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Its almost a wrap, folks! The Cannes Film Festival is drawing to a close for another year. Jesse whittock with you again to run through the second week headlines from the Croisette and Further afield. Sign up for the newsletter here.

Cannes closer

Over to zac ntim in cannes… Nearly there: The Frontrunners for this Year’s Palme d’O, which is to say, the films critics are Buzzing About Most, Are Joachim Trier’s Sentimental ValueKleber Mendonça Filho’s Secret agentand Sound of FallingThe Second Film from Mascha Schilinski. All Three Are Excellent Films of Gigantic Emotional and Philosophical Scope. My Money is on Trier’s Film, which is the Most Complete Competition Title of Saw in Cannes, and Its No Wonder it Achieved A Gave 19-Minute Ovation. Notably, all three films have distribution deals with mubi. The Streamer Is Now Firmly in the Distribution Game and Has Also Locked Deals on Cannes Titles Die my loveand The history of sound. American Distributor Neon Has Also Carved Out A Large Slice of the Cannes Pie With North America Deals on Sentimental Value, The Secret AgentJafar Panahi’s It was just an Accident, Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2 = 5, and Julia Ducournau’s Alpha. It will be interesting to see how all companies position their films by the fall. None of these titles, spread Excluding Trier’s Sentimental Value, Will be the Easiest Pitch to Audiences. Lynne Ramsay’s Die my love, For instance, May Boast Jennifer Lawrence and Rob Pattinson As Leads, but the film is a dinner and challenging that will will require great care in the run-up to any Release. Let’s Wait and See. Elsewhere This Week in Cannes, Spike Lee Debutted His Latest Feature, Highest 2 Lowest. Before the movie Buzzy Premiere, Its Lead, Denzel Washington, was Handed A Surprise Palme d’Oh Honneur. The Premiere Marked Washington’s First appearans on a red carpet in cannes. Howver, before the Screening was Over, Washington was already on a plane back to new York City, where he is Leading an othello Revival on Broadway. Cannes ends Saturday and we’ll be reporting live from the closing ceremony. Follow here to see Who Taks Home Awards. Deals Are Still Being Negotiated at the Marché, SO Expecti More Breaking Updates, but For Now You Can Entertaine and Inform Your Heading to Our Cannes Hub, Where You Can Find News, Reviews, Deadline Studio Interviews, Magazine Features and More From. Au revoir for now.

Stunt biz exposé

“Sleepwalking” Toward Disaster: Jake Told the Sad Story of Casey Michaels, A Former Stuntwoman Tipped for the Very Top, Whose Career Cut Short by A Devasting Ankle Injury while on a Game of Thrones Set in 2019. HBO ultimately admitted liability after Michaels Sued and Paid Her £ 7m ($ 9.3m), Including Legal Costs, As Part of A Settlement. Howver, She had not spoken about the willsue publicly an interview with Deadline, which she aggregated to the means of warning that the entity profession is still not lesson. Routinely, The Community Will “Brush Injuries Under the Carpet” and Blame Performers, Rather than Those Responsible for Stunt Choreography and Safety, We Heard. In the uk, a leaked email from a top safety officer warned the industry could be “Sleepwalking” Towards an on-set fatality due to the scattergun natural organization. This one is a sobering but pertinent read, Worth your time regardless of how family you are with the world of stunt performmers.

Mediawan’s moment

A Magnet for Storytellers: Mediawan has Emerged As One of European Production’s Biggest New Players Over Recent Years, Furt the Us by Acquiring Brad Pitt’s Plan ENTERTAINMENT AND THE UK A RECENT DEAL FOR SEE-SAW FILTS, WHICH ESTATIONATS SUGGEST The thet the ther Slow Horses Maker at Around £ 100m ($ 134m). Howver, Much Less is Known About The Business than, Say, French Compriots Baniyay or Studiocanal. As Part of Deadline’s Excellent Disruptions MagazineJake Took a look under the bonnet, interviewing mediawan Pictures CEO Elizabeth d’Arvieu and several others connected to the Company to build a picture of a tv and film with Serious intentions of the evening Bigger. With plan b one of the producers beery British Netflix Hit Adolescence and two films, Apple TV+ Doc BONO: Stories of Surrender and Sylvain Chomet’s Animation The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnolin cannes over the past week, there’s certinly to come from mediawan, which keeps disruption Despite Ten this year. And if you want to know more about the Ground-Breaking AdolescenceMax Wrote This Neat Disruptions Piece.

Base Base @ Cannes

TIME PARTY: The Ever-ENTERTAINING BASE BAMIGBOY HAS BEEN FLOATING ARRONETTE BEACH PARTIES, RUBBING SHOULDERS WITH SPike Lee, Nicole Kidman and Cuba Gooding Jr. Among others while Mususi About the Nature of Celebrities and Recalling Interactions with Stars in Cannes Well Over 30 Years Ago. Few are better able to explain how mega-strink and the industry mesh together than the base, or the (occossionally) cheeky methods Needed to get into the most-exclusive soires. Baz Rarely Gets Tourned Away from anything these days, but this amusgan tale of how made it the mubi do makes for great reading. Baz’s Dispatches from Cannes Include Interactions with Everyone From Akinola Davies JR, The Nigerian Director of My Father’s Shadowto Urchin director and Beatles Movie Actor Harris Dickinson and Elsbeth and The Wire actor Wendell Pierce. Find All of Baz’s Stories Out of Cannes here.

Gary Lineker Accelerates Exit

Don’t open the post: The inevitable has happened. AFTER SEVERAL RUN-IINS WITH BBC Over HIS Social Media use, Match of the Day Host Gary Lineker has finally gone too for the pubcaster’s Top Brass. The BBC’s Highest-Paid Presenter, Earning £ 1.35m ($ 1.8m) A Year, Will Exit AFTER He Presents His Final Match of the Day Highlights show on Sunday-a year Earlier than planned-Following Him Sharing a Now-Deleted Instagram post the Israel-Gaza conflict that contains an antisemitic trope. Lineker apologized once he’d been informed about the connotations of a cartoon rat overlaid in the video and said he was never “Consciously repost anything anti -Semitic,” but acknowledged that “Stepping back” from the bbc felt like “the Responsibility of Action.” Several industry figure, Such as forms BBC Content Chief Danny Cohen and Fulwell Entertainment Ceo Leo Pearlman Strongly Criticized Both Lineker and the Bbc, The Latter for Allowing the Presenter to Sign off at the Broadcaster with “Hero’s Farewell” this coming sunday.

