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With his wild and curly red hair, comedian Carrot Top
(whose real name is Scott Thompson) is known for his distinct look. In
the past, he's been accused of undergoing plastic surgery and abusing
steroids -- but he scoffs at such rumors.
"People think I've had plastic surgery -- no, it just takes a lot of
makeup to make me look good," the comedian jokes in a new episode of "Oprah: Where Are They Now?"
In the above clip from the episode, Carrot Top recalls a Comedy
Central roast where his looks became the butt of jokes. The comedians
were actually there to roast Flavor Flav,
but "they love picking on me," Carrot Top says. "And one of the comics
says, 'Jesus, Carrot Top, when are you gonna stop with all the plastic
surgery? You look like the guy from 'The Mask' or something.'"
Carrot Top remembers his reaction at the time. "I'm sorry that I
look good," he says. "I don't think I look anything different than I did
when I started [in comedy]."
As for his physique, Carrot Top says he's just always been fit. "I
get a lot of grief because I've always been in shape and I think for
comedy in general, they don't expect comics to be in shape," he says.
"When I first started, I had my little Nissan pick-up truck and my
two teeny, barely funny trunks of stuff, and I used to bring dumbbells
with me, literally, to the hotels," he says.
When he began his comedy show, "Carrot Top Live at the Luxor"
in Las Vegas -- now in its eight year -- he really started to bulk up.
"I worked out more, I really got into that training stuff, where I'm
like, 'Holy crap. I'm big.' You really forget how big you can get," he
says. "So people would say, 'My God, you're huge.'"
Also in the video, the self-proclaimed "King of Props" takes cameras
on a tour of his home and introduces viewers to his "best friend" --
his blow dryer -- and drawer full of products. "Mousse and gels and
crap," he says. "Every five seconds, I'm putting something in there," he
adds, gesturing to his curls.
In the video below, Carrot Top joins OWN executive producers Jill Van
Lokeren and Julie Simpson on HuffPost Live to talk more about the
episode.
"Oprah: Where Are They Now?" airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on OWN.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Hulk Hogan On Considering Suicide And The New Year's Eve When Everything Changed
For decades, Terry Gene Bollea ignited "Hulkmania" around the world as the wrestling legend Hulk Hogan. After his professional wrestling career ended, he earned new fans with his reality show, "Hogan Knows Best," where viewers met his wife, Linda, and two children, Brooke and Nick. The show was canceled in late 2007, and it was shortly after that Hogan says everything around him began to crumble.
"After the show I kinda hit rock bottom," Hogan says in the above clip from "Oprah: Where Are They Now?" on OWN. "Everything got dark, everything happened at once. I was drinking alcohol very heavily. It just all kept piling up, it all kept mounting and mounting I didn't know how to handle it. I always wondered how could someone possibly take their own life, and so I got to that point where I said, 'You know what, maybe this would be easy. You know, maybe this would be an easy way to fix things.'"
On Aug. 27, 2007, Hogan's son Nick lost control of his sports car, severely injuring his passenger and best friend, John Graziano. Nick pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was sentenced to eight months in jail.
Hogan also says his marriage at the time was "crashing and burning."
"There was incident in Miami on New Year’s Eve where I was with my family and a bunch of my friends at a table," he says. "And there's a bunch of negativity about the food being bad, you know the champagne didn't work, even though it was all consumed. And when I walked outside, some kid ran up and hugged me and was like, 'Oh I grew up watching you. I didn't have a dad, you're like a dad to me.' And there was another person that said 'Hey Hulk, we love you.'"
"And I went, 'Oh my God' -- it was right then. I didn't understand what was going on, but it hit me that there's clean air and that there's dirty air. And once I walked back inside again, I realized I couldn't take it anymore. I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. I got sick and tired of the hating, the negativity, the verbal abuse -- just everything that I was hearing."
"I now realize I had to go through all this stuff to be who I am today, to make me who I am today," he says.
Hogan and Linda's divorced was finalized in 2009, ending their 24 year marriage. He went on to marry girlfriend Jennifer McDaniel in 2010.
"Before, it was always, well you're supposed to be this wrestler, you're supposed to be this husband or father that makes this crazy money and travels and works and does this," Hogan says. "And life is tough and money's hard to make and all this fictitious stuff.
"And then I realized all that stuff -- the peace, love, the joy, that still, small voice, the energy, that God presence -- is part of who I'm meant to be," Hogan says.
"Oprah: Where Are They Now?" airs Sundays at 10 p.m. on OWN.
$1 Million In Gold Found In Jet Airways Toilet
India, which rivals China as the world's biggest gold consumer, has witnessed a spike in smuggling after import duties were hiked three times this year to try to dampen demand for the precious metal.
The plane belonging to Jet Airways was being cleaned at Kolkata airport on Tuesday after a trip from the eastern city of Patna. It had previously been flying on international routes.
"The cleaning staff of the airport were going though their routine duties and found two bags in the toilets of the plane," director of the airport B.P. Mishra told AFP.
The one-kilogram gold bars "have not been claimed by anyone. No arrest has been made as yet".
Senior customs official R.S. Meena estimated the value of the haul at about 70 million rupees, or $1.1 million.
President Obama to Award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Gloria Steinem, Oprah Winfrey
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." - Gloria Steinem
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, and on Wednesday November 20th, 2013 President Barack Obama will present the award to 16 recipients, including groundbreakers and MAKERS Gloria Steinem and Oprah Winfrey.
The Medal honors individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavor.
In its announcement, the White House writes that Gloria Steinem is “a leader in the women’s liberation movement, co-founded Ms. magazine, and helped launch a wide variety of groups and publications dedicated to advancing civil rights. Ms. Steinem has received dozens of awards over the course of her career, and remains an active voice for women’s rights.” Steinem has been a controversial, good-humored, and inescapable public conscience on issues of equality and social justice for over five decades.
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey will also be honored as one of the "world’s most successful broadcast journalists, best known for creating The Oprah Winfrey Show, which became the highest rated talk show in America for 25 years." Winfrey is also an active philanthropist, expanding opportunities for young women around the world.
The 14 other recipients include Ernie Banks, Ben Bradlee, Bill Clinton, Daniel Inouye (posthumous), Daniel Kahneman, Richard Lugar, Loretta Lynn, Mario Molina, Sally Ride (posthumous), Bayard Rustin (posthumous), Arturo Sandoval, Dean Smith, Cordy Tindell "C.T." Vivian and Patricia Wald.
Congratulations to all recipients and their families!
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