possible.' Knight and his husband have moved back to the New York area after years in Los Angeles, wanting to do more theater, something he calls 'home.' 'It's still so challenging, still immensely challenging, maddeningly challenging to me — theater — but I love it,' he says. 'I just missed it.' Knight grew up in Minneapolis and spent two years at the city's storied Guthrie Theater before moving to New York at 25. He became a household name in the hit ABC medical drama 'Grey's Anatomy,' which he left after five seasons. He feels like a new chapter is opening, one with confidence and maturity. The move coincides with a change in his creative work and life. 'It's an exciting time and maybe it's a time where I can let go of a lot of the nonsense that I have maybe worried about — maybe? Do you like the way I said, maybe worried about in the past? The nonsense has kind of plagued me.'
The Independent
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
The versatile actor T.R. Knight gets eerie on Broadway with the 'Stranger Things' play
One of the toughest things about appearing on Broadway might not be the acting or the hours. It's squeezing your resume to under 100 words for your bio in Playbill. T.R. Knight tried to include all of it, initially. 'I was getting angry at myself for getting precious about what to include and what not to include,' he says. 'I was like, 'You are being ridiculous.'' So instead of trying to fit in a career that has spanned Shakespeare and 'Grey's Anatomy,' a David Mamet play and ' The Flight Attendant, ' Knight changed direction. 'There once was an actor named Knight,' his Playbill blurb now reads. 'Who knew his stage-left from stage-right/He went to do some TV/But now he's happy to be/Back in front of the glowing footlights.' 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' What has lured him back on Broadway is the jaw-dropping prequel to the Netflix hit show 'Stranger Things,' a play with levitating cats, shattered mirrors and Vegas showgirls. Set in Hawkins, Indiana, 20 years before the events of the first season, 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' focuses on the creation of a monster, the villainous Vecna, played by — Louis McCartney. Knight portrays his father. We are introduced to a shy, awkward teen Henry Creel — who later will be Vecna — as he moves to Hawkins and goes to high school. He has strange powers and worries a lot. His father is not in a great place, suffering from PTSD and drinking too much. 'I think he desperately wants to be a good husband and a good father, and I think he knows that he is failing at both,' says Knight. 'He doesn't have the tools to stop it.' Knight was a 'Stranger Things' fan even before he joined the play, looking forward to every season. He was asked to audition for a different character but was drawn to the father after reading the script. 'Although our damage is different, I felt that I understood that damage in a way that I did not understand this other character,' he says. 'I just felt it strong enough in my gut that it felt like it could be a better match.' 'Renaissance man' 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' co-director Justin Martin says Knight is constantly changing his approach and always surprising, calling him a 'Renaissance man in terms of his acting' 'It's always about the work. He's very much interested in very, very different characters and different styles of acting. And so he constantly is pushing himself. Every time he does the scene it's slightly different,' says Martin. 'He's going, 'What else can I find? What else could I mine?' which I love in an actor.' The 'Stranger Things' play was also attractive to Knight because of its director: Stephen Daldry, the three-time Tony Award-winner who helmed 'Billy Elliot: The Musical.' Knight recalls being blown away by the way Daldry told the story without sentimentality of an 11-year-old boy who just wants to dance. 'The way he was able to distill that down in such a brutally beautiful, honest way left me — when I left that theater — I remember being both empty and filled up at the same time if that's possible.' Knight and his husband have moved back to the New York area after years in Los Angeles, wanting to do more theater, something he calls 'home.' 'It's still so challenging, still immensely challenging, maddeningly challenging to me — theater — but I love it,' he says. 'I just missed it.' Knight grew up in Minneapolis and spent two years at the city's storied Guthrie Theater before moving to New York at 25. He became a household name in the hit ABC medical drama 'Grey's Anatomy,' which he left after five seasons. He feels like a new chapter is opening, one with confidence and maturity. The move coincides with a change in his creative work and life. 'It's an exciting time and maybe it's a time where I can let go of a lot of the nonsense that I have maybe worried about — maybe? Do you like the way I said, maybe worried about in the past? The nonsense has kind of plagued me.'
