#Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson

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Chairman of the Board (1998) - M. Emmet Walsh 

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DON'T SUCK (2023) Vampire comedy preview with trailer

‘You’ll die laughing’ Don’t Suck is a 2023 American vampire comedy film about a veteran comedian who coaches a young comic who reveals himself to be a vampire. Directed by RJ Collins (Crescent City; American Sicario) from a screenplay written by Rick D’Elia (National Lampoon’s Funny Money series). The movie stars Matt Rife, Jamie Kennedy, Maurice Compte, Lauren Compton, Ellen Hollman, Scott…

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Don't Suck (2023)

Don't Suck (2023) #RJCollins #MattRife #JamieKennedy #LaurenCompton #EllenHollman #MauriceCompte Mehr auf:

Jahr: 2023 (Dezember) Genre: Comedy / Horror Regie: RJ Collins Hauptrollen: Matt Rife, Jamie Kennedy, Lauren Compton, Ellen Hollman, Maurice Compte, Scott ‘Carrot Top’ Thompson, Lisa Wilcox, Jimmie ‘JJ’ Walker, Emelina Adams, Lauren Shaw, Brian Gross, Russell Peters … Filmbeschreibung: Die letzte Chance auf Ruhm für einen Veteranen des Comedy führt ihn auf eine Reise mit einem jungen Komiker,…

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Title: Canvas of Love

Pairing: Scott Huffman x F!Reader

Rating: 18+ Only! Minors DNI!

Word Count: 4,168

Tags: SMUT, angst, fluff, unprotected sex, fingering (female receiving), oral (female receiving), biting, marking, age gap, praise kink, maybe a slight itty bitty hint of dom/sub, dirty talk, crying, forced confession of feelings, explicit sexual content, explicit language, and I think I’ve covered everything, but if you see something I should add please let me know!

Written For: @sebastianstanbingo, @kinktober2022, and @anyfandomangstbingo

Squares Filled: Drawing a Crush for Sebastian Stan Bingo // Age Gap for Kinktober // G1 - Boss/Employee for AFG Angst Bingo

Beta(s): T. Thompson and A. DiLorenza 

Title Card: Yours Truly 

A/N: Since this one shot features an Age Gap, I want to make clear that Scott Huffman is 37 and the reader is 18.  I couldn't find what the character's actual age was, so I just went off of how old Sebastian was when the movie was released.

"Excuse me, Mr. Huffman?" You knock on your boss's door and wait a couple of seconds before peeking your head in. "You have a call on line two." 

Scott looks up; his light blue eyes that were reading one of the many articles on his desk are now trained on you. They're kind as he offers you a soft smile, and you feel your cheeks heat up. 

"Thank you, Y/N. And how many times do I have to tell you to call me Scott?" 

He gives you a look that seems almost dominant, but that can't be right. He wouldn't ever see you that way. Your gaze moves to your chipped nail polish. Even though he looks almost the same age as you, your boss is nearly twenty years your senior. 

Normally, it's unheard of for a woman your age to get a job as an assistant to one of the most respected men working at the Pentagon, but you were lucky enough to know the right people. 

To your friends, it's no secret that you harbor feelings for Scott. He's extremely kind, understanding, respectful, and very, very handsome. Of course, he has no idea how you feel … well, at least you hope he doesn't. It won't bode well for your office relationship, not to mention your career if he finds out. 

You realize he's waiting on you to respond, and you nervously return his smile, answering him the same way you always do. "At least once more, Mr. Huffman." 

Your eyes close, and you let out a long breath as you carefully shut his door. Honestly, it's a miracle that he hasn't figured out your crush on him. You catch yourself staring all the time, and if he knew what was in your sketchbook locked in your bottom desk drawer? There's no way he'd be able to look at that and not know you have feelings for him. 

The folders on your desk catch your eye, and you sigh. If you want to leave at a decent time this afternoon, then you need to get through all of the case file notes from the past week.

You sit down and smooth out your pencil skirt before grabbing the top file from the stack. There are several different things that you're tasked to do for Scott, but this one is by far the most time-consuming. 

Transferring the handwritten case notes into the computer system is a bit tedious, but you know what a big opportunity this job is, and you're more than happy to do it. 

A couple of hours go by, and you've made it about halfway through the pile. You're munching on a carrot stick when Carlton Stanton, one of Scott's colleagues, taps on the top of your desk impatiently. 

"Hey! Do you know where Scott is? I've been looking for him for an hour." 

Even though he gives you bad vibes and is rather rude, you still give him a warm smile. 

"Mr. Huffman has been in his office all morning to my knowledge, Mr. Stanton. I can let him know you're waiting for him if you'd li-" 

He waves you off dismissively, "no, thanks. I can let him know myself." 

You frown and watch as he barges into Scott's personal space like a bull in a china shop. He shuts the door rather harshly, and you can hear them having a heated conversation. 

Moments later, a seemingly annoyed Scott emerges with Carl. He gives you a tight-lipped smile and stops in front of you. "Hold all of my calls for the rest of the afternoon, please. And can you also reschedule my four o'clock for tomorrow?" 

Your eyes meet his and you nod, "of course, Mr. Huffman. I'll do that right away, sir." You watch them leave and can only hope he isn't angry with you.

Even though he's gone for the rest of your shift, Scott is still fresh in your mind. He always is. As embarrassing as it is, you often conjure up scenarios of the two of you in your head. 

A picnic in the park, both of you sitting on a blanket as you share a nice meal. And afterward, Scott holds you with your back to his chest while the shade of the trees shelters you from the harsh sun. 

Another time, it was you and him snuggling on his couch or what you picture as his couch since you have no idea what it looks like. There's a bowl of popcorn between the two of you, and the latest action movie plays on the TV. 

The latest one, however, was the both of you laying in the bed of his truck watching the stars. The crisp, cool air nips at your skin, but Scott has his arm around you, so you stay warm. The moonlight makes his eyes sparkle as he looks at you, and it's the most intimate moment you've experienced. 

Well, not really… more like it's the most intimate moment your inner conscience has experienced. 

You blink and refocus; the last folder is open, revealing the final notes you need to copy over. The thought of leaving them for tomorrow crosses your mind, but the hard worker in you outweighs it, and you begin typing. 

By the time you're done, you're the last one in the office. After making sure you've secured the files and locked everything up, you head home to finish out the remainder of your night. 

Once again, you try to think about something other than your boss and your unwavering feelings for him, and once again, you fail. You begin to fall asleep and remember how Scott always looks at you when you refer to him as Mr. Huffman. His piercing, blue eyes are the last thing you see before sleep takes you.

The next morning, you wake up ten minutes before your scheduled alarm, so you decide to go ahead and shut it off. You couldn’t go back to sleep even if you tried. Wednesdays are your new favorite day. Not because it’s the middle of the week, but because Scott and you have lunch together. He makes sure to take the time to do that with you once a week just to ensure you’re not having any issues.  

A bright red and white sundress from your closet catches your eye, and you pair it with some white flats before styling your hair. A bit of light makeup finishes your look, and you’re happy to see that you have enough time to stop and grab Scott and yourself some coffee. Of course, you’ve memorized the way he takes it because why wouldn’t you? You loved seeing him smile, and you’ll take advantage of being the cause of it every chance you get.

You’re running about fifteen minutes late once you pull into the staff parking lot, but hopefully, the coffee gesture qualifies as a get-out-of-jail-free card. By the time you make it to the hallway that your office is in, you can hear Carl talking and you try not to let the fact that he’s already probably starting his usual shit sour your mood. What you weren’t prepared for was him sitting behind your desk, flipping through your sketchbook, and about ready to show every single one of your drawings to Scott. 

You freeze in the doorway, unable to even breathe as you listen to what he says. They haven’t seen you yet, and you’re hoping that they won’t. “I told you that little girl’s got a thing for you, man. Just look at what I found inside her bottom desk drawer.”

Scott whips around, venom laced in his tone as he fires back at his colleague. “First of all, Y/N isn’t a little kid. She’s eighteen, and she does amazing work for me that I would never be able to accomplish without her. Second of all, leave her things alo-” He stops, words dying on his tongue as he takes in what he’s seeing.

Drawings.

Multiple pages of drawings and they’re of him.

It’s then that they both look up and see you standing there with humiliation and sheer terror all over your face. You still haven’t taken a breath, and you pray that the floor opens up and swallows you whole. 

Carl sneers, “see that? Just look at her. She was too scared to tell you how she felt, and now that her dirty little secret’s out, she still can’t own up to how inappropriate this is.” 

You finally suck in a breath, but your throat still feels like it’s closing up. Tears sting your eyes, and you begin to shake as the coffee falls from your hands and spills all over the carpet. Scott shoots Carl a death glare and starts towards you, but before he can get close, you turn on your heel and take off running. 

“Y/N, wait!” Scott calls after you, but it’s no use. He’s lost sight of you in the sea of people still coming in to start their morning shifts. That’s it. He’s had enough of the way Carl bullies everyone, and he’s especially had it with the way he treats you. He storms back into your portion of the office and snatches the sketchbook out of his hands.

“Get. Out.”

Carl chuckles, “aw come on. I was just teasing her.”

Scott grabs him by the front of his shirt and slams him against the wall, his eyes narrowed to thin, perilous slits. “Yeah, well, it wasn’t fucking funny, Stanton. Y/N is a wonderful woman and an even harder worker that I go out of my way to make feel welcomed and valued here. I’m sure she already catches shit for how young she is, but that doesn’t mean she needs to get it from you, too. You’re a fucking bully, and I never want to see so much as one of your goddamn toes step foot in this office again. Get. The. Fuck. Out!” 

Once Carl’s gone, Scott grabs his suit jacket and makes sure to lock up the office before going to find where you’d gone. He finally finds you crying in your car and gently taps on the glass, 

“Y/N”?

You wipe your eyes and roll down your window, “if you’ve come to mock me or tell me that I’m fired, save it. I just want to leave with what’s left of my dignity.”

