The eighth grade teacher who got pregnant after daily s*x with her 13-year-old student has turned herself in, police say.
Alexandria Vera, 24, allegedly told school district officials she had been engaging in asexual relationship with the young boy since September, after they began flirting during a summer school session.
TheStovall Middle School teacher even fell pregnant with the eight grader"s child in January, according to police documents.
Court documents show the boy"s parents didn"t object to their relationship. She told a school district investigator they were "very supportive and excited" when she disclosed her pregnancy.
The probable cause document said she aborted the pregnancy after a child welfare investigator questioned her.School officials say she"s been removed from her job.
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Alexandria Vera, 24, (left in her police mugshot, and right, from her social media) allegedly admitted to engaging in a sexual relationship with the boy since September, after they began flirting during a summer school session
But she had panicked after Child Protective Services turned up unexpectedly at the school in February, to question her and the student about their relationship, and decided to have an abortion.
As investigators closed in, the teacher had gone on the run before police had a chance to arrest her.
But earlier today, authorities confirmed that the 24-year-old had turned herself in to Montgomery County police.
Vera, of Houston,Texas, now faces charges of continuous sexual abuse of a child.Montgomery County Sheriff"s spokesman Brady Fitzgerald says Vera posted a $100,000 bond and was released.
Court documents reveal that she had told the Aldine Independent School District peace officer that the relationship began during a summer class.
She said that she had given the studenther number on Instagram after he failed to show up to class and it had blossomed from there.
Vera was an eighth grade English teacher atStovall Middle School in Houston, Texas (pictured)
The boy asked Vera if they could hang out and she agreed. They then began taking drives in her car and kissing and soonstarted having s*x on an almost daily basis, according to court documents.
Their first sexual encounter happened after Vera went to drop the child off, but his parents were not home. They then went back to her house.
And the couple didn"t keep their relationship a secret - even at school.
One student told Eyewitness news: "[The student] like grabbed her b**t and everybody saw it. And then they were talking about it."
The eighth-grade English teacher, who has one child, told police that she and the teen "are in love" and that she had been introduced to his family as his girlfriend, reported ABC-13.
Vera (left and right) of Houston, Texas, told prosecutors that she gave him her number on Instagram after he failed to show up to class and that the relationship developed from there
The eighth-grade English teacher, who has one child, told police that she and the teen "are in love" and that she had been introduced to his family as his girlfriend
She also claims that the family are accepting of the relationship and often include her in family gatherings.
According to court documents, Vera said the parents allowed the teen to spend the night at her house, after which she would drop him off at home in the morning so he could catch the bus to Stovall Middle School in Houston, Texas.
In January, things reached a peak when Vera fell pregnant with the young boy"s baby - but she told officers his family "were very supportive and excited about the baby", reported KPRC.
Vera decided to have an abortion however, after reportedly getting nervous about their relationship whenChild Protective Services unexpectedly showed up at school in February, to question her and the student about their relationship.
She reportedly denied the relationship at the time, according to the DA"s office.
The mother-of-one had her phone forensically analyzed by the officer and it appears many messages between the student and teacher were consistent with what she said, according to the report.
Vera said the parents allowed the teen to spend the night at her house (pictured), after which she would drop him off at home in the morning so he could catch the bus to school
Alexandria Vera, 24, (left and right) allegedly admitted to engaging in a sexual relationship with the young boy since September, after they began flirting during a summer school session
Vera, of Houston,Texas, now faces charges of continuous sexual abuse of a child. She is currently being held on a $100,000 bond
Aldine ISD, the organisation that runs Stovall Middle School, issued the following statement to ABC-13: "Aldine ISD has been made aware that charges have been filed against a former Stovall Middle School teacher involved in inappropriate behavior with a male student.
"When the allegation was made in April, the teacher was immediately removed from the school and placed on administrative leave.
"Aldine ISD Police investigated the incident and turned their findings over to the Harris County District Attorney"s Office.
"The safety and security of Aldine ISD"s students and staff remains a priority of the school district."
Parents at the school werehorrified.
"(It"s) horrible for any father or any family member going through this situation," Gerson Bonilla told Click 2 Houston.
"When you send your kid to the school you think everything will be safe for them and everything. But I think this is something that is serious that needs to be investigated."
