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NBC Sports
4 days ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Jason Kelce suggests game between flag team and tackle team to determine 2028 U.S. Olympic team
Last week, former Eagles center Jason Kelce helped save the tush push. This week, he has an idea for properly launching the Olympic flag football competition. Kelce offered up this idea during the latest episode of the New Heights podcast, via Austin Nivison of 'I think a coach that is familiar with flag football should select an NFL-represented team. That team should just play this flag football team that's been playing for a long time and feels like they are the best at it and don't need other guys.' The winning team would then be the Olympic team. Of course, the first challenge would be figuring out the players on the two teams that would meet in a winner-take-all showdown. But once the teams are set, it would be compelling. It would carry The Longest Yard vibes, with one hell of a twist. The more talented players would be the fish out of water. The more experienced players would be the physical Davids to the NFL Goliaths. Of course, more games and more practices and more reps increases the injury risk for the active NFL players. Of course, if they lose the Olympic qualifying showdown, the injury risk will be minimized. They wouldn't be playing in the Olympics at all.
The Irish Sun
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Danny Dyer reveals how moving letter from daughter Dani persuaded him to stay in rehab and kick drug addiction
DANNY Dyer has revealed how a touching letter from eldest daughter Dani was the catalyst for him to stay in rehab and kick drugs for good. His touching comments come after 6 Danny Dyer has revealed a touching letter from daughter Dani helped him beat his drug demons at the height of his addiction Credit: Getty 6 Danny, 47, opened up on the influence of his eldest daughter who penned him a letter Credit: Getty 6 He told how the Love Island alum's words made him 'sit back down' and take note Credit: Getty The 47-year-old - who played Queen Vic landlord for nine years - said: 'I was off my nut a lot of that job . . . a lot of Valium and diazepam.' Now he has told how his Love Island alum daughter played a key role in ditching his demons after he admitted Now he has candidly opened up on his rehab stint in South Africa - and how the reality TV star's words sobered him up. Speaking to Lauren Laverne on Desert Island Discs he said he was ready to quit the facility around eight years ago. READ MORE DANNY DYER He told the BBC Radio 4 show: "Then they read a letter out from home, from my daughter Dani, and it made me sit back down in that seat." Talking of the height of his drug battles he said: "I remember I had this moment where I was sitting in my ensuite trying to work out how to put a pair of jeans on - I was that off my head. "I looked up, I looked at my wife and I could just see how tired she looked and I could hear kids running around downstairs, and I thought 'I need to sort my life out'." Back in 2022, Danny previously told The Sun he Most read in Celebrity Danny went to show bosses and told them he desperately needed to take time out after his relationship with his wife He admitted he had spent years being 'a c*** to her" and was taking so many drugs he had to make a desperate cry for help to producers of the BBC soap. Danny Dyer calls himself a 'p---k' as he candidly opens up about split from wife Jo in The Assembly Danny and Jo met as kids, growing up on the same council estate in East London, and had a daughter The couple went on to have a daughter Sunnie, 18, and son Arty, 11. REAL DEAL Danny also opened up on his darkest times at a boozy event this weekend. Fans and celebs including Patsy Kensit, 57, were at Wimbledon Football Club in South West London on Friday for the charity night with Danny. Danny Dyer's career so far By Conor O'Brien Danny Dyer has played several film and TV roles across a three-decade acting career. Here's a look back at some of his most memorable performances. Prime Suspect (1993): Danny made his screen debut in an episode of the long-running ITV police procedural. He appeared as a character named "Martin Fletcher". Human Traffic (1999): Danny's debut film saw him portray "Moff", a dealer. Directed by Justin Kerrigan, the coming-of-age comedy drama also featured Mean Machine (2001): An adaptation of The Longest Yard, this sports comedy also featured Vinnie Jones and Jason Statham. Danny played "Billy the Limpet". The Football Factory (2004): Loosely based on the novel of the same name by John King. Danny led the cast of this sports drama, directed by Nick Love. He portrayed "Tommy Johnson". EastEnders (2013-2022): Danny appeared in the London-set BBC soap opera for almost a decade. He Rivals (2024): The actor was among an all-star ensemble cast in this Disney+ series based on Jilly Cooper's novel. Danny played the role of "Freddie Jones". Speaking of EastEnders, he told the audience: 'I was off my nut for a lot of that job. I was squinting a lot for a couple of years, a lot of Valium and Diazepam. 'You have 30 pages a day you've got to learn. There's no f***ing about. You organically make the scene work, you rehearse nothing. It f***s your nut up. I ended up in rehab twice.' In an apparent reference to the show's storylines, he added: 'Not so much in Corrie, but in EastEnders it's so dark.' Danny joined the soap as Queen Vic landlord Mick Carter in 2013 but quit in 2022, with his character seemingly drowning at sea. He added: "On EastEnders there is no messing about and you've got to do it. It's the hardest part of our job. 