He frowns, “what? You’re not fired, and I’m not going to mock you. I’m flattered that you’d take the time to draw me of all things.” He opens your door and holds his hand out. “Can we go talk? It is Wednesday, and you know I always treat you to lunch.” 

Everything inside of you wants to refuse, but you also don’t want to disappoint him, so you reluctantly take his hand and let him pull you to your feet. 

You're close, more so than you've ever been, and even though his face is blurry from the tears in your eyes, you can see the concern in his. Scott tries wiping your tear-stained cheeks with his thumbs, but fresh ones immediately take their place. It's so hard being in this moment with him, knowing that he's just going to let you down easy. Why would he, a thirty-seven-year-old man, want anything romantically to do with you, an eighteen-year-old woman?

“I wish I knew how to get you to stop crying,” Scott says softly. “Would you want to go sit at one of the picnic tables around back instead of going somewhere more public?”

You nod because you don’t quite trust yourself to talk yet and walk with him toward the side of the building. The two of you stay quiet, other than your occasional sniffle, and eventually take a seat at a table in the shade. He’s watching you, studying your demeanor, but it doesn’t make you feel uncomfortable. You’re still too nervous to look him in the eyes, so you pick at the varnish on your nails instead. 

A few minutes pass before he sighs, “I’m sorry about Carl. He’s an ass and had no right to treat you that way. I want you to know that I made him leave, and he won’t bother us again if he knows what’s good for him.” He hesitantly reaches across the table and gently grabs your hand. “Will you tell me what’s on your mind, sweetheart?”

Butterflies erupt in your stomach, and you blush furiously.

He called you, sweetheart!

You lick your dry lips and wipe your eyes with your free hand before looking up at him. It’s hard not to get your hopes up when he’s looking at you like this. “Well, I…there’s um…there’s a lot on my mind right now. For starters, you’re now fully aware of my feelings for you. How are you okay with this? I mean, no offense, but you’re technically old enough to be my father. Not that you look it. If I’m being honest, you look my age. I just find it hard to believe that someone like you could ever be interested in someone like me.”

Scott scoffs, “seriously? Do you truly believe that I wouldn’t be interested in someone as smart and as talented as you? Not to mention beautiful.” He leans across the table, and his free hand cups your cheek, so you stay looking at him. “Just like your drawings, you too are very beautiful, Y/N. Anyone would be lucky to have you, and yet, I’m the lucky one you chose to have feelings for.” 

His eyes move to your lips, “can I kiss you?” 

You swallow thickly, suddenly aware that anyone could see you two like this. He doesn’t seem to mind, so you throw caution to the wind and nod, “yes.”

His lips press to yours, slow and tentative, and you’re half expecting him to change his mind. He doesn’t though. He sighs and deepens the kiss, his other hand threading softly through your hair as he tilts his head to the side to gain better access. He kisses you like he wants to like he’s longed to be able to, and it makes your core throb at the thought of him wanting to do more with you. 

Scott pulls away, but he doesn’t go too far. His lip curls up in a slight smirk as his thumb grazes your lower lip. “Do you wanna get outta here?”

You stare at him with wide, unsure eyes. “What about work? Won’t we get into trouble for leaving after only being here part of the morning?”

He laughs and shakes his head, “honey, I’m your boss. You’d only get in trouble with me, and well,” he bites his lip, “I don’t plan on reprimanding you…yet.” 

“And what about you?” The concerned look on your face is the polar opposite of how your body reacts to his previous comment. If he only knew how your panties were soaked through at the thought of him choking you…spanking you… possibly even restraining you. Scott doesn’t seem like the type to be into such things, but you’ve always been told that it’s the sweet and quiet ones that are the most dominant in the bedroom.

“I’m taking the rest of the afternoon off.” He stands and holds out his hand to you for the second time that day. “Shall we?”

Scott strives for your comfort; of that much you’re sure. You fully believe that he would have offered to take you back to his place, but instead, he drives to yours, and you’re thankful that you took the time to clean up. 

It’s weird seeing your boss standing in the middle of your living room. He’s taking everything in, smiling at all of the artwork on your wall, and it’s then that you remember the piece you’ve been working on the nights that you couldn’t sleep. 

“I’ve um… I have something for you. I just finished it last night.” He follows you to your desk, and you watch as he carefully picks up the canvas. “I hope you don’t mind that I made you my official muse. I just… drawing you comes so easily to me and not to mention you’re really beautiful and I-” 

Scott slips his free arm around your waist, pulling you flush against him. The intensity of his gaze renders you speechless. “I love it, Y/N. You don’t need to explain yourself to me.” 

He kisses you again; only this time, it’s more passionate, and you can sense his urgency as his mouth moves with yours. Scott blindly sets the artwork down and backs you up until your legs hit the foot of your bed. 

“Is this okay?” He tucks a strand of hair behind your ear and searches your eyes for any uncertainty.

“Yes, it’s more than okay.”

Scott captures your lips once more and gently lays you down. It amazes you how, at this moment, he looks even more beautiful, towering over you with the look of pure, unaltered desire in his eyes, and it’s all for you. 

His gaze rakes over you, taking in the way your sundress is bunched up around your hips, the way your chest rises and falls as you breathe heavily, but mostly it’s how you’re looking up at him. There’s so much adoration, so much trust that he’ll take care of you, and that, combined with the little bit of innocence in your eyes, is his undoing.

"God, you look so damn gorgeous, baby."

You reach for his belt to get it undone and he chuckles at your haste. “You don’t have to rush this, sweetheart. I’m not going anywhere.” 

A needy whine leaves your lips just as you get his zipper down, “But I want you.”

“And you have me, Y/N.” Scott pushes his dress pants down and kicks them off and his shirt joins them on the floor a moment later. Then he’s on you again, his teeth nipping the skin on your neck while his right hand pulls your panties to the side for better access. 

“You’re already so wet for me. I can’t wait to hear you scream for me while I make you cum on my cock, baby. I bet you’ll sound so pretty. 

Hearing him talk to you like this shouldn’t be as hot as it is, but you’ve thrown caution to the wind at this point. The way he’s grinding himself against your thigh makes it clear that he wants you just as bad anyway. 

“Scott, please…”

He moves down your body, leaving a chaste kiss in the valley of your breasts. His big hands hike up the bottom of your dress over the swell of your ass and he finally rests on his stomach between your spread legs. 

“I’ll take care of you, sweetheart.”

Scott’s fingertips hook around the waistband of your panties and he slowly slides them down your legs. He tosses them somewhere behind him and grabs you by the hips, pulling you toward him. Starting at your ankle, he leaves a trail of open-mouth kisses, each one a claim that leaves you more breathless the closer he gets to where you want him most. 

One of his hands holds you in place while the two middle fingers on his other one move slowly through your soaked folds. He pushes them in just as his lips close around your clit and you swear you’ve died and gone to heaven. 

“Scott! Oh, my god!”

He flicks your bundle of nerves with his tongue and moves his fingers slightly faster. “Mmm, you taste so fuckin’ good, baby. God, I could eat this pretty, little pussy all day. I swear.” He’s taking his time with you and although it feels sinfully good, you want more. You want to come undone on his tongue.

His movements are precise and calculated as if he’s trying to map out every place that makes you cry out for him. Scott’s grip tightens, his thumb slotting in the divot of your hip to allow for better leverage as he devours your pussy. 

Your hands tangle in his short, dark locks, desperately trying to pull him closer to your core as you grind against his mouth. The sensation of the way his tongue rolls across your clit is unlike anything you’ve ever felt and when he curls his fingers to rub the rough patch inside of you, it makes your eyes roll back. 

“Oh, my fucking god! Scott! Baby, please!”

His eyes lock with yours and he groans, the vibrations making your legs start to shake. The determination to make you fall apart for him is unmistakable. His pupils nearly cover all of the blues of his irises, and the way he’s looking at you makes you clench around him. 

“Oh, fuck… fuck you’re gonna…I’m gonna…”

Scott adds a third finger and you arch your back. You feel your walls begin to flutter and with one careful drag of his teeth, you shatter into a million pieces. He works you through it, slowly pumping his fingers while the aftershocks of your orgasm ripple over you in waves. Finally, he pulls off of you and you smile blissfully at him, the feral look on his face telling you that he’s not even close to being done with you. 

“I’m gonna fuck you full of my cum, babydoll.”  

He moves up so he can kiss you, the taste of yourself on his tongue making you whimper as he lines his cock up to your entrance. “Gonna fuckin’ ruin you, pretty girl.”

The stretch to accommodate him is a pleasure you’ve never known. He begins to move and you wrap your legs around his waist so he’s flush against you every time he slides home. He leans on his forearm so he can kiss you while the slow drag of his cock makes you moan his name like a prayer. 

“Scott! Oh, god, baby, you feel so good…”

“Yeah? Do you like that, Y/N? You’re bein’ so good for me, honey.” He peppers kisses along the column of your throat before sucking a reddish, purple mark in the same spot. “Fuck, your pussy’s so good…taking me so well. None of those boys your age know how to make you feel this way, do they baby? Come on, tell me. Tell me who fucks you this good.”

You cry out, the kindling of your second orgasm sparking into a red, hot flame. “You do! Fuck, baby, only you do!”

“That’s right, sweetheart. Only I can make you feel this good.”

Scott said he was going to ruin you, and he’s done just that. No one you’ve ever been with before has fucked you like this, and you’re convinced that no one else ever will. It doesn’t matter anyway because you can’t imagine wanting anyone else. You knew you were attracted to him from the beginning, but it took you until now to realize that you belong to him.

“Scott! Oh, god, please! Please, I want you to make me cum! I wanna be a good girl and cum for you again!”

His eyes gleam with lust as he looks down at you. “My sweet girl,” he coos. “You’re so polite. Asking me for permission and wanting to be my good little girl. Is that what you need? Do you need to cum all over my cock, baby?” 

You only nod, because it’s all you can do. He’s fucking you harder, the flared head of his dick hitting your spot at an angle that makes your vision go white. 