The essentials

🌶️ Hot One: Wayne Gretzky’s All-Conquering Edmonton Oilers Are The Subject of A Doc Out of Canada Produced by Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Efffort.

🌶️ Another One: The Four Seasons Star Marco Calvani is Co-Writing and Directing His Second Feature Film, CapitanaBased on Marine Biologist Pia Kemp’s Memoir.

🌶️ Do Third: DocThe Breakout US Medical Drama was was based on an Italy series, is getting a remake in mexico, with Juan Pablo Medina in the Lead Role.

🏠 In-House: Channel 4 Stepped Up Its Plans to Produced Programs in-House for the First Time in Its History, a seismic Change in the UK TV Production Sector, and has Hirhed a Headhunter to look for the Division’s Boss.

🏛️ BBC Latest: Banijay Uk Boss Patrick Holland has exited the breed to become bbc chief continent officer, with kate phillips the person to beat, Jake revealed.

🗡️ Cuts: UK BROADCASTER ITV is axing over 220 roles as part of a Major Shake-up of Its Daytime Schedule.

🚪 Exiting: Kids TV Veteran Paul Robinson is Leaving cardboard Channel Worldwide.

💬 Conference: GERMANY TV Event Seriecamp has published a full program, with Speakers from Mediawan, Cattleya, Denmark’s TV2 and the New8.

🏪 New Shop: Yôsuke KUBOZUKA WILL STAR IN Tirea Japan-Korea Korea-Set Film from Average Plus Productions, A New Label Set Up

🍿 Box Office: New Line/Warner Bros’ Final Destination Bloodlines Arrived this past weekend with a $ 102m Global Start.

Zac ntim controlled to this week’s insider. It was Written by Jesse Whittock and Edited by Stewart Clarke.

UPDATE, 12:25 PM (More details from inside & outside court added) In completely unexpected testimony, Cassie Ventura admitted today at Sean Combs‘ sex-trafficking trial that she has a settlement for $10 million coming from an L.A. hotel.

Under questioning from defense lawyer Anna Estevao, a hesitant and somewhat stuttering Ventura revealed that she and her representatives have come to an agreement with the InterContinental Hotel in Century City for the eight-figure payout. Captured in March 2016 on the InterContinental’s security cameras and investigated by one of the hotel’s guards at the time, the beating of Ventura by the half-naked Diddy has been widely seen in and out of court since it was obtained and broadcast by CNN last spring.

Ventura’s testimony has now ended and she has left the courtroom after four days in the witness box. As the very pregnant Ventura rose to exit, Judge Arun Subramanian wished her, “a great weekend.”

Explaining that the settlement with the Intercontinental “had been reached in the past month”, Ventura stated that she has not yet received the money. However, this $10 million sum to come follows the $20 million settlement Ventura reached quickly with Combs in November 2023 after filing an abuse and assault civil suit against her longtime ex-boyfriend. Though Ventura had earlier this afternoon told Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson that she had no financial fate in Combs’ criminal trial, the news of the multi-million dollar hotel settlement elicited gasps in the courtroom.

Extremely deftly played by the defense, the unveiling of the $10 million hotel settlement at what many assumed was going to be a low-key ending to Ventura’s testimony, comes as a blow to the prosecution.

First of all, it’s casting Ventura as less than forthcoming, and raises questions about what else may have been left out of her testimony – a position that creates the possibility of doubts with jurors. Secondly, the intel also emboldens the perception the defense has been trying to create that the singer was always a willing and consenting participant in the drug-fueled “freak-off” sex sessions and other sordid elements in the “toxic relationship” she had with the Bad Boy Records founder for over a decade.

Earlier Friday afternoon, before the $10 million settlement came up, a weeping Ventura addressed the topic of compensation. “I’d give it back (the $20 million settlement from Combs) if I never had to have ‘freak-offs,’” she said with her voice breaking. “If I never had ‘freak-offs,’ I would have had agency and autonomy, I wouldn’t have had to work so hard to get it back.”

Later, outside of the lower Manhattan federal courthouse, Ventura’s lawyer Doug Wigdor read a statement from his client as Ventura exited the building from an underground parking lot.

“This week has been extremely challenging, but also remarkably empowering and healing for me. I hope that my testimony has given strength and a voice to other survivors, and can help others who have suffered to speak up and also heal from abuse and fear,” Wigdor said for the singer. “For me, the more I heal, the more I can remember. And the more I can remember, the more I will never forget,” the well-known attorney added.

“I want to thank my family and my advocates for their unwavering support, and am grateful for all the kindness and encouragement that I have received. I am glad to put this chapter of my life to rest as I turn to focus on the conclusion of my pregnancy, I ask for privacy for me and for my growing family.”

Walking out to a waiting car after being in the courthouse throughout the week, Ventura’s husband Alex Fine issued a statement of his own Friday. “I did not save Cassie, as some have said, the former personal trainer and possible defense witness stated. “To say that is an insult to the years of painful work my wife has done to save herself. Cassie saved Cassie. She alone broke free from abuse, coercion, violence and threats. She did the work of fighting the demons that only a demon himself could have done to her. All I have done is love her as she has loved me. Her life is now surrounded by love, laughter and our family. This horrific chapter is forever put behind us, and we will not be making additional statements.”

In the courtroom itself after what ended up being a good day for the defense on the credibility front, Combs made a point of giving Estevao a big hug as she wrapped up questioning. That was a 180-degree turn for Combs, who has often appeared agitated at the defense table, and frequently passing notes to his legal team.

In another twist in Combs’ criminal trial, the defense suddenly is now objecting to the forthcoming testimony of Dawn Richard, the former Making the Band contestant and Diddy’s collaborator. Once one of the singers from the Combs’-fronted MTV series and other Diddy projects, Richard in September last year sued her past producer for rape and more. Filed right around the time Combs was arrested in this criminal case, that civil case is ongoing.

That objection ending up going nowhere and Richard was on the stand for about 20 minutes at the end of the day.

Richard described how in 2009 she witnessed Ventura “being attacked by Sean Combs.” The ex-Danity Kane member said: “He came downstairs screaming, belligerent, asking where his food was, and proceeded to hit her over the head kicked her and beat her to the ground in front of us.”

“She went into the fetal position.”

The jury was dismissed for the day right at 5 p.m. ET, with the judge and the lawyers discussing the defense’s objections with Richard as a witness for the prosecution.

Court will resume on May 19 at 9 a.m. ET and run until 3 p.m. each day next week and for most of the eight-to-ten week trial.

PREVIOUS, 11:09 AM: The defense’s cross-examination of Cassie Ventura at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking trial has concluded.

