Ironically, Bobby Brantley started out as a dissatisfied customer who had his truck towed by Ronnie. Brantley soon became best friends with the Shirleys and eventually went to work for them. As of January 2017, Lizard Lick Towing has aired 91 episodes over five seasons.
Slayton has been featured on many radio shows including Howard Stern, Tom Leykis, and Kevin & Bean. He has released the comedy albums Raging Bully, I’ve Come For Your Children, Built For Destruction, and Born To Be Bobby. He has starred in the movies Martians Go Home, Wayne’s World 2, Ed Wood, Get Shorty, Loser, Bandits, The Third Wheel, Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, Dreamgirls, and A Beautiful Now. Slayton has also appeared in episodes of the TV series Clueless, The Tom Show, Home Improvement, Brother’s Keeper, Family Guy, The Mind of the Married Man, and Sonny with a Chance....
Throughout her 26 seasons on DWTS, Burke partnered with numerous celebrities including Wayne Newton, Rob Kardashian, Jack Osbourne, and Terrell Owens. Her technical precision, creative choreography, and ability to effectively train non-dancers made her one of the show’s most enduring and popular professional dancers until her retirement in 2022. Beyond the ballroom, Burke expanded her brand through her fitness DVDs, dance studio, clothing line, and podcast “Pretty Messed Up.” She has been open about her personal struggles, including discussing her sobriety journey and experiences with abuse in her 2011 autobiography “Dancing Lessons....
By 2006, armed with tens of millions from his playing days and a deep obsession with World of Warcraft, Schilling launched a bold new venture: a video game company called 38 Studios. His dream? Build an empire to rival Blizzard and change the face of online gaming forever. What followed was one of the most spectacular flameouts in both sports and tech history—a saga of ambition, mismanagement, taxpayer dollars, lawsuits, layoffs, and a dirty sock sold at auction....
He was also a member of Volkswagen’s talent promotion program and was a candidate of the Deutsche Post Speed Academy. Daniel’s father Hans-Jurgen owns and is the principal of the Abt Sportsline team. His uncle Christian Abt is also a racing driver. In 2015 he competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. During his Formula E career his best finish was 7th in 2015-16.
Steel began her writing career in the early 1970s, publishing her first novel, “Going Home,” in 1973. Her breakthrough came with “The Promise” (1978), establishing the emotional depth and relationship focus that would become her hallmark. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, her popularity soared as she consistently produced multiple bestsellers each year, becoming a fixture on The New York Times Best Seller List. What sets Steel apart from many other bestselling authors is her legendary work ethic and productivity....
Early Life Denver Pyle was born December 25, 1920 in Bethune, Colorado. Denver Pyle made a career of playing drawling, somewhat slow Southern types. After a short-lived pursuit of a career as a drummer, he drifted from job to job, doing everything from working the oil fields in Oklahoma to shrimp boats in Texas. Military Service In 1940, he moved to Los Angeles and briefly found employment as an NBC page, which was disrupted by World War II when Pyle enlisted in the U....
Simpson hosted the BET network’s primetime music video show Video Soul from 1983 to 1997 and then hosted many other network specials and tributes. Simpson was inducted into the BET Walk of Fame in 2004. He appeared in the movies Krush Groove in 1985 and Disorderlies in 1987. From 1993 to 2010 Simpson hosted The Donnie Simpson Morning Show on WPGC-FM in Washington, D.C. He became the first urban format radio personality to earn an annual salary of over $1 million without being syndicated....
As of this writing (Monday evening post-market close), Elon Musk is just $11 billion away from being the richest person in the world: I have to say, I’m continually stunned by Elon Musk’s net worth gains. I had an inkling he might make a run for the richest person in the world some time in 2021, but I thought it would take months. And during those months I envisioned dozens of fun articles chronicling back and forth wealth battle between billionaire titans....
That move brought Musk’s net worth from $102 billion to $117 billion. That jump means Musk is now the-third richest person in the world, surging ahead of Mark Zuckerberg ($107 billion) and trailing behind only Bill Gates ($129 billion) and Jeff Bezos ($184 billion). Tesla’s addition to the S&P 500 has been on financial analysts’ horizons for a while now, but the official announcement nevertheless caused the company’s stock market value to jump remarkably overnight....
