Comedian Wayne Brady and former boxing champion don black suits and bare chests to pay homage to “The Original King of R&B” — Bobby Brown — in this new slapping spoof of the ex-boy bander’s 1989 music video “Every Little Step.”
A dose of star power is on its way to ABC’s The View next week. Oscar-nominated actress Gabourey Sidibe and former world heavyweight champion “Iron” Mike Tyson will appear on gabfest, the network announced on Wednesday. Sidibe — who won an Oscar nomination for her acting debut in the critically-acclaimed drama Precious — will be making her first appearance as a guest co-host next Tuesday, May 4.
On Friday, May 7, Tyson will visit daytime’s favorite cackling hens. It will be the first time that Mike’s shared the stage with Babs Walters since her memorable interview with Tyson and then-wife Robin Givens on ABC’s 20/20 22 years ago.
Mike Tyson will show off his lifelong obsession with pigeons in a new reality soap airing on Animal Planet. Take on Tyson, set for early next year, pits the ferocious fighter and his birds against the best professional pigeon racers in New York.
“I may have stopped fighting,” says the former heavyweight boxing champ. “But I never stopped flying birds. It’s my first love. I am a little worried about the sitcom effect. Mike Tyson and Animal Planet? They don’t seem to go together, do they?”
Mike has been caring for pigeons since he was about 10 or 11, but has never raced the creatures. These days, Mike owns “a few hundred birds” in two lofts outside Manhattan.
Taking on Tyson begins shooting next month in Mike’s native Brooklyn.
Iron Mike’s ready for his closeup. Former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson will be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Upstate New York later this year.
“Mike is so delighted. It has been an amazing year for him so far,” says a rep for the boxing legend.
In 1986, then 20-year-old Tyson became the youngest man in history to ever win the WBC, WBA, and IBF world heavyweight titles.
Boxing legend Mike Tyson guest-starred in a spoof on NBC’s Saturday Night Live over the weekend.
On Friday’s episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah Winfrey apologized to actress Robin Givens over how she dealt with a comment made by the star’s ex-husband, former boxer Mike Tyson, last month.
Mike, what are we going to do with you?: Mike Tyson was detained by police at LAX Airport in Los Angeles Wednesday, The Associated Press reports.
The boxing champ formerly known as the “Baddest Man On The Planet” was detained by police on suspicion of battery following an incident involving a photographer at a United Airlines ticket counter. The photographer claims “Iron Tyson” attacked him, knocking him to the ground and cutting his forehead in an brawl this afternoon. The photog is being treated at a local hospital. Read the rest of this entry »
On Friday’s Oprah, boxing legends Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield reunited to speak for the first time since the infamous ear biting incident during their 1997 match-up in Las Vegas.
In an emotional interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show Monday, former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson tells Oprah that he was enraged over the death of his 4-year-old daughter Exodus last May. The little girl choked in a fatal treadmill accident in her mother’s Arizona mansion, but Tyson says he doesn’t want to know what went wrong.
“You don’t want to know?” Oprah asked
“If I know, then there might be a blame for it,” Iron Mike replied. “And if there’s somebody to blame for it, there will be a problem.”
He added: “My first instinct was a lot of rage, you know, and I was so happy that I had the tools in life, you know, to not go in that direction because I’ve been that direction. I know where that’s gonna lead me. I know I’m not gonna win.”
Mike Tyson says his acting gig on the new Fox series Brothers is helping him cope with the tragic death of his daughter 4-year-old Exodus last May.
“I really was beating myself up over my daughter. I was staying in the house, depressed; it was a dark moment in my life. [Acting] keeps me functioning as a healthy human being,” the one-time boxing world champ told Entertainment Tonight on Thursday.
“I am working with dealing with it. I have spoken to a lot of people. I have become a member of an exclusive club no one wants to join. I have been told the pain never stops but you get over it. I am going through a process, trying to heal. I am in denial, because I don’t know how to handle it. I don’t know what to do or say. I appreciate everybody who supported me….”