In barely any time at all after returning from the lunch break, Combs’ lawyer Anna Estevao suddenly concluded her questioning of the star witness. That abrupt move came after a series of questions where Estevao appeared confused about dates and sequences of events, such as when Ventura and her family moved back East from Los Angeles in 2023.

The end of the cross-examination appears to have sped up the timeline to get the 8 1/2-month pregnant Ventura out of the witness box by EOD. The prosecution is soon to begin a re-direct, which they earlier today said should take no more than half an hour.

Overall, the trial, which could see Combs behind bars for life if found guilty, is expected to last eight to 10 weeks.

PREVIOUSLY, 8:58 AM, UPDATED with more details: On Cassie Ventura’s likely last day as a witness in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking trial Friday, the singer was in a credibility vs. coercion standoff with her ex-boyfriend’s defense lawyers.

“You always want to show me that you have the power and you knock me around,” the jury heard as Ventura read aloud a 2016 text she sent then-boyfriend Combs after the Bad Boy Records founder brutally attacked her in an L.A. hotel hallway as the singer tried to escape one of the couple’s now infamous drug-fueled “freak-offs.” The message continued: “I’m not a ragdoll I’m someone’s child.”

Captured in March 2016 on the InterContinental’s security cameras and investigated by one of the hotel’s guards at the time, the beating of Ventura by the half-naked Diddy has been widely seen in and out of court since it was obtained and broadcast by CNN last spring. Sitting with his defense team in Judge Arun Subramanian’s Lower Manhattan courtroom, a steely-eyed and fidgeting Combs this morning listened as the “Me & U” singer resumed her testimony under questioning from attorney Anna Estevao.

On the stand answering questions about her own 2023 time at a rehab and trauma program in Arizona and receiving PTSD treatment, Ventura was also asked by Estevao if she knew Diddy entered a rehab facility soon after the L.A. hotel incident nine years ago. The witness admitted she had a hard time recalling that step by Combs in any detail.

The defense lawyer also wanted to know, as Ventura had said previously, whether she believed her now-ex had “blacked out” from substance abuse at the time of the hotel melee. “I believe he was intoxicated,” Ventura replied. She added, “everybody’s definition of blackout is different.”

What was not different in anyone’s definition was Ventura’s declaration that Combs took or promised to take her passport, other ID and phone(s) when he was angry with her or thought she was cheating on him. To that, the court heard Combs would react harshly when he suspected something was going on between Ventura and singer (and no stranger to controversary himself) Chris Brown and an unnamed NFL player.

RELATED: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial Testimony Gets Carnal & Violent As Paid Sex Partner Of Cassie Ventura Unveils What Went On Behind Closed Doors

In the undeniably complicated and unorthodox relationship Ventura and Combs had from 2007-2018, such actions could prove a significant factor in proving the charges against the defendant and the lack of agency Ventura aka Victim-1 actually had.

Emphasizing their client’s drug abuse (which was spotlighted by revelations of a 2012 OD on Thursday) and Combs’ short temper when under the influence, the defense team have tried to paint the couple’s years together as two broken people out of control and feeding into each other’s worst, most raw and most depraved wants. It is a portrait that the defense concedes is sad and perhaps pathetic but not a crime under the charges Combs in facing.

However, a crying Ventura’s vivid recollection in testimony on May 14 of being raped in 2018 by Diddy in her L.A. apartment after they broke up could prove a hard blow to the defense’s narrative. Today, Estevao probed Ventura for missteps and conflicting statements in her retelling of the alleged rape both in court and to law enforcement.

While that effort didn’t really go much of anywhere, the defense lawyer herself introduced a new element when Estevao brought up Combs having bi-polar disorder. Seemingly never mentioned before, information was raised in the context of Combs acting “strangely” at the “closure” dinner he and Ventura were having in Malibu on the day the producer is said to have raped his then ex-girlfriend seven years ago.

Arrested on September 16 at an upscale NYC hotel lobby, the 55-year-old Combs is charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. The allegations in the initial and since amended indictment could see the Grammy-winning performer in prison for the rest of his life if he’s found guilty. Up against dozens of civil suits claiming assault and abuse as well, Combs has denied all accusations, entered not guilty pleas, and exclaimed he is being persecuted for his unconventional but fully consensual sexual obsessions by a prudish government and gold diggers.

With statements like the 2009 text “I’m always ready to freak-off,” from Ventura to Combs that was read out yesterday, the prosecution knows that on re-direct Friday it will have to make sure the Step-Up 2 actress puts the most glaring of the litany of correspondence in some context. Under a discussion with the judge before the jury was brought in, the prosecution pledged to have a speedy re-direct and conclude Ventura’s testimony if the defense can get its cross-examination done by 4:30 p.m. ET at the latest.

Irritated Friday by the defense’s sometimes almost dithering approach to pulling up texts and other evidence, Judge Subramanian has made it crystal clear that he sees it as essential the about-to-give-birth-any-day Ventura is out of the witness box ASAP. The original desire was to have her testimony wrapped up before the 12:30 p.m. ET lunch break, but that plan has evidently been revised. The change of plan is in part due to protests by the defense. The lawyers say they have a lot to ask the star witness before they lose her permanently once she goes into the hospital for the birth of her and husband Alex Fine’s third child.

To punctuate how serious that timetable is, earlier today the feds sent a letter to the judge floating that Combs and his defense actually wanted Ventura to go into labor on the stand so they could use the flurry as pretext for a new mistrial motion. “The inefficiency of cross-examination yesterday raises the inference that the defendant hopes to accomplish precisely that outcome,” the document starkly declared. (Read the letter here).

The importance of Ventura to the government’s case cannot be overstated, which is one reason the jurors have been shown explicit and shocking otherwise sealed photographs of the baby oil and drug-drenched “freak-offs.”

One can, as the Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey-led prosecution certainly does, draw a straight line between the currently incarcerated Combs in court now and the abuse and assault suit Ventura filed against him in November 2023. Still, while sticking to his line that he did nothing wrong, Combs did settle with Ventura within 24 hours of the filing of her suit. Sources told Deadline at the time that Combs paid Ventura “around $30 million,” but on May 14 the singer revealed officially for the first time it was actually $20 million.

On May 15, Ventura was asked by defense lawyer Estevao if she recognized that Combs’ “career was ruined at that point,” after her short-lived and much-covered suit was filed. Without much of a pause, Ventura answered: “I could understand that, yeah.”

