If you haven’t seen Netflix’s Tiger King yet, what are you doing? The documentary is centered around the eccentric Joe Exotic who owns his very own Tiger zoo in Oklahoma. The man gets wrapped up in a murder for hire plot that goes terribly wrong. That’s all we will tell you for now as you should really go watch it. One of the more interesting parts of the documentary is when NBA legend Shaq arrives at the park and goes on a nice little tour of his own.

Ever since the airing of the documentary, there have been various animal rights people who have criticized Shaq for his appearance. They believe he shouldn’t be associating with Joe Exotic and the fact he went on a tour of the zoo further reinforces bad behavior when it comes to animal welfare. Shaq made sure to address those critics on a recent episode of his podcast.

“I was just a visitor. I met this guy. Not my friend. Don’t know him. Never had any business dealings with him, and I had no idea any of that stuff was going on,” Shaq said. “People that know me know that I’m righteous. I don’t harm tigers. I lover tigers. We found out that he’s involved with all the stuff, and then, actually, I stopped going.”

Shaq went on to say that he enjoyed the documentary although people need to stop associating him with Exotic. Now that Shaq has set the record straight, we’re sure the Carole Baskin’s of the world will stop being mad at him.

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Ice Cube has had some interesting ideas in regards to the game of basketball over the years. His Big3 league has seen quite a bit of success and now that we don't have any sports on television, he is looking to provide fans with some much-needed entertainment. This would come in the form of a quarantine-style tournament where all of the players would be staying in the same house. The players would also be filmed in this environment which would lead to a Big Brother-style reality TV show.

During a recent episode of The Jump on ESPN, Kendrick Perkins had some interesting thoughts on the tournament, noting that he doesn't think it's a good idea.

Love is Blind creator Chris Coelen spoke with Vanity Fair, earlier this week, and explained how season two will differ from season one. 

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“The age demographic that was in the first season– mid-twenties to mid-thirties – there was no magic to that,” Coelen said.

“The whole point of the show is to determine whether any of the surface factors matter… and age is one of those surface factors, so we’d certainly be open to older… but I don’t think we would go much younger. Because I think you actually would want to go with people who are interested in a real lifetime commitment.”

The next season will be changing locations as well. Originally set in Atlanta, Georgia, the show will now move to Chicago, Illinois.

Many elements from season one, such as the pods and number of contestants, will remain the same.

With production for season two being put on hold for the Coronavirus outbreak, no timeline is set for its release. Season two of Love is Blind was originally scheduled to premiere in 2021. The show has also been renewed by Netflix for a third season.

Casting for season two is already underway.

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The Office almost finished with a very different ending for Jim and Pam. As explained in Andy Green’s new book, The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s, a lot of people behind the scenes wanted to end the show with the couple breaking up in the final season.

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John Krasinski (Jim) was actually a big fan of the darker ending: “My whole pitch to Greg was that we’ve done so much with Jim and Pam, and now, after marriage and kids, there was a bit of a lull there, I think, for them about what they wanted to do… For me it was, ‘Can you have this perfect relationship go through a split and keep it the same?’ which of course you can’t. And I said to Greg, ‘It would be really interesting to see how that split will affect two people that you know so well.’”

Writer Brent Forrester confirmed what Krasinki says, adding, “Greg really wanted to do something extremely risky and high-stakes, which was the documentary airs and we see what effect it has had on these characters. And there was going to be a reunion episode where you see that Jim and Pam have split up by this time, and they will have their reunion in the reunion episode.”

After a scene where Brian saves Pam from an assault, beginning a possible bad ending for Jim and Pam, audience reaction was so negative, the show had to make drastic edits and change directions.

“People just absolutely did not like that,” Writer Owen Ellickson said. “They were bothered that there might be some triangle that Pam and Jim would be involved in and even more insulted that we thought they might believe that. That’s how it felt to me. Greg absolutely turned on a dime after that and we pivoted away, I think pretty skillfully given how quickly we had to do that.”

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Tiger King, capitalizing on the lack of anything to do but watch Netflix with the Coronavirus on the rise, has become the latest TV monocultural moment and Joe Exotic, of whom the show is centered around, is thrilled.

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Co-directors and writers of the show, Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, spoke about Joe’s reaction to the virality of the show in a Q&A with the Los Angeles Times.

“Joe has called me quite a few times over the last few days and weeks. One, he is absolutely ecstatic about the series and the idea of being famous. He’s absolutely thrilled,” Goode said. “I think he is trying to be an advocate for — no surprise — criminal justice reform. He is in a cage and of course he’s gonna say that he now recognizes what he did to these animals. With Joe, we have empathy for him, but at the same time, he’s someone who really knows what to say at the right moment. I take it with a big grain of salt when he says he is now apologetic for keeping animals.”

Chaiklin added, “You can hardly talk to him without him mentioning the amount of press he’s getting. He says people are asking to see his Prince Albert and girls are sending him sexy bikini pictures even though he’s gay. He’s over the moon. Having kept in pretty close touch with him while he’s been in a horrible county prison, this has raised his spirits. Joe definitely did some horrible things to his animals. He was very abusive to them and he shot five tigers, no question about it. But what has happened to him has also been hard.”

Tiger King is available to stream on Netflix, now.