“That’s it, Y/N. Come on, honey. Let go for me.”

And so you do. You scream his name and nearly sob as pure bliss flows through your body like a tidal wave. Scott isn’t far behind, his teeth sinking into the skin of your shoulder as he paints your walls with his cum. 

You’re still shaking in his arms and you plant a soft his into his sweaty hair. He sighs and turns his head to the side so he can look up at you. 

“I don’t know how it’s possible, but I swear you’re even more beautiful.” 

You blush and shake your head, “Thank you, but you’re the beautiful one.”

“I’m serious, Y/N. You’re stunning.”

You smile, but it doesn’t meet your eyes and Scott frowns. “What do I have to do to prove it to you, pretty girl?”

You smile and lightly stroke his arm, “I don’t know, but I’m sure you’ll figure something out.”

He closes his eyes and feels himself begin to drift off. He’d already decided the moment he realized you felt the same way he did. No matter what it takes, he’ll make sure you always know how much he cares for you. His reply comes easily, and even though it’s barely audible he knows you hear him. 

“I promise to tell you at least once a day for the rest of our lives.”

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Ten Worst Celebrity Plastic Surgeries

Ten Worst Celebrity Plastic Surgeries Ever

In an attempt to maintain a youthful appearance, people often choose to go under the knife, celebrities are no exception. But plastic surgeries don’t always turn out the way people want it to. Here are ten celebs who have taken going under the knife to the extreme resulting in some of the worst celebrity plastic surgeries.

10. Tara Reid:

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Vital Vegas Podcast, Ep. 134: Carrot Top, Scoop and Things Not Happening

Vital Vegas Podcast, Ep. 134: Carrot Top, Scoop and Things Not Happening

Life is short, spend as much of it as possible listening to our idiotic podcast. Despite the best efforts of the FCC, NFR, MADD, AA, UCLU, ESPN, AAA and the AARP, it’s episode 134 of the Vital Vegas podcast! In this episode, we go deep with Carrot Top (ne Scott Thompson), a national treasure, Las Vegas fixture and walking white paper for visual branding best practices. You might say our interview…

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Scott “Carrot Top” Thompson has been making audiences around the world laugh for more than three decades. ❤️ #comedians #BevHillsMag ⭐️ @carrottoplive READ THE INTERVIEW NOW>>https://ift.tt/wbYKL1i — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/bFhI9Dc

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High Protein Diet Helps Athletes Create and Maintain Mass

Scott Thompson's steroid cycle is well-known. It's also well-documented that he was treated by a body builder, body piercer and nutritionist with performance enhancing drugs. But what's not so widely known is that there are a number of other athletes, including cyclists, that use performance enhancing drugs. Recently, someone who was doing research on the effects of steroids on a cyclist tested positive for high levels of testosterone. This particular athlete had been banned from using the substance, but this didn't stop him.

Why did his test result come back at such a high level? Because, according to reports, he'd been supplementing his diet with high concentrations of testosterone. And these steroids, it turns out, are just about as dangerous as heroin. So this kind of evidence is very powerful in the fight against body builders and other athletes who use performance enhancing drugs. It helps to prove how easy it is for sports people to get steroids and how hard it can be for them to get rid of them.

https://steroidsourcetalk.com/carrot-top-steroids/

When I first learned of this new evidence, I was upset, because I'd given myself up to steroid abuse. And now that I think about it, I'm relieved that I haven't had to deal with any steroids-related illnesses or pain. I've tried to kick the habit, but there just isn't any "quick fix" that I can promise. The reason is that there are lots of potential side effects from taking steroids.

For instance, one of the top steroids, Epinephrine can cause an asthma attack. And just because it's a common asthma medication doesn't mean you can take two tablets a day and it's perfectly safe. It's extremely effective, but there's still the danger of running out of the medication or not being able to take it because of some other problem. As far as women go, there's a possibility that they could be allergic to some of the testosterone or anabolic steroids used to build muscles. There's even some concern that steroids, when used by women, can lead to breast cancer.

So what can you do? A high protein diet, like the one recommended in the study mentioned earlier, seems to at least provide some short term protection. But long term, I'm not sure. After all, high protein diets don't seem to prevent cancer.

If you want to try the juice, try carrot juice, which has a lower amount of ephedrine than did the pills. It's okay if you're not allergic to carrots. If you're an athlete or someone who wants to get stronger, it might be worth it. However, I recommend a high protein diet, including eggs and chicken, for the long term. And, if you're an egghead, maybe a couple of eggs a week, and you should have no problem getting the nutrients your body needs without the dangers of anabolic steroids.

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National Enquirer, April 1

Cover: Alex Trebek Lung and Liver Surgery 

Page 3: Angelina Jolie hits the bottle over Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston 

Page 4: Pregnant Meghan Markle putting royals in danger as hiring more staff for herself and her baby could let evildoers slip in 

Page 6: Dad blocks Britney Spears marriage

Page 7: Eva Mendes gives Ryan Gosling an ultimatum that she wants another baby before she’s too old, pals beg Jennifer Lopez to dump “Stray-Rod” Alex Rodriguez 

Page 8: Priscilla Presley plans her own funeral at Graceland 

Page 9: Radiant Raquel Welch done with men and happy on her own at 78 

Page 10: Hot Shots -- Sarah Jessica Parker, Olivia Wilde, Daniel Radcliffe 

Page 11: Scott “Carrot Top” Thompson, Chiwetel Ejiofor and girlfriend Frances Aaternir meet Prince Charles 

Page 12: Straight Shuter -- Mariah Carey, Hoda Kotb preparing for adopting a second child, American Idol bans Michael Jackson songs after child abuse allegations, Paris Hilton eyeing a TV comeback on RHOBH with help from aunt Kyle Richards 

Page 14: True Crime 

Page 16: Hollywood’s college moms Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman face prison time for scamming kids’ way into top schools 

Page 18: Real Life 

Page 20: Barbara Walters living last days in dementia haze 

Page 21: Cover Story -- Alex Trebek life-or-death surgery 

Page 22: Stroke-ravaged Loretta Lynn vows to sing again but her family fears she will die onstage 

Page 24: Bruce Willis and wife Emma Heming had one major demand before they splashed out $10 million on a new California home -- a cellar big enough for their massive wine collection, Rosie O’Donnell blames abusive dad for suicidal thoughts 

Page 26: Megyn Kelly plots CBS This Morning takeover, Matt Lauer terrified of Katie Couric’s telll-all, Hoda Kotb and Matt Lauer are still friends 

Page 30: Melanie Griffith pressuring ex Antonio Banderas to marry his girlfriend Nicole Kimpel, Lea Michele is hoping for a honeymoon baby, Hollywood Hookups -- Zac Efron dating Olympic swimmer Sarah Bro, Nikki Bella has partnered up with her DWTS pro Artem Chigvintsev but insiders worry that’s is a sham to boost ratings of her reality show 

Page 32: Jan-Michael Vincent died a crippled wreck 

Page 34: How to steer clear of scammers 

Page 36: Red Carpet Stars & Stumbles -- Gabrielle Union, Kim Kardashian West, Mila Kunis, Eva Green 

Page 38: Health Watch 

Page 45: Spot the Differences -- Jean Reno 

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Chairman of the Board (1997) PG-13-1h 35m Genre: Comedy

A surfer becomes the head of a major company.

Director: Alex Zamm Writers: Alfredo Septién, Turi Meyer, Alex Zamm Stars: Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Larry Miller

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Arrivals & Departures - 25 February 1965 Celebrate Scott Thompson [Carrot Top] Day!

Scott Thompson (born February 25, 1965), known professionally as Carrot Top, is an American stand-up comedian and actor.

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XPWEW Friday Night Pyro (3-27-2020)

Friday Night Pyro Episode #419 March 27th, 2020 Los Angeles, California The Barracks

Show Intro

Commentary: Kaitlyn Khaos & Nick Simmonds

Opening Segment: Champagne Clausen comes down dapperly dressed. Champagne: “It was last January at Guilty as Charged I was in the midst of the most dominant world title run in this promotion. And I warned the All Man not to metal in that and what did he do..he did. I told him then that “consequences will never be the same!” And it took this long, whether it was our bean-headed general manger Romeo Roselli who told me I couldn’t challenge for the title as long as he was champion well then just like I thought and just like everyone else All Man proved he was indeed “just a TRANSITIONAL champion��� and now here we stand. 2 days! 2 days! I get my hands on that rat and I get my hands on that smiling, that fake, that fraud, that snake in sheep’s clothing Golden Bryce. I get my hands on both of them. I don’t gotta pin em, I don’t gotta knock them out, I don’t even have to snap their leg in half. ALL I HAVE TO DO is hit one move. Three times. In the blink of a second, in the pop of a cork I can be world champion again

Freight Train enters Train: “I think you might have a bad memory Curtis cause I remember it was only 6 or 7 days ago in this building you pushed my friend. You hit your daddy. You did a bad thang. Well you know what you might have just pissed me of. I took Troy off the medicines and Sunday he’s gonna have a lot to say so you better cover your hind-end or say I’m sorry cause I bet he’s real mad Champagne: Huh...haha Do they call you Freight Train because your the size of a train or do they call you Freight Train because your mind tends to slip off of the tracks. Because NEWS FLASH idiot! He’s a vegetable! He has no memory, no frame of reference since Halloween! Y’know the one with candy! Bring em out! I’m sure he’ll come out here and tell nobody in the crowd that he’s the best, we’ll I’ll say this if he does anything again to impede MY SPOTLIGHT. I’m gonna do more than sedate him. I’ll sedate him permanently and you can whisper that to that human bag of meat. So why don’t you go do that

Freight Train slumps his shoulders and leaves he keeps looking back sadly

Champagne: LEAVE!

All Man, All Woman & Scott Steiner enter

Steiner : Your daddy issues are nobody’s concern your moron. Nobody gives a damn about your carrot cake brain daddy ok all people wanna see is THE POPPA BACK ON PYRO! LOOK AT THE LARGEST ARMS IN THE WORLD

2 weeks ago! I got checked into the hospital and I looked the grim reaper right in his beetie eyes and told him I ain’t leaving until the ALL MAN wins the title 2 times! 2 times!

