Jason Kelce’s College Photos Lose the Beard
Jason Kelce’s beard has become so closely tied to his public image that old college photos are now doing the celebrity equivalent of a double take. E! News reports that throwback images of the former Philadelphia Eagles center show him without the scruffy facial hair fans know today.
The timing gives the photo revival a neat little headline: Kelce is approaching induction into the University of Cincinnati’s Hall of Fame, bringing attention back to the school where his football story began. That makes the images more than a random trip through the archives. They are being revisited as part of a look back at Kelce before the fame, the Eagles career and the instantly recognizable beard.
Page Six has also covered the same college-era photos, giving the appearance story a second entertainment-news source. The shared hook is straightforward but effective: remove the beard, and Kelce looks markedly different from the familiar version who became one of football’s most recognizable personalities.
There is no larger scandal hiding in the photo album, and that is precisely why the story works as light celebrity nostalgia. Kelce’s changing look is the entire occasion, with the Hall of Fame milestone supplying the timely reason to revisit it. The contrast also underlines how much a single grooming choice can become part of a celebrity’s visual branding.
BAD GOSS read: this is a real throwback-photo curiosity with a legitimate news peg, not a dramatic revelation. The beard may be gone in the college snapshots, but the nostalgia has arrived right on schedule.
Christopher Lloyd and Danny Zuker Bring Mammoth to Fox
Christopher Lloyd and Danny Zuker are heading back into the comedy business together, this time with Mammoth, a new series headed to Fox. The project is slated for the network’s 2027-28 season, so this is a real booking with a decidedly patient rollout—not a show arriving next month to hijack everyone’s group chat.
The Hollywood Reporter first reported the project, and related coverage from Variety and Deadline also identifies Mammoth as a Fox comedy from the pair. That cross-publication agreement gives the news more weight than a single trade exclusive floating through the industry rumor mill.
The title comes with one important qualifier: Mammoth is based on a British series. In other words, Fox is importing an existing format rather than launching a wholly original American concept from Lloyd and Zuker. That makes the adaptation itself part of the story. The creative challenge will be translating the source material for a U.S. audience while giving the series enough personality to feel like more than a polished transplant.
Lloyd and Zuker are being presented in the coverage as a Modern Family-linked comedy duo, which gives the project an immediately recognizable television pedigree. But the available reporting does not yet provide a cast, episode count, detailed premise or specific premiere date. The 2027-28 window is the firm scheduling information currently attached to the series, leaving Fox plenty of time to fill in the blanks.
That long runway also means Mammoth is an early piece of Fox’s future comedy strategy, not an instant test of the network’s current lineup. For now, the hook is clean: a familiar comedy team, a British format and a Fox order with enough time for the adaptation to become either a smart refresh or a very expensive translation exercise.
Jersey Shore Cast Returns to the Original House
Before Jersey Shore: Family Vacation clocks out, the cast is heading back to the address that made them famous. Us Weekly reports that the show’s finale sends the entire group to the original Shore House for one last Sunday dinner.
The destination matters because this is not simply another cast meal dressed up as an event. The Shore House is the franchise’s starting point, and bringing everyone back there gives the finale a deliberately full-circle setup. The farewell is aimed at MTV, according to the report, rather than being presented as a random vacation stop.
Us Weekly’s information comes from an exclusive preview of the finale, identified as airing Thursday, September 3. Perez Hilton has also published related coverage of the cast’s return to the original house, giving the central detail a second piece of coverage while the episode itself remains the thing viewers are being teased to watch.
That distinction is worth keeping in focus: the dinner and the return to the house are previewed details, not a post-finale account of how the cast handled the goodbye. The available material also does not spell out whether this marks the permanent end of every future Jersey Shore appearance. What it does establish is the producers’ choice of setting and ritual: the whole crew, the old house and a final shared feast.
For a franchise built on familiar rooms, recurring catchphrases and a cast whose history is part of the product, the location does plenty of storytelling before anyone even sits down. The house is doing the heavy emotional lifting here—and, frankly, it has more tenure than most reality-TV friendships.