Summer is upon us, or at least summer TV is upon us, and that means its time for Americas Got Talent, the variety show gloss on American Idol in which eccentric acts vie for a $1 million prize and the chance to become a Vegas lounge act. One part of the reality competition formula that AGT excels at is the ambiguous intro package, whereby the audience really doesnt know if the act auditioning is going to be fantastic, craptastic, or just c**p.
In Tuesday nights season premier, which saw the return of Professional Mean Girl Simon Cowell to the judges table, a man named Jos and his dog Carrie were just such an act. The intro played it straight, as did the amused stage patter between the judges andJos, who explained that his ex-wife would never dance with him, so he taught the dog to dance instead.
Would Carrie the dog panic and bolt off into the wings,take a dump on the stage, or rebel by shredding her costume in mid-act? You just dont know until you watch the clip above, fromAmericas Got Talent.
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GARDEN GROVE An early morning fire destroyed five vehicles and damaged another eight in an apartment carport.
The fire was reported at 5:29 a.m. Tuesday and extinguished by 6.
The apartments themselves, on the 8500 block of Gloria Avenue, suffered exterior damage but flames did not penetrate the buildings, Capt. Thanh Nguyen of the Garden Grove Fire Department said.
Alberto Hernandez, who lives in the apartment complex, said he heard two loud pops.
I looked out the window and saw an orange glow, Hernandez said.
Before Hernandez realized what, exactly, was happening, a neighbor began banging on his door and told him the place was on fire. He saw the flames as they exited the buildings and called the fire department, which told him it already had firefighters en route.
One resident was treated for smoke inhalation on scene, but declined ambulance transport to a hospital, Nguyen said.
Garden Grove fire investigators determined the cause to be mechanical failure of a vehicle. Damage to the structure was estimated at $125,000; while damage to the vehicles was pegged at $100,000.
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The Boy With Tape on his Face wows America"s Got Talent 2016.
The Boy with Tape on His Face has won over one of Hollywood"s harshest -Simon Cowell - who described the Kiwi"sact as "brilliant" following hisauditionon America"s Got Talent this week.
The Canterbury performer, whose real name isSam Wills, received astanding ovation and aunanimous "yes" from judges Cowell, Howie Mandel,Heidi Klum andMel Brown.
Appearing in the opening episode of thehit talent show"s 11th season, Wills was initially met with scepticism from both the audience and judges alike.
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Sam Wills has won global acclaim for his hit show The Boy with Tape on his Face.
It did not help that he wasunable to answer the judges" questions.
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"I"m a little afraid now I don"t know what"s going to happen,"saidan audience member.
Mandel reassured Wills and said, "I love a mystery. Go ahead and do what it is you do."
Willsperformed two of his comedy routines, one featuring singing oven gloves, an other caressing himselfin a mime dance toLady in Red.
Simon Cowell said, ""I like the fact we don"t know who you are. It was simple clever, unique, brilliant."
Wills shared a video of his performance on hisThe Boy with Tape on His Face Facebook page, asking his followers to share the clip as much as possible.
"Thank you for all of your amazing support already!! Let"s see how far we can take this thing!" he added.
Wills started his performing career as a busker in Christchurch and won theThePressPeople"s Choice Award at the World Buskers Festival in 2008.
He used the prize money to develop his hit showThe Boy with Tape on his Face, which sold out around the world and attracted dozens of five star reviews.
Willshas packed theatres in Britain, enjoyed several sellout runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and performed at the Royal Albert Hall.His silent comedy showsalways sellout when Wills brings them to Christchurch for the World Buskers Festival.
Wills marriedperformer Lili la Scalaat the buskers festival in Christchurch in 2009.
Former World Buskers Festival director Jodi Wright gave Wills his first break by selecting him for her festival.
"I am so pleased for him. I hope he wins," she said.
"It makes me rememberhim performing in Cathedral Sq and trying to cut a cucumber on the stomach of a large German man [from the audience].Will he do that bit on the show?"
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NEW YORK Only five years ago, Katie Nolan was a broke ex-bartender. Now"s she one of the rising stars at Fox Sports" FS1 cable channel. Her late-night show,"Garbage Time with Katie Nolan," just won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Social TV Experience.If Nolan gets her way, theshow (currently airing Wednesdays at midnight ET)will eventually be on four or five nights a week.