All Man: 2 times! 2 times!

Champagne: that’s cute, I’m looking to do what neither of you have done. Win that title a second time myself, All Man really? Let’s recall your title reign, you beat me after I had a hard fought match, you beat me with a low battery okay and then you defended it at Flirting With Disaster and Golden Bryce beat you in 8 minutes and let’s see Scott I’ll use your math here.

Steiner: HEY THATS MY GIMMICK! GIVE IT BACK! GIVE IT BACK TO ME!

Golden Bryce enters with the TITLE

Golden Bryce: I feel like I’m watching Step Brothers right now lol both of you sound the same. Complaining. Not doing. I MEAN GUYS! 48 hours! 3 finishers. ZERO FANS! Oh wait sorry Tenille, I respect women!! Scott! glad to see you’ve made a 100% recovery

Steiner: SHUT UP GOLDYLOCKS

Bryce: corpses tries not to laugh

Steiner: Listen up!

All Woman: Scott Steiner!, This Sunday it’s going to be a 3 Way Dance for the XPWEW World Title at Blitzkrieg between All Man, Champagne Clausen and Golden Bryce! What’s your opinion on the upcoming bout?

Steiner: **You know they say that ALL MEN are created equal but you look at the ALL MAN and you look at Champagne Clausen and you can see that statement is not true. See normally if you go 1 on 1 with the another wrestler you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But All Man is ALL IN and he’s not normal. So you got a 25% chance AT BEST of beating All Man at Blitzkrieg! Then you add GOLDYLOCKS to the mix! Your chances drastic go UP! Because he can’t win a big main event match to save him life and he ain’t even gonna try! See the 3 way at Blitzkrieg. You got a 33 1/3rd chance of winning, but All Man! All Man has got a 66% and 2/3rd’s chance of winning!

Senior Champagne! The numbers don’t lie and they spell disaster for you at Blitzkrieg!

Kaitlyn Khaos: “I’ve just gotten word from General Manger Romeo Roselli that tonight! The world champion Golden Bryce will go 1 on 1 with Champagne Clausen and All Woman will act as the special guest referee. That’s gonna be interesting and that is tonight’s main event!”

<<Let’s get this COVID-19 awareness episode of Pyro under way and take it straight to the action!

1 on 1 M1: Doxy Deity defeats All Woman w/ All Man and Scott Steiner @ ringside

<<<Back and forth contest, both competitors were able to get action and offense, This match showcased All Woman even in LOSS because she’s had very limited ring time in the Fed since joining last July but this match we got to see her shine a bit because she really has only had a handful of matches here. In the end Doxy would catch All Woman mid air off the top rope then hits her finish in a great matchup. Quick and fast paced. Steiner’s ringside commentary made it funnier” Steiner: “Do it for my freaks?!!!!”

[PROMO\Hype] Lockdown 7 in 56 days May 23rd, 2020 Dubai, United Arab Emirates mini documentary showing performers hyping up the biggest event of the year

[In-ring segment] Interview from James Westerbeck! XPWEW INTERNATIONAL CHAMPION! Slayer w/ Rosemary& Lotus

Priscilla Kelly bathtub promo }}} Priscilla via Titan tron challenges Slayer to a match for the xpwew international title this Sunday at Blitzkrieg

Slayer accepts So just like that! BREAKING NEWS! This Sunday at Blitzkrieg Slayer will defend his XPWEW International Title 1 on 1 against Priscilla Kelly! Sheeeeeeeeee’s baaaaaaaaaaack

((Slayer walks to the back)) (((Rosemary joins the commentary booth with Kaitlyn Khaos and Nick Simmonds and she’s in character the whole time and Rosemary is creeping Kaitlyn Khaos our the whole time, absolute golden on the mic during this match. Hyping Lotus up!

1 on 1 M2: Lotus defeats Genevalisse

PROMO: XPWEW commercial informing all the UK fans that we sincerely apologize that Blitzkrieg set for this Sunday was suppose to take place at the O2 in London but not to worry because! *Anarchy in the UK by Sex Pistols plays “Because this September we are bringing the XPWEW Anarchy Rules pay-per-view to you! That’s right! We can’t wait to bring the best fans in the world some Xtreme wrestling!!!”

The Set enters Ruckus joins commentary but he is silent the whole time (he goes to light up a blunt) Nick Simmonds: Do you mind um I uh have bad asthma Ruckus: hits blunt coughs intensely/ Damn Vro me too < Siaka Lexoni is sensational at the commentary booth putting over Jordan Oliver, Myron and Kotto over big time >

Tag Team Match M3: Myron Reed & Kotto Brazil defeat Jacques & Dragon Kid

1 on 1 [XPWEW Juniorweight Title ON THE LINE] M4: Jordan Oliver defeats Based Fabian

(((Match of the night, total spot fest #Dive)))

Garrett Thompson and Ethan Bedlam enters GT @ McGraw (speaking into camera) “Last week McGraw it was merely a flesh wound! Merely a mercy beating! I could have beaten your bullocks within an inch of your life, but your little wee damsel in the distress saved your backside huh. Ryu come to this ring.

McGraw enters with a neck brace on

Ryu steps in front of him “it’s not worth it, he’s scum, he’s scum, don’t do this. Not now.” GT and Bedlam wants McGraw with his hand motions just baiting him in to come get this 2 on 1 beatdown < McGraw jerks the mic out of Ryu “You gotta be the luckiest muffin eating sum bitches I’ve ever seen! Ethan Bedlam get your finger outta Garrett’s ass GT: “Your not funny....Not funny mate” Leonard: Oh that ain’t funny. Not so funny. Well hell son I’m not a modern day Monty Python here shit But if this is all comedy, if this shit is just a joke to you GT I’d suggest I get your input on this next bit ive been working on! [[[MCGRAW SLOWLY PULLS AWAY THE NECK BRACE REVEALING THAT HE IS NOT INJURED THIS WHOLE TIME] <<GT cocks his head sideways and Bedlam looks back and forth in confusion>> McGraw: Oh well hell it ain’t funny but it damn sure is peculiar. This neck straightening device here don’t mean shit to me because damn son I don’t need it I’m not injured I don’t have broken neck, I don’t have a broken bollocks or whatever the fuck you said, I don’t have a bedfellow named Ethan and I sure as hell don’t have a fanger stuck up nobody’s ass but what I do have is a challenge I want you in this ring 1 on 1 this Sunday you big bastard GT: Leo, You don’t deserve a match against me you peasant. But I’ll say this. If you can beat...Ethan Bedlam...1 on 1 inside a steel cage this Sunday then you’ll get your match Larry the Cable guy Leonard: So this is how we’re gonna play it? Your gonna put your life partner in harms way like at? I’ll step in a steel cage Sunday but right now I’m just gonna get a piece of your ass first ((Mic slams)) Leonard hits the ring and takes out both Bedlam and GT but GT gets out of dodge by throwing Bedlam in front and Him quickly

LEONARD MCGRAW DECKS ETHAN BEDLAM WITH THE BUCKSHOT AND DAMN NEAR TAKES HIS HEAD OFF!

McGraw in ring flips off GT standing at stage

[PROMO] Dark Side of The Ring commercial airs “The death of the Xtreme Giant” premieres this Tuesday only on VICE

Leonard McGraw and Ryu join commentary Ryu is nice and polite Nick Simmonds: “Leonard why did you pretend you had a neck injury” McGraw: “I got kids to feed man and sometimes it’s a good way to get out of work shit! But even I get complacent I wanna get back in there and I’m fixing to beat Ethan Bedlam’s ass in that cage match come Sunday

1 on 1 M5: Genevalisse defeats Lola Starr

Match Announcement!!!

Kiera Hogan will now defend her XPWEW Women’s Title against Genevalisse this Sunday at Blitzkrieg 2020

Special Guest Referee: All Man & All Woman enter

Champagne Clausen enters

XPWEW World Heavyweight Champion Golden Bryce enters!!!

SpecialGuestReferee: All Woman 1 on 1 M6: Golden Bryce defeats Champagne Clausen

Bryce raises the title up high and All Man low blows him and attacks him from behind at the cheering and behest of Scott Steiner who encouraged him to blindside Bryce but Steiner slides in a steel chair All Man sizes up Bryce but Bryce ducks and All Man cracks Champagne over the skull with the steel chair and Bryce stands up in All Man’s face and they press up against each other s foreheads and it’s an epic finish but you can hear Steiner in the background “Hit him! Hit him! Hit him he’s right on ya”

Show ends

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CELEBRIDADES QUE ENVELHECERAM HORRIVELMENTE – VOCÊ NÃO VAI ACREDITAR

AMANDA LEPORE –  MUDANÇA DE GÊNERO E CIRURGIA ESTÉTICA

Amanda Lepore é uma cantora e modelo transgênera, além de conhecida por seu status como socialite e, claro, pelo número de cirurgias estéticas que fez durante os anos.

Nascida como Armand, em Nova Jersey, a socialite teve sua cirurgia de transição de gênero aos 19 anos, após mudar-se para Nova Iorque para fazer seu nome no mundo do glamour. De cirurgia no nariz,  preenchimentos labiais, a silicones nos seios, Amanda provavelmente já tentou de tudo. E essa é uma das razões para ela ainda conseguir atrair os holofotes.

GEENA DAVIS – BOTOX

Tendo representado diversas personagens fortes e autênticas nas telonas, Geena Davis conquistou uma reputação distinta na indústria – algo incomum no mundo do entretenimento, onde centenas de artistas vêm e vão todos os anos. Enquanto algumas colegas de elenco de Davis, como Susan Sarandon, envelheceram como um bom vinho, o mesmo não pode ser dito dela.

Muitos sugerem que o Botox que trouxe as consideráveis mudanças em sua aparência, enquanto ela tenta manter-se livre de rugas no passar dos anos. Se é verdade,  é visível que a tornou alguém completamente diferente da beldade dos anos 80.

