Mark Interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz411.com
The Mark Simone Show
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4.3 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. New York. |
| 0:01.6 | Mark Simone. |
| 0:03.0 | 710 W.O.R. |
| 0:05.9 | Hey, Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporter, his site, you should check it every day. |
| 0:10.5 | There's always new stuff every day. |
| 0:12.0 | Showbiz 411.com. |
| 0:15.1 | Showbiz 411.com. |
| 0:17.2 | Roger Friedman, how you doing? |
| 0:19.5 | I'm okay. |
| 0:20.5 | You know, I've been listening to this story about this NFL player who was the subject of the movie The Blind Side. |
| 0:28.0 | Have you heard about this? |
| 0:29.2 | Yeah, but don't know much about it. |
| 0:31.2 | And he played in the NFL for like a decade and made about $ million dollars and he has a net worth of about 34 million and now he's saying that um the family that raised him and became the subject of the the movie the blind side remember santa bullock played the mother uh now he's saying that he was ripped off by them and they didn't give him any money |
| 0:55.6 | and they never adopted him. And he's just published, of course, he's saying this because he just |
| 1:01.0 | published a new book and the book is all about how charitable he is and that he has a foundation, |
| 1:06.7 | you know, for young people. So I just published a story on Showbiz 401, and I went back through more than 10 years |
| 1:14.2 | of his tax returns on this charity, and the charity almost doesn't really even exist. |
| 1:18.8 | So this is kind of like a scoop that we have, and I feel bad because the guy did have |
| 1:23.9 | when he was a young kid, he lived in in poverty he had says he had starvation and |
| 1:29.5 | homelessness and then this you know the family sort of lifted him up and as we saw in the movie |
| 1:35.6 | you know got him through high school and got him to the NFL and they didn't even write the |
| 1:41.1 | original book the original book was written by Michael Lewis, and he gave them everybody a cut. |
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