Nolan is still getting used to the idea of being a celebrity like Fox Sports colleague Erin Andrews or Michelle Beadle of ESPN. New FS1 programming czar Jamie Horowitz is giving her the promotional support her sports/comedy/pop cultureshow needs. She recently got the billboard treatment in Times Square and appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live." She was written up in Fast Company"s new list of "Most Creative People."Her TV audience is still small, averaging 50,000 viewers for a recent episode, but Fox says clips from her show attract more than 500,000views across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, FoxSports.com, FoxSports GO and Instagram.
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Nolan has also ruffled feathers with her willingness to zingFox colleagues. She told GQ in no uncertain termsthat she didn"t care for Rob Gronkowski"s lap dance with Fox reporter Julie Stewart-Binks onJason Whitlock"s TV show during Super Bowl week. She mocked, on-air, an article titled"How to land a husband at the Masters" by theFox-affiliated Outkick the Coverageblog.
Last week, she told Sporting News she would"ideally" like an 11 p.m. or 11:30 p.m. time slot. That set off FS1 colleague Dan OToole, even though she never mentioned O"Toole or partnerJay Onraitduring our interview. Their "Fox Sports Live with Jay and Dan" airs from 11 p.m.-11:30 p.m.
In this regard, the outspoken Nolan is workingfrom the Bill Simmons playbook. Simmons was never averse to calling out his ESPN colleagues, and that didn"t make him the most popular guy in Bristol.
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After all that excitement, what else does Nolan have to say? Here are excerpts from the rest of our interview with her:
SN: Doyou want tostay with Fox longterm? Bill Simmons makesno secret that he"d love to hire you.In one bit, heeven "took over"your show.
Nolan:Bill Simmons has hired literally everybody. Everyday on Twitter: "The Ringer would like to announce weve hired Obama once hes done being president."So I dont think they need me. Fox has been really great. Obviously, Ive met and interacted with a lot of people who have worked at the other major sports network. Its a very small community, sports. There really arent that many options. Its either like youre going to work at Fox,ESPN orNBC. And then theres Turner/Bleacher Report and The Ringer. Thats really it. Theres the big ones at the top, then the smaller ones at the bottom.
I dont know. I dont know what Im going to do. It"s all going to depend on opportunities and what comes along, butfrom the interactions Ive had with people whove worked around these other companies, Fox is great. When a co-worker says somethingI dont agree with, theyve let me openly say I disagree. Theyve told me whatever I say or do,theyll back me. Theyve been really good. I dont know what its like anywhere else. It could be one of those things where you leave and youre like, "Oh,my G*d, this is so much better."But the way it is right now is fantastic to me.
SN: Career-wise,do you see yourself staying in sports? Somelike Robin Roberts have gone into morning news or entertainment.
Nolan: I will say Im not a morning person at all. So "GMA," "Today" show,those are all immediately out. I wake up at noon. Even that is a struggle for me. I dont know. I dont look at it ascut and dried, black and white. It sort of goes back to the opportunities that come my way. How I feel, if theyll be good for me in the long run or not. I love sports. Im a huge sports fan and always havebeen. ...It"sall Ive done. I cant compare it to anything else. All is know is it"s been great for me. Fox has been very good to me and supportive of really weird stuff that weve tried to do. My fans are great. It"sbeen really cool to see younger women that are in college, who are studying sports journalism, reach out to say, "I didn"t know what I wanted to do and I see you doing this thing I didnt know I could do, and now thats what I want to do."
I don"t know if there would be that many rewarding experiences in any other walk of life. It"s important for me to be authentic, soI dont think theres ever a time I take a job doing a political show. I"m just not a political person. You either need to be really invested in sports or really invested in politics. It"s hard to follow both. I chose the one that doesnt have many real-life implications because it"s easier that way. When you lose in politics its a lot scarier than when you lose in a game depending on how you feel about it. I dont know where Ill be or what Ill do next. I dont know that it always has to be sports. Our show already is kind of sports/pop culture fused together. I love what Im doing now. The sports community has been really great.
SN: ESPN is so much bigger than FS1, but they"re losingtalent to FS1 they tried to keep,like Colin Cowherd and now Skip Bayless. IsESPN on the defensive?
