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#Boobs@10: Millions of BBC Viewers Get a Bonus Strip Tease with Their News!

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It seems that a striptease on a monitor could be clearly seen by the BBC‘s 3.8 million viewers behind oblivious newscaster, Sophie Raworth. The footage was being watched by a BBC employee wearing headphones and slumped in a chair and unaware that his strip show was being broadcast throughout the nation.

A source said:

This has gone down like a lead balloon at the BBC. It is totally unprofessional. The employee is on borrowed time when bosses catch up with him. You can’t get away with this sort of stuff anymore.

Twitter erupted not quite believing what they were seeing…

@BBCNews why is there a porn video playing behind one of your news anchors during a report?”

“Did I just see boobs on News at Ten?”

Boobs at 10 is kinda catchy, no?

(Photos, screengrabs; via The Sun)

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Queen Elizabeth To Announce Prince William & Kate Will Become King & Queen (Sorry, Charles!)

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Queen Elizabeth is rumored to be passing down her crown to her grandson Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton skipping over her own son, Prince Charles.

The Queen believes this younger generation is vital for the House of Windsor to thrive in the future. A palace insider said,

Her Majesty realized that William and Kate are the future. She has spent 65 years making sure that the House of Windsor survives, and she sees William and Kate as having the energy and star quality to do the job in a modern world. Queen Elizabeth will always do what is best for the long-term health of the monarchy.

The Queen has also said that she truly does not believe the monarchy has the “respect and power it once had.”

The source said,

In her eyes, William and Kate are the two people who can turn that around.

This decision has not surprisingly caused a rift between William and his father Charles. According to the same insider, their relationship has been strained.

Stiff upper lip, Charles! (Sorry, Camilla.)

(Photos, Official Royal Portraits; via Yahoo)

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Chelsea Manning Looks BEEEEEYOOOOOTIFUL in Vogue

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Must-read interview with whistleblower-turned-trans-icon Chelsea Manning in Vogue, charting her course from a chaotic upbringing to her military stint to her time in prison, her transition, and now, her reawakening. But let’s get to the good stuff.

Her style?

Today she is dressed with a mixture of straightforward elegance and function: a casual black sleeveless Marc Jacobs dress with playful paisley lining, a small purse from The Row, Borderline boots by Vetements x Dr. Martens, and—the cinching touch—a black utility belt from 5.11 Tactical, a gear company that supplies law enforcement and the military. “I’ve been a huge fan of Marc Jacobs for many, many years, even going back to when I was wearing men’s clothing,” she explains. “He captures a kind of simplicity and a kind of beauty that I like—projecting strength through femininity.”

What does she think of how the world has changed since she went in prison?

She hopes to be acclimated to a new life. For the moment, certain habits of this decade strike her as weird. Our phone fixation, for example. “We’re sitting in the same room as each other but looking at our phones constantly,” she says. “Before I was in prison, I was one of the only people on social media. I was a novelty. Now everybody’s on social media all the time!” It’s too much. “I think that’s where a lot of this miscommunication, polarization, friction, and chaos is coming from.”

How does she spend her time?

She tweets and Instagrams, Manning has tried to focus on more in-the-moment pursuits. She still loves video games, though she has forsworn the violent ones. Soon after leaving prison, she began teaching herself the programming language Rust. (“It has a lot of features that weren’t available seven years ago,” she says.) She hopes to begin dating—“I’m not planning to be single!”—but intends to wait until her life settles, in Maryland.

And what is she working on?

She is also at work on a memoir. “I’m trying to tell the story as if it was happening now and you’re with me,” she explains. Hawkins, the documentarian, says he plans to stop shooting soon, as Manning’s personal narrative finds its own way in the world: “She’s too young for this film to attempt to be the definitive story of her life.”

The takeaway quote?

“It’s not like I’m living in fear or anything,” Manning says, here in a Norma Kamali swimsuit.. “I’m so glad to be out and about and walking around.”

And the gorgeous little surprise at the end of the article? Chelsea stops to meet one of her idols, the legendary pre-Stonewall era drag icon Mother Flawless Sabrina at her Upper East Side apartment, and their conversation will leave you sobbing.

Go here, RIGHT NOW, and read the entire article.

Photo: Annie Leibovitz for Vogue.