BRENDAN FRASER – ENVELHECIMENTO E ESTRESSE

É surpreendente ver nessa lista um ator que foi um sucesso de bilheteria tanto tempo. Temporariamente um dos maiores nomes de Hollywood, com um corpo que era motivo o suficiente para o público re-assistir A Múmia inúmeras vezes, Fraser teve a boa aparência afetada com o passar do tempo.

Além disso, um divórcio nada amigável seguido do fardo de pagar uma pensão pesada foram muito estressantes para o ator, resultando em mudanças drásticas. Pelo menos, Fraser retornou às telas em uma performance impressionante como John Gunther, em The Affair.

CHER – CIRURGIA ESTETICA

Cherilyn, mais conhecida como Cher, não faz parte das estrelas que escondem seu amor por cirurgias plásticas. Com a ajuda de procedimentos como lifting, preenchimentos e Botox, ela até conseguiu manter as rugas e outros sinais da idade longe de seu rosto. Porém, isso não significa que todos os tratamentos foram bons para ela.

As diversas alterações durante os anos, com certeza, fizeram Cher ficar bem diferente de antes. Se alguém disser que ela está irreconhecível, não será exagero!

STEVEN SEAGAL – GANHO DE PESO

Em um determinado, o talentoso Steven Seagal era considerado uma dos maiores nomes dos filmes de ação, ao lado de estrelas, como Sylvester Stallone e Arnold Schwarzenegger.  No início de sua carreira, o ator tornou-se parte de muitos filmes de alto orçamento que viraram sucessos de bilheteria.

Obviamente, um físico atraente o ajudou a conquistar a fama, mas, infelizmente, não continuou assim para sempre. Com o passar dos anos, a celebridade deixou de ser super em forma, ganhando muito peso, o que o deixou bem diferente. Na verdade, é até possível que você passe por ele na rua e nem perceba!

SYLVESTER STALLONE – LIFTS FACIAIS E BOTOX

Quando Sylvester Stallone subiu no ringue como Rocky, em 1976, imediatamente virou o assunto de Hollywood. Além de levá-lo a fama como uma estrela dos filmes de ação, o boxe marcou significamente o seu rosto. Como resultado, o ator tentou consertar as lesões (e os efeitos do envelhecimento) por meio de várias cirurgias, aplicações de Botox e lifting facial.

Realmente o tempo deu algumas pancadas em Stallone, mas mesmo odiando envelhecer (como todos nós),  nada parece mudar o fato de que ele ainda eh um dos favoritos dos fãs.

VINCE VAUGHN – EFEITOS DO ENVELHECIMENTO

Durante os anos 90, Vince Vaughn atraia olhares por onde passava e até estrelas desejadas, como Jennifer Aniston, não resistiam em se apaixonar pelo cara. Ao longo dos anos, a celebridade fez milhões por meio de vários filmes de sucesso, mas olhando para ele hoje em dia, é visível que dinheiro não te deixa jovem para sempre.

Quase cinquentão, e natural que ele tenha algumas rugas ao redor dos olhos e é admirável que ele não tenha recorrido aa plásticas para esconder os sinais do envelhecimento (pelo menos até agora). E o mais importante é que ele ainda está ocupado ganhando muita grana – quem precisa de mais, nao ee?

BOB DYLAN – RINOPLASTIA E LIFTING DE SOBRANCELHAS

Quando falamos dos maiores músicos de todos os tempos, alguns nomes se destacam e um desses ícones é Bob Dylan. Com sua voz única, o cantor de folk-rock tem feito performances por mais de seis décadas e, mesmo agora, parece implacável. Porém, enquanto o talento pode permanecer intacto para sempre, o mesmo não acontece quando se trata da aparência.

Quando se trata das mudanças de aparência de Dylan, muitos assumem que uma rinoplastia e lifting de sobrancelhas são os prováveis culpados por seu rosto está tão diferente. Bom, pode até ser verdade, entretanto nós achamos que é apenas um resultado do envelhecimento natural – afinal, mudanças físicas são inevitáveis!

MACAULAY CULKIN – DEPENDÊNCIA QUÍMICA

Macaulay Culkin ganhou o coração de todos ao estrelar o blockbuster dos anos 90, Esqueceram de Mim. Porém, o adorável garotinho cresceu e o tempo não lhe foi tão bom. Muitos ficaram surpresos ao revê-lo na mídia, 25 anos depois, com o rosto extremamente magro, cabelos e barba grisalhos e desgrenhados.

O ator se abriu recentemente em entrevista, sobre a relação complicada com seu pai durante a infância e adolescência e como isso o afetou, levando-o a se afundar nas drogas e no álcool. Isso com certeza ficou marcado em seu rosto, que hoje aparenta ter muito mais do que seus 38 anos.

LIL’ KIM – VÍCIO EM CIRURGIAS COSMÉTICAS

O tempo passa para todo mundo, inclusive para as estrelas. Porém nem todos sabem lidar com essas mudanças, como é o caso de Lil’ Kim. Além de ter ganho bastante peso durante os anos, a cantora recorreu a cirurgias plásticas para combater o envelhecimento e a baixa autoestima. Foram mais de 20 anos de constantes mudanças.

Hoje, aos 45 anos, seu rosto é irreconhecível e não parece natural. É inacreditável pensar que ela já gastou tanto para ficar assim. Ainda assim, a rapper não indica ter intenções de diminuir a quantidade de tratamentos estéticos. Onde será que ela vai parar?

TARA REID – CIRURGIA MAL FEITA

Tara Reid, lembrada por filmes como American Pie e O Grand Lebowski, mudou muito com o tempo ficando quase irreconhecível. Aparentemente, a atriz fez uma lipoaspiração que não foi bem-sucedida e, na esperança de corrigir o resultado, Reid teve que passar por outro procedimento cirúrgico.

Porém, não foi só a lipoaspiração que mudou o corpo da loira. Há especulações de que sofra de um distúrbio alimentar, o que tem a levado a perder peso significativamente. Apesar de negar os rumores, a magreza da atriz é visível e lhe concede uma aparência envelhecida. Esperamos que Tara fique bem!

SHARON STONE – DERRAME

Um símbolo feminino durante a juventude, Sharon Stone sempre atraiu os olhos da mídia para a sua aparência. Infelizmente, beleza e dinheiro não são escudos contra tudo: a beldade sofreu um AVC em 2001. A doença marcou Stone, tanto na aparência quanto mentalmente.

A atriz se abriu em entrevistas revelando que os médicos lhe deram apenas 5% de chances de sobrevivência. Ela descreve o momento como uma experiência de quase morte, e se lembra de ter encontrado entes queridos, que já se foram. Após o derrame, ela teve que reaprender tudo com acompanhamento profissional e um estilo de vida saudável. Hoje, aos 60 anos, Sharon Stone leva uma vida normal.

DENNIS RODMAN – CONSUMO EXCESSIVO DE BEBIDAS ALCÓOLICAS

Dennis Rodman, famoso jogador da NBA, vem há anos tentando combater o vício em álcool. O jogador já procurou ajuda profissional, até mesmo tendo se internado em centros de reabilitação. Porém, têm tido muita dificuldade, o que o impede de voltar a jogar ou arrumar um trabalho.

Além da falta de emprego, o astro já teve problemas na justiça por dirigir alcoolizado, mas se livrou das acusações com um ótimo time de advogados. Hoje está coberto de tatuagens e piercings e completamente fora de forma, tornando-se irreconhecível para os fãs.

CARROT TOP – CIRURGIAS PLÁSTICAS E USO DE ESTEROIDES

Scott Thompson, também conhecido como Carrot Top devido à cor de seus cabelos, é um famoso comediante em Las Vegas. Thompson tem feito shows por mais de vinte anos e hoje aos 52, apenas seu cabelo ruivo e encaracolado continua igual.

Há vários rumores na mídia de cirurgias plásticas e abuso de esteroides por parte do ator, mas este apenas ri e desmente dizendo que “não, é apenas necessária muita maquiagem para me deixar com boa aparência”. Com cirurgia ou não, Carrot Top está completamente diferente, isso nós podemos ter certeza!

OZZY OSBOURNE – ABUSO DE SUBSTÂNCIAS ILÍCITAS

Hoje em dia, quem vê Ozzy Osbourne, vocalista da banda Black Sabbath, mal consegue imaginar que um dia ele foi como a foto da esquerda. O cantor é conhecidamente viciado em drogas, especialmente a heroína. O abuso de substâncias foi sempre tão intenso, que até levou a separação da banda de heavy metal.

É difícil dizer se algum dia ele abandonará esse vício, mas até hoje nada o convenceu. Obviamente, após anos expondo seu corpo a essas substâncias, sua aparência e saúde estão deteriorados. Onde será que ele vai parar?

KATHLEEN TURNER – CONSUMO EXCESSIVO DE BEBIDAS ALCÓOLICAS

Kathleen Turner é mundialmente reconhecida pelo filme Corpos Ardentes. Sua beleza clássica atraia muitos olhares na juventude. Porém, devido a um problema de saúde que a levou a sentir dores insuportáveis por todo o corpo, Turner começou a abusar de bebidas alcóolicas e drogas prescritas.

Por sorte, a atriz percebeu o problema de sua dependência e os estragos que estava causando a sua saúde e começou a se tratar. Com certeza, após a reabilitação, Kathleen Turner poderá recuperar a boa forma e conviver com a artrite reumatoide se mantiver um estilo de vida saudável!

JESSICA SIMPSON – GESTAÇÃO

Jessica Simpson começou cedo sua carreira artística como cantora e atriz e sempre encantou o público com seu talento e beleza. Porém, após sua primeira gravidez, em 2011, atraiu a atenção indesejada da mídia para seu corpo. Ela engordou muito após o parto, tornando-se irreconhecível. Depois de anos lutando contra o peso, hoje está visivelmente vitoriosa. Com 39 anos, Simpson mostra em seu Instagram que já está entrando em forma apenas um mês após o nascimento de sua terceira filha, Birdie Mae. Tomara que ela continue cuidando de sua aparência!

