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  • Geoffrey Owens: ‘Job-shamed’ Cosby Show star lands TV position

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    Geoffrey Owens, the Cosby Show big name who used to be “task shamed” after being spotted operating in a grocery, has taken Tyler Perry up on his be offering of a TELEVISION role.

    Perry’s spokeswoman said Owens will seem in 10 episodes of his drama The Haves and the Have Nots, that’s broadcast on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

    The show follows three families based totally in Savannah, Georgia – are rich and strong and one is bad.

    Owens played Elvin Tibideaux Within The Cosby Show, which aired from 1985-92.

    Cosby actor responds to ‘process-shamers’

    Writer and director Perry based The Haves and the Have Nots on his 2011 play of the similar identify.

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  • What was the question that stumped Nicola Sturgeon at FMQs?

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    Mr Leonard insisted confident kids have been being “crushed” by means of those exams, with children “pushed to tears”.

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    the first minister replied that after she were chatting with five-year-olds the former day, none was once in tears or beaten.

    Ms Sturgeon said: “The Day Gone By morning i was spending my time in two number one colleges, to boot as a secondary school and an early years centre. And i used to be talking to a spread of number one school children including a few five-12 months-olds.

    “i did not meet any of them in tears, it didn’t see any of them that looked overwhelmed. What I noticed were confident, brilliant enthusiastic kids – a few of the ones had been appearing me laptop coding and some had been speaking Mandarin, that may be how confident they have been.”

    So what is the solution?

    …a “invoice” it could appear.

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