As the suits piled up and the status conscious Combs became a pariah in the music industry and almost everywhere else, the innocence proclaiming mini-mogul did apologize for the severity of his abuse in his relationship with Ventura after the security camera footage emerged in May of him hitting and kicking her in 2016. At the time, as it also was revealed that Combs bought the footage for $50,000 the day after the incident, Ventura’s lawyers slammed his apology as “disingenuous.”

Whether or not that is true, it is a fact that the apology has since been deleted form Combs’ social feeds. Now, after dispute the accuracy of the video for several months, the defense concedes that the footage is disturbing as an example of domestic violence. Centering the incident as a fight over a phone, as attorney Teny Geragos did in the defense’s opening statement, Combs’ team asserted what everybody can see doesn’t rise to the charges the feds have hit the “All About the Benjamins” performer with.  

After the U.S. Attorney’s office intent earlier this week to strongly show that self-admitted domestic violence predator Combs was guilty of the charges in his constant coercive efforts to force a fundamentally unwilling Ventura into filmed sex with male escorts and more with threats of battering, career disaster and public humiliation, the defense sought to flip the script Thursday. To that, with gentle nudging and a distinct reading of evidence like the text message, Estevao tried Thursday and today to reiterate the defense’s opening statement of May 12 that while Combs can be a violent drug-using ass, Ventura was an active and consenting agent in everything the couple did – not matter how sordid.

Correspondingly, on the stand for nearly 15 hours so far this week, a sometimes tearful, triggered and voice-cracking Ventura has more than held her own against defense lawyer Estevao since yesterday. In fact, as most of the day was spent examining the copious texts and emails Combs and Ventura sent each other over their 11-year on-and-off “toxic relationship,” elements of the defense’s tactics seemed to almost be doing the job of the prosecution. An agitated Combs could be seen repeatedly passing notes to lawyers and speaking directly to Estevao at one point during a break.

Today Diddy seemed more composed, though how long that will last is TBD. During a short break Friday, Combs was alone at the defense table as his lawyers left the room to prepare for the rest of the morning session. Looking bored, the now white haired and once entourage leading defendant had a staffer help him with the position of the monitor in front of him.

With the schedule in flux, it is unknown right now when the prosecution’s next witness, Dawn Richard, will begin her testimony. Once one of the singers from the Combs’-fronted MTV series Making the Band and other Diddy projects, Richard in September last year sued her past producer for rape and more. Filed right around the time Combs was arrested in this criminal case, that civil case is ongoing.

This criminal case is expected to last eight to 10 weeks. Judge Subramanian told the jury when they were seated on May 12, promising to free them up by the July 4^th holiday. At the stop and start pace the proceedings are currently going, that deadline could prove elusive.

Two People Were Hospitalized After Being Shot in East Garfield Park Late Friday Night, Acciting to Chicago Police.

Two Men, 33 and 35, were in the 3500 Block of the West 5th Avenue at 11:59 pm a White Suv Approached say and someone inside fired shots, Policce Said. The 35-YEAR-Old was Shot Several Times and Taken to Stroger Hospital in Critical Condition; The 33-Yaar-Old was shot in his right leg twice and taken to mt. Sinai Hospital in Fair Condition.

No one is in custody.

Aurelio’s Pizza’s Sole Chicago Location Closed Thursday AFTER BUSINESS TOS 10 Years.

Owner Joe Aureliio Decidated to Close the South Loop Location at 1212 S. Michigan Ave. Because the cost of rent “Just wasn’t feasible,” he said, notting their lease there ends May 31.

“We’re trying to put our time and energy into going to new Locations and Getting New Franchisees opened up,” Aurelio Told the Sun-Times.

The Company Has Over 30 Other Pizzerias Across the Suburbs and Northwest Indiana. Three Other Locations are in Minnesota, Florida and Las Vegas.

“As we have Open Time Today at Our South Loop Location, we are reminded of the Heart of the community that comes together over an aurelio’s pizza,” The Company Said in A Social Media Postday. “Being a part of the south loop community has been so special, and we appreciate long-standing customers who had supperted us over the years, especilly for all the customers who have special notes of their funding and love for aurelio.”

The news came almost a weeks after the pizzeria learned that newly Named Pope Leo XIV is a fan and dinhed at the original homewood Last year. The restaurant is now offering patrons a chance to sit in the “pope chair” and added a “Pope-a Roni” pizza to its menu.

Aurelio Said the Business has been “Inundated” with Customers, and Sales Across the Chain have jumped 10% in the past week.

He Said That Despite the Tough Choice to Shutter the South Loop Store, Aurelio Will “Never Not Say No To Chicago.”

“I MEAN, IT’S MY HOMETOW AND I LOVE CHICAGO,” Aurelio Said. “I’m a Big Sports Fan, A Season Ticket Holder and Just Love the City, (But) Just to Business Down there is just working out for us.”

Aureli’s pizza is headquaretered in homewood, where the Business Opened in 1959.

Some International Students in Chicago Have Had their Student Visas Reinfinted AFTER COURNES AROUND THE US LED THE FEDERAL Government to reverse the termination of Legal Status for International Students, Lawyers Said Friday.

JUDGES AROUND The Country Had Already Issured Temporary Orders Resting the students’ records in a Federal Database of International Students Maintained by USMIGRATION AND CUSTOMs Enforcement, or Ice. The record Had been suddenly terminated in recent weeks, offen with students or their schools being notified.

Chicago-Based Immigration Attorney Waleed Nasir Represents Eight students who sued in chicago federal Court AFTER AFTER WERE REMOVED FROM THE STUDENT AND VISITOR INFORMATION SYSTEM. Those students had ther student visas reinted after a federal Judge orderred the government to do so earlier this weeks.

Nasir Said Hearing Hearing From Clients and Other Immigration Attorneys Thursday Evening About Visas Being Restored for Other Students.

“There’s the ben a Change of Policy Overnight … Things have entered a new stage,” Nasir Said. “SO, I WOULDN’T SAY THAT THE WAR IS Over but Maybe This Battle is.”

Still, Nasir Said it was hard to quantify the damages that has already been done by the decision to abruptly revoke student visas in the first place. He spoke of students who has tourned down job offers or decoked to leave the country rather than risk by immigration agents.

WBEZ LAST WEEK Reported on a University of illinois at chicago student from india who haad decided to self-deport on the advice of attorneys.

Sarah Spreitzer, Vice President of the American Council on Education, Said She Started Hearing from Campussday About Students Being Added to the Student Exchange and Visitor Information System, or sevis. She Said the Students Were Being Reinstaated Just As Quietly and Abruptly As they have had been removed.

