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Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings apologized after the wording of a clue about John Pork outraged fans online. The issue stemmed from a clue in the “Daddy is there really a...” category of the show’s Oct. 24 episode. During the episode, Jennings read the clue: “No: AI generated the TikTok image of this pig/human eventually killed by Tim cheese.” After reading the clue, Jennings said even he, who had won 74 consecutive games of Jeopardy! before becoming the show’s host, “didn’t understand any of that. Who is John Pork?” John Pork is a viral meme of a digitally created pig’s head on a man’s body that gained fame on social media platforms like TikTok, where a joke spread amongst fans that Pork had died. Fans, however, took offense to the clue’s description of Pork as being “AI-generated,” claiming he “predates AI.” Since the outrage, Jennings apologized in a TikTok video. “Now, even though AI is used heavily in many of his TikToks, it’s possible that wasn’t the best wording to refer to his original appearances,” Jennings said. “John, I hope he’ll forgive me and all of us at Jeopardy! for any insult we may have committed against you or your memory.” @jeopardy Replying to @JoeG zz 🤭 Sorry to this pork. Jeopardy! #JohnPork #KenJennings ♬ original sound - Jeopardy! Prince Harry’s long-running feud with his brother Prince William sparked back into life Monday. In the latest move set to annoy the royal family, Harry unveiled a slate of engagements that directly clash with William’s multi-million dollar Earthshot Prize in Rio de Janeiro. The timing of Harry’s announcement—released just as William touched down in Brazil—was viewed by friends of the heir as a deliberate act of provocation. Harry will visit Toronto on November 5–6 to support the veterans’ charity True Patriot Love Foundation. His team said the king’s office was informed beforehand “as a courtesy.” Harry has been patching up his fractured relationship with his father, even resuming “regular” calls with him, according to one source who spoke to The Royalist, since their brief meeting in September. On Wednesday, William is due to hand out the Earthshot awards of £1 million ($1.3 million)—which aims to help scale technological solutions towards combating climate change—to five winners. On Thursday, he will speak at the COP30 environmental jamboree. His team has viewed this week as an opportunity to shift the narrative away from family difficulties to more serious matters, but Harry has just made that more complicated. Want more royal gossip, scoops and scandals? Click through to The Royalist on Substack. The right winter shoe has to do more than look cute; it needs to keep your feet warm and dry, too. 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Shortly after his passing, Godchaux-MacKay married David MacKay in 1981, who she is survived by, along with her sons, Kinsman MacKay and Zion Godchaux, and her grandson, Delta. “You can’t make up for what isn’t there anymore, but you can continue on a journey that takes you somewhere,” Godchaux-MacKay told Rolling Stone in 2014 about her song Back Around, which detailed her coming to terms with her past. She died surrounded by her family at Alive Hospice in Nashville. A former news anchor in Missouri was arrested for allegedly stabbing her elderly mom to death on Halloween. Angelynn Mock, 47, a former anchor for FOX 2 in St. Louis and KOKH FOX 25 in Oklahoma City, was charged with first-degree murder after officers responded to a reported stabbing at a home Friday morning in Wichita, Kansas. Police discovered her mother, marriage and family therapist Anita Avers, 80, unresponsive in bed with multiple stabbing wounds. Avers was transported to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. 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Weaver also worked with big names, including George Clooney and Steve Carrell, in the films O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which both came out in the 2000s. Weaver played over a hundred other roles, including appearances in Donnie Darko, Vanishing Point, and Heaven Can Wait. Weaver was born on April 10, 1930 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and served in the U.S. Army for four years before heading to New York. He shares a daughter, Leis La-Te, with his wife Ta-Tanisha. He died Sept. 22. Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc and his model girlfriend, Alexandra Saint Mleux, have announced their engagement. The Monegasque Formula 1 driver and the Italian model took to Instagram to share images of the engagement. “Mr² & Mrs. Leclerc 💍❤️❤️❤️,” the caption read. The post showed the happy couple celebrating with their dog and the soon-to-be bride’s dazzling diamond ring. Other pictures shared included the scene of the engagement, decorated with rose petals, candles, and cookies that said “She Said Yes.” Friends and family flooded the comments with excitement. Lewis Hamilton, Leclerc’s teammate on Scuderia Ferrari, and former teammate Carlos Sainz congratulated the newly engaged couple. Rumors of the couple’s romance sparked in March 2023, when fans spotted the model in the background of Leclerc’s TikToks. The driver confirmed to Gala France that he was in a relationship during his press tour for the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix. Though not mentioning Mleux by name, she attended the event as the driver’s official guest. They officially debuted their relationship when attending the annual F1 gala dinner with Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene of Monaco. Coca-Cola is going full steam ahead with AI-generated holiday commercials, despite facing criticism for the quality and ethics of the ads. Since last year, the company has used generative AI to create its classic “Holidays Are Coming” ads showing truckloads of Coca-Cola being transported through festive towns and forests. Last year, viewers complained that the AI-generated characters had shiny, dead-eyed features, while animators blasted the firms that produced the ads for not employing artists to create the spots. This year, the company is relying on an all-animal cast of characters and arguing that “human storytellers” are still at the core of the AI productions. But the AI spots are cheaper and faster to create, requiring just a month of work as opposed to an entire year, according to Coca-Cola’s chief marketing officer. To create one of the ads, just five AI specialists were needed to prompt, turn out, and refine more than 70,000 video clips. A team of about 100 people total worked on the ads across Coca-Cola, its advertising agency WPP, and the AI studios Silverside and Secret Level that made the pots. Kimberly-Clark, which owns brands like Kleenex and Huggies, is set to acquire Kenvue, the consumer health company that owns Tylenol, through an almost $49 billion deal. The deal comes after Kenvue faced financial and legal struggles—even parting ways with its CEO in July after its stock sharply dropped—thanks to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald Trump’s claims that pregnant women ingesting Tylenol increased the risk of autism for their children—opinions that angered many doctors. A few days ago, Kennedy admitted there wasn’t “sufficient” evidence that proved Tylenol caused autism, although he held fast in his repeated claims that there’s a “very suggestive” link between Tylenol and autism without backing it up factually. 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Russell Crowe has dismissed rumors of an engagement to his girlfriend Britney Theriot, stating that he does not intend to marry again. Crowe, 61, married singer and actress Danielle Spencer in 2003 after meeting while co-starring in the 1990 film The Crossing. The pair had two sons and then divorced in 2018. Spencer opened for Crowe’s music show last December. “The marriage ended, but that didn’t mean our friendship ended,” she said to Stellar. The New Zealand-born actor revealed to Australia’s 60 Minutes that he has no plans of getting married, claiming, “Doing it once is cool... but I don’t want to do it again.” Although Crowe has no plans to marry, he and Theriot, 33, have been dating since 2022, after reportedly meeting on the set of Broken City in 2013. The couple made their debut in 2020 on the red carpet at Crowe’s Poker Face premiere in Italy. Crowe shared that the couple does “everything together.” “We’re very happy, man. It’s a very positive life,” he said. Britney Spears’ Instagram vanished Sunday after weeks of cryptic captions, bruised-arm videos, and a public clash over Kevin Federline’s memoir. Fans had grown alarmed as Spears, 43, posted living-room dance clips with comments switched off and, on Oct. 7, showed bandages and bruises while saying she “fell down the stairs.” She also wrote that “brain damage happened to me,” reflecting on 2018 treatment during her 13-year conservatorship, as reported by People. Federline, 47, is promoting You Thought You Knew, which includes claims about Spears’ parenting and alleged infidelity. Excerpts published by E! Online quote him warning “something bad” could happen. Spears, whose sons Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden James, 19, live with Federline in Hawaii, hit back on X, accusing him of “gaslighting” and “profiting” off her pain, according to the outlet. A representative for Spears told People she remains focused on her sons’ wellbeing.