Nolan:I would say thats probably because they did it untouched for so long and unchallenged for so long. Thats never good for any industry, forone company to just be the one that does it. Itnever challenges them to grow, or change or be better. They can just do whatever they want. I think the introduction of FS1, and now that we have Jamie, whos given a vision to the network and taking it in a direction, yes, I can see why the big network is like, "Wait, this was our turf."Theyre now sort of reacting to that and to us. Ultimately, Id say for sports fans, its good. It creates a give and take and a push-pull to make all the networks better, to rise to a standard.
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SN: What was it like to win your firstEmmy? "Garbage Time"was also nominated for Outstanding Weekly Studio Show againstsome heavy hitters.
Nolan: Crazy. It was insane. There was no way to describe the shock. I just put it down to come down here. Ive had it with me every day, all day. It was crazy. When we found out wewere nominated, we all freaked out. There were tears. The one we knew we weren"tgoing to win was Outstanding Studio Show Weekly.Just to look at the names on that list: ESPN"s "College Gameday,""Inside the NBA on TNT," "Football Night in America," our show and "Fox NFL Sunday."You would never mention our show in the same breath as any of those shows. To be in that same category was like, "Oh, my G*d, people know we exist."Then to be at the Emmys, and have them call our name, it was crazy. If we ever win another one, fingers crossed, I will have a speech written that time instead of what Idid last time, which was to say nothing. Nothing will ever feel like that. That was really, really cool. No one expected that. Even Jamie, before we went out there, was like: "Remember, just being nominated is really cool."Then we won. It was like, "What?"
SN: Do you worry that you go too farsometimes?
Nolan: Sometimes, but not for the stuff that people say I"m fearless for. People sometimes give me too much credit. It"snot a crazy stance to say domestic violence is bad and lets stop doing that and enabling athletes to do that and someone should be in charge. Theres times I"ve said things that Iprobably shouldn"t say, but again, most of it is making a dumb joke at the expense of somebody thenetwork is a partner with and has the rights to their footage.
But Fox has been really good at, Idont want to say protecting me, but making sure if Isay something, they see it before it airs. And they"re like, "Uh, Ireally dont think you should push that button."Ifit"s something Iwant to take a stance on, I"llfight back 100 percent, butthere are other times where you just have to recognize that when youre in it, it helps to have a person take a step back and be like, "This really is not the battle to choose. You should save your good graces for a different battle later on."
SN: What"s it likeworking with Horowitz? Hesparked a lot of debateby telling us he wants to build FS1 around"Opinionists" like Whitlock, Bayless and Cowherd.
Nolan: I dont see much of him. Hes in LA and Im out here. When I do see him, it"s usually to eat dinner and talk about the show. Hes been great. Hes notoriously good with talent. Hes a nice, personable guy. Hes funny and fun. We did one episode from LA last season. He came in and gave a segment idea. He likes to produce which I think is cool as opposed to just being a suit and grumbling around. Lots of basketball analogies. Thats what hes like as a person. Basketball analogies is all you need to know about Jamie Horowitz.
SN: "Garbage Time"is now in its third season.Do you still write most of your own material?
Nolan:Yes, for the most part. Anything opinion-based, usually like the A-block of our TV show, is an opinion-based rant, for lack of a better term. That is always me, because I cant have a man write my feelings on something. It would come through as a little obvious.
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SN: Is "Garbage Time"sports, comedy, or both?
Nolan: Theway Idescribe our show is it"sme as a person,in show form. There are times when it"s funny. Some interviews, we get some really interesting stuff out of people. Theres times when it"s just goofy funny. Theres times where it"s smart funny. Theres times when it"s not funny at all, because we tried something and it doesnt work. There are times when Iuse my platform. Ifeel the responsibility to use it to talk about issues that arent funny at all and will never be funny, like the NFL anddomestic violence. It"ssports and entertainment and fun. But as a women in sports, Iknow Ihave a responsibility to use my platform in a way that if someone should be speaking up, and it doesnt seem that enough people are, Iwill.
SN: Who were some of your most surprising guests?
Nolan: Iremember there was a weekend in Season 1, we had a guest cancel at the last minute, we were like, "What are we going to to do? We have to make a show."Wecalled in a favor. MLB Network said Harold Reynoldsis in town. We were like, "OK, thatwill be really nice of them."And he ended up being one ofour bestguests, because we just had fun and did some silly stuff. Alonzo Mourning was one of our first guests. He was great. So nice. So tall. Butso willing to play along and do silly stuff.
