ABC/Craig Sjodin — John Fleenor(LOS ANGELES) — Just as production was ramping up for the new season of The Bachelorette that starred Clare Crawley, a major shakeup is reportedly underway.
Entertainment Tonight reports that Crawley, who is the oldest Bachelorette in series’ history, managed to find love just weeks into filming and no longer needs to complete her romantic journey. Instead of cutting her season short, however, producers are rolling out with a backup plan.
Multiple sources say Tayshia Adams will be brought on to continue handing out roses to the eligible suitors after Crawley’s departure. Adding fuel to the fire was Crawley herself, who liked — and quickly unliked — a tweet that stated Adams was replacing her.
ET asserts that Crawley left on great terms with the show that developed a habit of taking fans on wild rides over the past few seasons, from windmills to competitors having secret girlfriends.
On top of having two different Bachelorettes in one season, fans area already gearing up for another major difference as competitors won’t be whisked across the globe in order to win the final rose.
Instead, the Bachelorettes and their 42 suitors will remain in Palm Springs, California.
Adams appeared as a contestant during Colton Underwood’s season of The Bachelor. She went on to compete on Bachelor in Paradise, but didn’t find her true love in the end.
She now stands to become the franchise’s second Black Bachelorette, following Rachel Lindsay.
The Bachelorette is set to air Tuesdays this fall on ABC.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE Cincinnati 3, Cleveland 2 NY Yanks 6, Philadelphia 3 St. Louis, Detroit (Postponed) Chi White Sox 6, Milwaukee 4 Minnesota 5, Pittsburgh 4 Chi Cubs 2, Kansas City 0
AMERICAN LEAGUE Oakland 11, Seattle 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE NY Mets 7, Atlanta 2 Colorado 7, San Francisco 6 San Diego 5, LA Dodgers 4
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Toronto 107, Miami 103 Indiana 111, Washington 100 Denver 121, Oklahoma City 113 (OT) New Orleans 109, Memphis 99 Philadelphia 132, San Antonio 130 LA Lakers 116, Utah 108
(NEW YORK) — A malfunctioning automobile exhaust appears to be the cause of the massive Apple Fire that has scorched 26,450 acres in Riverside County, California, and was only 5% contained as of Monday morning.
The blaze, which has destroyed at least one home and two outbuildings, began shortly before 5 p.m. local time on Friday in the Cherry Valley area.
No injuries have been reported, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Based on eyewitness accounts and supporting evidence, officials said they determined the cause of the fire to be a malfunctioning diesel-fueled car that had emitted burning carbon from its exhaust system.
Over 8,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes, which posed a particular challenge for families seeking a safe place to stay amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
“We had a lot of trouble finding a place to stay last night, because of so many people being evacuated at the same time,” Ket Sengchan told ABC News about evacuating with her young daughter. “Me and the baby kinda stayed in the car last night. I should be at home. I shouldn’t have to be running the streets looking for somewhere to sleep.”
Nearly 2,600 homes were affected by the evacuation orders, fire officials said, adding they do not have a time frame for repopulating evacuated areas, according to ABC News Los Angeles station KABC-TV.
People at the evacuation center are subject to COVID-19 testing before entering, according to fire department spokesperson Fernando Herrera.
The American Red Cross was also assisting evacuees by temporarily housing them in hotels.
California Office of Emergency Services said the Federal Emergency Management Agency approved a request from the Cal OES director and Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday for a Fire Management Assistance Grant for the Apple Fire. Officials said the approval “will ensure the availability of vital resources” for Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.
More than 2,200 firefighters were deployed to battle the flames both in the air and on the ground and crews dropped 19,000 gallons of flame retardant from helicopters on Saturday to help create containment lines and protect personnel on the ground, KABC reported. The northern and eastern edges of the fire are in steep, rugged hillsides not accessible to firefighting vehicles, officials said.
The National Weather Service said that the Southwest part of California has been elevated to critical fire weather conditions “due to hot temperatures, very low humidities, and locally gusty winds.”
(NEW YORK) — Authorities are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing California mom who vanished after leaving for what she called a “pandemic road trip,” according to her family.
