Because I am a sadist, I thought I’d leave you this weekend with a question I just threw out to my Twitter feed: What if both Chuck and Friday Night Lights were both on the bubble right now? Which of the two would you be pulling out the stops to defend?  Don’t tell me that there’s no reason you couldn’t campaign to keep both shows on the air at once. While true, it is no fun: you have to pick.

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Former President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukoka Saraki, has urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to let him be the presidential flag bearer of the party in the forthcoming general elections. The former Kwara State governor while meeting with delegates of the PDP in Lagos, said he wants to defeat the national leader of the All Progressive Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu again. Saraki told the delegates that he remained their own as someone who last defeated the “Emperor of Bourdillon” who according to him had sometimes vowed that he would not become the senate president.

Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has confirmed that he worked for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu during the 2023 presidential election. Fayose, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) added that he worked totally against the party’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Speaking during Channels TV Sunday Politics programme, the former Governor submitted that it was wrong of the PDP to have given its ticket to Atiku who is a northerner since Muhammadu Buhari who is also a northerner was just completing eight years in the seat of power.

My life changed over the course of a summer. I came back to film season 3 of Modern Family, and I knew that I looked totally different than when we’d wrapped season 2. Suddenly, I was just over 5 feet tall and was an F-cup. Women are already over-sexualized, and I grew into my body so young. I was 13, 14 years old, and I looked 19. Suddenly, people didn’t want to talk about my job—they just wanted to talk about my cleavage.