The “Wheel of Fortune” contestant who went viral for uttering a vulgar phrase to solve the puzzle is speaking out about the aftermath. Tavaris Williams appeared on the May 23 episode of the popular game show and made the guess “Right in the butt” even though it would not have fit in the blank spaces available. His surprising answer inspired the room to go silent, then fellow contestant Tyra said, “What?” while host Pat Sajak said, “No.” Williams spoke with Fox News Digital about how friends and family have reacted to the gaffe, including the reaction his wife had to the sexually charged guess. “I tried to just beat my contestants by buzzing in first and letting my brain catch up,” Williams told the outlet.  “And when my brain was ready to speak, I saw the R, I saw the B, I saw the T. I went for ‘Right in the butt’… And once [Sajak] said ‘No,’ oh, it was the worst feeling,” he went on. “None of those common sense [thoughts like], ‘Well, there wasn’t enough letters for the word “right”’ [or] ‘This is a family show.’ None of that is going through your head when you have 50 monitors above you, the lights are extra bright, there are 100 stagehands, there’s producers, there’s sound guys,” Williams added. “And I was standing next to Pat, so I had to say something. I wasn’t going to get buzzed without saying something. And the rest is history,” he said. The contestant said longtime host Sajak was understanding after he made the bad guess. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “So right then and there he tried to make me feel better and move on, but they immediately cut to break. And in the break, Pat was very gracious and he was very supportive and said, ‘Oh, you made a name for yourself. We’re going to see how we can edit that tastefully. I don’t know how, but we’ll figure it out.’ He was very accommodating, and he made me feel great throughout the process after that. He’s truly amazing,” he said.  “They are consummate professionals,” Williams added of the crew. “I may have exchanged a couple of glances, and I got a ‘He’s going to make us work today’ look. But they were great. They were gracious. They’ve seen it all before. They may not have been expecting that. But, you know, they allowed me to continue with the show and, hopefully, everybody got a kick out of it.” Williams explained how contestants aren’t allowed to discuss show results until the episode airs despite it being taped months in advance. He said friends and family reacted well when they finally saw the show. “I have a wonderful family. I have tremendous friends, coworkers. Everyone has been great. Everybody is joining in the fun with me. You have to be able to laugh and smile at yourself from time to time. No one has been negative or critical, and they know where my heart is.” “I have never in my life said those words in sequential order before the show. I picked a great time to start,” he told Fox News while laughing. “We had a watch party and the room erupted in laughter. They couldn’t believe it, and just the eye contact alone with everybody made them laugh again,” he recalled of watching with everyone.  “They were all fine. It’s more so, the younger kids are like, ‘What did you say? Why did you say that?’” he said. “The older kids are like, ‘I can’t believe you said that.’ And the adults are like, ‘Tavaris, how?’” Williams said his wife of 19 years, Anesha, also reacted to her husband’s answer. “My wife’s like, ‘I’m married to a meme now.'” he said. “My oldest son, he did say that it might be a tough day at school tomorrow. I was like, ‘I’m so sorry.’ But everybody has been great. We’re just enjoying the ride.”

A man who wrote several doomsday books and moved to Idaho because a voice told him to for the second coming of Christ has been convicted of murdering his first wife and his second wife’s children. Chad Daybell, 55, was found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy charges for the deaths of his first wife, Tammy, and his second wife’s children, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old J.J., CNN reported. In May of last year, Chad’s second wife, Lori Vallow Daybell, was found guilty of murdering Tylee and J.J. and conspiring to kill Tammy. She was sentenced to life in prison. Relatives had been searching for the children since September 2019, when Lori, along with Tylee and J.J., moved to Rexburg, Idaho, to be closer to Chad, who said a voice told him to move there for the second coming of Christ. On September 8, 2019, Lori and her brother Alex took Tylee and J.J. to Yellowstone National Park. Tylee was never seen alive again. Two weeks later, on September 23, J.J., who is autistic, was last seen at his school in Idaho. The next day, Lori informed the school that he would be homeschooled instead. Shortly after this, Chad’s first wife, Tammy, was found dead in her home. Her death was initially ruled to be natural, but police have since opened an investigation into the matter. Less than a month after Tammy died, Lori married Chad in Hawaii. Three weeks later, after Lori and Chad returned to Idaho, police conducted a welfare check on J.J. at the request of his grandmother. According to police, Lori said that J.J. was with friends in Arizona and that Tylee had gone to Brigham Young University-Idaho. People then began to question where J.J. and Tylee had gone, and suddenly, Lori and Chad packed up and traveled to Hawaii on the same day police began searching for the children, court documents indicate. Not long after, on December 12, Lori’s brother Alex died in Gilbert, Arizona, due to a reported blood clot. His death was not investigated further, as the condition ran in the family. On December 20, police in Rexburg, Idaho, officially announced an investigation into the disappearance of J.J. and Tylee. A month later, Lori was served a court order to produce the children within five days. When the deadline to produce the children passed, police began laying the groundwork to arrest Lori. They did so on February 20, 2020, arresting Lori in Kauai and charging her with two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children. It wasn’t until June 9, 2020, when police searched Chad’s property in Idaho, that the bodies of Tylee and J.J. were found. Chad tried to flee the scene but was caught and charged with two felony counts of destruction, alteration, or concealment of evidence. Chad faces the death penalty for the murders.

After battling it out on The Voice, it’s time for winner Asher HaVon to take a breather… well, at least a bit. Now, he’s working on new music — and giving details on what it was like to be on the show. While chatting with Kelly Clarkson, he shared what it was like to work with a legend like Reba McEntire. As you can imagine, he only had amazing things to say about the beloved country singer! When asked what the best advice was that Reba gave him, Asher says, “To just trust my gift. I thought coming on this show I needed to sound like somebody else exactly but hearing her say trust your gift really meant everything to me and I did.” As the first openly LGBTQ+ winner on The Voice, it was especially important for Asher to feel safe with his coach. Thankfully, Reba turned out to be an amazing choice. “I am so proud to be a part of that community. I just pray that everything I have done on this show [has] inspired them all that they can do the same thing,” Asher says, adding that, “Reba created such a safe place for me to come in and be my authentic self. It was so easy to let down walls that I had built over the years.” Reba’s Relationship With The Voice Winner Asher HaVon Melts Hearts At the end of the day, Asher isn’t surprised that choosing to be on Team Reba was such a fantastic choice. Before he auditioned, he already knew that, if given the choice, he’d choose the country singer. It’s like it was meant to be! “Before I left home, I had already made up my mind that I was going to choose Reba,” Asher admits. “And when she turned for me, I just felt like, okay, this has definitely happened for sure.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post “The Voice” Winner Asher HaVon Opens Up To Kelly Clarkson About Relationship With Reba appeared first on InspireMore.

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The Houthi rebels claimed to have struck the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, an American aircraft carrier. pic.twitter.com/6EhFBxxo8x — العميد يحيى سريع (@army21ye) May 31, 2024 Verdict: Misleading The Houthis did not provide evidence for their claim. Defense officials have denied that the Eisenhower was attacked. Fact Check: A Houthi rebel spokesman claimed in a statement on X, […]

She changed her name the day she legally became an adult

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A screenshot of an article shared on Instagram claims United Nations (UN) troops are purportedly being deployed across the U.S. as the Pentagon prepares for “civil unrest.”   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by _swipeover88️⃣? (@_swipeover) Verdict: False The claim is false and originally stems from a May 15 article published […]

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