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Pink Is Back with the Perfect Anthem to Lead the Charge Against Trump: “What About Us?”

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It’s been five looooooong years between albums, but finally the goddess Pink is set to release a new album, Beautiful Trauma, her first since 2012’s The Truth About Love (JUSTGIVEMEAREASONJUSTALITTLEBITSENOUGH). As Vulture points out:

Much has changed since then: We are a country with a president threatening nuclear war and issuing Twitter orders that aim to further strip the rights of the already marginalized. All this political apathy now has Pink posing the question on most people’s minds, on the title of her album’s first single: “What about us?”

Yeah. What ABOUT us? What are we going to do? SHOW US THE PATH, O MIGHTY PINK!

Watch below. (Lyrics here)

Crazy that almost 18 years into her pop reign, and this is vocally the best she’s ever sounded.

Beautiful Trauma is out October 18th.

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RPDR’s Fan Favorite VALENTINA Performs Live in NYC Sunday!!!

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RuPaul’s Drag Race, Season 9 contestant Valentina will be making her debut performance at Brandon Voss’s Drag Bunch in NYC this Sunday (August 13). The Fan Favorite/Miss Congeniality winner was one of the most talked about queens of her season, for her stunning beauty and glam Latina style..which later inspired the hit house music track Linda Evangelista by Adam Joseph. Come check her LIVE, with DJ David Serrano. Get tickets and more info HERE!!! (photo by Ernesto Casillas, via Valentina’s IG)

 

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Mark Your Calendars! CHARO Will Be at the Hollywood Bowl Sunday, August 27! Everybody Say: “CUCHI! CUCHI!”

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Well, THIS is a no-brainer. Spanish-American actress/TV icon/flamenco guitarist María del Rosario Mercedes Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza aka THE ONE AND ONLY Charo will be appearing in concert at The Hollywood Bowl on Sunday, August 27. Joining her at KCRW’s World Festival, will be Pink Martini, China Forbes and Storm Large. The irrepressible Charo plans to treat fans to an unforgettable night of classic hits like “Malagueña” and “Caliente” as well plenty of fun, laughs and Cuchi Cuchi.

Wonder if she’ll be performing MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE “Espana Cani” (The video, you know, was shot HERE in the WOW basement, with her actual bull calf/bestie Manolo!)

Charo is an American music and pop culture icon who has been delighting audiences for decades. She is instantly recognizable for her “cuchi cuchi,” Charo’s trademark expression, which has endeared her to millions around the world and made her name synonymous with music, fun and excitement. Charo is also a world-class guitar virtuoso, voted “Best Flamenco Guitarist” twice by Guitar Magazine. Charo recently appeared on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” and dazzled America with her rendition of Malagueña during the season finale. She also starred in several episodes of the CW’s “Jane The Virgin.” She and her family also recently appeared on an episode of ABC’s “Celebrity Wife Swap,” bringing to millions the antics and hilarious situations in her crazy Beverly Hills household. Charo debuts a new album “Fantastico!” summer of 2017. Her music is on itunes, Pandora, Spotify and other sites

Get your tickets HERE!

And take a moment out of your day to give Charo some love, below.

SEE YOU AT THE BOWL!

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God Save The Queen: The Crown Season 2 Teaser Trailer is Here!

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This morning, streaming giant, Netflix released the season 2 teaser of The Crown. The series tells the inside story of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign from the beginning. The Netflix series is based on the award-winning play, ‘The Audience’ which starred Helen Mirren on London’s West End.

However, season 2 looks like it will pick up where all the very serious drama left off in season 1: 1956 thru 1964. Elizabeth and Prince Phillip are still bickering! Princess Margaret getting a new beau- played by Downton Abbey cutie, Matthew William Goode! Even John F. Kennedy visits (played by Michael C. Hall) with Jackie in tow (played by Jodi Balfour)!

Returning is Claire Foy as the formidable Queen Elizabeth, Matt Smith as Prince Phillip and John Lithgow as the best Winston Churchill, ever. There are a ton of new faces, including the Cersei Lannister’s maester, Qyburn, played by Anton Lesser.

We can’t wait to sink into this new season coming in December of 2017. Check out the trailer for all the incredible pouts by Claire Foy, herself!

