On the other hand, had it been up to NBC executives, Jerry Seinfeld would have come back for one more, possibly shark-jumping season. A season that would have paid Jerry an absolutely enormous amount of money. Jerry rejected that absolutely enormous offer. In rejecting that offer, General Electric’s CEO Jack Welch (GE was NBC’s parent company)
“went numb.” “Unheard of” Offer Jerry earned a total of $100,000 for the very first 5-episode season of his show.
Early Life and Education NLE Choppa, whose real name is Bryson Lashun Potts, was born on November 1, 2002 in Memphis, Tennessee to a Jamaican mother and an African-American father. He was raised in the Parkway Village community in southeast Memphis, and went to Cordova High School. In school, Potts played basketball. It was during this time he began freestyling with his friends. His mother, Angela, soon began managing him as he embarked on a rap career.
As an actress she has had recurring roles in the TV series The Thorn Birds in 1983, Blackbeard in 2006, Monarch Cove in 2006, and Rain Shadow in 2007. She has also starred in several films including Night School, Sharky’s Machine, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, The Final Terror, Against All Odds, Fortress, Hotel Colonial, The Umbrella Woman, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, After Dark, My Sweet, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, Wide Sargasso Sea, The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, Peter Rabbit, and more.
Early Life Richard Thalheimer was raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. After graduating from Hall High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, he left for New Haven and graduated from Yale University in 1970. He entered San Francisco’s Hastings Law School the following year. While still a law student, the 24-year-old Richard Thalheimer started an office supply business with $500 worth of copier paper called Thalheimer Business Systems. He later named his enterprise The Sharper Image in part to help promote the quality of prints available from his copy machines.
Malinger voiced the role of TJ in the television series Recess from 1997 to 1999. He has had recurring roles in the TV series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Maybe This Time, The Simple Life, and Party of Five. Malinger has starred in the movies Eve of Destruction, Late for Dinner, Sleepless in Seattle, Bye Bye Love, Sudden Death, Little Bigfoot, and Frog and Wombat. Malinger won two Young Artist Awards for Sleepless in Seattle and Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher.
Early Life and Education Rufus Sewell was born on October 29, 1967 in London, England to Jo, a Welsh artist and pianist, and William, an animator and former builder. When he was five, his parents divorced; at the age of ten, his father passed away. Sewell was subsequently raised by his mother alongside his older brother Caspar. He went to Trafalgar Junior School, where he was a member of the drama club.
Early Life Keibler was born on October 14, 1979, in Rosedale, Maryland, to parents Patricia and Gary Keibler. She began dance lessons at the age of three and took tap, ballet, and jazz. She attended St. Clement Mary Hofbauer School and then enrolled at The Catholic High School of Baltimore, an all-girls high school. She began competing in pageants from a young age and won the Miss Maryland Pre-Teen competition in 1990 and then went on to win the National Miss Pre-Teen Crown.
Know what’s even better than being a college football coach, though? Being a college football coach that gets fired. At least, that’s true for coaches who have a buyout clause written into their contracts. For Jimbo Fisher, he just scored a massive amount of money to go away. Texas A&M fired Fisher on November 12. He’ll make the remaining $76 million on his deal, a record amount for a head coach buyout.
But whatever pain you are feeling right now after paying your IRS bill, wait til you hear how much Mark Cuban just wired to the IRS… Yesterday on Twitter, Mark was asked: “if you or your corporations pay more than the required taxes in order to pay your fair share.” This was his response: “I pay what I owe. Tomorrow I will wire transfer to the IRS $288,000,000. This country has done so much for me, I’m proud to pay my taxes every single year.
Bird went public via SPAC in November 2021 at a valuation of $2.5 billion. One year later the company’s value had plunged 96% to a market cap of less than $90 million. It is generally estimated that Travis took $100 million off the table personally during Bird’s various funding rounds. Travis stepped down as CEO in September 2022. The company was de-listed from the NYSE a year later after failing to maintain a market cap above $15 million.
