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Taylor Swift makes surprise appearance at Nashville hospital
KRISTIN M. HALL Seacrest Studio built at the
Associated Press hospital.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — She told the crowd that
Pop star Taylor Swift made she visited one of the now
a surprise appearance at 10 studios that Seacrest’s
a Nashville, Tennessee, foundation had built at
children’s hospital to help children’s hospitals across
“American Idol” host Ryan the country and wanted
Seacrest open a broad- to be involved when he
cast studio for patients. opened the latest one in
Swift on Friday met with Music City.
children at Monroe Carell “What I saw when I went
Jr. Children’s Hospital at there was an opportunity
Vanderbilt University Medi- for the kids to find excite-
cal Center following the ment and to express their
ribbon cutting on the new creativity and to learn
Television personality and producer Ryan Seacrest, foreground left, and singer Taylor Swift, center,
join young patients at a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Seacrest Studio, Friday, March 18,
2016, at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn. The fully functioning
studio allows patients to record, do interviews, play songs and broadcast to the rooms in the
hospital
Associated Press
about what it is to cre- has visited the children at songs.
ate content, whether you the Nashville facility be- Seacrest said he hears
would like to make your fore and the studio gives back from patients all over
own radio show or whether the city’s many singers the country who have felt
you want to record,” Swift and songwriters a place inspired by the studios.
said. to reach all the children at “I get the coolest letters
“It was so exciting to see the hospital. and emails from parents
the excitement that it “Can you imagine the art- and kids talking about how
brought to this one hospi- ists and the songwriters and they want to be a tech
tal.” the entertainers who are engineer or they want to
It wasn’t the first time that going to be stopping by be a deejay or they re-
Swift made a surprise visit the hospital?” she said. ally want to be in music in
to a children’s hospital: She The fully functioning stu- some capacity,” Seacrest
previously visited others, in- dio lets children learn how said. “And this gives them a
cluding Hasbro Children’s to record, do interviews, chance to technically learn
Hospital in Providence, broadcast to the rooms how to do all of it too.”
Rhode Island. She said she in the hospital and play
Jury awards Hulk Hogan $115 million in
Gawker sex tape suit
TAMARA LUSH a video of him having sex determined during trial
Associated Press with his former best friend’s who leaked the video to
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) wife. Hogan contended the media.
— A jury sided with ex-pro the 2012 post violated his Hogan didn’t ask for any
wrestler Hulk Hogan on privacy. of this to happen, lawyer
Friday and awarded him Hogan’s attorneys told ju- Kenneth Turkel said, add-
$115 million in his sex tape rors this is the core of the ing that Bollea, the private
lawsuit against Gawker case: “Gawker took a se- man, expected privacy
Media. cretly recorded sex tape during an intimate mo-
The jurors reached the de- and put it on the Internet.” ment. Much was made
cision Friday evening, less They said Hogan didn’t during the trial of Hogan’s
than six hours after they be- consent to the video, that celebrity persona versus
gan deliberations. The trial Gawker didn’t follow usual Bollea’s privacy.
lasted two weeks. journalism procedures be- “I want you to imagine the
Earlier Friday, in spirited fore posting it and that the fact that for 35 plus years
closing arguments, lawyers video wasn’t newsworthy. he is essentially an actor,
for Hogan and Gawker dis- Gawker did not try to con- an entertainer, who has
cussed themes of personal tact Bollea or the woman played the same role,” said
life versus celebrity, and in the video, and nor did Turkel. He said Hogan “has
freedom of speech versus the website contact the every right, every right, to
the right to privacy. woman’s husband, DJ Bub- keep whatever precious
Hogan, whose given name ba The Love Sponge Clem, private moments in his life,
is Terry Bollea, sued Gawker who recorded the video. which for this gentlemen
for $100 million for posting It was never conclusively are very few.”