 

 

 

Will you be tuning in for all the Royal Drama?

[Header Image via Youtube Screengrab]

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More than Half of Republicans Say They Would Support Postponing the 2020 Election if Trump Proposed It

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As we ever-more-quickly slide into kleptocracy, The Washington Post just published a recent survey in which 52 percent of Republicans alarmingly said that they would support postponing the 2020 elections until Our Dear Leader puts a stop to the terrible, horrible, completely nonexistent scourge of illegal voting.

 

Now, all sane people know that claims of large-scale voter fraud are not true, but that hasn’t stopped many, many Republicans from believing them. Probably because of Trump‘s repeated assertions that he would have won the popular vote had 3 to 5 million “illegals” not voted in the 2016 election.

Eye roll.

The Qualtrics survey asked two questions about postponing the 2020 election.

  • If Donald Trump were to say that the 2020 presidential election should be postponed until the country can make sure that only eligible American citizens can vote, would you support or oppose postponing the election?
  • What if both Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress were to say that the 2020 presidential election should be postponed until the country can make sure that only eligible American citizens can vote? Would you support or oppose postponing the election?

The results?

Nearly half of Republicans (47 percent) believe that Trump won the popular vote. Larger fractions believe that millions of illegal immigrants voted (68 percent) and that voter fraud happens somewhat or very often (73 percent).

52 percent said that they would support postponing the 2020 election [to solve this], and 56 percent said they would do so if both Trump and Republicans in Congress were behind this.

That is some Banana Republic bullshit shenanigans right there.

The Washington Post ends the article any saying:

Postponing the 2020 presidential election is not something that Trump or anyone in his administration has even hinted at…

…Nevertheless, we do not believe that these findings can be dismissed out of hand. At a minimum, they show that a substantial number of Republicans are amenable to violations of democratic norms that are more flagrant than what is typically proposed (or studied).

OMG, we’re never getting rid of this guy. It’ll be like Cuba. He’ll be 110, and still hanging on to power. With Ivanka and Jared waiting in the wings. God help us all.

Photo: Media Punch

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Was Gemmel Moore’s Overdose an Accident? His Mother Claims High-Rolling Democratic Donor’s Creepy Drug Fetish Is to Blame

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WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT BELOW.

The WeHo Times has a bombshell article about the “accidental meth overdose” of young African-American sex worker, Gemmel Moore, 26, at the West Hollywood home of a high-profile Democratic Party donor and political activist.

Moore’s mother, LaTisha Nixon, has said she suspects something more nefarious happened to her son, after talking to one of Gemmel’s friends.

The following excerpt from The Times report is just the tip of the story. It’s terrifying and sick-making and really ought to be read in its entirety, if it is, indeed, true.

“[After hearing of her son’s death at the home of Ed Buck] I called one of his friends and was like, ‘who the hell is Edward Buck?’”  Nixon said, speaking from her home in Spring Texas during a phone interview. “And my son’s friend was like, ‘oh my God, that’s that white guy, that wealthy white politician guy… he was like ‘oh my God…’”

Buck, a one-time Republican, came to Southern California from Arizona several years ago and gained a reputation for making generous donations to the California and L.A. County Democratic Party and chair of Stonewall Democratic Club’s Political Affairs Committee.

LaTisha Nixon says she learned that her son, who was unemployed, had recently been doing sex work. She told the WeHo Times that her son’s friend was also engaged in similar activity—and that they had a client in common.

“When he calmed down, he told me that Ed Buck was one of my son’s clients and that Ed Buck was one of his clients as well,” Nixon said. “[Buck] would have my son to go out to… Santa Monica Boulevard looking for young gay black guys so he could inject them with drugs, see their reaction and how [they] would react and take pictures of them.”

Nixon says a detective from the West Hollywood Station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department who called her following her son’s death said no drugs or paraphernalia were found at Buck’s home.

Nevertheless, Nixon is steadfast in her accusations about the activist’s alleged fetish for getting young African American men high.

“[He] would supply heroin, meth and other drugs to him to smoke or use with a needle,” Nixon alleges. “Buck would pleasure himself at the sight of my son using drugs…”

She asserted that Gemmel Moore’s friends told her, “the bigger the cloud of smoke,” the bigger the reward from Buck, who “would excitedly encourage [Gemmel] to increase his dosage by saying, ‘more, more, and I’ll give you $500 more.’”