“I think Late on Thursday, Early Today, (Universities) Started Noticing That Some of the Sevis Records Were Being Restored, but this wasn’t because and informs that they were going to be taching this action. “I think some students have ben been constructly directly about their student visas restored. SO we have Haven’t heard anything offficially out or from (The State Department).”

A Lawyer for the Government Read a Statement in Federal Court in Oakland That Said Ice Was Manage Resting the Student Status for People Who Records were terminated in recent Weeks. A Similar Statement was Read by a Government Attorney in a Separate Case in Washington on Friday, Said Lawyer Brian Green, Who Represents the plaintiff in that case. Green provided the Associated Press with Copy of the Government Lawyer Emailed to Him.

It Sayys: “Ice is Developing a Policy that will will will provide a framework for sevis record terminations. UNIL Sach a policy issed, the sevis records for plaintiff (s) in this case (and oter similarly situated plaintiffs) Will REMAIN ACTIVE or Shall Be Re-Ac. Currently Active and Ice Will Not Modify the record solely based on the ncic finding that resulted in the recent sevis record termination. “

Green Said That The Government Layer Said It Wauld Apply to All Students in The Same Situation, Not Just Those Who Had Filed Lawsuits.

“The University is Encouned by this Development and it impact on our current and forms international students,” Said Northwestern University Spokesperson Jon Yates. Visas for Several Current and Former Northwestern Students Had Been Terminated This Month.

Several International Students and Scholars at University of Illinois Chicago Also Have Recently Had their Visas Reinatted, Univeiness Spokesperson Brian Flood Said.

“The University Continue to Assist Each Member of Our International Community Whose Status Has Been Restored with Support, Guidance, and Resources to Help Navigate Federal Immigration Actions,” Flood Said.

Spreitzer, With the American Council on Education, Said the Reversal Still Questions About students who haad self-deport or who has already started with the Classes. She Said This Month Has Seen “A Lot of Chaos, A Lot of Confusion, A Lot of Concern, A Lot of Our Institutions Trying to Figure Out to Support Our International Students.”

She Said Universities Were Still Seeking Basic Information from the Federal Government About Why It Was Revoking Student Visas, Whose Visas Wauld Be Terminated, and Now Whose Were Being Restored.

“We’re going to be monitoring the situation Very Closely. And the Our Institutions Stand Ready to Support Our International Students.”

Sevis, the student and exchange visitor information systems, is the database that tracks international students’ compliance with their visa status. Ncic is the National Crime Information Center, which is maintained by the fbi. MANY of the students who records were terminated were told that their status was terminated as a result of a criminal records check or that their visa had ben revoked.

International Students and Their Schools Were Caught Off Guard by the Terminations of the Students’ Records. MANY of the Terminations Were Discovered When School Officials Were Doing Routine Checks of the International Student Database or when they checked about the terminations.

Contribing: Kade Heather

Los Legisladores de illinois dieron Otro Paso Semana before finalizing El Programs Que ofrece Cobertura de Atención médica a los resididtes de ilinois sin estatus en los estados unidos.

El comité conjunto de reglas administrative de la legislatura (jcar) approbó Esta semana las normas quelakarán gradualns el programa de beneficios de salud before adultos inmigranttes (HBIA) a Parter del 1 de julio. Esta fase de elimación that eats esperado desde que febraro El Gobernador de Illinois, JB Pritzker, Presentó un resumen del presupported Que no incluía fundos before El Programs.

Sin embargo, algunos legisladores señalan rápidments Que el comité de reglas es sólo una parte del proceso y esperan Salvar el program.

“El Sentimento Que that ha exphesado al caucus (Latino) es as podemos seguir encontrando una manra de trabajar en apropiación y en una propsteta de política sento, aún tenemos un. demócrata de Chicago.

El Program Atiende Principalments a Resididtes de Entre 42 Y 64 años de Edad Que no Son elegibles before la cobertura de atción traditional médica, como medicaid, debido a sustatus legal. That Lanzó Como una expansión del Programs de Beneficios de Salud before the Mayor inmigrantes, Que Cubre a Mayaores de 65 años de edad.

A Partir de Marzo, Había Cerca de 31,000 Persons Inscritas En EL Program.

La Inscripción en el programs than Pausó en julio de 2023, ya los costos superstar rápidaments las expertivas. Una auditoría publica en febrro but el controller general de illinois, Frank Mautino, Indicó Que el Programs Le Costó al estado cerca de $ 1.6 Millones desde El verano Pasado, lo superó con creces estimationes de costo originals.

“Muchos Mochos de la Assembly General Han Estado Hablando Sobre Differenttes formas de gegresos Qu podderíamos proponer, no sólo before ayudar or financial Este Program, Sino Prioridades Que Son Necesarias before Las Familias Trabajadoras de Illinois” Dijo Guzmán.

La Represental Estatal Norma Hernández, Demócrata de Melrose Park, quieth EL Caucus Latino de la cámara, Mention que Esta Ha Estado en negotiations y u un Camino but delate, Señalando conversals sobre cosas como. cerrar las lagunas fiscales corporation y otras formas de generar más más gengresos que, según Ella, “no recaen sobre las personas trabajadoras”.

Peace como essa, destacó guzmán, ayudarían a abordar múltiples asuntos que ella “(Sabe) son necesarios before las family trabajadoras en estado de ilinois”, como vivienda asequible, comunidades más y program Extracurriculares.

“Aún nos Quedan semanas en este process”, aggregó kitmán. “No sé qué va a pasar as la propue de hbia en el último minuto aún no está sobre lassa, y espoero associarm cone (el President del Senado, Don Harmon, Demócrata de Oak Park) sobre cuál de: Paso Paso before y Tenga Los Recursos Que Necesita ”.

Alex Degman Es Reportero de la Assembly Legislaiva de Illinois before WBEZ; Reporta Desde Springfield.

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Trans athletes Can Continue to Participate in High School Sports Competitions, The Illinois High School Association Said This Week Affirmed Its Current in the Face of Demands to Exclude by the Trump and Illinois Republic.

President Donald Trump Ised an Executive Order in February Aimed at “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” and Threatened to Withhold Federal Funding Schools that didn’t will he wand. HIS Administration This Week Swed Maine for not complying.

The Ihsa’s Announcement came in a Letter Issured to Republican Lawmakers. IT SAID THAT ATTORNE GENERAL KWAME Raoul and the Illinois Department of Human Rights HAD Informy the Agency that was required to maintain a policy in lockstep with states. It Also Clarified That Its Trans Athletes Policy Only Applied to the State Series Competition it sponsors, and that individual schools COULD DEVERMINE WHATER TRANSGENDER PARTICIPATED DURING THE REGULAR SEASON.