Early Life Vice Ganda was born Jose Marie Borja Viceral on March 31, 1976, in Tondo, Manila, Philippines. As a child, his nickname was “Tutoy.” He grew up in the Sta Cruz neighborhood with five older siblings. His father, a barangay captain, was murdered, then Vice Ganda’s mother left her children to work as a caregiver abroad. An unknown Japanese woman granted him a scholarship that paid for his schooling from third grade until college.
Ripa and Strahan have hosted the show together for four years, sipping coffee with each other and sharing friendly jokes five days a week. Despite the duo’s seemingly close and friendly relationship, viewers of Live! may have been somewhat surprised when, after Strahan announced his impending departure, Ripa disappeared from the show. Sources close to the long-time Live! matriarch report that Ripa was headed out of town for a pre-planned vacation, explaining Ana Gasteyer’s presence as guest host the day after Strahan’s announcement.
Record prices were set for a Bugatti EB110, a Lamborghini Countach LP500, A Ferrari F40, a Ferrari F512M and, a personal favorite, a Ferrari F50. If you’re a guy between the ages of 35 and 45, there’s a very good chance you grew up absolutely drooling over the Ferrari F50. You may have had an F50 poster on the wall or a model F50 on your desk. I had both.
Anthony co-founded the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1983 with bassist Flea and has been its frontman throughout its existence. Kiedis’ lyrics, which often draw from his personal experiences, have been a key component of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ music. His vocal style ranges from rap-like delivery to melodic singing, complementing the band’s fusion of funk, punk, and alternative rock. Under Kiedis’ leadership, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have released numerous successful albums, including “Blood Sugar Sex Magik,” “Californication,” and “Stadium Arcadium.
Early Life and Education Ayesha Curry was born as Ayesha Alexander on March 23, 1989 in Markham, Ontario, Canada to Carol and John. She is of Afro-Jamaican and Chinese-Jamaican descent on her mother’s side, and of African-American and Polish descent on her father’s side. Curry has four siblings named Maria, Janiece, Jaz, and Chad. When she was 14, she moved with her family to Charlotte, North Carolina. Curry attended Weddington High School in North Carolina, and after graduating moved to Los Angeles, California to become an actress.
Early Life and Education Benito Skinner was born on November 3, 1993 in Boise, Idaho. He attended Bishop Kelly High School as a teenager. At the school, Skinner played as a wide receiver on the football team. In his senior year, he founded the nonprofit OATHS, or Organization Assisting the Homeless Student. For his work, Skinner was recognized at the 2011 National Philanthropy Day Idaho. He went on to attend Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where he co-created and hosted the weekly campus radio show “BEAT$.
Early Life Bobby Lee was born Robert Lee Jr. on September 17, 1971, in San Diego, California. He is the son of Jeanie and Robert Lee, Korean immigrants who owned clothing stores in Encinitas and Escondido. Sadly, Robert died of Parkinson’s disease in 2019. Bobby grew up in Poway, California, and he has a younger brother named Steve, who is a comedian and musician. Steve has hosted the “Steebee Weebee” and “Scissor Bros” podcasts, and he made guest appearances on “MADtv” alongside Bobby.
His earnings from 1999’s The Sixth Sense totaled $114 million thanks to a generous cut of the film’s gross. His upfront salary was $14 million. As of this writing, that’s the second-most money ever earned by one actor from a movie. Although technically, the #1 record, $156 million, was earned by Keanu Reeves over TWO Matrix movies. So, one could say that Bruce’s Sixth Sense payday is the largest in Hollywood history.
Early Life and Education Burna Boy, whose real name is Damini Ogulu, was born on July 2, 1991 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. His parents are Bose, an academic and businesswoman, and Samuel, a manager of a welding company. As a kid, Ogulu made music using the digital audio workstation FL Studio. He was educated in Nigeria at Corona Secondary School in Agbara before relocating to London, England to continue his studies.