One of Moore’s friends with whom WeHo Times spoke described his relationship with the deceased man as one between “true, lifelong friends, not friends like you get in the gay world.”

The man, who gave WeHo Times his full name, but because of his vocation as a sex worker asked to be identified only as “Cameron,” says he also used drugs supplied by Ed Buck in the latter man’s apartment.

After accurately describing the interior of the apartment, with which this reporter is personally familiar, Cameron told WeHo Times Buck asked him if he’d ever “slammed,” a street term for intravenous meth use.

“I told him no, and that would take more money,” Cameron said, describing Buck’s reaction as “excited.”

Cameron said Ed Buck seemed to “get off on getting you higher and higher.”

The trouble that led to Gemmel’s death last week may have had its genesis a year ago. That was when LaTisha Nixon heard from Gemmel by phone. He was in a panic.

“My son filed a police report,” Nixon told WeHo Times. “…He filed a police report because he said that Buck had held him in his apartment or whatever and had shot him up with a needle with something he didn’t’ know what it was. He called me crying. Three minutes on the phone hollering and I’m like ‘What the hell is going on?’ He said ‘this man, he shot me up with something I don’t even know what it is,’ and I’m like, my son is having a breakdown or episode. But he sent me pictures of his arm, his arm was red.”

To keep reading, go here.

The family has set up a GoFundMe account to cover funeral expenses for Moore.

(Photo of Gemmel Moore and family via Facebook)

 

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Instagram Superstar Isn’t the Hot Daddy He Appears to Be…

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Pawel Ladzial aka “The Polish Viking” has found social media success as an incredibly fit silver fox. Except that he’s not exactly what he seems.

Via Oddity Central:

Pawel often gets mentioned as one of the hottest-looking men over 40, and admits that some people who see his photos think that he’s around 60-years-old. And who can blame them? After all, he must be pretty old for his hair to have gone completely white, right? Well, Pawel Ladziak is only 35-years-old, and dyes his hair and beard white frequently in order to maintain this older look. And for good reason, as he credits this transformation for his social media success.

In an interview with Polish website Wirtualna Polska, Pawel said that he didn’t like the “salt and pepper” way his hair was graying, so he decided to dye both his hair and beard completely white. It was only then that he became popular on social media as the “old-but-incredibly-fit” guy.

People were intrigued by this seemingly elderly man and his enviable physique, and before he knew it, Pawel became an influencer with over 330,000 followers on Instagram.

The Instagram star often posts side-by-side photos of himself in his youth and now, and it’s nearly impossible to tell that they are the same person. His story makes his fans love him even more, and find inspiration in his impressive transformation.

Hot. I guess? What do you think? Yes? Yes, definitely?

Follow Pawel here.

(Photos via Facebook)

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Jeffrey Lord OUT at CNN – What Was the Final Straw?

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What a lovely way to end the day.

Jeffrey Lord – the Reagan-revearing, Trump-worshipping, CNN-desecrating, preternaturally annoying, alt-right hack– has finally, FINALLY!, been given his walking papers from the station that put up with his every repellant utterance for YEARS.

And just what was the proverbial straw that broke the camels back? A tweet. Not just any tweet, though.

I mean, really. Who, who, who tweets such a thing?

Via HuffPo:

The tweet was directed at Angelo Carusone, the president of Media Matters for America. Lord wrote an op-ed calling Media Matters a “fascist” group for launching a campaign to get advertisers to pull their support for Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

Lord reportedly told The New York Times that he was in a CNN car when he learned he was fired.

He also spoke with CNN’s Brian Stelter after his firing Thursday.

“I love CNN,” Lord said. “I feel like they are caving to bullies here.”

Yashar Ali, a journalist who has written for HuffPost, tweeted that representatives from MSNBC, NBC and Fox News had confirmed they weren’t hiring Lord.

Lord joined CNN as a political commentator in 2015 and was known for his provocative and unabashed support of President Donald Trump. He once called Trump the “Martin Luther King of health care,” later arguing he did it “deliberately and with reason.”