Kevin Durant, we got to do some really weird stuff, too,and got him out of his comfort zone. Richard Sherman we did this season. We played video games together. Such a funny guy. He was playing to camera. He"d say one thing and turn to camera and wink. The instincts he has withbeing on TV oh, my G*d. He going to be insanely good at that when he"s done with football, which Idon"tthink is anytime soon.
SN: Are athletes watchingthe show?
Nolan: Sometimes. You never know, because obviously theyre never going to look you in the eye and say, "I"ve never heard of this show before."Alsoa lot of time, their people, their PRteams, or agents, or whomever, will show them a clip on the way to an interview and say, "Just so you"reprepared, this is what they do on this show."Richard Shermandid say on his way out of the interview, "What is this show called? Because I think I"d like itbut I"ve never heard of it before." ...
Then there was Chase Elliott,the NASCARdriver. Once the interview was over, he was like, "Really great to meet you, big fan, love the show." I was like, "Wait, what?"I was soexcited to think youre a professional athleteand you know of our show and watch it, which is really cool. I justalways enter everything assuming no one has any idea of who we are or what we do.
SN: You"ve called Rob Ryan your "bae."Is he still your dream guest?
Nolan: At this point,weve built it up to be a huge thing, that whenwe have him on, we have to crush that segment. We can"t just be like, "Oh, hi, Rob,thanks for coming by, so tell me about your family."Ithas to be this big idea thats the be-all, end-all of everything, "cause then I"llobviously quit TVand do something else with my life, become a nun or something. Were so psyched about it. Weknow if the call ever comes through, or if he ever answers the 900 phone calls we"ve put in to him, that we have to crush it. We have to come up with some crazy idea. Weve tossed around tons of ideas. Ifwe book Rob Ryan, what do we do? You knowhow newspapers have obituaries written for people who might die?We have like 18 segments written if we ever get Rob Ryan to come on this show. Theyre just waiting in a folder somewhere, a Google drive. Just in case. Boom, he"s here. Let"srunwith it.
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SN: So what"s it like to suddenly be famous?
Nolan: Iwouldn"tcall myself famous, but,yes, it"s weird. It"sdifferent. ...So I"llbe on the train. You know when you feel someone looking at you. Youre like, "Uh-oh,do i have boogers? No, no boogers coming out of my nose. Ismy hair doing something crazy? No. Is it my shirt or my pants? What is that guy looking at?"Then theyll come up to you, or sometimes they dont, and theyll say, "Are you Katie Nolan?"And I"m like, "Oh, yes, I am."Meanwhile, theentire 20-minute train ride Im going, "What is wrong with me? Why is that guy staringat me like that?"so my brain still doesnt click to, "He recognizes me, Im famous."Istill think theyre looking at me because somethings wrong with me.
But it"s been really cool when people do approach me. Ithink the perception of my fans, given the way they are on Twitter sometimes, or the way the Internet can be, is theyre crazy men who say sexually charged things. But any time I"ve been out at a bar, and someone has come up to me, the first thing they say, "I don"tmean to interrupt, and I"ll be really quick," which is very polite, because I"m usually like, "Oh, please interrupt, this is really cool for me." ... Noone has ever been like, "Can Ibuy you a beer?" Or, "What are you doing later?"Noone has ever been weird.
Ihave really cool, human fans. Ithink with the way the world is now,the majority of interaction with fans are on online,it"s really good and refreshing. It makesme very happy to interact with fans in real life andbe reminded that there are decent people who like thisshow. Alot of people will say, "I"ve been watching you since the Guyism internet videos."Ifeel like Ishould pay the person. "Ionly have $5 in my pocket, but thank you."
SN: But there"s also a downside to sports celebrity, especially for women, no?
Nolan: Yes, women get harassed online, especially women in sports, or women in any male-dominated field that caters mostly to male fans. ...Thegoal of my show is to show people that sports TVcan cater to both male and female fans, tosort of broaden the fan base,so it isnt just men that were focusing on and catering to. The other thing Iwould say is a lot of people in sports get harassed online. People expect women to be the victim: "Oh, no, we should take care of her. Look at the mean things people are saying about her,"but I"ve seen some very mean things tweeted at Joe Buck or Skip Bayless or Stephen A. Smith.They get their fair share, but nobody feels they have to protect those people,because theyre men.
SN: Howdo you deal with it personally?
