Megan Fox interview
Fox guests on Conan to promote her film, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She shares her childhood memories of growing up in an ultra-conservative household where watching TV was not allowed, and her personal campaign to get the role of April O’Neil. She also gives O’Brien and astrological reading and tells him what his spirit animal is.
I have been good at it. I have been able to predict some of the births of my friends’ children based on where the moon is. I actually had something made up, it’s your natal chart, I left it. Your sun is an Aries and that’s the tip of the iceberg, the ruling planet is mars who is the God of war. Usually you’re going to find them being firefighters, policemen, they’re like, the instinctual heroes and to me, I don’t know you, but to me you seem more like an instinctual reader.
Final match comments
Sting appears on The Ross Report to discuss future plans and his WWE relationship. Sting remarks that his next match will most likely be his last.
I’m 99.99% sure and can say that it would definitely be the last one.
Release update
WWE posts an update on Alberto Del Rio’s release. WWE states that Del Rio has no excuse for acting out in the way he did.
(1/2) @VivaDelRio is responsible for his own actions. If you’re angry at anyone, be angry at Alberto.
— WWE (@WWE) August 8, 2014
Newsweek cover
Newsweek devotes its cover story to Jewish emigration from Europe, which it says is being driven by anti-Semitism. Author Adam LeBor:
The mob howled for vengeance, the missiles raining down on the synagogue walls as the worshippers huddled inside. It was a scene from Europe in the 1930s – except this was eastern Paris on the evening of July 13th, 2014. LeBor says the 2014 Gaza conflict is partly to blame, but the rise in ‘the world’s oldest hatred’ predates the war:
One weekend in May seemed to epitomise the darkness. On May 24th a gunman pulled out a Kalashnikov assault rifle at the Jewish Museum in Brussels and opened fire, killing four people. The next day the results of the elections to the European parliament showed a surge in support for extreme-right parties in France, Greece, Hungary and Germany.
American Jewish journalist Jeffrey Goldberg:
At what point do the Jews of America and the Jews of Israel tell the Jews of Europe that it might be time to get out?
Katie Holmes interview
Seacrest interviews Holmes during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her about her role in the film The Giver.
It’s about this alternate reality where it’s this community where people take injections everyday to numb their emotions, and they live in a very structured, yet sterile environment. And I play the mother of Jonas, who is selected to be the receiver of actual real human memories. It’s a powerful movie because you see visually, this world that’s such a bubble, yet safe, and then you watch this character experience such euphoria, but also such extreme pain.
Will Arnett interview
Seacrest interviews Arnett during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him on his role in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
My kids were and still currently are still obsessed with the Turtles and they watch the Nickelodeon animated show all day every day not all day, I’m not a terrible dad. So when this came up, I was like, ‘This is something that I can do that they will find interesting and we can kind of share together.’ It was a total no-brainer.
Chandler Parsons interview
Parsons makes an appearance on Chelsea Lately to talk about his positon on Team USA for the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup. She also talks to Handler about his connection with Kendal Jenner and having sex during basketball season.
There’s definitely some sort of penetration during the season. If it happens, it happens. I’m not going to change drastically what I’m doing just because I have a game. But, I get my rest.
Mickey Rourke interview
Rourke guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote the film Sin City: A Dame to Kill. He also talks about why he didn’t like his 1982 film Diner, and his upcoming rugby movie.
I came out here about two and a half years ago to train for this rugby movie I’ve been writing for about four and a half years… There’s a whole bunch of different athletes that have come out in the last three or four years, so I didn’t want to do a boxing movie, and I can’t play basketball.
WWE hiatus interview
Batista talks to TampaBay.com about his current absence from WWE and promoting Guardians of the Galaxy.
I put it aside for now, and that really had a lot to do with my obligations to Marvel. But it also had to do with the fact that WWE and I weren’t seeing eye-to-eye, creatively. The stuff they were doing with story lines just didn’t’t make sense to me. … I’d love to go back. I’m a professional wrestler at heart and I miss it. But I want to be there and be happy with what I’m doing.
SpikeTV negotiations comment
Carter appears on Ring Rust Radio to discus current events in TNA, during the dicsussion she comments on the SpikeTV negotiations for the IMPACT program.
Every two years I go through this. This is just the first public negotiation I’ve ever had. I think social media has really changed this kind of thing. I’m used to every two years negotiating with Spike and negotiating with other networks. This time is absolutely not any different. We’re still talking with them, but there are other people, thank God, that are interested in our product. I want to grow this brand; I want to grow it domestically. I want us to be able to start having the kind of success domestically that we’re having internationally. I’m not going to stop and none of us are going to stop until we get there. I’m real excited to see and I think we’ll know sooner than later what’s going to happen.
