7-Eleven Is Selling Hot Dog-Flavored Sparkling Water? – LINK
Which of These Foods Is the Grossest: Licorice, Blue Cheese, or Tofu? – LINK
McDonald’s to start selling Krispy Kreme donuts in national rollout – LINK
Bodies of 2 construction workers pulled from submerged truck after Baltimore Key bridge collapse as search and recovery effort suspended – LINK
You Are 40% More Likely to Develop a Mood Disorder If You Live in a City – LINK
The IRS has 940,000 unclaimed tax refunds from 2020 that are about to expire. Is one of them yours? – LINK
Man takes body part from scene of deadly train collision in Kern County: authorities – LINK
Yes, egg prices have increased due to bird flu and inflation – LINK
MUSIC
Beyoncé released the track list for her new album that is out TOMORROW. There’s a cover of “Jolene”. . . the name Dolly Parton appears on the poster . . . and there’s a song called “Smoke Hour” featuring Willie Nelson. https://www.instagram.com/p/C5Bibc3Ly-Z/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=aa06e426-80d0-4229-b57a-b839764d2417
Mick Jagger has posted a video of himself mocking his stage moves as a cover band behind him plays Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger.” https://www.instagram.com/p/C5B4sN_K403/
Trisha Yearwood will receive the inaugural June Carter Cash Humanitarian Award at the CMT Music Awards. She’ll also perform a new song called “Put It in a Song”. The show airs Sunday, April 7th at 7p
Skid Row issued a statement saying that singer Erik Gronwall is leaving because “the travel and rigors of the road is not conducive to his overall health and recovery.” Gronwall’s temporary fill-in will be Lzzy Hale of Halestorm. She’ll do four shows with Skid Row from May 17th through June 1st. Hale says, “What an honor to call them my friends and a privilege to be sharing the stage with them! Erik, I wish you all the magic on your next adventure. Now…which leather pants to wear?!!” May 17th Skid Row with Lzzy Hale will play in Carterville, IL at Walker’s Bluff Casino Resort – LINK
TV
Kenan Thompson is one of the most popular Nickelodeon alumni and is speaking out about the allegations of abuse brought up during the Investigation Discovery docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. He was on Tamron Hall – LINK
Would you want Chris Hemsworth to sit with you and comfort you while you’re getting a new tattoo? Well, me, too… and did Matt Damon. While getting his arm tattooed in a private session at someone’s house, Chris Hemsworth is holding Damon’s head and hand while the artist worked on Matt’s arm. Then Hemsworth also got some work done on his bicep. The tattoo artist posted the photos on Instagram – LINK
Speaking of HOT: 81-year-old Judge Judy keeps her “vessel in shape and looking good”. She works out every day with her 90-year-old husband, for a total of 10 hours a week. “I have a responsibility to keep the vessel in shape and looking good . . . If your mind is in shape and your body is not, [the weaker] one will eventually affect the other . .
Judy likes to use the treadmill and she does resistance strength training in her home gym – LINK
Bam Margera is done with two things: drinking and the ‘Jackass’ franchise, telling ‘US Weekly’, “Having a lot of money and not knowing what to do with it. My face is recognizable, so anywhere I go, I’d get free drinks and free drugs, if I was looking for it” – LINK
MOVIES
Fresh off of their Oscars success, Poor Things Best Director nominee Yorgos Lanthimos and Poor Things Best Actress winner Emma Stone have a trailer for their latest collaboration, Kinds of Kindness.
MISC
TikTok’s already battling the US government over a proposed ban and now the Federal Trade Commission could hit the platform with a lawsuit – LINK
AND FINALLY
BuzzFeed put together a list of some of the nastiest foods actors have had to eat while filming – LINK
Here are some highlights:
1. “Night of the Living Dead” (1968): The “human remains” that zombies feasted on were ham and sheep organs doused in chocolate syrup.
2. “Game of Thrones” Season One (2011): Emilia Clarke eats a “stallion heart” that’s actually solidified jam that tasted like “bleach and raw pasta”. She had to eat about 28 of them, so she required a spit bucket.
3. “Vampire’s Kiss” (1988): Nicolas Cage ate a cockroach and washed it down with whiskey.
4. “Batman Returns” (1992): Danny DeVito ate raw bluefish with a mix of mouthwash and spirulina (speer-U-line-uh) , which is a type of algae.
5. “Rescue Dawn” (2006): Christian Bale ate REAL maggots.
6. “Spawn” (1997): John Leguizamo also ate REAL maggots, but these were on top of pizza.
7. “The Revenant” (2015): Leonardo DiCaprio ate raw bison liver.
8. “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968): Vegetarian Mia Farrow also ate raw liver
9. “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2003): During Andy Serkis’ transformation from Smeagol to Gollum, the fish he eats is actually gelatin. Andy says he would’ve preferred raw fish.
10. “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (1977): The blue milk Mark Hamill drank was dyed blue milk, but it was “warm, oily, and sickly sweet”. He describes it as “gag-inducing”.