AL PACINO – AO NATURAL

Al Pacino é mundialmente renomado por sua atuação em O Poderoso Chefão e Scarface, mas a idade chega para todos, não é mesmo? O ator escolheu envelhecer naturalmente, sem intervenções cirúrgicas ao contrário da maioria de seus colegas de profissão. Porém, o tempo ficou bem marcado em seu rosto.

Aos 77 anos e cheio de energia, Al Pacino não mostra estar pensando em se aposentar tão cedo. Entretanto as rugas profundas e bolsas ao redor de seus olhos entregam sua idade. Com tanto dinheiro, ele com certeza poderia ter envelhecido muito melhor!

RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON – GANHO DE PESO

Richard Dean Anderson, conhecido especialmente por seu papel em MacGyver, era considerado um galã nos anos 80 e 90. Porém aos 68 anos, não restou nada do garanhão que tirou suspiros de tantas mulheres.

O ator se aposentou das telonas em 2013 e parece não estar mais tão preocupado com sua aparência. Seu corpo cheio de músculos e cabelos loiros se foram e abriram lugar para uma barriguinha proeminente e madeixas grisalhas. Talvez com dieta e exercícios, ele possa recuperar o seu charme e virar um galã da terceira idade!

JOHN TRAVOLTA – ACIMA DO PESO

Galã dos anos 80, John Travolta ganhou muito peso desde sua aparição em Grease – Nos Tempos da Brilhantina. O peso extra envelheceu o ator mais do que os anos e lhe confere uma aparência inchada. Mas com um pouco de esforço, Travolta ainda pode recuperar a boa forma e chegar à terceira idade bem.

Com um patrimônio de US$ 160 milhões, o ator com certeza pode arcar com os melhores nutricionistas e personal trainers do mundo, ou até mesmo cirurgiões plásticos. Qualquer que seja sua escolha, esperamos ver John roubando corações entre coreografias novamente.

MICKEY ROURKE – MARCAS DE LUTA E CIRURGIAS MAL FEITAS

Mickey Rourke é outra celebridade que está sofrendo com a idade e resultados de cirurgias plásticas malfeitas. Conhecido principalmente por sua atuação em filmes de ação como Sin City e Homem de Ferro 2, o boxeador aposentado e escritor sofreu, literalmente, muitas pancadas em sua carreira.

Os ferimentos da época de lutador marcaram seu rosto. Na esperança de corrigir as marcas, o ator e lutador passou por diversas cirurgias plásticas. Porém, o resultado não saiu como o esperado. Hoje, aos 66 anos, Rourke tem uma aparência estranha e não muito natural.

KIRSTIE ALLEY – ABUSO DE SUBSTÂNCIAS ILÍCITAS

Kirstie Alley nunca esteve nos padrões de magreza da mídia. Porém, nos últimos tempos, a atriz de Cheers tem mudado de peso muito rapidamente, o que chamamos de “efeito-sanfona”. Isso pode ser relacionado a seu vício em cocaína e álcool.

Felizmente, a atriz reconheceu ter um problema e se internou em um centro de reabilitação. Mas com certeza as mudanças de peso e abuso de substância deixaram marcas permanentes e hoje a atriz tem uma aparência muito envelhecida. Tomara que ela se recupere e continue ativa como atriz!

BRITNEY SPEARS – ABUSO DE SUBSTÂNCIAS E ESTRESSE

Britney Spears estreou cedo como cantora e virou a princesinha do Pop. Porém a fama e o dinheiro acabaram esgotand0-a mentalmente. Depois de uma longa luta pela custódia dos filhos, Britney cedeu ao abuso de substâncias.  Tudo culminou no famoso colapso de 2007, quando a loira raspou a cabeça e foi flagrada tentando agredir paparazzis.

Hoje, mais de 10 anos após o incidente, Spears mostra que superou os problemas, tendo passado por centros de habilitação e terapia. A cantora está de volta a ativa e mantém os fãs atualizados de sua vida pelo Instagram, mostrando sua dieta saudável e atividades físicas.

CARRIE FISHER – USO EXCESSIVO DE SUBSTÂNCIAS ILÍCITAS

Carrie Fisher será para sempre a princesa do mundo nerd por sua performance na franquia Star Wars. Infelizmente, a atriz sofria de um distúrbio bipolar que a levou a consumir álcool e drogas, deixando-a mais suscetível ao vício.

A atriz e escritora muitas vezes desabafou em público sobre sua constante luta e dificuldades, tentando trazer atenção a esse problema mental tão grave. Não se sabe ao certo se os anos consumindo substâncias ilegais tiveram envolvimento direto em sua saúde, levando a seu falecimento. Porém o que sabemos é que Fisher fará falta.

KEITH RICHARDS – USO EXCESSIVO DE SUBSTÂNCIAS ILÍCITAS

Keith Richards é guitarrista dos Rolling Stones. Aos 74 anos, o músico ainda está ativo, porém a idade é visível em seu rosto. Como muitas estrelas do rock, Richards se envolveu com drogas no auge do sucesso de sua banda, já tendo até mesmo sido preso, com Mick Jagger, pela posse de substâncias ilegais.

Seria de se imaginar que, após a prisão, ele aprenderia. Porém o vício já lhe trouxe mais inúmeros outros problemas, incluindo uma cirurgia craniana em Fiji. Os anos ingerindo substâncias ilegais marcaram seu rosto profundamente.

AMANDA BYNES – ABUSO DE SUBSTÂNCIAS ILÍCITAS E DEPRESSÃO

Amanda Bynes é outra atriz mirim que sucumbiu à fama e ao dinheiro. No início dos anos 2000, tudo indicava que a atriz teria uma carreira brilhante. Porém após uma crise depressiva, a jovem se afundou nas drogas. Depois de um período fora dos holofotes, a atriz reapareceu irreconhecível devido ao abuso de substâncias.

Pelo menos sua família a deu suporte e ela passou anos entrando e saindo de centros de reabilitação. No começo de 2019, a atriz reapareceu na mídia com uma aparência mais saudável, concedendo entrevistas sobre seus problemas.  Esperamos que ela continue nesse caminho e só melhore daqui pra frente!

MICHAEL JACKSON – CIRURGIAS PLÁSTICAS EM EXCESSO

Michael Jackson conquistou o mundo da música quando ainda era apenas uma criança, ao lado de seus irmãos como parte do grupo Jackson Five. Já nos anos 80, o cantor passou a ser conhecido como o Rei do Pop, tão grande foi o seu sucesso. O que ninguém esperaria é que Jackson se tornaria dependente de cirurgias plásticas.

Além de alterar suas feições completamente com a ajuda de um cirurgião plástico. O músico sofria de uma doença de pele, chamada vitiligo. Para esconder a doença, Michael passou por diversos procedimentos para clarear a pele e vivia coberto de maquiagem.

AMY WINEHOUSE – ABUSO DE SUBSTÂNCIAS

Amy Winehouse foi uma incrível cantora brit��nica que encantou o mundo com sua voz. Amy tinha uma beleza diferenciada no início de sua carreira, porém suas escolhas acabaram deteriorando sua aparência e saúde, levando a um falecimento precoce. O culpado foi o vício em drogas.

A cantora, assim como muitos colegas de profissão, acabou se envolvendo com drogas pesadas. Seu vício a levou para centros de reabilitação de abuso de substâncias, porém não foi o suficiente. Nos últimos anos de sua vida, Amy apresentava uma figura extremamente magra e abatida. A artista se foi com apenas 27 anos de idade.

MISCHA BURTON – ALCOOLISMO

A estrela de The O.C., Mischa Barton, parece ter muito mais do que seus 32 anos. A atriz, antes bela e cheia de vida, hoje parece abatida. O culpado foi o álcool. O vício da atriz já a levou aos noticiários diversas vezes por problemas com a justiça.

Mischa Barton teve inclusive que cumprir pena, em liberdade condicional, por 36 meses, após ser flagrada dirigindo alcoolizada. A atriz já teve tantos problemas, que hoje está irreconhecível. Em 2017, acabou hospitalizada devido ao uso de drogas, porém afirmou que foi dopada sem seu consentimento. É triste ver a situação da jovem!

KELLY OSBOURNE  – ABUSO DE SUBSTÂNCIAS

Kelly Osbourne é filha do lendário ex-vocalista da banda Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne. Sabe o ditado: “O fruto não cai longe da árvore”? Pois então, se encaixa perfeitamente neste caso. A artista herdou o talento do pai, juntamente com seu problema com drogas.

Após passar por um procedimento cirúrgico, Osbourne acabou viciando-se em medicamentos prescritos. Não ajudou o fato de que sua mãe foi diagnosticada com câncer, levando a jovem ao limite de seu vício. Kelly acabou em um centro de reabilitação, porém sua aparência já estava completamente diferente. Tomara que ela supere essa fase difícil!

WHITNEY HOUSTON – VÍCIO

Whitney Houston foi uma cantora histórica no mundo da música. Seu talento é inegável e lhe rendeu inúmeros fãs. Porém, a fama e sucesso acabaram subindo à cabeça e Houston, assim como muitos colegas musicistas, acabou se envolvendo com drogas.

O problema com substâncias da cantora foi tão grande, que a levou à sua morte quando tinha apenas 48 anos. Antes mesmo de falecer, sua aparência já não era mais a mesma. Antes bela e cheia de vida, agora parecia envelhecida e cansada. Mesmo tendo frequentado centros de reabilitação, Houston nunca conseguiu se livrar do vício completamente.

BRUCE (CAITLYN) JENNER – MUDANÇA DE GÊNERO

Bruce Jenner era um conhecido medalhista olímpico americano. Estava frequentemente na mídia devido à suas filhas modelos, Kendall e Kylie Jenner, e enteadas, Kim, Khloé e Kourtney Kardashiam. Porém, em 2015, Bruce atraiu os holofotes para si completamente, ao revelar ser uma mulher trans e assumir o nome Caitlyn.

