Peck made his film debut in "Snow Day" (2000), and appeared regularly on "The Amanda Show" until the end of its run in 2002. He also starred opposite Alex D. Linz and Zena Grey in the theatrical film, "Max Keeble's Big Move", which was released on October 5, 2001. In 2001, he guest starred in an episode of the NBC drama "ER" called "Thy Will Be Done". During this period, Peck appeared in several independent films, including "Spun" and 2004's "Mean Creek", for which he received critical praise. He was cast as Josh Nichols, opposite Drake Bell's Drake Parker, in another Nickelodeon sitcom, "Drake & Josh", which began airing in 2004 and gained Peck recognition among young audiences. Peck's character, Josh Nichols, was smart, funny, and organized, but was always being tormented along with Drake by Megan Parker (Miranda Cosgrove), Drake's younger sister. Both characters sing in a remake of the song "Soul Man" by Sam and Dave. In 2006, Bell and Peck starred in their own TV movie called "Drake & Josh Go Hollywood", and in 2007, they starred in a sequel called "Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp". Josh was nominated for Favorite Television Actor at the 2008 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for his work on "Drake & Josh". Peck also made his debut as a director in the "Drake & Josh" episode, "Battle of Panthatar". He also directed his co-star Drake Bell's music video for the theme song to "Drake & Josh", "Found a Way". He has also appeared in the series finale of "What's New, Scooby-Doo?", an episode of "Codename: Kids Next Door" called "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E.", and the direct-to-video New Line Cinema film "Havoc". Peck returned to the character of Josh Nichols in 2008 for the television film "Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh".
In 2006, Peck appeared in the independent film "Special", which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and voiced Eddie, one of two possum brothers, in the animated sequel, "", which was released on March 31 of that year. Peck played a high school bully in 2008's "Drillbit Taylor", and starred in the films "The Wackness" (released July 2008), "American Primitive", "Safety Glass", and reprised his role as Eddie in "".
In 2011, Peck had a cameo role on the hit Nickelodeon show "Victorious" as an audience member for a play Jade wrote. In 2012, Peck starred in the remake of "Red Dawn", and once again reprised his role as Eddie, in "". In 2013, he began voicing Casey Jones in Nickelodeon's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles".
In 2014, Peck appeared as Danny Norwood in the pilot of "The Rebels", one of Amazon Studios' five adult test pilots released on Amazon Video in early 2014.
In 2015, Peck was cast as a lead in the comedy series, "Grandfathered". He starred alongside John Stamos. "Grandfathered" premiered on September 29 and has gained generally favorable reviews from Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. Both Peck and Stamos are nominated for a 2016 People's Choice Award in the category "Favorite Actor In A New TV Series".
In 2016, Peck was cast as Ross in the FOX series "Pitch". He appeared in 2 episodes as a statistics analyst. The series was cancelled after 10 episodes.
In the fourth season of "Drake & Josh", Peck was noticeably thinner. He said: I made a conscious effort to lose weight because I knew I could be happier as well as being healthier. I started by going on a diet a year and a half ago and I got a personal trainer, but I definitely have a healthier lifestyle now. Also I feel that because I do so much television, I am a better role model. I don't really understand why I should be a role model, but I know that kids do look up to me, so it is my responsibility to motivate people and be inspiring. I hope that I can do that for kids. It doesn't really matter what you look like though. He is also a prominent personality on the video-sharing services Vine and Snapchat. He now stars in vlogs made by David Dobrik on YouTube.
In June 2017, Peck married his longtime girlfriend, Paige O'Brien. In August 2018, the couple announced they were expecting their first child.
Savvy Shields
Savannah Janine "Savvy" Shields (born July 1, 1995) is an American beauty queen and Miss America 2017. She won the Miss America title on September 11, 2016. Before that, she was Miss Arkansas 2016. She was crowned Miss America by Miss America 2016, Betty Cantrell.
Shields is the third Miss America from Arkansas.
Before being Miss Arkansas, Shields won the title for Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen in 2009. She represented Arkansas in 2010 at Miss America Outstanding Teen.
Shields worked for eating better and living better.
Shields was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros
Pablo Alfonso Espinosa of the Monteros Rueda (born 24 December 1941) is an Ecuadorian news anchor and vice-president of news of Ecuavisa in Quito. He holds the Guinness World Record for "Longest career as Television News broadcaster".
Espinosa de los Monteros was born on 24 December 1941 in Quito, Ecuador. His parents were from Ibarra.
Espinosa de los Monteros worked for different radio stations in the cities of Ibarra and Guayaquil until 1962. In 1963 he was news director for Radio La Prensa. He began in Ecuavisa in 1967, the year of its foundation, as the first news anchor of the station. He was News Director for almost three decades. He hosted the Ecuadorian version of "Who wants to be millionaire" (2001 - 2004 and 2009 - 2011). He received the “Honorato Vázquez” medal from the Ecuadorian government in 1992.
In August 2014, he obtained the Guinness World Record for "Longest career as Television News broadcaster”.
Antonio Medellín
Antonio Medellín (15 April 1942 – 18 June 2017) was a Mexican actor. He was known for his roles in the telenovelas "Muchachitas" and "Rubí". In movies, he was known for his role in the 1982 drama Mexican movie "Aquel famoso Remington". He was born in Mexico City, Mexico. His career lasted from 1962 until his death in 2017.
Medellín died on 18 June 2017 at a hospital in Mexico City at the age of 75.
Pearl Carr &amp; Teddy Johnson
Pearl Lavinia Carr (2 November 1921 – 16 February 2020) and Edward Victor "Teddy" Johnson (4 September 1919 – 6 June 2018) were an English husband-and-wife team of entertainers, popular during the 1950s and early 1960s. Carr and Johnson were on British television light entertainment programmes, such as "The Winifred Atwell Show" as well as "Big Night Out" and "Blackpool Night Out". They represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1959 and finished second with the song "Sing, Little Birdie". This peaked at #12 on the UK Singles Chart.
Carr was born in Exmouth, Devon, while Johnson was born in Surbiton, Surrey. Johnson died on 6 June 2018 at the age of 98. Carr died on 16 February 2020, at the age of 98.
Alysia Reiner
Alysia Reiner (born July 21, 1970) is an American actress and stage producer. Reiner is best known for playing Natalie "Fig" Figueroa in the Netflix comedy drama series, "Orange Is the New Black" (2013–2017) for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as part of the ensemble cast.
Reiner is Jewish.
Meitei language
Meitei (also known as Manipuri or Meetei) is the official language and the lingua franca of the Indian state of Manipur. It is developed from the Ancient Meitei language. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India.
Zaporizhia
Zaporizhia (, before 1921 - Oleksandrivsk) is a city in southeastern Ukraine, the administrative center of the Zaporizhia region. About 760,000 people live there.
Located on the main waterway of Ukraine - the Dnieper River, at the intersection of transport and communication corridors connecting the south with the capital of Ukraine, western and central regions, Donbass with Kryvyi Rih.