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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Sep 17, 2019
September 17, 2019
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Sorry to hear DUANE CHAPMAN, also known as "Dog the Bounty Hunter," had to be taken to a hospital from his Colorado home over the weekend after experiencing chest pains. Doctors have reportedly ruled out a heart attack but believe it's a blood-pressure related complication. The news comes months after his wife, BETH, died in June after a fight with throat cancer.
Look for TAYLOR SWIFT on the upcoming 17th season of "The Voice" as a mega-mentor for the singers. Coaches JOHN LEGEND and BLAKE SHELTON broke the news on Instagram.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL, who recently split from her film producer husband, is now seeing JONATHAN SCOTT, one of the "Property Brothers" from their home improvement show. Zooey has two children, a four-year-old daughter and a two-year-old son with her husband, and just released a joint statement last week announcing their separation after four years of marriage. People magazine says "It's new, but (Zooey and John) are having a lot of fun together."
British police are looking for a stolen solid gold toilet. The one-and-a-quarter million-dollar commode had just arrived in London from a show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where it was on display. Now back in London, it was part of an art exhibit at the home of British wartime leader WINSTON CHURCHILL. Visitors could was book a three-minute appointment to use the toilet, which was hooked up to the plumbing at the museum.
Unfortunately, when it was stolen, British cops said the theft caused "significant damage and flooding" to the building, which is filled with pricey art and furniture.
The golden toilet was the work of Italian artist MAURIZIO CATTELAN, who wanted it to be a satire about excessive wealth. Cattelan said: "Whatever you eat, a $200 lunch or a $2 hot dog, the results are the same, toilet-wise."
Interestingly, last year, the Guggenheim had offered to lend the golden toilet to PRESIDENT TRUMP when he and his wife, MELANIA, asked to borrow a VAN GOGH painting for their private White House quarters.