A transição da celebridade foi feita com ajuda de cirurgias plásticas e injeções de hormônios. Caitlyn se tornou uma grande socialite, estrelando capas de revista de moda e dando diversas entrevistas. Caitlyn acabou se envolvendo em polêmicas com a comunidade LGBT devido aos seus posicionamentos políticos. Esperamos que Caitlyn Jenner continue fazendo boas escolhas de cirurgiões plásticos!

KEVIN FEDERLINE – ENGORDOU

Kevin Federline é um rapper e DJ conhecido. O músico foi casado com a princesinha do pop, Britney Spears, com quem teve dois filhos. Porém, parece que Federline levou a sério o papel de pai e assumiu com tudo o “dad bod” (corpo de pai). Antes charmoso e em forma, agora apresenta uma barriga proeminente e queixo duplo.

Infelizmente, muitas vezes o ganho de peso envelhece a aparência das pessoas e foi o que aconteceu com o DJ. Federline parece mais velho do que realmente é e não dá pra acreditar que já teve um abdômen sarado. Talvez o divórcio tenha sido motivo para o descuido? Não sabemos. Mas esperamos que Kevin volte a fazer escolhas mais saudáveis!

BRIGITTE BARDOT – LUTA CONTRA O CÂNCER

Brigitte Bardot é uma mulher extremamente talentosa e inteligente, mas além disso, era incrivelmente bela em sua juventude. A francesa foi um símbolo feminino do cinema hollywoodiano nos anos 50 e 60. Hoje, é uma proeminente ativista pelo direito dos animais.

A atriz, hoje com 84 anos, sobreviveu a um câncer. Como todos sabem, a quimioterapia é um tratamento extremamente agressivo e complicado e acaba deteriorando a aparência das pessoas. Bardot perdeu parte de seu brilho após o tratamento. Porém, apesar da idade avançada, continua forte e ativa em suas lutas sociais.

Fonte original do conteúdo: Credicar Vantagens

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Cosmetic surgery gone wrong

Cosmetic surgery gone wrong; While trying to keep up an energetic appearance, on-screen characters and on-screen characters have done a considerable amount of time in the plastic specialist’s office. A little infusion anywhere they can regularly escape with (however they may at present be criticized by their decision to do as such), yet over and over, they turn out from under the blade with a face brimming with missteps. From Jocelyn Wildenstein to Jennifer Gray, these superstars—the greater part of whom began flawlessly delightful—top our rundown of the most exceedingly terrible plastic medical procedure aftereffects ever.

Tara Reid

When best referred to for her job as secondary school sweetheart Vicky in American Pie, Reid is currently better known for her screwed up liposuction and bosom embed system, which she got in 2004. Her uneven bosom scars, in any case, weren’t as unsettling as her ruined stomach: “I had body forming, however everything turned out badly,” she said on The View. “My stomach turned into the most ripply, bulgy thing.” Reid experienced reconstructive medical procedure in 2006, and postured for Playboy in 2009 to flaunt her settled plastic medical procedure. Photographs by Paul Smith/Featureflash (left) and FilmMagic (right). Cosmetic surgery gone wrong.

Donatella Versace

VP of the high-design mark Versace, Donatella, 54, has experienced a progression of medical procedures since the 1990s. Among different modifications, her most recognizable changes have been to her nose and lips, and her trademark swollen smackers have scored her a spot on about each rundown of plastic medical procedure violation of social norms in the course of recent years—however there’s no genuine distributed proof that Versace herself is miserable with the progressions. Photograph by Retna Ltd.

Jocelyn Wildenstein

The still-dynamic New York socialite wedded into an affluent craftsmanship managing family and started trying different things with plastic medical procedure in 1997, right away before the destruction of her 20-year marriage. Having spent a detailed $4 million on different methods, which are guessed to incorporate cheek inserts and various facelifts, her emotional changes have earned her the epithet “Lady of the hour of Wildenstein,” alongside “feline lady,” because of her rigid, cat like appearance. Photographs by Getty Images (left) and WireImage (right).

Kelly Bensimon

The Real Housewives of New York City star was assaulted by the media in 2008 for audaciously parading her gravely distorted bosoms. The previous model and “envoy for fleece”— an accomplishment she specified in a meeting with Harper’s Bazaar, however people in general presently can’t seem to make sense of what that implies—has since had a run-in with both copyright encroachment and aggressive behavior at home, and doesn’t seem to have experienced reconstructive medical procedure. Photographs by WireImage (left) and Retna Ltd. (right).

Jennifer Gray

In the event that the sentiment flick– adoring world hadn’t fallen so fiercely infatuated with the face that used to have a place with Jennifer Gray, at that point maybe her change would have had less of an impact on her vocation. In spite of the fact that her tasteful appearance stays satisfying, lamentably, the rhinoplasty that she trusted would help her amid throwing calls consigned her fundamentally to made-for-TV films. Photographs by Retna Ltd.

La Toya Jackson

Michael and La Toya Jackson had a transparently wild relationship (she pulled back her family bolster amid Michael’s youngster attack case), yet it appears they made them thing in like manner: an affection for plastic medical procedure—and maybe one specific specialist. In like manner systems incorporate jaw and cheek inserts, alongside the now signature Jackson family pointy nose. Photographs by Getty Images (left) and Ritschel/interTOPICS/Retna Ltd. (right).

Tori Spelling

Amid the second period of Beverly Hills, 90210, Spelling, who played the adorable Donna Martin, was chastised for her twisted bosoms—finish with a serious chest wretchedness. She denied having gotten a bungled bosom enlargement (for which she supposedly sued the specialist capable), yet at long last admitted in 2008 to Entertainment Weekly: “I needed to confess all that I had my boobs done in my 20s since individuals erroneously compose that I’ve had every one of these things done,” she stated, and later included, “I’ve had the two techniques that most likely every other lady in Hollywood has had done.” Photos by Retna Ltd.

Lara Flynn Boyle

Asking minds aren’t sure what changes have been made to the TV star’s face, who’s best known for her long keep running on The Practice from 1997 to 2003. In any case, we do know, as is clear from photographs, that the delightful 39-year-old seems like she needs to work her cheek muscles additional time to let free a grin—or maybe the theorized embed in her upper lip is overloading her pucker? The progressions turned into very clear all through her 2008 spell on Law and Order. Photographs by Retna (left) and Retna Ltd. (right). Cosmetic surgery gone wrong.

Scott “Carrot Top” Thompson

The red-haired comic is no more bizarre to “Top 10” arrangements of shocking plastic medical procedures. Big name corrective medical procedure blogger Anthony Youn, MD, disclosed to MakeMeHeal.com that it seems like Thompson has experienced an eyebrow lift, alongside Botox infusions, lip plumping and laser peels, or, in other words to his sudden absence of spots. It’s additionally been conjectured that he utilizes steroids because of his all of a sudden solid, veiny build. Photographs by Retna Ltd. (left) and WireImage/Getty Images (right). Cosmetic surgery gone wrong.

Mickey Rourke

Hello Mickey, you’re not all that fine… any longer. After his resurgence in the motion picture The Wrestler, fans were perplexed at the previous boxer and screenwriter’s plastic surgery– baffled appearance. Suspected medical procedures, as indicated by Dr. Youn, incorporate a facelift (implied by the scars before his ears), upper eye lift and a hair transplant (meant by his returning sideburns and wispy, consistently forward-moving hairline). Photographs by Retna Ltd. (left) and CAMERA PRESS/Retna Ltd. (right).

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Why we have a ginger emoji

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Why we have a ginger emoji

In November 2014, a tech-industry consortium announced a new set of emoji that would diversify the physical appearance of the pictograms.

“I checked and saw that redheads were just not on there,” says Emma Kelly, editor and founder of the site Ginger Parrot. “I wondered, has no one brought this up? Is there no one at Apple with red hair? Has everyone forgotten about Ed Sheeran?”

Kelly fired off a post on her blog, launched a petition on change.org, and fed quotes to The Guardian and other media outlets. But she soon discovered it would take much more than an online protest to get her way.

Emoji are subject to a complex technical bureaucracy. The type and number of new pictograms released each year are strictly controlled by the Unicode Consortium, an international nonprofit organization of companies—including, most notably, representatives from Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Adobe. Unicode’s core mission is to convert the world’s alphabets and symbols into code that all smartphones, desktops, laptops, and computers can read. The dollar sign, no matter the phone or font, is U+0024. The taco: U+1F32E. Websites, email clients, word processors, and other interfaces then transform that code into words and icons—and vice versa.

For most of its 27-year history, Unicode was concerned with simple characters—musical and mathematical notations, currency signs, punctuation marks. Starting a decade ago, this group of accomplished linguists, font designers, and software developers began including the smileys that had become popular across several Japanese telecom companies. Thereafter, these technical overlords were tasked with debating such matters as the prevalence of unicorns and the cultural import of a pile of poop. A deeper look at Kelly’s campaign for ginger representation reveals that they do not accept their responsibility blithely.

Chapter one

Adopting pixelated cuteness

Emoji began in 1999 in Japan, a country with a long history of pictographic language. In 2007, Unicode members started seriously debating how to include stylized picture characters to make it easier to exchange them across platforms. By 2010, the updated Unicode standard, version 6.0, had some 722 emoji.

Michael Everson, linguist; Irish national representative to the International Organization for Standardization, which helps develop Unicode: Emoji were originally these little pixe­lated images that people could send along with their text messages in order to augment them with cuteness. A lot of people thought all of this stuff was, shall we say, unsuitable for encoding.

Doug Ewell, emeritus member, Unicode Consortium: Are people going to be sending each other face-palm emoji in 10 or 20 years? It’s like encoding a shag carpet.

Everson: We said, OK, if it has to be done, it has to be done.

Ewell: What Unicode ended up doing was to add these emoji to the standard in such a way that it would be possible to interchange them as if they’re characters.

