How Will Packer Plans to Revive the Oscars: ‘This Is The Year’

Aliens could be running scared of Earth's "defender" Will Smith after watching him smack Chris Rock, a former Ministry of Defence UFO expert has claimed. Ex-UK Government UFO detective Nick Pope reckons that if aliens are watching over us, they will be well aware of Smith's Hollywood history taking down aliens.Fiction however might not be a concept fully understood by extra-terrestrials and so following sci-fi movies Men in Black and Independence Day, the Oscars slap will remind them of the actor's strength, the Mirror reports.Nick, 53, explained that for whatever reason creatures are keeping an eye on Earth, they will have intercepted our broadcasts and formed an opinion on humans based on TV shows and films confused as documentaries.

parenting blog on Honey, she said: "I think that sounds like a really fun project."I was eager to read my daughter's chapter."Want all the biggest Lifestyle news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our free Daily Star Hot Topics newsletterBut as she read through in more detail, Carolyn noticed she had to check the chapter to identify nouns and adverbs.The mum assumed the task would be something for her daughter. She said: "Is she going to come to my house and cook dinner, perhaps run my kids to their afternoon sports, while I'm doing her job?"Carolyn raged that she's the kind of parent who doesn't even read the weekly email from teachers.

Greggs superfan is planning a country-wide tour of all 2,078 stores so she can eat a sausage roll at each and every one of them.Megan Topping, 27, has bought a car and dubbed it "The Greggsmobile" for her tour of the country which she concedes could take her years to complete.But the 27-year-old superfan has already gotten off to a good start with her tour, ticking off a dozen of the outlets so far, with thousands more to go.To keep track of all the stores she has started a spreadsheet to chart her progress on the epic country-wide sausage roll trip.Megan, who says she spends £300 a month at Greggs, says there is no danger of her going off of the beloved pastry product as she has eaten one almost every day for years.Slim Megan, of Middleton, Greater Manchester, said: "People think this is a bit of a joke but I'm utterly Greggs mad. It's been important throughout my life and I'm grateful it exists."It sounds crazy but even when I'm travelling, the first thing I look for is a Greggs."I hope to hit every single one and I've booked some time off later this year so I hope to start making real progress towards completing my goal."Megan saved up a grand for her "Greggsmobile," a Hyundai, to use on her country-wide pastry tour.She said: "I couldn't be more excited about it all.

Alex Rodriguez won't be found laying on his sofa downing ice cream after his split from Jennifer Lopez a year ago.Instead, the former baseball star has stayed active, often working out at his gym TruFusion in West Hollywood.This week the 46-year-old New York native was seen doing a sweat session as he played basketball and pumped some iron. Let's go:Alex Rodriguez won't be found laying on his sofa downing ice cream after his split from Jennifer Lopez a year ago.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki plans to leave her position and take an on-air role at MSNBC.

While we’ve heard from The Academy and two out of three co-hosts about the slap that occurred at Sunday’s Oscars ceremony, producer Will Packer has finally chosen to speak out publicly on the events. Packer seemed to defend the choice of letting Will Smith stay by suggesting that Chris Rock was “fine” with the actor not being removed.

Manchester Evening News reports. But while discussing the movie, the actor, 32, was asked about the incident at The Oscars ceremony when Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock before he presented an award after making a joke about the actor's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

Nick Jarjour As we head into Grammy weekend, Harvey Mason Jr, the CEO of the Recording Academy, deserves to be commended for restructuring the organization to credit and support songwriters like never before. Among the positive changes under his watch: establishing a songwriter wing and including writer credits on albums.

We now have a clearer picture into what happen on Sunday, thanks to an in-depth talk with the producer of the Oscars.

Mood queen Jorja Smith is dropping something sexy and with a beat!!!

Doja Cat has confirmed that she will still open for The Weeknd on his forthcoming North American tour despite reiterating her recent plans to retire from music.The Weeknd is due to hit the road this July in support of his most recent album ‘Dawn FM’, which came out in January. He’ll be joined at the shows by Doja Cat; the pair previously teamed up last year on ‘You Right’ from the latter’s ‘Planet Her’ record.Last week, however, Doja told her fans that she would be stepping away from music in a series of tweets she posted following a cancelled festival appearance. “I fuckin quit [and] I can’t wait to fucking disappear,” she wrote.She later apologised and dialled back on the claim, but has since doubled down on her initial vow to retire.