“Compliance with the Executive Order Could Place the Ihsa Out of Compliance with the Illinois Human Rights Act and Vice Versa,“ Ihsa Board Dan Tulley and Executive Director Craig Anderson Wrote in stherent. “The Ihsa Simply Desire to Comply with the Law and Takes No Position on Which of the Foregoing is Correct. Gioven the Conflict Described Above, Howver, We are left in an untenable position.”

Illinois Law prohibits dyscrimation Based on Gender IdentityRequiring Schools to Protect Transget Students’ Right to USSE Facilities and Participate in Events and Programs that Match Their Identity.

The State Sports Organization Estimates There Are About 25 Trans athletes Out of 133,000 Statewide, About Three or Four of which Are Trans Girls. While the ihsa initially grants trans athletes eligibility, it doesn’t keep track if the athlete continues playing.

Ihsa’s staff was a Response to a Letter From 40 Republican State Representatives Ascing Ihsa to explain how it planned to amend policy to adhere to Trump’s Executive Order. The letter argues that compliance with the Order Requires Immediate Action, Regarding Transgender Students’ USSE of Bathrooms and Locker Rooms, As Well As Sports Participation. But an Executive Order Does Not Have the Force of Law.

“If State Law Contradics Federal Law, then the Path Forward is to work in good facialve to that conflict – Not Hide from and Risk Ling Federal Dollars,” Wrote Rep. Tony McCombie, Who Represents the Far Northwest Part of the State, Including Byron and Genoa.

It comes after announcement from the US Department of Education Last Month That It Was Openaing A Civil Rights Ino Chicago Public Schools and Deerfield School District 109 AFTER POLITICALLY CONSERVATIVE ABOUT ABOUT ABOUT ABOUT. Locker Room That Lines Up With Their Gender Identities. The Federal Agency Also Says’ Investigating the Illinois State Board of Education.

Deerfield District 109 Reiterated That It Was Keeping Its Policy Last Week At A Meeting Where Horses Showed Up to Support the Trans Student by the Initial Complaints.

Federal Officials Have Launched at Least 18 Other Investigations Into School Districts, State Education Agencies and State Athletics Associations Over Police Involving Transgets, Accounting to A Tracker by the Publication Education Week.

Los Angeles-Wink Martindale, The Genial Host of Such Hit Hit Shows as “gambit” and “tic-tac-dough” who Also did one of the first recorded television interviews with a young elvis presley, has died. He was 91.

Martindale died Tuesday at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage, California, Accounting to His Publicist Brian Mayes. Martindale Had Been Battling Lymphoma for a Year.

“He Was Doing Pretty Well Up Unil a Couple Weeks Ago,” Mayes Said by Phone From Nashville.

“Gambit” Debut on the Same Day in September 1972 As “The Price is Right” with Bob Barker and “The Joker’s Wild” with Jack Barry.

“From the day it hit the air, ‘gambit’ spelred winner, and it taght with a basic tenant of any truly successal game show: Kiss! “Like Playing Old Maids As A Kid, Everybody Knows How to Play 21, IE Blackjack.”

“Gambit” Had been Beatting Its Competition on NBC and ABC for Over Two Years. But a new show debut in 1975 on nbc Called “Wheel of Fortune.” By December 1976, “Gambit” was off the Air and “Wheel of Fortune” Became an Institution is Still Going Strong Today.

Martindale Bounched Back in 1978 with “Tic-Tac-Dough,” The Classic X’s and O’s Game on CBS that Ran UNIL 1985.

“Overnight of Had gone from the outhhouse to the penthouse,” he wrote.

He President Over the 88-Game Winning Streak of Navy Lt. Thom McKee, who earned over $ 300,000 in cash and outlets included eight cars, three sailboats and 16 vacation Trips. At the time, McEe’s Winnings were a record for a game Show Contestant.

“I love working with contestants, interacting with the audience and to a degree, watching Lives Change,” Martindale Wrote. “Winning a lot of cash can cause that to open.”

Martindale wrote that producer dan enright once told hym that in the seven years he hosted “tic-tac-dough” gave away over $ 7 million in cash and outlets.

Martindale Said His Mary Years as a radio dj helpful to him as a game show hosts radio calls for Constant ad-libs and he learned to handle any situation in the spur of the moment. He estimated that he hosted nearly two dosen game Shows during his career.

Martindale wrote in his memoir that the question he got asced s) of offen was “is wink your real name?” The Second Was “How Did You Get Into Game Shows?”

He got his nickname from a childhood friend. (Martindale Is No Relation to University of Michigan Defensive Coordinator Don Martindale, Whose College Teammates Nicknamed HIM WINKUSE OF THEIR SHARED LAST NAME.

Born Winston Conrad Martindale on Dec. 4, 1933, in Jackson, Tennessee, He Loved Radio Sine Childdhood and at Age 6 Waled Read ALOUD The Contents of Advertisements in Life Magazine.

He began his career as a disc jockey at age 17 at wpli in his hometown, earning $ 25 a weeke

AFTER MOVING TO WTJs, he was Hired Away for Double the Salary by Jackson’s Only Other Station, WDXI. He Next Hosted Mornings at Whbq in Memphis while Attending Memphis State. He was Married and the Father of Two Girls when he graduated in 1957.

Martindale was in the studio, Although not working on-air that night, when the first preslect “That’s all right” was played on whbq on July 8, 1954.

Martindale Approached Fellow DJ Dewey Phillips, Who Had Given Presley an Early Break by Playing His Song, to Ask Him and Presley to a Joint Interview on Martindale TV “Top Ten Dance Party” in 1956.

Martindale and Presleyed Stayed in Touch on Occoation Through the Years, and in 1959 he did a trans-Atlantic telephone interview with Presley, who was in the Army in Germany. Martindale’s Second Wife, Sandy, Briefly Dated Presley AFTER AFTING HIM ON THE SET OF “GI BLUES” IN 1960.

In 1959, Martindale Moved to Los Angeles to Host a Morning Show on Khj. That same year he reached no. 7 on the billboard hot 100 chart with a cover version of “deck of cards,” which sold over 1 million copies. He performed the spoken-do wartime story with religious overtones on “The ed sullivan show.”

“I COULD EASLY HAVE THOUGHT, ‘WOW, THIS IS EASY! I come out here, go on radio and tv, make a record and everybody wants to buy it!” He wrote. “This is if IF I ENTERTAINED SUCH THOUGHTS, They soon dissypated.