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It seems like everyone has been tuning into Netflix's Tiger King this week. Viewers have been hashing out their thoughts surrounding the incarcerated Joe Exotic ever since Netflix debuted the docuseries recently. Joe Exotic's found some pretty famous supporters, as well, including Cardi B.

Seeing as how she's been practicing social distancing, Cardi B has clearly had some time to dive into Netflix. Though she admitted on Thursday that she was lost in the second episode because she was having sex, she clearly caught up on all the details. "Carol you think you slick bitch," she wrote on Twitter. She later retweeted a fan meme that read, "Carole Baskins fed her husband to the tigers." That's been a running theory throughout the series that Carole has denied. 

Exotic is currently locked up for allegedly trying to set up the murder of Carole Baskin, who serves as the onscreen antagonist in the series. However, Cardi pledged to free the man. She even went as far as vowing to launch a GoFundMe in his honor. "Bout to start a gofundme account for Joe .He shall be free," she wrote. Chances are she's joking, though, but she clearly got invested in the series. 

Joe Exotic has filed a $94M lawsuit against the federal government claiming that they've discriminated against and conspired against him to have him locked up. 

Khloe Kardashian was feeling a little uncomfortable watching the season 18 premiere of Keeping Up With The Kardashians with her ex-boyfriend and baby daddy, Tristan Thompson, right next to her, considering her siblings did not hold back on how they really felt about the guy. The latest season of the infamous reality show following the lives of the Kardashian-Jenner clan premiered on Thursday night, and the now-amicable exes and co-parents, Khloe and Tristan, took in the first episode together.

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While the two of them are cool with each other now, Tristan's various cheating scandals has caused a ton of tension between them in the past. Back when Khloe and Tristan were not on great terms, Khloe's siblings—particularly Kim Kardashian—were not the biggest fans of Tristan. Considering the show was filmed many months ago, the events of the episode are long behind them, but it's still uncomfortable for Khloe to watch Tristan hear what her sisters have said about him behind his back. Khloe was live-tweeting the premiere on Thursday, and admitted that watching the show with Tristan is "awkward."

The Office is one of the most popular sitcoms of all-time and is beloved by fans all over the world. Two of the most popular characters on the show were Jim and Pam. These characters started out as good friends and as the seasons progressed, they fell in love and got married. If you’ve seen the show, then you know the ninth and final season was pretty turbulent for these characters. Jim accepted a job in Philadelphia which left him apart from Pam. While their relationship was strained, they eventually pulled through and stayed together.

In a new book by Andy Greene called The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s, the show’s writers and actors talk about how they actually wanted to have Jim and Pam split up while eventually getting back together in the final episode. As Jim actor John Krasinski noted, it could have made for an interesting dynamic.

“My whole pitch to Greg [Daniels] was that we’ve done so much with Jim and Pam, and now, after marriage and kids, there was a bit of a lull there,” Krasinki said to Greene. “For me it was, ‘Can you have this perfect relationship go through a split and keep it the same?’ which of course you can’t. And I said to Greg, ‘It would be really interesting to see how that split will affect two people that you know so well.’”

Had this storyline taken place, numerous fans would have been in shambles. Luckily for the hearts of many, the show finished on a happy note for all of the characters, specifically Jim and Pam.

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WEtv is kicking out these seasons of Growing Up Hip Hop. The show has been faced with major changes now that Romeo Miller and his father Master P have stepped away from the series. Fans will now get a glimpse into what led up to the hip hop mogul family deciding that they no longer wanted to be associated with the franchise.

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A trailer for the new season of Growing Up Hip Hop was released on Friday (March 27) and the show is certainly turning up the drama. Pepa and Treach’s daughter Egypt Criss finds herself at odds with her friends over her fiancé Sam. Things even come to blows with Briana Latrise, former step-daughter to Mary J. Blige. While things kick up with that storyline, the tit-for-tat between Angela Simmons and Romeo rages on. 

The Millers suggested that Romeo was doing the right thing with Angela, especially because he could have taken advantage of her while she was morning the death of her son’s father, Sutton Tennyson. In a later scene, Romeo and Master P are confronted by others like Dame Dash’s son Boogie Dash and Eazy-E’s son Lil Eazy-E. Things get heated during the talk and Percy Miller wasn’t about to have anything go left in his presence. Check out the trailer for the explosive season below including Dame getting arrested and speaking about the accusations against him.

Currently the top-rated show on Netflix, Tiger King is a runaway hit for the streaming service. The multi-part documentary series tells the story of Joe Exotic, the owner of an exotic animal zoo known for its big cats. Throughout the series, Exotic's longtime partner John Finlay is shown giving on-camera testimonials without a shirt and with very few teeth remaining in his mouth. After it was reported that several stars of the series were upset at their portrayal on-screen, it was revealed that Finlay had actually gotten some serious dental work to repair his chompers.

If you're as obsessed about Tiger King as the remainder of the world is, you probably know all about John Finlay already. If you don't, he's the ex-husband of Joe Exotic, the main character of the show who is currently in prison on murder-for-hire charges. His toothless grin was a highlight of the doc, but it appears as though he's either got a fresh pair of dentures or had his teeth permanently fixed.

In new pictures that are currently circulating across the internet, John Finlay is seen flexing a brand new smile and, noticeably so, homeboy's got some fresh dentures. Good for him!

Check out the difference below and be sure to binge-watch the new series on Netflix when you have the chance.