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EXCLUSIVE: Vincent Rubino, executive producer/showrunner of the upcoming Hollywood Squares revival on CBS, has been let go from the show for allegedly making a racially insensitive comment to BIPOC members of the production staff.
According to a source close to the matter, the veteran game show producer is accused of raising his arms and saying "don't rob me" to three persons of color β believed to be Black and Latinx/Latinx β who work as production assistants. Another person allegedly overheard the comment and reported it to HR.
Swift action was taken by Jesse Collins Entertainment, which is producing the new Hollywood Squares for CBS with Drew Barrymore's Flower Films, and Rubino was removed from the show, sources said. Rubino declined to comment. A spokeswoman for the studio also declined to comment.
Rubino is an experienced producer in the game show space with credits such as The $100,000 Pyramid, Supermarket Sweep, Brain Games, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and 2010's The Newlywed Game.
CBS announced in May that it was bringing back Hollywood Squares for a 2025 midseason debut. Barrymore will occupy the center square. Hollywood Squares involves two contestants who play tic-tac-toe to win money and prizes. The "board" for the game is a vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by a celebrity seated at a desk and facing the contestants. The celebrities are asked questions and the contestants judge the legitimacy of their answers to win the game.
The original Squares aired on NBC in the 1960s. The series piloted in 1965 and debuted in its entirety on the same network in 1966.
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My thoughts used to race a lot but when I started restricting more my brain became really quiet. Now because I don't have the mental energy to spiral like I used to, my anxiety literally went away. I used to have panic attacks in class and didn't talk to anyone, even in group assignments I just couldn't get myself to speak. I would shake just standing up in front of a class for presentations and I was convinced everyone hated me. That got better after some therapy and actively working on myself but it really went away with restriction. I literally just don't have thoughts like I used. All I used to do before was think and now I still think (obviously lol) but it's more work and more of an action I actively act on than before. And so because I don't have all these thoughts telling me I'm dumb and stupid and should stop talking,and because I'm not going to actively think those things to myself, my anxiety completely died down. I have no problems speaking to anyone anymore, speaking in front of a class, presentations, I just don't have the mental energy to be anxious about it anymore. Curious if anyone relates?
trans lives matter less
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i know the finishing blow has to be to the heart
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Woah. The finish, fabrication n every little detail is so amazing.
— Christopher (@gazwa_e_bhindi) September 1, 2024
Now just imagine how bad ICF really was. pic.twitter.com/R8zdjb9GSQ
Manifesting a Delhi Kolkata route by next year
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During the 2nd Anglo-Mysore War (1780-84), a Bengal force was dispatched to assist Madras against Haidar Ali.
— Sawai (@HHMaharajaSawai) August 31, 2024
Among the Bengal expedition was 24th B.N.I, raised in Kanpur, 1778, this regiment turned back the French at bayonet point during the Siege of Cuddalore 13th June, 1783. pic.twitter.com/5JrvzoEejK
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@911roofer stand with israel against the homeless
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"Alhamdullilah, the entire park is free of women, and it is safe for all men to come and have a good time"
— Megh Updates π¨β’ (@MeghUpdates) September 3, 2024
says this Taliban member from the New Ministry of Vice and Virtue enforcing Sharia Lawpic.twitter.com/GLOeF0KF5D
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@911roofer stand with israel on the mass grave of the redditards. Also Hitler was a cute twink and eva braun was a man.