Nolan: I"velearned to read less of my at replies on Twitter, orjust take them with a grain of salt. Know that if youre ever doing anything that puts you in the public eye, people will comment on it, whether good or bad. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. It"sthe actual attacks on you as a woman, as opposed to the quality of your show. Believe me, Iknow our show is not perfect. We have a lot to work out, andI"m actually interested in getting feedback from people on the internet about what they like, whats working and what doesnt work, butwhen it"s just things like, "You"resetting women back,"or, "Womendont know sports,"thats when it"s like, "What year is it? How are those people still around and speaking? Just keep your weird opinions to yourself."
SN:I can see Skip and Stephen A. generating that kind of negative reaction, but why does Joe Buckirk people so much?
Nolan: I know. So much grief. Ive talked to him about it, too. I asked him, "How do you handle that?" Somebody tweeted at him, "Joe Buck, youre so biased for the Red Sox,"then somebody else tweeted after him he was so clearly biased for the Yankees. He replied to both of them and said, "Ha, Im not even calling that game."Itwasnt even him. People just hear a voice and are like, ""Oh, that Joe Buck."First of all, hes not biased for that team. Second of all, he cant be biased for both teams. Third of all, thats not even me.
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SN: So what is it with Buck? Too smooth, too good-looking?
Nolan:Yes, thats definitely it. Write that down and publish it so that Joe Buck knows I said he"s too smooth and good-looking. Sports fans are passionate, which is the best thing about them and the worst thing about them. When we were developing a sports comedy show, Ispent months studying sports comedy shows. People have tried to do this but it usually fails. Sometimes it"s because it"s asports comedy show on a comedy network. Sometimes because it"s a sports comedy show that isnt funny enough because it"s on a sports network.
So Iwatched a lot of it and tried to study what it was that makes that harder to do than, say, political comedy. One of the things I found is that when it comes to politics, youve got essentially two audiences: Republicans and Democrats. Just pick one and cater to them. Youd be hard-pressed to find a Republican way on the right who loves Jon Stewart or who praises (Stephen) Colbert unless they dont get the joke. But with sports, theres 32 football teams. Youll have this Dolphins fanwhen you make fun of the Patriots. Youll keep them when you make fun of the Bills. But the second you make funof the Dolphins, the really passionate ones are like, "I"m out on you. I"m done. ...
I can"t tell you how many tweets Ive gotten that are like, "I liked you, until this."Even Patriots fans. I"m a huge Patriots fan. We did a (Tom Brady) joke at the beginning of the season where Iwas like, "Tom, just sit the four games, enough with Deflategate."Itwas a joke. People were like, "How dare you bail on Tom? Why should he admit he did it, he didnt do anything wrong, its his legacy, etc."Iwas like, "Imone of you. It"s just a joke about how exasperated Iam with learningabout the 2nd Circuit legal system. Idont want to learn about the courts. Iwant to talk about football."
SN: Why do fans get so heated about announcers calling the games?
Nolan: Sports fans are so passionate, so Ithink when a Red Sox fan thinks that a guy calling the game is being biased, it"s like the worst thing that can ever happen. Somehow, something goes off in their brains where their first thought is, "Im going to tweet at him." . . .If Ihad to pick an analyst or color commentator whos universally loved,its hard to find. Everybody hates everybody. The other thing that people on Twitter dont realize, or maybe they do and that"s what makes it even more awful, is bosses of networks are probably looking on Twitter andseeing what the general narrative about a person is.
Joe Buckhas a huge portfolio of success to fall back on. Idon"t think a tweet is going to get him fired. But it"s hard to break into the business when the internet is so willing to say, "Ah, this person sucks. Next."Because it"s sports and it"s fun and it"s what a lot of us enjoy in our free time, they dont realize how hard most jobs in sports are. Calling a game? Ican"t even imagine doing that.Imean, you have to talk the whole time. It hasto be entertaining. You have to know when to lay outand know when to give a stat, andthat stat better be exactly right.
SN: So you"rewilling to move to Los Angeles if your show goes five days a week?
Nolan: I"ve always been back and forth, Boston-New York, my whole life, so moving out there is exciting. Let me try something completely different. But it"s also scary. Trying something completely different and trying this huge lift by taking the show to four or five nightsa week it would be a lot, but Iguess you have to try it.
