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Cheers star Ted Danson says he ‘didn’t even realize’ hit sitcom had ended due to personal life chaos

Cheers star Ted Danson says he ‘didn’t even realize’ hit sitcom had ended due to personal life chaos

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Ted Danson doesn’t remember much about Cheers coming to an end. Danson, 78, starred on all 11 seasons of the hit sitcom as Sam Malone along with Kelsey Grammer, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson and Rhea Perlman. He was one of the only cast members to appear in each of the show’s 273 episodes. During a recent conversation on his Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast, Danson opened up about the state of his personal life as the show concluded. “People say, ‘What was it like? What did you do when she was over?’ I said, ‘I had f***ed up my life so much that I didn’t even realize Cheers was over,’” Danson said, adding he “barely knew myself.” “I wanted to stop being a liar,” he said. “I wanted to be emotionally mature. I wanted to change.” Ted Danson …

Kristen Bell and Ted Danson Still Forking Love Each Other

Kristen Bell and Ted Danson Still Forking Love Each Other

Published by Sam Flores

The Good Place had such a fun alternative vocabulary. Are there any Good Place-isms that still sneak into your head? Bell: There were so many alternative phrases that The Good Place invented that stuck—not just for us, but for everyone. People still come up to me and say— Danson: “What the fork?” Bell: And “mother forking shirt balls.” Danson: I love that most people that come up to me are 12-, 13-, 14-, 15-year-old boys and girls who have just discovered it. Every generation comes up, and they really do watch it because it’s funny. It’s about something. It’s silly. It has fart humor. It’s a lesson in ethics. No one talks to me about anything else more than they do about The Good Place. Bell: I’m very proud to be part of it. Out of the blue, I got this voicemail that says, “Hey Kristen, it’s Mike Schur. I have this project I’m thinking of, and I don’t know why, but I feel like it’s for you. Can you call me back?” And I …

Ted Danson apologizing for blackface roast of Whoopi Goldberg

Ted Danson apologizing for blackface roast of Whoopi Goldberg

Published by Sam Flores

Ted Danson is apologizing for roasting onetime paramour Whoopi Goldberg while wearing blackface. It was the fall of 1993 at the Friars Club in Manhattan, and the occasion was a roast of the “Sister Act” star, who at the time called Danson her “best friend.” Danson, fresh off the heels of an 11-season run on “Cheers,” and Goldberg, who was at the height of her film career, had been tangled up in a not-so-secret love affair that sprang up while filming “Made in America.” Danson was freshly split from his second wife, producer Cassandra Coates, who served him divorce papers after the tabloids outed his fling with Goldberg earlier that year. To make matters messier, Danson and Goldberg’s romance was cooling off and the two actually tried to get out of the Friars roast, but the club said the tickets had been sold and the show must go on. According to The Times’ archives, Goldberg said she wrote the racial-slur-laden monologue that Danson delivered wearing black minstrel makeup with exaggerated lips in white. On the …

Ted Danson says he will apologize for infamous blackface performance at Whoopi Goldberg roast ‘for the rest of my life’

Ted Danson says he will apologize for infamous blackface performance at Whoopi Goldberg roast ‘for the rest of my life’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Ted Danson is ready to spend the rest of his life apologizing for his infamously offensive roast of his then-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg more than three decades ago. In 1993, the Cheers actor wore blackface at a celebrity roast of Goldberg at the New York Friars Club, where he served as the toastmaster and delivered a routine that included multiple uses of the n-word and disturbingly raunchy jokes. Danson, 78, addressed the “stupid” and “hurtful” act during a recent appearance on W. Kamau Bell’s Who’s With Me? podcast, where he said he was sorry for the incident and said that he was willing to keep apologizing for it. “I need to and I want to apologize for the rest of my life,” he said during …