Paul Hunt, font and typeface designer, Adobe Systems; member, Unicode Consortium emoji subcommittee: To your computer, it’s just the same as a letter A or a Greek Alpha. Your computer sees a code that maps to a particular concept. For alphabets and other writing systems, the code matches to letters. For emoji, it maps to a particular little picture.

Everson: We added a whole bunch of emoji and moved on. Nobody knew what was going to happen.

Ewell: We assumed it was not going to grow out of control, and, over the years, it did.

Fred Benenson, author of Emoji Dick, a version of the novel translated into emoji: Integrating emoji into Unicode turned them into a standard that was easy for hardware vendors to implement. Before that, it was just this mess of glyphs—things like hearts, arrows, and cat faces.

Jennifer 8. Lee, co-founder, Emojination, a diversity advocacy group; vice chair, Unicode Consortium emoji subcommittee: The fact that they are not infinitely variable, that there is a very controlled set, makes them a common ­vocabulary across people and cultures.

Jennifer Daniel, creative director for Google emoji, Google: At first people used them as nouns. Now they’re being used more as punctuation to indicate intent, the way an exclamation point signals enthusiasm. Emoji allow people to text the way they talk, with tone and emotion.

Chapter Two

Diversifying the emojiverse

Each year, Unicode approves more emoji, but the organization doesn’t determine their final appearance. That’s up to vendors such as Apple and Google. As these companies began to render their versions, user expectations changed.

Marcel Danesi, anthropological linguist, University of Toronto: Early emoji removed issues of gender, race, and class completely. They were abstract symbols devoid of any of those connotations.

Everson: When Apple released a version of iOS with emoji in 2011, everyone thought it was cute and fun. Except Apple had screwed up skin color, because they hadn’t made all the people blue Smurfs or yellow Simpsons. They made them white people.

Danesi: If you’re using these a lot, one day you’re going to say, I’m tired of using the basic yellow smiley face. It doesn’t reflect my own skin.

Daniel: People don’t want to go to the emoji keyboard and not recognize themselves.

Everson: I proposed a fix that if we needed five grandfather emoji, let’s just encode five grandfather emoji. What Unicode ended up doing was encoding five skin-tone patches that relate to the Fitzpatrick skin-burning scale.

Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, dermatologist (1919–2003), “The validity and practicality of sun-reactive skin types I through VI”: A simple working classification was proposed, based not on hair or eye color, but on what patients say their responses are to an initial sun exposure.

Unicode Technical Standard #51: Five symbol modifier characters that provide for a range of skin tones for human emoji were released in Unicode Version 8.0. (Ed. note: Fitzpatrick’s two fairest tones, I and II, share a modifier.)] ED-11 emoji modifier: a character that can be used to modify the appearance of a preceding emoji in an emoji-modifier sequence.

Hunt: These things happen below the level of user interaction. The user just uses their emoji keyboard, and it will spit out the corresponding Unicode sequence for “princess with medium skin tone” or “woman runner with dark skin tone.”

Everson: It was a way of dividing this thing up reasonably. There was a problem, and Unicode fixed it. It works, and people seem to be happy using it.

Apple had screwed up skin color, 🆘 because they hadn’t made all the people blue Smurfs or yellow Simpsons. 🌈 They made them white people. 🙄

Chapter Three

Great, but what about the hair?

With the release of version 8.0 in June 2015, Kelly and other redheads were fuming. Modern Family actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson tweeted his disappointment, and comedian Scott “Carrot Top” Thompson wrote a think piece for Time. As far as Unicode was concerned, dye jobs weren’t part of their job description.

UTS #51: It is beyond the scope of Unicode to provide an encoding-based mechanism to represent every aspect of human-appearance diversity that emoji users might want to indicate…. No particular hair color is required; however, dark hair is generally regarded as more neutral because people of every skin tone can have black (or very dark brown) hair.

Kelly: I was quite angry at the time, so I fairly hurriedly created a change.org petition. Eventually we gathered more than 20,000 signatures. Unicode originally told me that what these images look like wasn’t actually up to them, that it was up to Apple and Google and the others.

Daniel: There are differences in how we render them. Apple’s emoji are highly rendered and realistic. Google’s are more illustrative and playful. The circles, for example, aren’t perfect circles. They’re kind of squishy and soft. But that softness helps because it makes the illustrations friendlier.

Kelly: We wanted to physically go down there. We put out a call for redheads. A group of them went to Apple headquarters and delivered the signatures in a carrot-shaped USB drive.

Apple Inc.: Did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Kelly: Of course, Apple being Apple, we have not heard anything from them. Someone has got it somewhere there.

Daniel: Ultimately, vendors like Google are at the mercy of what Unicode passes and fails. The amount of emoji being added every year, and which are added, is really up to them.

Lee: We want to slowly ratchet it up as opposed to dumping them all at the same time. Fifty to 70 per year is a good target.

Hunt: The process starts with a proposal. If you want a new emoji to go into the Unicode standard so everyone in the world can use it, you need to create a report. Unicode ­provides a template, which is on its website.

Benenson: I think it’s kind of a bar for people who care about submitting emoji that shows they’re putting thought into whether it should really be an emoji. Adding that little bit of process helps weed out unserious people.

Lee: It’s really not that hard to create a good proposal. If you did reasonably well in high school, you could figure this out. It’s the level of a high school lab report.

Benenson: If it’s a food-related emoji like the oyster, you have to take screenshots of Google search results on oyster versus hamburger to show that it’s popular.

Kelly: I thought it was crazy that I had to do a proposal. It was so obvious that the ginger emoji should be there. So, as a form of protest, I refused to do the proposal.

Lee: It’s not like the emoji subcommittee is rejecting ­proposals willy-nilly.

Everson: The committee did delete the frowning pile of poo as a candidate. I made a lot of noise about that. Proponents cited reasons such as, “We need this because what if you had digestive issues and wanted to text your proctologist.” Can you not use words? Do you have to send your doctor a picture? What is wrong with you people?

You want a bagel emoji? ❓OK, let’s make an emoji that looks like a bagel. ✔️ But the ginger — it’s not straightforward. 🤔 What are we coding? 🤷

Chapter Four

Let there be gingers!

On January 17, 2017, emoji subcommittee vice chair Jeremy Burge, citing social-media and online buzz, submitted a proposal summarizing the group’s options for adding redhead emoji. Gingers were still far from official. Unicode would spend more than a year debating how to implement the hair-color change.

Hunt: We have quarterly Unicode technical committee meetings. That’s where we’ll decide which emoji will progress, how they will be implemented, and what the mechanisms will be.

Lee: The meetings are so long—it’s like C-SPAN but with emoji. It’s four weeklong meetings, and emoji are between one and two hours a day for the first four days. With the ginger, we had to go back to the drawing board three or four times.

Hunt: Part of why it was a difficult problem was that there were many ways this thing could be handled.

Lee: You want a bagel emoji? OK, let’s make an emoji that looks like a bagel. But the ginger—it’s not straightforward. What are we coding? Redheads could be old, babies, boys, girls. How do you approach that? Modifier characters are used in only one situation: skin tone.

Mark Davis, lead internationalization architect, Google; president and co-founder, Unicode Consortium: Changing the architecture by adding more modifiers typically requires code changes that might be difficult to retrofit to older devices.

Hunt: It was going to be easier if the hair colors were treated as Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences—the sequence that involves several emoji glued together.

Davis: Existing and older systems know how to handle ZWJ sequences without code changes.

Unicode Technical Report #51: The U+200D Zero Width Joiner can be used between the elements of a sequence of characters to indicate that a single glyph should be presented if available.

Lee: If you don’t have the underlying emoji to glue together, then you still need to create the atomic-level ones—say, the happy woman on her own. One concern was, what does it look like when one piece of the puzzle is missing?

UTR #51: When an emoji ZWJ sequence is sent to a system that does not have a corresponding single glyph, the ZWJ characters are ignored, and a fallback sequence of separate emoji is displayed.

Everson: At one point, they suggested combining the person with a separate red-hair glyph. Basically, they were suggesting encoding scalps, which I thought was offensive. We got that changed to a dotted face with the hair on top—a way of showing that it’s a control character if the sequence unravels, so you’re not sending someone a disembodied scalp.

Chapter Five

Bagels, lobsters, super-villains, and redheads

*Unicode announced on February 7, 2018, it would add 157 new emoji, including superheroes, the infinity sign, and red, white, curly, and bald hairstyles. As Kelly awaits Apple’s digital gingers, Unicode members and designers ready their keyboard updates and ponder the future of emoji. *

Hunt: The process isn’t completely finished at that point. Once the Unicode standard becomes official, then Apple and Google and the other vendors will take that information and do their own renditions.

Daniel: We consider a range of questions when designing an emoji. Is it abstract enough for you to relate to? Or is it overly specific? If it’s a person, did we get the expression right? Some emoji are really difficult and require lots of back and forth.

Hunt: Once the vendors update their operating systems with the new characters, people can start using them on their smartphones.

Daniel: Some you just kind of nail. The redhead is fairly straightforward from a design standpoint: You just change the hair color to red or orange.

Kelly: I felt relieved, mostly because it had been going on for so long, and I was very happy that all the work we’d done had finally paid off. It was long and confusing, but hey, we got there in the end.

Benenson: I want people to sympathize a little with Unicode. This is a standards body of software developers, and due to a fluke in corporate history, it ended up in charge of this extremely salient cultural touchpoint and creative expression.

Hunt: It’s a lot of work, but it’s still fun. That’s part of the reason why people love emoji. They’re fun, and it will be interesting to see how this does evolve and how it changes the way we think and talk and communicate.

Everson: I don’t think 70 years from now people will be sending each other pictures of eggplants to discuss certain matters. I don’t think 70 years from now people will be sending each other colorful emoji at all.

Daniel: Really, I’m interested in finding a way to mix and match these emoji to create something new. In the same way language and slang evolve, I hope there’s a way for emoji to evolve.

This article was originally published in the Fall 2018 Tiny issue of Popular Science.

Written By Gregory Mone