A year late he did Moved to the Morning Show at Krla and to Kfwb in 1962. Among His Many Other Radio Gigs Were Separate Stints at Kmpc, Owned by Actor Gene.

HIS First Network Hosting Job was on nbc’s “What’s this song?” Where he was credited as win martindale from 1964-65. He Later Hosted Two Chuck Barris-Produced Shows on ABC: “Dream Girl ’67” and “How’s your mother-in-law?” The Latter Laster JUST 13 Weeks before Being Canceled.

“I’ve non -said it came and went so fast, it seamed more like 13 minutes!” Martindale WROTE, exploining that it was the world show of His Career.

Martindale Later Hosted a Las Vegas-Based Revival of “Gambit” from 1980-81.

He formed His Own Production Company, Wink Martindale Enterprises, to Develop and Produce His Own Game Shows. His first venture was “Headline Chasers,” a Co-Production with Merv Griffin that debuted in 1985 and was Canceled after one season. His Next Show, “Bumper Stumpers,” Ran on US and Canadian television from 1987-1990. He Hosted “Debt” From 1996-98 on Lifetime Cable and “Instant Recall” on GSN in 2010.

Martindale returned to his radio roots in 2012 as host of the national syndicated “The 100 Greatest Christmas Hits of All Time.” In 2021, he hosted Syndicated program “The History of Rock ‘N’ Roll.”

In 2017, Martindale appeared in a kfc ad cam

He is Survived by Sandy, His Second Wife of 49 Years, and Children Lisa, Madelyn, Laura and Wink Jr. They are from his first marriage which ended in divorce in 1972.

Performers and Stage Managers at Chicago’s Venerable Comedy Venue the Second City Are Threatening to Strike If they unable to reach an aggregation with management over wage increas.

The Actors Equity Association Announced the Possibility of a Strike. Negotiations BetWeen Actors Equity and Leadership at the Second City Have Been O ongoing Sine February. The Performers and Stage Managers are seeing Higher Pay. The Current Contract Expired April 13.

“Wages are the No. 1 wills it comes to our equity members that work with Second City,” Said George Elrod, A Member of the Negotiating Team for Actors Equity and a performer in the Second City.

Elrod Said the negotiations have been cordial, but the two sides are still “Very far apart” when it is comes to wages. “Second City Workers Are Very Much Dedicated to Strike for a Living Wage, and that is something that the lead negotiator can If the next meetn’t go well,” he said.

The Next Bargaining Meeting is Scheduled for Tuesday.

The Second City is Owned by ZMC, A New York Private Equity Firm. ZMC Bought The Company In 2021 AFTER the Departure of Longime Co-Awner Andrew Alexander in a Controversy Over Second City’s Diversity Record.

Second City Instructors, Who Are in a Different Union, threatened to strike In 2023 Before Reaching a Contract Agreement.

The Second City Did Not Respond to A Request for Comment.

Hello! Howdy! As the People of Calgary Apparently Say, Yahoo! Vulture TV Critic Roxana Hadad here, and i’m filing in for your normal brillian reCapper caroline framke this weekend. Neither a longtime Top chef Watcher (and former reCapper myself), let with quickly get some things out of the way we dive into this week’s rodeo-themehed episode. My thughts on the voltaggios are bryan> michael; I’m Definitely Going to Watch Padma’s New Cooking Competition, America’s Culinary Cupbe airs on cbs late this year; and i’m so happy Tom is Wearing Goofy Hats Again. Everything About the World in 2025 Might Be Crap, but at Least This Man is Still Keeping His Local Milliner in Business. Will we think he hit up a hat store in calgary? With my whole Heart, i hope so.

Alberta’s “Cowtown” is the location for this weekend’s semifinals and for a quickfire challenge that throws the contestants for a loop. (I am trying to make a lassoing reference here; did it work?) WEND THE SIX SHOW UP ALYMPIC PLAZA-WHERE KRIST, GAIL, AND TOM WEARING SO MUCH THAT I WAS REMINDED OF THAT COLOROGE COLORGE ALPE City’s Cowboy History. In Honor of the Calgary Stamped, An Outdoor Rodeo Held there Sine 1912, and its pancake-breakfast tradition, the contentants have to cook a hajdheld that the Judges (and 50 Diners!) CAN EAT WATHOUTSILS. It’s a wild challenge and reminds with of the All-Stars la Quickfire in Italy when the Chefs Had to Cook an Aperitivo for 30 Diners. More Quickfires Outside of the Kitchen, Please, Let’s Switch it up!

The Biggest Challenge for the Chefs During the 45-Minute Quickfire is maintaining the temperature of the Griddle; Nearly Everyone Burns Their Tester Pancakes. But Also, Nearly Everyone Figures Out How to Use the Flatop Except for My Beloved Loudmouth Massimo, Whose Pivot Into Cooking Little Blini-Style in Spiring Pans Leaves the Diners (and Judges) Wanting More. Successoful Dishes are Shuai’s Cornmeal Pancake with Scrambled Eggs, Chinese Sausage, and a crispy cheese exterior; Bailey’s buckwheat crespelle with Brown-Butter Pecans, Plum Maple Syrup, and Roasted Mushrooms and Spinach; and tristen’s portuguese-style pancake with cheese, barbere chorizo, and charled pepper and bacon syrup. (We get a little insignment into tristen’s multicultural cooking style by learning his mother was in the military and stationed all around the world, and they moved and and two years.) On the bottom are massimo’s (too small) Marmalade, and Peach Purée; Lana’s Creamed-Corn Hoecake with (Too Much) Sausage, Poachhed Peaches, and Peach and White Hibiscus Syrup; and César’s (Too soggy) Xo Pancake with Basil, Chinese Sausage, Brûléed tomato, and candied mushrooms. Walking Away with the Win is Shuai, Who Nets $ 10,000 and IS Now at $ 20,000 in Cash Earnings.

The elimination challenge is beef, so much beef, all the beef. Because Ranchers and First Nations Communities historically commingled at the calgary stampde, the chefs will be Need to do their dyshes by pairing beef with an indigenous: a particular type of berry. Each Chef Gets to Pick the Cut they Want, but they draw Knives randomly for their fruit. Massimo Gets Beef Tenderloin and Elderberries; Shuai, Short Ribs and Black Currants; Bailey, Beef Cheek and Saskatoon Berry; Lana, New York Striploin and Haskap Berry; César, Rib Eye and Chokeberry; and triste, flat irron and gooseberry. Guest Judge and First Nations Member Chef Denia Baltzer is there to explain the berries if the chefs are unfamiliar, but shat Everyone seers aware of what they have except for Bailey and Lana. (Yes, Their Lack of Familiarity With Saskatoon Berries and Haskap Berries Ends up Being A Problem. Meanwhile, massimo is Out here Saying He’s PLEASED he got elderberries they are “Very refined,” just like to laug at how HIMSELF.)

