all right so here's the Scoop the scripts National Spelling be will pick back up later this morning with the quarterfinals are you guys good spellers no I don't know mediocre I am correct let's see how well you guys can spell great all right the word is Mariah would you like me to like Mariah Carey not.
Mariah Carey it's a flowering plant and the citrus family you can find it in Asia Australia and the Pacific Islands Eric you're first m a r i a h nope m o r i a h it's m u r r a ya a and that is the word that Harvey native Zila avangard won back in 2021 with she was 14 years old at the time and the first African-American winner and the first.
Champion from Louisiana let's take a look Maria m r r a y a that is correct so sweet if You' have said it like she did I might have had a chance but that's not how you say it you know what she was doing she was like saying it yeah I do that I have to do um restaurant restaurant that's hilarious.
That's the one word that I was telling The Newsroom I canot spell so I say I always say restorant I think I got one for you can you spell chapatas t c h o p no o u p all right and she's gone on to write two children's books and also she's an amazing dribbler she's so good at everything Winners Get $50,000 in prize.
Money among other things yeah we had on the show she's she is amazing she's awesome and there are five contestants from Louisiana let's take a look four out of the five are moving on to today's quarterfinals all but the kid from Baton Rouge fell in the pre he fell in the prelims um and we'll have one contestant from New Orleans 14-year-old Niara dilva.
Ahmed from mety Park Country Day and she actually organized a schoolwide readathon she is amazing and as as I mentioned she is just 14 years old wow so good luck to her today's the quarter finals so we'll know by the end of the week if she gets the 50 Grand all right guys if you had to give a top five for the most famous actresses of all time.
That are also known as like America's sweetheart who were a couple you'd have in there on your list um I don't know why I bet Sandra bulock just immediately came to M I agree with that Sandra Bullock is great swe what about Julia Roberts Julia Robert is wonderful and then I think like audre love Julia Roberts you're talking about okay.
Beautiful and and just a nice person no I mean just like America sweetheart you don't think Audrey hurn in that uh yeah back in the day okay right Schumer Schumer no no no no okay so guess who paid for Julia Robert's birth like paid for the hospital bill uh her father nope they couldn't afford it Martin Luther King Jr and ketta Scott.
King really here's a story back from 2022 it was an interview between Julie Roberts and Gail King and obviously viously because my parents couldn't pay for the hospital bill um they my parents had a theater school in Atlanta called the actors and Writers Workshop and one day ketta Scott King called my mother and asked if her.
Her kids could be part of the school because they were having a hard time finding um a place that would accept her kids and my mom was like sure come on over and so they just all became friends and they helped us out of a jam what is I was like that's amazing so of course Julia Roberts born in smea Georgia in 1967 obviously that.
Relationship between the two families was formed years before her birth and Gail King went on to say how just extraordinary it was for black children to take acting classes alongside white children in the 1960s especially in the South yeah and unfortunately she really never got to meet him cuz he was assassinated 1968 yeah so yeah I'm sure.
She had a great relationship with ketta too but I mean she just was like that was just so amazing for them to step in and help according to CNN Walter and Betty Roberts were in The only integrated Children's Theater group in Atlanta at the top what a great story that's a good story it really is a bit of trivia I love jul uh and I'm trying.
To stump you Eric doing a good job you got to some both those today let's go over to pton now
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