'I'd love to see A-list actors come in and do it, they'd crumble. You've got to be on it. 'In films you make yourself properly cry, you go to a dark place and you have time to recover. It messes a lot of people's heads up. Most people are off their nut." During the boozy bash Danny also confessed bosses banned him from drinking alcohol in the Queen Vic and even put antiseptic in the beer barrels. He said: 'When I first arrived on set I was slipping around the side and having a few lagers and they found out so they started to put TCP into the beer. 'I wasn't off my nut. I had a drink every now and again.' An EastEnders spokeswoman said yesterday: 'We would never discuss an individual's private matters, however, we do not recognise these claims. "EastEnders has extremely robust and well-established procedures in place to safeguard the welfare of everyone who works on the show.' 6 Danny told how he was 'off his nut' on drugs during his time on EastEnders Credit: BBC 6 Danny told of his 'dark' times on the BBC soap Credit: BBC 6 He is a proud dad of three Credit: Splash
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Peter Segal remembers how 'happy' a sober Chris Farley was making 'Tommy Boy': 'It was a really nice time'
As Tommy Boy turns 30, director Peter Segal feels a 'mix of emotions' about the odd-couple buddy comedy starring Chris Farley and David Spade. 'It warms my heart and sometimes makes me sad,' Segal tells Yahoo Entertainment about seeing Farley, who died in 1997 at age 33, on the big screen again. 'It brings me right back to those days.' Tommy Boy — which is getting a new 4K ultrahigh definition release from Paramount in honor of its anniversary — was the second film Segal directed, after 1994's Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult. It was also 'definitely the hardest production I've done' out of his 12 movies. The film, produced by Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michael, had an incomplete script — just 66 pages — that was rewritten on the fly throughout production. They ran behind schedule, which meant Farley and Spade had to pull double-duty filming, in Toronto and flying back to New York to shoot SNL. 'When I look back … it looks so nice and sweet and innocent on the big screen, but it wasn't getting there,' he said. 'I think it was the most chaotic [film] that I worked on and I hope I never have a process that difficult again. I don't recommend it.' Segal added, 'It's a mix of emotions looking at it now.' Segal, who went on to direct The Longest Yard, 50 First Dates and Anger Management, had previously worked on a Farley comedy special and was excited to helm his first leading film role — about lovable but dim-witted nepo baby Tommy Callahan III, who inherits his dad's auto parts business in Sandusky, Ohio — amid his breakout success from SNL. Farley had already been dealing with substance use disorder at that point but was sober while making this film. Segal remembers how happy Farley was while filming and how the star's biggest vice at the time was drinking 27 coffees a day on set. 'I was fortunate to have worked with Chris both when he was not clean and sober and then during this movie where he was,' Segal said. 'He replaced his other substances with caffeine. So, yeah, he drank a lot of coffee. Too much. But that was his process. Seeing how happy [Farley] was during filming, even though it was a hard shoot, it was a really nice time. So I was like: Fine by me if you want your 28th cup. All good.' While the film is a comedy — with the still hilarious sparring between Tommy and his father's overlooked assistant Richard Hayden (Spade) — it also showed Farley's range. The film ends with him in a sailboat, talking to the spirit of his late dad. Segal said that scene, like the rest of the film, wasn't easy either. The film 'didn't have an ending," Segal said, and it was a last-minute suggestion by Stripes screenwriter Len Blum to shoot the final scene back at the lake. They had to scramble to get back to that set and hope for calm winds that day, and they shot the scene. 'Chris was on his way home and there was an accident with the film and it got ruined,' Segal said. 'We had to have Chris make a U-turn, come back and do that emotional scene a second time,' adding to the "arduous process' of completing the film. Bo Derek played Farley's deceitful stepmother in the film and Rob Lowe his conniving stepbrother. While Lowe played the role to a tee, it was almost a very different actor in that role: Matthew McConaughey. 'Matthew had just done [1993's] Dazed and Confused, so he was very young in his career,' Segal said. 'He's awesome — it's just as casting goes, you're looking for certain things and Rob seemed to fit that. Now, you can almost never imagine anybody but Rob in the role. But that's usually how it goes when you realize how close someone else was to that role.' Meanwhile, Derek and Lowe, who turned out to be a money-hungry couple in the film, made for a fetching pair — even with Lowe's character getting beaten up throughout the movie. 'Let me just tell you that when you go to dinner with Rob Lowe and Bo Derek, I could be on fire and no one would notice me,' Segal said. 'But we struggled through that.' Paramount's 30th Anniversary 4K UHD is now available.