But his inflammatory statements weren’t limited to his defenses of Trump. Among other things, Lord once claimed “there are no people of color” in America, called the Ku Klux Klan a “leftist” organization and argued singer Ariana Grande was partly to blame for the terrorist attack at her concert in the United Kingdom.

CNN host Anderson Cooper infamously criticized Lord in May when he argued Lord would defend Trump “if he took a dump on his desk.” Cooper later apologized for the comment.

So here’s the way it stands:

Kayleigh, Tomi, Lewandowski, and Lord… DOWN!

Kellyanne, cartoon villain Sebastian Gorka, weird pencil doodle Jason Miller, and that nattering nut Jack Kingston TO GO….

THEN maybe I’ll start watching CNN again.

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RuPaul’s DragCon New York is Coming, Catch Up on Some of Our Favorite Videos from the RuPaul’s DragCon LA Floor

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RuPaul’s DragCon New York City is right around the corner (9/9 and 9/10). As we draw nearer to the beginning of DragCon’s east coast adventure catch up on WOWPresents videos from RuPaul’s DragCon LA!

We catch up with some of your favorite queens from the most recent season of RuPaul’s Drag Race and interview them about their new-found fame, drag and gender expression and their overall reaction to RuPaul’s DragCon 2017.

Watch the video:

Queens from Season 9 of RuPaul’s Drag Race including Aja, Eureka, Kimora and Alexis Michelle react to meeting Lady Gaga during the premiere episode of their season.

Watch their reactions below:

We interviewed the queens from RuPaul’s DragCon LA “Are you tucked?” and boy did we get some hilarious responses. See what Jujubee, Tatianna, Jessica Wild, Ongina, and Violet Chachki have to say about the art of tucking!

Watch Are You Tucked?!:

Get your tickets for RuPaul’s DragCon New York! 

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MTV Star Brandon Meyers Shows Off His Bulging… Thigh Tattoo. (Trust Me: You Want to See This)

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Blah blah blah, something something something, Ex on the Beach star Brandon Meyers, blah blah blah.

Now look at his new Tiger tattoo leg sleeve, and, oh, I don’t know… maybe just take in the whole image. Yeah. It’s a beautiful composed pic, isn’t it?

I’d like to thank Boy Culture for pointing out this particular Instagram image. It just made my weekend.

And here are some other insta pics of my new boyfriend.

Get me back to hot weather and beaches 🌴💦

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Finally getting back into the gym 😰💪🏽💦

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@rawsociety_ denim launch with @mcrfashindustry on Thursday 3rd August 🔥🙌🏾

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Meet Tiffany 🐾

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King cobra 🐍

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Grateful

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Countdown To RuPaul’s DragCon NYC: SICKENING Crowd Shots From RuPaul’s DragCon LA 2017

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RuPaul’s DragCon NYC 2017 is coming!

Can you even handle the excitement? We’re under one month until the big weekend and the anticipation is killing us!

So, to help you distract yourself from having to wait so many weeks, we’ve teamed up with the brilliant photography duo that is Albert Sanchez and Pedro Zalba. You might have seen their incredible pictures from RuPaul’s DragCon LA 2017 in Paper Magazine?

Those pictures left us gagged for DAYS at their sickening and fierce looks. But you know what? Those pictures weren’t the only ones that the pair took. Nope. They took A LOOOOT more fabulous pictures and guess what?

They’ve EXCLUSIVELY given them to us to show all of YOU the fans. So keep checking back to The WOW Report every Friday for a new set of incredible pictures from DragCon LA 2017 to get ready for DragCon NYC!

For the first set of EXCLUSIVE photos, Albert Sanchez and Pedro Zalba have given us some sickening looks of people from the crowd who were in attendance at DragCon LA.

Creme Fatale‘s Day 1 Look

Narwhal Party, a stunning young queen!

Karen from Finance came from Australia!

Niomi BeFierce stunning in silver & white!

Fagenstein looking fab in fur!

M A R looking MARvelous!

Erika Klash looking fierce in florals!

Blaire serving up some serious face!

Lacey Noel looking stunning in silk!

Biqtch Pudding with beautiful black bitchiness!

Victoria Elizabeth Black is a snowy vixen!

Finally, Creme Fatale’s day two look!

For more SICKENING looks from RuPaul’s DragCon, head on over to the SanchezZalba DragCon Instagram account.

