Olivia Wilde vs. Chris Farley eating contest called into question
Actress Olivia Wilde (House M. D., Tron: Legacy) relates the following tale from her childhood in the April edition of GQ:
I wanted to be on Saturday Night Live since I was ten. My father took me to a live taping on my birthday. Chris Farley was still in the cast and at the after-party he had a brownie eating contest.
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It became, like, a very valuable, powerful moment in my childhood. Although it was the only eating contest I have ever lost.
This story is either incorrect or Olivia Wilde’s public birthday (March 10, 1984) is inaccurate. Saturday Night Live was never televised live on March 10 during Chris Farley’s tenure as a cast member, which started in fall 1990 and ended in 1995. During that time period March 10 fell on Sunday (1991), Tuesday (1992), Wednesday (1993), Thursday (1994) and Friday (1995).
If a new episode was televised live on Saturday, March 9, 1991, the last hour of the program would have taken place just after midnight on March 10 (when Olivia would have turned seven). No episode was produced on that date; the first live SNL episode of March 1991 was broadcast on March 16.
Olivia Wilde shares a March 10 birthday with Jon Hamm of Mad Men, who was recently caught in an apparent fib about playing baseball at the University of Texas with Roger Clemens.
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Gentleman Joe said (Registered December 8, 2005)
March 5, 2012 @ 8:14 pm
Really, Really?! We’re calling out a hot actress for possibly fibbing about either her age, an eating contest, or…what? REALLY?!
Anonymous said
March 5, 2012 @ 8:47 pm
Agreed. This is stupid. Don’t you think it’s possible she said “for” her birthday and was misquoted? Reporters suck and constantly misquote. It wouldn’t be hard to screw up a preposition.
I hate the world said
March 5, 2012 @ 9:15 pm
who gives a shit? Talk about something else
OJ has lost it! said
March 5, 2012 @ 11:48 pm
Really. Who gives a rat’s ass about digging up such trivial nonsense. OJ you need to get a life!
OJ deserves it said
March 6, 2012 @ 12:11 am
Sooner or later the chickens come home to roost. The comment moderation only applied to his pets. The others took a beating while he sat back and enjoyed every minute of it. Some eaters careers were ruined because of this site , some who were respected are no longer respected by the eating world because of him. I hope you are satisfied Mr or Mrs Rifkin and i hope you get what you deserve and it wont be good either