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Peter Segal remembers how 'happy' a sober Chris Farley was making 'Tommy Boy': 'It was a really nice time'
As Tommy Boy turns 30, director Peter Segal feels a 'mix of emotions' about the odd-couple buddy comedy starring Chris Farley and David Spade. 'It warms my heart and sometimes makes me sad,' Segal tells Yahoo Entertainment about seeing Farley, who died in 1997 at age 33, on the big screen again. 'It brings me right back to those days.' Tommy Boy — which is getting a new 4K ultrahigh definition release from Paramount in honor of its anniversary — was the second film Segal directed, after 1994's Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult. It was also 'definitely the hardest production I've done' out of his 12 movies. The film, produced by Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michael, had an incomplete script — just 66 pages — that was rewritten on the fly throughout production. They ran behind schedule, which meant Farley and Spade had to pull double-duty filming, in Toronto and flying back to New York to shoot SNL. 'When I look back … it looks so nice and sweet and innocent on the big screen, but it wasn't getting there,' he said. 'I think it was the most chaotic [film] that I worked on and I hope I never have a process that difficult again. I don't recommend it.' Segal added, 'It's a mix of emotions looking at it now.' Segal, who went on to direct The Longest Yard, 50 First Dates and Anger Management, had previously worked on a Farley comedy special and was excited to helm his first leading film role — about lovable but dim-witted nepo baby Tommy Callahan III, who inherits his dad's auto parts business in Sandusky, Ohio — amid his breakout success from SNL. Farley had already been dealing with substance use disorder at that point but was sober while making this film. Segal remembers how happy Farley was while filming and how the star's biggest vice at the time was drinking 27 coffees a day on set. 'I was fortunate to have worked with Chris both when he was not clean and sober and then during this movie where he was,' Segal said. 'He replaced his other substances with caffeine. So, yeah, he drank a lot of coffee. Too much. But that was his process. Seeing how happy [Farley] was during filming, even though it was a hard shoot, it was a really nice time. So I was like: Fine by me if you want your 28th cup. All good.' While the film is a comedy — with the still hilarious sparring between Tommy and his father's overlooked assistant Richard Hayden (Spade) — it also showed Farley's range. The film ends with him in a sailboat, talking to the spirit of his late dad. Segal said that scene, like the rest of the film, wasn't easy either. The film 'didn't have an ending," Segal said, and it was a last-minute suggestion by Stripes screenwriter Len Blum to shoot the final scene back at the lake. They had to scramble to get back to that set and hope for calm winds that day, and they shot the scene. 'Chris was on his way home and there was an accident with the film and it got ruined,' Segal said. 'We had to have Chris make a U-turn, come back and do that emotional scene a second time,' adding to the "arduous process' of completing the film. Bo Derek played Farley's deceitful stepmother in the film and Rob Lowe his conniving stepbrother. While Lowe played the role to a tee, it was almost a very different actor in that role: Matthew McConaughey. 'Matthew had just done [1993's] Dazed and Confused, so he was very young in his career,' Segal said. 'He's awesome — it's just as casting goes, you're looking for certain things and Rob seemed to fit that. Now, you can almost never imagine anybody but Rob in the role. But that's usually how it goes when you realize how close someone else was to that role.' Meanwhile, Derek and Lowe, who turned out to be a money-hungry couple in the film, made for a fetching pair — even with Lowe's character getting beaten up throughout the movie. 'Let me just tell you that when you go to dinner with Rob Lowe and Bo Derek, I could be on fire and no one would notice me,' Segal said. 'But we struggled through that.' Paramount's 30th Anniversary 4K UHD is now available.