RuPaul’s DragCon NYC is happening at the Javits Center on September 9 & 10th.

Head over to RuPaulsDragCon.com for the current lineup, FAQ, tickets, & MORE!

[All images provided exclusively to The Wow Report by Albert Sanchez & Pedro Zalba.]

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Aaron Carter Comes Out! The Controversy with MTV’s ‘Siesta Key’! Meet 8-Year-Old Drag Queen Lactacia! The WOW Report on Radio Andy

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From Hollywood Boulevard, it’s The WOW Report for Radio Andy on SiriusXM! That’s right WOWers, World of Wonder Co-Founder Fenton Bailey, Executive VP of Development Tom Campbell, and WOW Report Editor James St. James have collaborated with reality TV guru and friend of WOW, Andy Cohen, on a weekly Top Ten Countdown of the things from the past week that make us go…WOW!

It’s a pop-culture obsessed hour complete with colorful diatribes, opposing opinions, and a dissection-like discussion that will make your drive home from work more fabulous!

You can now WATCH us recording the WOW Report in our gallery storefront on Hollywood Boulevard, just across the street from Hollywood’s oldest restaurant Musso & Frank!

We air TODAY at 4PM EST on SiriusXM, and again at 4PM PST (that’s 7PM EST). You can also catch it on the SiriusXM app!

Let’s get started…

10) Lactacia: The 8-Year-Old Drag Queen 

Have you seen the video of Lactacia being pulled onto stage by Bianca Del Rio (Above)? Or when Elle.com interviewed her and surprised her with Vivacious (Below)! So AWESOME!

Skip forward to Lactacia @1:29

9) Viral Sensation: In a Heartbeat 

Check out the viral short film In a Heartbeat in which two young boys fall in love. Aww.

And then watch older people react to the short. Even though the fight is definitely not over, it’s nice to see how far we’ve come.

Skip forward to In a Heartbeat @7:29

8) Sharknado 5: Global Swarming 

Shark Week 2017 recently wrapped up, and with it came a brand-new installment of Sharknado! The fifth sequel – Sharknado 5: Global Swarming – has 80 cameos! You can watch it on SyFy.com.

Skip forward to Sharknado 5 @12:01

7) Siesta Key Brings MTV Back to the Future

We discuss the new MTV show, which is mostly just a rip-off of their Laguna Beach & The Hills series, and all of it’s controversies. Watch Siesta Key and judge for yourself on Mondays at 10/9c on MTV.

Skip forward to Siesta Key @20:22

6) Netflix Pick: Handsome Devil 

James recently fell in love with the movie Handsome Devil, about gay friends who couldn’t be more opposite in a boarding school in Scotland. Watch Handsome Devil on Netflix.

Skip forward to Handsome Devil @25:19

5) Conspiracy Theory: Is Baron Trump a Time Traveler?

Have you heard this conspiracy theory about the youngest trump, Baron, being a time traveller? You gotta hear this….

Skip forward to Is Baron Trump a Time Traveler @29:34

4) Rest in Power Glen Campbell 

We lost a legend this week when the rhinestone cowboy himself, Glen Campbell, passed away at age 81 after a long battle with Alzheimers Disease.

Skip forward to Glen Campbell @37:03

3) Disney’s Descendants 2 

James is obsessed with the new Disney original movie Descendents 2 – a musical about the children of Disney villains. Watch it on the ABC go app.

Skip forward to Descendants 2 @41:31

2) If Shakespeare Wrote Star Wars 

Have you ever wondered what if all of the episodes of Star Wars were written in iambic pentameter? Well, you don’t have to worry anymore because there’s a book for that. Get them on Amazon.

Skip forward to Star Wars in Iambic Pentameter @47:05

1) Aaron Carter Comes Out 

After a rough few weeks that included him getting arrested for a DUI, getting made fun of for looking like he was addicted to meth, and breaking up with his girlfriend – Aaron Carter has come out as bisexual!

Skip forward to Aaron Carter @51:13

Listen in at 4:00PM EST and again at 4:00 PST (7 PM EST) on SiriusXM! Or listen whenever you want on the SiriusXM App!

And be sure to give your ears the gift of THE WOW REPORT on Radio Andy SiriusXM EVERY Friday.