Early Life and Career Beginnings Famke Beumer Janssen was born on November 5, 1964, in Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands. She has two sisters, Antoinette and Marjolein. In addition to her native Dutch, Janssen is fluent in English and French. As a young adult, she studied economics for one year at the University of Amsterdam. Later, Famke attended Columbia University in New York, where she studied literature and creative writing. Janssen moved to the United States in 1984 to start a professional career in fashion modeling....
Anil was on the hook for 5.5 billion rupees, or about $80 million US, in debt to a company called Ericsson AB for services rendered. In February, he saw his guarantee to pay the debt backfire when the top court in India demanded he do so or go to prisoAnil Ambanin, forcing him to turn to his older brother and sister-in-law to clear off the debt. The payment is the latest development in the long Ambani family saga, which for many years has involved a feud between the two brothers over the massive business empire they inherited from their father....
Early Life and Career Beginnings Giorgio A. Tsoukalos was born on March 14, 1978, in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is of Greek-Austrian ancestry. As a young adult, he went to Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, from which he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communications in 1998. For many years, he worked as a bodybuilding promoter as well as a volunteer at bodybuilding contests, including Mr. Olympia. From 2001 to 2005, Tsoukalos produced and directed the annual San Francisco Pro Grand Prix, a contest governed by the International Federation of BodyBuilding and Fitness....
After leading the University of Houston’s “Phi Slama Jama” to consecutive NCAA Finals, he was selected first overall by the Houston Rockets in the legendary 1984 draft, ahead of Michael Jordan. Nicknamed “The Dream” for his graceful footwork and signature “Dream Shake” move, Olajuwon dominated both ends of the court. His career highlights include: 2 NBA Championships (1994, 1995) 2 NBA Finals MVP awards 1994 NBA MVP 12-time All-Star 2-time Defensive Player of the Year 9-time All-NBA selections 9-time All-Defensive Team...
How exactly was Barack Obama able to donate that much money while he was serving as President? He made a total of $10.8 million before taxes while serving as president. Of that total, $7.5 million came from sales of his books, Dreams From My Father (which made $4.5 million), Audacity Of Hope, and Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters (the two aforementioned books made $3 million combined)....
It all started when the bank manager, whose name has not been released, began receiving desperate pleas for help from some clients who had been hit especially hard by the sweeping economic crisis in Europe. She started out innocently enough by removing overdraft penalties for some clients. This certainly helped, but wasn’t enough for some of the more desperately struggling business owners and families who were drowning in debt. At some point, the manager stumbled on to the realization that many of her wealthiest clients had huge account balances that had not been touched in years....
When Fred Sr. joined the Wichita, Kansas-based Keith-Winkler Engineering company, he quickly made his mark and was made a partner. The company had a big breakthrough with a technique for refining gasoline. Lawsuits from larger, more established companies, prevented Koch’s company from using this new technique. Fred packed his bags and headed to Europe in the years just before World War II. He found a job working for the legendary Russian dictator Stalin, who paid Koch $500,000 to build 15 oil refineries in the Soviet Union in the 1940s....
James Caan died on July 6, 2022, at the age of 82. Early Life James Caan was born James Edmund Caan on March 26, 1940, in the Bronx, New York. His parents, Sophie and Arthur, were Jewish immigrants from Germany, and Arthur worked as a butcher. James grew up in Queens with brother Ronnie and sister Barbara, and he attended Michigan State University, where he studied economics and played football, and New York’s Hofstra University....
At $105 billion, Jeff is the richest person of all time… Sort of. This might get tricky, so bear with me… When evaluating the richest people of all time, the big question one must consider is inflation. For example, you know how when you watch a TV from the 50s and someone talks about buying a gallon of milk for a nickle? That’s inflation. Milk hasn’t inherently gotten more expensive, for a variety of technical reasons, a dollar today simply has less purchasing power than it did 50 or even 10 years ago....
Richardson, who owns 48% of the Panthers, announced plans to sell the team after this season. The announcement comes after allegations that Richardson sexually harassed employees in the workplace and used a racial slur when addressing a team scout. The team is expected to sell for around $2.5 billion. If that proves true, Richardson will make about $1.2 billion. He purchased the franchise for $70 million in 1993, half of the $140 million expansion team fee....
