Celebrities love Boston. They love Boston even more when they visit the Hub to promote. With the Massachusetts Lottery launching its new $5 Wheel of Fortune scratch ticket, professional letter turner Vanna White visited Boston to help promote the new game. There are over $104 million in cash prizes, including 10 $1 million grand prizes, and a chance to meet White and Wheel of Fortune co-host Pat Sajak in person. Ellen DeGeneres is in Boston to promote her "Ellen" talk show's switch to 4 p.m. from 9 a.m. on WCVB. She's taking a Duck Boat Tour, meeting Mayor Tom Menino at Quincy Market, and will be filming a promo with WCVB-TV.
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Plows can be dangerous. Swampscott thinks the local high school has a drug problem. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Just when we thought American Idol was not going to be interesting without Simon Cowell, the show surprises us by replacing Ellen DeGeneres and Kara DioGuardi with Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez. Yes. Aerosmith's rock diva and J-Lo.
Congratulations to the men of Boston FLAG football, whose video of them shaking their hips to Slumdog Millionaire's "Jai Ho" was featured on The Ellen Degeneres Show this morning. The league made the video in December, hoping to lure Ellen to Boston to catch a flag football game. They shook their hips at a variety of recognizable Boston locations including Copley Square, Boston Common, and a T station. Bostonist's favorite moment comes 38 seconds in, when passengers disembarking a orange line train completely ignore the dancers. Seriously Bostonians, are we so jaded that we can blow off thirty large men in Ellen t-shirts dancing a Bollywood routine on a subway platform? We're not sure if that's impressive or sad.
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