Do something this weekend that makes YOU go WOW!!!

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Tony Award Winning Cutie-Patootie Ben Platt to Guest Star on New “Will & Grace”

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Be still my heart!

The Dear Evan Hansen star, who has Broadway audiences in ABSOLUTE PUDDLES every night, was spotted in a backstage pic with the Will & Grace cast, noting he will appear on the October 5 episode of the revival. No word yet on who the character will be (BOYFRIEND FOR WILL! BOYFRIEND FOR WILL!) but here’s hoping he’ll burst out in at least one song.

If you haven’t seen Evan Hansen yet, might I interest you in a quick sob via his appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert? Seriously, you don’t even need to know the play’s backstory, just listen to the words and watch his face. You’ll be crying by the three minute mark, I swear.

Writes NewNowNext:

It has also been confirmed that Harry Connick Jr. will return to reprise his role as Leo, Grace’s husband. Since it was teased that she was dating in the revival, and series co-creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan said they were going to ignore the series finale where Grace and Leo get remarried, it seems likely that Leo and Grace are no longer together in the revival.

Platt’s episode isn’t scheduled to air until October, but the show is already back in production with the first episode filming in front of a live studio audience this week. Paolo Presta, who memorably was given a walk-on role on Will & Grace by Oprah Winfrey, was in the audience for the first night of filming.

The revival has already been renewed for a second season, and the upcoming ninth season will now consist of 16 episodes, plenty of time to squeeze in even more guest stars.

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#TheSims: The Kardashians Go to the Supermarket for the First Time

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When (Sim) Kim announces that there is, like, literally nothing to eat at the Kardashian kompound, (Sim) Kris sends the girls to a… what is it called?… a GROCERY STORE.

“Um, why would you go to somewhere that’s gross?” asks (Sim) Kourtney.

“No,” explains Mama Kris. “It’s a store for food.”

“Why would a store give out food and not clothes. That makes no sense…”

And with that, the girls are off to explore the strange goings on at these so-called “supermarkets.”

It’s pretty funny (SPOILER ALERT: Tragedy ensues when Khloe ends up at the hospital, Kourtney ends up in jail, and Kim is left frozen in the frozen food section). Watch below:

Of course, still not as funny as THIS classic clip from AbFab when Patsy and Edina go to the supermarket for the first time:

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Flashback 2006: JSJ Hunts for the Cutest Boy In the World

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Before #Transformations, before #DailyFreakshow, when YouTube was still in its infancy, I used to run around Hollywood Boulevard accosting boys and asking them if they were THE CUTEST BOY IN THE WORLD®. The joke (in my mind) was that the boys weren’t always drop-dead handsome…. but every boy wants to believe they are. And it’s hysterical to watch them explain to me why they think they’re cute.

I loved it. And I thought I was doing them a great service, calling attention to their most attractive qualities in public, and on camera, for all the world to see.

UNFORTUNATELY, the comment sections were always rather vicious to me, calling me a pervy old man, and saying it was creepy to watch me drool over young boys, and I needed to leave them the hell alone.

So I stopped.

But I accidentally ran across an episode today while looking for something else, and wanted to share it with you. Mostly for the boys. The boys, the boys. Omg. SUCH A TIME CAPSULE. 2006. Mid-aughts. MySpace era. Emo still in full effect. The boy bangs. The facial hair. The terrible, terrible fashions. I love it. They are all SO ADORABLE to look at through a 2017 filter.

And you know, now that I think about it, the boys in this video MIGHT REALLY BE…. THE CUTEST BOYS IN THE WORLD (OMG YAY!)

Watch it below.

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#BornThisDay: Actor, Alfred Lunt

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Photograph from The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Archives

August 12, 1892Alfred Lunt:

“Charm is that extra quality that defies description.”

I have always been absorbed by these types, the forceful and resourceful theatre and film personalities of the 1920s-1960s. “The Lunts”, Alfred and his actor wife Lynn Fontanne ruled the American Theater scene during that era with their dazzling partnership. Their careers flourished at a time when even the biggest of stars would do national tours and successful actors worked year-round exclusively on the stage. The Lunts’ friends included other glamorous theater people: Noël Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Helen Hayes, Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, and Laurence Olivier.