Shopping Goes Fine for Everyone, and THEN Kristen the Chefs Out for Burgers and Tells say to “Keep Standing on your soapbox and your platforms,” ​​a nice messages that a little undercut by the immediatte Fargo product placement when and the meal. Once the chefs get into the Rouge Kitchenwhere they’re being hosted by chef paul rogalski, though, two issing arise: how to time the cooky of their beef with only 2.5 hours on the clock, and how to accently of their chosen bellry overpowering it. (Shuai’s to From Last Week Elimination Win is an an Additional 30 minutes of Coooking Time, Which and PLEASED TO RECEIVE GIVE THAT HE COOKING RIBS.) Triste Worlds About How to Vow Cook His Cuts of Flat Iron, while Lana’s Laughably Laughably Laughably in comparison. César douse his chokeberries with Sugar, Which isn’t as Bad as Bailey Putting SO MUCH SUGAR on her brûléed blue cheese that I became genuinely concerts for her sanity. Massimo’s plating down to the Last Second, and Drops One of HIS Painstakingly Created Circles of Berry Leather on the Floor. (I like that dehydrated fruit is beComing his little flourish; Will he make a third one?) And while no one dish is a flat-out disaster, the problems that the Judges point otly about how the chefs mistreated meats or masked the indigenus ingredients.

The Judges’ Favorites Are Massimo’s Tender with Umeboshi-Syle Elderberries, Pickled Elderberries, Smoked Kohlrabi, and Elderberry-Sound (Gail Calls It A “Showstopper”); Tristen’s alberta flat iron with kohlrabi, gooseberries, and bone-truss pemmican, a first nations dish that triste creates by using nitrous oxide to set a mixture of beef fat, gooseberries, and meat; And Shuai’s Stuffed Cabbage with Braised Short Rib, Wild Rice Congee, and Black-Currant Black-Pepper Sauce, a spin on a dish my mother “mama wang”. The Judges Praise All the Dishas, ​​but there are some like quibbles with tristening gail an unvenly cookened piece of meat, and tom doesn’t love that sheui is “Heavy on Heavy” between the staffed cabbage and the porridge. SO the Win Goes to Massimo, who almost seamed to have pissed off the Judges when he said that standing before me was “the fucking worst part of my life.” He clarified that he meant “The Silence” before Learning Whether HIS Dish Landed Him in the Top or Bottom, But Still, Gail Didn’t Look pleated! Regardless, The Judges, Triste, and the Show’s Own Editors have fun with masssimo proclaingus he was “Leaning Far Away” from French Cooking in this Elimination “to the Indigenous Community” by immediatly Cutting to HIM BASTERLOIN IN A BUNC Massimo’s a good sport in the face of all their ribbing, though, and i’ll be honest, his bombastic, well-meaning buffoonery has grown on me.

That leaves on the bottom lana’s grilled steak with pommes anna potatoes, haskap-berry condiment, and smoked haskap-berry jus; Bailey’s Beef Cheek Braised With Saskatoon Berries, Creamy Polenta, Brûléed Blue Cheese, and Rooted Walnuts; And César’s Grilled Rib Eye with Chokeberry Reduction, Rutabaga Cream, and Bone-Partow Cornbread. Tom Criticis Lana’s Meat For Being Overly Rested, Gail Thinks Her Potatoes Felt Like an AFTHOUGHT, and Kristen Complains About Her Heavy-Handed Use of Sage. On Bailey’s, Gail and Tom Don’t Care for the Brûléed cheese, while the first nations diners think Bailey diluted the flavor of the saskatoon bellry with her use of pomegranate jiice. And while a lot of elements of césar’s dish work, especialy the cornbread, the Judges are all surpassed that and the natural acids of the chokeberries – an ingredient he normally work with at home! – With Too Much Sweetness. At the end of the day, Lana’s the one to go Because too on her plate was off, leaving masssimo, trisai, bailey, and césar in Calgary for another before chefs Travel to Milan, Italy, for the finals. Lana’s “I just got outcoked” is a gracious way to go, but for Everyone who’s pissed katianna didn’t make it back into the compattition (Including me!), YEAH, IT SURE FEELS LIKE WE’RE CLOSER TOWARD AN-All-Dude.

• The dissection of the Most wanted to eat this episode: all of the pancakes – I will never turn down a pancake – and eather massimo or removal. I’m Partial Toward Cabbage and Any form of gelinous rice, so the congee is really calling to me.

• I GASPED WENDS MASSIMO’S FRUIT LEATHER FELL ON THE GROUND AND AGAIN WAHEN HE PICCED IT UP AND SERVED IT, I guest It fell on the floor Parchment-Paper-Side Down? Eve Still, Major PTSD Flashbacks to Every Time Someone On The Great British Baking Show DROPS Something onto that awful carpeted floor and then gives to paul and prue. ACK! And yuck!

• Shuai is really coming ino his in in the last few episodes; it’s a good time to be hitting your stride. My Money is on a triste-shuai-masimo final. I suppose it make meep to keep bailey around becase shem Italian food and the finals will be in Milan, but I SIMPLY CAN’T Get Over My Intense Her Overerreliance on the Word “Cute.”

• Good-bye to lana; The Writing was on the Wall when Early in the Episode, she said of her recurring time in the bottom, “i’ve been giving say someone really nice, in my opinion,” and more so when she got to remout staging for kristen (who didn’t seem to remember?) “Really nice” isn’t going to cut it at this point.

• Calgary got Such a rugged description in this episodes that have to have to assume an nbcuniversal executive is imaging a Yellowstone-Style series set there.

• César apologizing to a mushroom for dropping it while gathering quickfire ingredients – have never felt more represeted on TV, given how of Talk to produce at the Grocery Store. Apologies to Everyone Who Has to Hear with Whispering Things Like, “Are You Ripe?” while Tapping a Watermelon.

• Coming Up Next Week: Outdoor Cooking! “Build a Fire” Always Feels Like A Cruel Top chef challenge; I’m Looking forward to it.

• Folks, has it ben a “Really, Really, Really Great Season,” As Kristen impresses ups the chefs? I Have Not Been Blown Away, But Please Counter My Cynicism If You Disagree.