Erika Lloyd, 37 of Walnut Creek, California, disappeared more than a month ago, after embarking on a seven-hour drive to Joshua Tree National Park on June 14. Family members said they lost contact with her two days later.
Authorities located her black Honda Accord, abandoned and damaged, that same day near Twentynine Palms, a city located in the southern Mojave Desert, about 500 miles from her hometown and not far from her vacation destination.
The front and back windshields of Lloyd’s car were broken, but police said there were no signs of foul play at the scene.
“We both feel like that she could still be out here, she could be with people, somebody could have taken her in,” her father, Wayne Lloyd, told ABC affiliate KESQ-TV. “We are hopeful as of this time the sheriff’s department hasn’t seen anything negative.”
Nathan Lewis, a ranger at the Joshua Tree park where the vehicle was found, said it’s unclear if Lloyd had camped there before she disappeared.
“When the vehicle was noticed inside of the campgrounds there was no camping equipment directly associated with or in the vicinity of it,” Lewis told KESQ. “So we can’t confirm or deny that the individual camped or stayed in the park.”
They said she took the trip to help get her mind off the ongoing pandemic.
“She seemed like she was fine,” her mother, Ruth Lloyd, told KESQ. “Being in lockdown for almost three months not being able to work and she was trying to home school her son, it was starting to get to her, the pressure and not having any income.”
She said she fears that her daughter may have gotten into an accident and became disoriented.
“We don’t know if she had some memory loss when she got hit by the airbag,” Ruth Lloyd said. “Maybe she doesn’t know who she is, we don’t know, we aren’t sure about her mental state.”
Ruth Lloyd said she’s been helping to care for her daughter’s 12-year-old son, who hasn’t stopped asking about her since she left.
“Are you calling about my mom? Are you talking to people? Wayne would say, ‘Yeah, we are trying to find your mom.’ So he misses her,” Ruth Lloyd said. “We know we are not the only family that has gone through this.”
The family said it’s working with Doug Billings, a cave and mine expert, who helped locate the body of 19-year-old Erin Corwin in a mine near Joshua Tree in 2014.
“In this case, I know the area particularly from the Erin Corwin search,” said Doug Billings. “But it’s the same general area, just a little less isolated than Erin’s case.”
“We hiked up and down the washes and canyons that are at the foothill of the mountains there,” he added.
Police said anyone with information on Lloyd’s whereabouts should contact the Walnut Creek Police Department or the Morongo Basin California Highway Patrol office, which is investigating the case.
Randy Holmes/Walt Disney Television via Getty Image(LOS ANGELES) — Ahead of The Ellen DeGeneres Show’s upcoming season and amid an internal investigation into alleged misconduct and racial prejudice on set, the show’s producers on Monday addressed staff accounts of the claims uncovered in a Buzzfeed report last month, according to Variety.
As more and more allegations surface, questions are mounting as to how much of an effect they’ll have on the lucrative talk show.
“What makes it difficult, with the kind of crisis this is…it’s not an acute problem,” Andrew Moesel, senior VP of issues and crisis management for Ketchum, the show’s producers, tells the industry trade. “It’s more a challenge to her entire brand ethos, which is as a friendly, relatable person next door, which is really the way that viewers perceive her and her value as an entertainer.”
Following the claims, DeGeneres issued an email to her staff, obtained by ABC News, in which she wrote, “As we’ve grown exponentially, I’ve not been able to stay on top of everything and relied on others to do their jobs as they knew I’d want them done.”
“Clearly some didn’t. That will now change and I’m committed to ensuring this does not happen again.”
Entertainment publicist Danny Deraney thinks it’ll take a lot more repair the damage.
“[Ellen] has an image problem that clearly is going to need some work to salvage any kind of momentum that she has earned over this time or any kind of positive reputation that she has,” he tells Variety, adding, “it starts by offering a better apology and taking ownership of what she’s done, and really being better.”
The new season of Ellen is set to premiere on September 9, while the DeGeneres-hosted, Game of Games on NBC, is headed back into production the week of August 24.
ABC/Craig Sjodin — John Fleenor(LOS ANGELES) — Just as production was ramping up for the new season of The Bachelorette that starred Clare Crawley, a major shakeup is reportedly underway.
