Everyone knows Taylor Swift has a cat named Olivia Benson . . . which is Mariska Hargitay’s character on “Law & Order: SVU”. Well, Mariska has finally returned the favor.  She now has a cat named Karma . . . which is the title of one of Taylor’s songs.

On the series finale of “The Office”, Michael Scott returned for Dwight’s wedding, and we found out that he has two kids with his wife Holly, but we never knew there names….until NOW. Podcast, “Office Ladies” revealed that they are Chebonshur and Lowshebin, the feeling he had when he first saw them. (If you want to hear how to pronounce their names, check out the podcast.  Skip ahead to 55:29.)

Some of the most iconic moments in movies? Total accidents. Like when Julia Roberts let out that surprised laugh in Pretty Woman—you know, the one where Richard Gere snaps the jewelry box on her hand? That wasn’t in the script, and her reaction was so real, they kept it. Leonardo DiCaprio actually cut his hand open while filming Django Unchained and stayed in character, blood and all. Even The Lord of the Rings had bloopers that made the cut. Turns out, the magic of Hollywood is sometimes just one glorious mistake.

Darius Rucker was visited by his grandmother’s ghost when he was in college. Here he is talking about it….  He woke up in the middle of the night and she was sitting on the edge of his bed.  He wiped the sleep from his eyes, but she was still there . . . so off he went to sleep on the couch. (Here’s the video.  We cued it up to grandma’s ghost.)

Are you ready to enter a world filled with imagination? Well, if you are, you’re in luck as Netflix has announced a scrumdiddlyumptious new reality competition series, The Golden Ticket, inspired by the world of Wonka. To enter the competition, you’ll need a coveted golden ticket and then try to achieve sweet success in this high-stakes social experiment.

Decades after the fact, people are STILL coming up to Robert Pattinson to tell him that “Twilight” RUINED vampire movies.  And he’s getting tired of it. He remembered a day when his managers visited the set and told him to SMILE MORE, because he’d be fired by the end of the day if he didn’t stop playing things so seriously.

Tinsel Town Talk – Fri 05/30/2025