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Fran Drescher calls for an end to “bull***t” vaccine mandates

<p dir="ltr">Fran Drescher has divided audiences after using her platform to go on a tirade about bringing an end to “bull***t” vaccine mandates. </p> <p dir="ltr">The former star of <em>The Nanny</em> took to the stage at the 2023 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Sunday, and used the opportunity to voice her controversial opinions about Covid-19 restrictions. </p> <p dir="ltr">“As the nation declares an end to the Covid emergency this May, I hope we will see everyone return to work in equal opportunity,” Drescher, 65, said in her speech during the telecast,<em> <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/fran-drescher-calls-for-end-to-vaccine-mandate-in-sag-speech/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter">Page Six</a></em> reports. </p> <p dir="ltr">The entertainment industry’s pandemic protocols were originally set to end on January 31st, but have been extended until April 1st. </p> <p dir="ltr">Meanwhile, more than 20 US states still enforce vaccine mandates to varying degrees.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Our industry brings billions of production dollars to states across the nation, but if they want our business, let’s wield our financial influence to make governors act in the best interest of freedom, diversity, inclusion and democracy,” Drescher said.</p> <p dir="ltr">“As my character Bobbi Flekman said in <em>This Is Spinal Tap</em> – money talks and bulls**t walks!”</p> <p dir="ltr">Her divisive comments were met with a mixed reaction online, with many viewers claiming it was “irresponsible” for Drescher to use her platform in such a way.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Fran Drescher’s comments on the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CovidVaccine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CovidVaccine</a> were irresponsible. Using her logic, people wouldn’t be universally vaccinated against diseases like measles and tetanus. Public health is PUBLIC because it takes collective work.</p> <p>— 🇺🇦мег 🇺🇦 (@sassybibrarian) <a href="https://twitter.com/sassybibrarian/status/1630038810095648768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2023</a></p></blockquote> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">God I love Fran Drescher, but her speech at the SAG awards could have been an email.</p> <p>— Francis (@Fusterduster) <a href="https://twitter.com/Fusterduster/status/1630022506668249088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2023</a></p></blockquote> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Woody Harrelson and now Fran Drescher. Big weekend for anti-vaxxers.</p> <p>— 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐬 ⁽ʷʰᵒ ⁱˢ ᵍᵃʸ⁾ (@cinema_gay) <a href="https://twitter.com/cinema_gay/status/1630021950293655554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2023</a></p></blockquote> <p dir="ltr">Elsewhere in her speech, Drescher also discussed her efforts to help make Hollywood more environmentally friendly by joining with Green Council with a goal to eliminate single-use plastic both on camera and behind the scenes.</p> <p dir="ltr">She also applauded IMDb for “taking a stand against ageism, stereotyping and gender rigidity by allowing our members to define themselves their way on their profile page – for free.”</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image credits: Getty Images</em><span id="docs-internal-guid-1cf5b55a-7fff-4610-144c-c7e3ae12e9d4"></span></p>

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​The Nanny's Fran Drescher opens up about her friend with benefits: “It keeps me going”

<p>Fran Drescher has opened up about being single and happy, and a main contributor to this is a sex partner that keeps her company whenever she needs.</p> <p>Former<span> </span><em>The Nanny </em>star told Page Six at a NBC Universal Press Junket that she is currently “dating herself and it’s going quite well.”</p> <p>“I have my gay ex-husband who I love and he fulfils a lot of needs. I have someone on the side who is a friend with benefits.”</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/B7bh3SpFTdZ/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B7bh3SpFTdZ/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by Fran Drescher (@officialfrandrescher)</a> on Jan 17, 2020 at 10:03am PST</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Drescher admitted that due to her extremely tight travel schedule, she sees her casual sex partner about twice a month and said it’s “more than enough”.</p> <p>“It’s delightful and delicious but I’ve got a big life,” she revealed.</p> <p>“(We’re) very comfortable with each other and we have our routine.</p> <p>“It’s always the same experience. We really don’t go out, we don’t go to restaurants, we don’t date. What we do, we do great.”</p> <p>The actress also said when her and her partner are united, she pulls out all the stops.</p> <p>“He comes over, we hang out and we do the hot tub and I make us some food and we lay in bed and maybe we’ll watch tennis together, whatever it is or a movie,” she said.</p> <p>“We talk, we have good conversations.”</p> <p>She added with a giggle: “Of course we have sex, and it’s delightful and it keeps me going.”</p> <p>Drescher chose to keep the identity of the lucky man to herself.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/B6KDSYOFcfw/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B6KDSYOFcfw/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by Fran Drescher (@officialfrandrescher)</a> on Dec 16, 2019 at 6:38pm PST</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>She was previously married to Peter Marc Jacobson for 21 years, but he came out as gay when they broke things off in 1999 and have remained close ever since.</p> <p>The actress was also married to Dr Shiva Ayyadurai from 2014 to 2016.</p>