SN: Are you interested in landing some corporate sponsorshipsand ad campaigns?
Nolan: I currently do a web series for United Airlines. I did one for DraftKings, too. My only criteria for that sort of stuff is it has to be me. I don"t want to be like, "Hi, I"m Katie Nolan for Prilosec OTC."Means nothing to me. And also at the same time, Im not that famous, so nobodys really coming to me and saying, "Ooh, endorse this," because no one cares.
So the United campaign that Im doing right now is online videos that I also think air in-flight, but theyre not on TV, theyre not commercials. Theyre like five-minute videos of behind-the-scenesstuff that customers might want to know about airlines, like what flight attendants do when theyre not giving you a drink. It"svery much my voice and me. That kind of of stuff is more me getting reps,practicing and finding different ways thatI can use my small arsenal of talents.
For DraftKings Iplayed mini-golf with Gronk. I played "Truth or Dare"with him while we played mini-golf. No one is going to say no to that opportunity. It"s not something Ifocus (on) or even tell my agent, "Go get me more ad opportunities,"just if something comes along and they want to do it in your voice, or if someone says, "Heres a ridiculous amount of money and all you have to do is make an Instagram post."Iwas broke four years ago, so, yes, Iwould do an Instagram that says hashtag sponsor on it. Why wouldnt Ido that? ...
Also, Im not a journalist, so Idon"tthink anybody will be like, "Oh, no, your integrity is completely ruined."I dont have any integrity anyway. Im just out here to have fun and enjoy sports, soif someone (is) like, "Heres $5,000to take a picture,"who would be like, "Nope, sorry, that would really interfere with my job as a journalist?" If youre going to be dumb enough to pay me to post a picture, then Im going to be dumb enough to take your money.
Jan Crouch, the pink-haired televangelist who helped found Trinity Broadcasting Network, which owns the Holy Land Experience theme park in Orlando, has died, according to her son.
Jan Crouch was cofounder of Trinity Broadcasting Network
She suffered "significant" stroke last week
TBN owns Holy Land Experience religious theme park in Orlando
The Christian television network tweeted the news of her death Tuesday morning. Crouch had been taken to an Orlando-area hospital after suffering a "significant" stroke Wednesday, it said.
"Laurie and I have just watched the transition of our precious Mother from this world to the next; watched her step into the presence of Jesus and into her heavenly reward. Jan Crouch, known around the world as Momma Jan, has gone home," her son, Matt Crouch, said in a statement on he and his wife"s official website.
According to a released obituary, Crouch, whose full name is Janice Wendell Bethany Crouch, passed away after a short illness at the age of 78.
Crouch met her husband, Paul, while in college, then both served in pastoral ministry. In the 1960s, the pair headed to California and became trailblazers in Christian television, launching TBN. The network grew into what"s called the world"s largest Christian TV network, and the Crouches became international sensations.
In 2007, Jan Crouch and her husband took over the failing Holy Land Experience, nestled along I-4 by Conroy Road, and turned it into an Orlando mainstay.
The religious theme park, which opened in February 2001, is required to offer one free day per year in order to qualify for property tax exemptions as a religious entity. The late-February free day often fills the park.
The California-based TBN, which owns the park, saves about $300,000 each year in Orange County tax exemptions.
However, TBN wasn"t without its controversies, drawing criticism over its prosperity gospel and investigations into its finances.
Paul Crouch died ofdegenerative heart disease in 2013.
Jan Crouch was known as "Momma Jan." (Trinity Broadcasting Network)
Marilyn Monroe Rare Live Television Appearance - "Person To Person" Interview 1955
Marylin Monroe, the famous American actress, was born on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles. Greek journalist and authorAlekos Lidorikismet her twice, in 1947 and in 1953, during his stay in the U.S. where he worked in the studios of 20th Century Fox.
In one of her interviews to Lidorikis, Monroe referred to Greece and the Greek people.
I wouldlove to have been bornin your country. The Greeks are beautiful! And I am not only referring to their looks, although the eyes of the Greek people are always sparkling so strangely and solustfully. I love their guts and their light-heartedness as well as their spirit to always seek the best even in difficult times. One day I was playing with a boy in the dirty and disgustful LA. It was a boy from Greece that had the obsession to collect shells I called him Apollohe kissed me once then we lost each otherNow he must be a perfect and handsome man.