Man claims child sexual abuse
James Safechuck, claims that Michael Jackson sexually abused him as a child. The 36-year-old alleges the was abused by Jackson after the two appeared together in a late ’80s Pepsi commercial when Safechuck was 10 years old. He claims that Jackson had allegedly “brainwashed” him into believing that the incidents of sexual abuse were “acts of love,” and that, in 1988, during the Bad tour, Safechuck regularly shared Jackson’s bed and that the abuse continued until he reached puberty.
Howard Weitzman, an attorney for the Jackson estate, responded by saying that Safechuck’s claims should be dismissed.
Mr. Safechuck’s request to file a late claim against the Jackson Estate so he can recover money from Michael’s beneficiary will hopefully be rejected. This is a person that made his claim five years after Michael died, more than 20 years after the incidents supposedly happened and has given sworn testimony that Michael never did anything inappropriate to him.
Safechuck’s petition is scheduled to be heard Sept. 4.
VA apologizes for ‘confusion’
The Department of Veterans Affairs apologizes for causing “confusion” in reporting the number of deaths caused by delayed care at their facilities, and says “there was no intent to mislead anyone.” The VA says the numbers reported:
intertwined in written and oral statements leading to confusion. … VA inadvertently caused confusion in its communication on this complex set of reviews that were ongoing at the time. For that, we apologize.
Larry King second interview
King returns to the Conan couch and calls out O’Brien on his previous comment about his weak handshake. He also talks about his friendship with Snoop Dogg and his experience with marijuana, and proceeds to split a pot brownie with O’Brien and Richter.
I smoked it a few times with my doctor. I smoked it a few times, it was very enjoyable. I liked it.
The Talks interview
Upton gives an interview to The Talks. She discusses dealing with most of the world calling her a bombshell.
It’s where I’ve started and it’s what I’ve accomplished, so I’m happy about it. But the more my career grows, I think that people will see that I have a lot more to offer and a lot more to give, but I want to do it right and that’s why it’s taking me time. I’m patient about it. Now it’s out of my hands – it has kind of been rolling on its own – but at the beginning I was micromanaging every little step. For example, I felt that my agency before wasn’t helping me in the direction I wanted to go, so I approached IMG myself. I always had in my mind where I should be at a certain stage.
Shape Magazine interview
Thorisdottir gives an interview to Shape Magazine about preparing for the CrossFit Games after an injury.
It was a slow process. It was pretty much rehab for a while, then working on my upper body. Eventually I started biking and doing light work on my lower body for about six months. Starting in January, I got back into heavier work coming from the floor, but there was still a lot of rehab work to make sure everything felt good. My back feels really great now, I felt the best I have in two years after the Games. But I know I can get so much better.
Talk is Jericho interview
The Rhodes brothers appear on Talk is Jericho to discuss their WWE careers and tag teams in professional wrestling. Dustin comments on the beginnings of his Goldust character.
All the sudden the phone rings and its Vince (McMahon) and Bruce Prichard on the line. He says, “We have this idea we wanna run by you. We have this character called Goldust who is kind of androgynous,” and I’m thinking, ‘I don’t know what androgynous means.’
Sean Azzariti interview
Azzariti is interviewed on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about his first time smoking marijuana, how he was diagnosed with a post traumatic stress disorder and making Cannabis legal in Colorado.
I smoked a few times in high school but I really didn’t too into it until I was diagnosed with PTSD a few years ago.
Ring Rust Radio appearance
Hardy sits down with Ring Rust Radio to discuss current events in TNA and working with his brother, Matt, again.
I’ve had some recent new ideas that I’ve talked to Matt about but we haven’t debuted them yet, but are pretty possible. It’s like riding a bicycle. Matt and I teamed for a long time and we did an Omega show at the high school that Matt and I graduated from and wrestled the Briscoe Brothers and the whole show from beginning to end was so good and the Briscoes vs. the Hardys was a killer main event. I also did a few other Indy shots with Matt and we were just as good as we’ve ever been.
Talks TNA return
Jackson talks TNA in sit-down interview with The Fight Nerd. Jackson reports he has no interest in returning to TNA wrestling and says that he does have interest in professional wrestling still and is making plans with Chavo Guerrero Jr.
As soon as I went there and saw how they ran things and what they were doing, there were no plans for me to go back
Shape Magazine interview
Dorfman gives an interview to Shape Magazine about the best part of being on the TV show The Bachelorette.
Obviously getting to date some incredible guys, meet my fiancé, and see the world. But having amazing clothes ranks up there too.