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The Nanny’s Fran Drescher looks incredible at 61!

<p>At the age of 61, Fran Drescher is still turning heads.</p> <p>The brunette bombshell famously came onto the scene in the '90s for her sitcom <em>The Nanny</em>.</p> <p>And now the comedy TV star is back again after 20 years with her latest show <em>Indebted</em> – one of four sitcoms picked up by NBC in the US.</p> <p>Co-starring <em>Wings</em> alum Steven Weber, <em>The Mindy Project</em> star Adam Pally, and <em>Saturday Night Live </em>alum Abby Elliot, the show follows “boomerang parents” who have gone completely broke and decide to move in unannounced with their son and daughter-in-law.</p> <p>Since wrapping up her hit TV show <em>The Nanny</em>, 61-year-old Drescher has helped run a charity called Cancer Schmancer, and has also served as a health advocate raising awareness for the benefits for early cancer detections and prevention.</p> <p>“It’s deepened me as a human being. It’s forced me to have a life that resonates more with other people’s needs, with compassion, and a sensitivity to other people’s pain,” Drescher told <a rel="noopener" href="https://people.com/health/fran-drescher-says-uterine-cancer-battle-deepened-me-as-a-person-i-am-better-for-it/" target="_blank"><em>People</em><span> </span>magazine.</a></p> <p>“I feel like I got famous, I got cancer, and I lived to tell about it. So that’s kind of become my life mission… All the work I do as an actor is to stay current so I can speak to the platforms I’m passionate about.”</p> <p>Scroll through the gallery above to see how incredible Fran Drescher is looking at 61. </p>

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The storyline that killed off “The Nanny”

<p>In a recent interview with <em>Studio 10</em>, former star of <em>The Nanny</em>, Fran Drescher, has dished on all the secrets from the set of this hit '90s sitcom, including the storyline she believes led to the show’s demise.</p> <p>The now 59-year-old appeared on Ten’s morning show on Wednesday with her ex-husband (and close friend) Peter Marc Jacobson, reminiscing about her time on the program. According to Drescher, the romance between protagonists Fran Fine and Maxwell Sheffield was ultimately what killed the show.</p> <p>“When a show is built around a love that can't happen, sexual tension, you have to keep it that way,” Jacobson, co-creator of <em>The Nanny</em> with Drescher, explained. “As much as you want the people to get together, as soon as they do, people start tuning out.”</p> <p>And, if you look at the ratings, it’s hard to argue with her. The show, which ran from 1993 to 1999, experienced a sharp decline in ratings after the storyline was introduced. Ironically, the drop came right after the producers succumbed to the network’s threats of cancellation after experiencing a small dip in ratings.</p> <p>As for the possibility of a <em>Nanny</em> comeback? Drescher hasn’t ruled it out. “We wouldn’t do it for the money,” she said. “We would do it because we cracked the code on how to tell the story 20 years later.”</p> <p>“And make it interesting. I set a very high standard. At this stage of my life, it has to make my heart sing. As Peter said, once the sexual tension is gone, now she is the wife, there went the series. So, to go back... We would have to figure out where we are starting from and what it is.”</p> <p>If you're wondering what the cast got up to after the show finished and what they look like today, <a href="http://www.oversixty.com.au/entertainment/tv/2016/12/where-is-the-cast-of-the-nanny-now/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>click here</strong></span></a>.</p> <p>Were you a fan of <em>The Nanny</em>? Would you like to see it return to our screens? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.</p>

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