The cost of living squeeze is going to get tighter this month as millions of households face soaring bills on top of a 1.25 percentage point National Insurance Contributions hike to help pay for health and social care across the UK.

Leave the heckling at home. Chris Rock reportedly shut down a fan’s negative comment about Will Smith during a live show days after the duo’s Oscars drama.

A new report is conflicting with Will Packer‘s recollection of 2022 Oscars events.

Sheryl Underwood is worried about the hazards of her career.

James Corden has mocked Will Smith in a comedy skit following him slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars.The TV show host, 43, appeared on his show The Late Late show and performed a parody from animated film Encanto as he pretended to warn the show producers that they shouldn’t mention the incident on the show. "James, we have to at least acknowledge what happened," one producer said, before James chimed in.

the iconic Sheffield venue and club announced the “devastating news that in one year’s time, our Landlord is trying to evict us, forcing us to close” – leading to an outpouring of upset and support from the music world.Dominic Madden is CEO and co-founder of Electric Group, the company who bought the freehold for the site of the Leadmill in March 2017. He took to Twitter this morning to assure music fans that they had no intension of closing the venue when they end the current occupiers’ lease in 2023.“For avoidance of doubt, we are music people, we spend our lives running independent music venues and the Leadmill will continue to operate as a special music venue,” said Madden, whose company also own London’s Electric Brixton, the SWX nightclub in Bristol, and NX Newcastle.He added: “The management may change but the song stays the same.”Along with Madden, Electric Group is a joint venture with Jake Lewis of the Lewis Family who run retailer River Island, along with hotels, property development and asset management businesses.I’ll be making a statement regarding @Leadmill shortly.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAmazon chief executive officer Andy Jassy’s compensation last year totaled $212.7 million, a nearly sixfold increase from his pay package in 2020 when he headed the tech giant’s AWS division.Virtually all of Jassy’s 2021 comp — $211.9 million — was in restricted stock that vests over the next 10 years, according to Amazon’s proxy statement filed Friday. His base salary was $175,000, unchanged from the two prior years; in addition, Amazon paid $589,149 in security expenses for the CEO.Founder Jeff Bezos, who assumed the role of executive chair when Jassy took the helm July 5, earned a salary of $81,840 ​last year, the same as the two years prior, per Amazon’s filing.

viral Oscars 2022 moment — when Will Smith casually strolled up on stage and smacked the “Everybody Hates Chris” creator for making a bald joke about Jada Pinkett Smith — way, way back at the 2000 MTV VMAs.Shawn’s brother, Marlon Wayans, resurfaced a prescient clip of Shawn, 51, impersonating a trash-talking Rock at the millennium music awards show. The two-and-a-half-minute clip above features an ending that is eerily similar to Sunday’s violent Oscar night debacle.“Maaaaan, not to ‘kick’ a brother when he’s down… BUT we predicted this s–t exactly,” Marlon 49, posted on social media alongside a clip of his bro cracking up the crowd.The “Scary Movie” star continued, “When art imitates life then LIFE actually happens.

Will Smith and Chris Rock during Sunday night’s live broadcast of the Oscars ceremony, Will Packer is giving his perspective as the evening’s showrunner. The screenwriter and film producer spoke out publicly for the first time on Good Morning America Friday morning, giving a never-before-heard perspective on what occurred in the production bay backstage in the moments immediately following the shocking altercation.Packer oversaw the production of the 94th annual Academy Awards, the first Black man to do so, with an all-Black production team at his side. He, alongside his production partner Shayla Cowan, brought back formal hosts for the first time in three years (three hosts for the first time in over 35 years) and added several surprise elements and show shakeups to draw in additional viewership.However, much of their hard work has unfortunately been overshadowed by the hot topic on everyone’s tongue this week.

EXCLUSIVE: While Will Packer told Good Morning America this morning that Will Smith was not removed from the Oscars because Chris Rock didn’t want that, Deadline hears from reliable sources that this not the case.