Fox Sports' NASCAR announcer Steve Byrnes died Tuesday, April 21, after losing his long battle to cancer. He was 56.
Byrnes' family confirmed the announcer's death with a statement to Fox Sports. "Mr. Steven Patrick Byrnes, age 56, of Fort Mill, S.C., went to be with the Lord on April 21, 2015," the statement read. "Steve enjoyed a successful and highly respected television broadcasting career for 30 years. He joined the FOX Sports family in 2001, hosting and reporting for multiple NASCAR programs and serving as a pit road reporter for NASCAR on FOX's broadcast of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races from 2001-2014.
Fierce as the day she graduated Rydell High!
If these photos are any proof, Stockard Channing is positively ageless. The actress posed for photos with her star-studded cast (and Tom Hanks!), backstage at her Broadway comedy, It’s Only a Play, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, in NYC.
It’s been more than 35 years since Channing broke hearts on the big screen as Betty Rizzo in the 1978 film Grease, but the 70-year-old actress is still rocking it!
Surviving parenthood! After competing on the CBS show, many Survivor alums have gone on to welcome children — some, even, with their fellow cast members!
Amber Brkich and “Boston” Rob Mariano, for instance, competed on Survivor: All-Stars in 2003 before they went on to compete in the Amazing Race. The pair wed in April 2005 and now share four daughters — Lucia, Carina, Isabetta and Adeline.
“Being a father is by far the most fulfilling thing I’ve ever done,” the Massachusetts native gushed exclusively to Us Weekly in 2011.
Jennifer Murrow Grover and her husband, James, started the process to bring home their two adopted sons from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2012. But while waiting for the U.S. to approve the boys’ visas, Congolese officials placed a suspension on adoptions, forcing Joseph, 14, and Bronson, 7, to remain in an orphanage with little food and no running water. Both suffered from malaria. But on March 1, after an agonizing three-year wait, they finally came home.
It’s been over four years since Heath Ledger‘s untimely death, but the pain is still there for his closest costars.
At the MTV Movie Awards in Universal City, Calif. on Sunday, The Dark Knight Rises costars Gary Oldham, Christian Bale and Joseph Gordon-Levitt took the stage to promote the Batman trilogy’s final flick.
They opened by screening a montage of scenes from the last two films, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, in which Ledger’s portrayal off The Joker could hardly be missed.