There was never a question of their devotion, but the offstage union of Lunt and Fontanne was a marriage between a gay man and a lesbian. Their presentation of themselves as the ideal couple may have been their most skillful performance.

They became noted as an acting duo in the Theatre Guild’s production of The Guardsman by Ferenc Molnár in 1924. The two were known to the public thereafter as “The Lunts.” In the three and a half decades that followed, they appeared in one elegant vehicle after another, for the Theatre Guild and for companies that they assembled and managed themselves. As a tribute to their long dual career, a venerable Broadway theater, The Globe, was re-christened The Lunt-Fontanne. Under the new name, the first production was the couple’s final Broadway show: Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Visit, directed by Peter Brook.

When prodded by best buddy, Noël Coward, the couple would sometimes teasingly hint about their private lives. The trio’s scandalous collaboration, the hit comedy Design For Living (1933) allowed Coward and his co-stars to romp through the story of a three-way implying that there was sex between the two male characters. Design For Living remains one of my favorite plays. I am fascinated by the ups, downs and pitfalls of a three-way relationship. The original production showcased the flawless comic gifts for which The Lunts were most admired, they could be effective at dramatic pieces, but The Lunts will always be known for their gift at doing light comedy and for their dazzling chemistry.

When they first began working together, the Lunts were true innovators. They defied the over-the-top acting style popular at the time, developing instead a conversational, overlapping technique that audiences found startlingly realistic. They brought risqué physicality to their romantic comedies, making love scenes sizzle and steam. By the 1950s, however, they came to represent a passé sort of eminence.

In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher In The Rye, Holden Caulfield, describing the Lunts’ performance in a comedy, faults them for being “too good”. Salinger writes:

“When one of them got finished making a speech, the other one said something very fast right after it. It was supposed to be like people really talking and interrupting each other and all. The trouble was it was too much like people talking and interrupting each other. If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don’t watch it, you start showing off.”

By the time Salinger published his famous book, the Method was the new style of acting and the Lunts were passé. But, at the height of their careers, they brought something magical to the works of William Shakespeare, G.B. Shaw, Anton Chekhov, Robert E. Sherwood, and Maxwell Anderson, as well as playing Dmitri and Grushenka in a fabulous adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.

When not doing a show, the famous couple retreated in high style to their country manor, 10 Chimneys, the Lunt’s home state of Wisconsin, where he would cook and redecorate while she sewed her chic clothing. The Lunts were my kind of couple; they ate off an orange crate while sitting on Biedermeier chairs. The Lunts were Bohemians, for certain. The Theater was their life, and their life was theater. Their dwellings were theatrical sets, their parties were stage shows, and everyone and anyone who socialized with them was turned into an audience. It has been remarked that The Lunts knew next to nothing about what was going on in the world, had mostly theatrical friends, usually acted together as a team, and rehearsed their parts in taxi cabs and even in bed.

There are all sorts of marriages, I should know. Unlike in other showbiz unions, The Lunts were equal stars; equally glamorous to the world and to each other. There was not much reason for jealousy. Passion was for acting on the stage. Fontanne:

“We were friends right away. I loved him utterly. We were in the same profession. We were like twins. When we were acting, I always thought of him as another person. I had a new lover every night, and so had he.”

The Lunts had a design for living that suited them both. There would be deep devotion; there would be close friendships, particularly the triangle kind that Fontanne preferred (Fontanne, Lunt and a gay male), kindness, courtesy, loyalty and generosity. There would be total commitment to their work. They would have separate affairs and they would share the details.

Lunt took his final curtain call in August 1977, a few days before his 85th birthday. He is buried next to his wife at the Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee. After Lunt’s death, Fontanne toasted him with a glass of champagne, saying simply, “To Alfred”. 10 Chimneys is now a museum and a resource center for theatre people.

There is a stage play being produced at regional theatres across the country based on their time as a couple and their relationships with their famous friends. It is titled appropriately, 10 Chimneys. It was produced at Portland’s own Artist Repertory Theatre in the 2012 season. It seems to me that the MFA style of acting, craft-worthy as it may be, is the very cultural and artistic opposite of what The Lunts offered. You can’t get a college degree in Glamour. The effervescence of The Lunts, their dazzle on stage, and the charm of their world, we will probably not see their likes again.

 

 

 

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