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Yahoo
4 days ago
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A Guest On CNN Attempted To Do A Backflip Live On Air, And It Realllllyyy Did Not End Well
A recent guest on CNN News Central tried to do a backflip during a live broadcast, and his awkward attempt is going mega-viral. Related: The segment with Robert Anthony Cruz, a member of the Savannah Bananas exhibition baseball team, has already amassed over 6.1 million views on X. CNN / Twitter: @PopCrave In the clip, Cruz went up... And around... Related: And smacked the floor. "That never happens," Cruz said as he knelt on the floor in disbelief. Related: "That, what you just saw there, is a brand new twist on America's favorite pastime," host John Berman said as the camera cut away. The host is literally all of us. One person said, "this is why the male backflipping epidemic needs to come to an end." Related: "can't explain but Benson Boone stopped him somehow," this person joked. And another said, "1,000 times funnier and more interesting than a successful backflip. He should be very proud." Cruz took to Instagram to laugh at himself afterwards, posting another angle with the caption: "The sound makes it 10x funnier. Yes, you have my permission to laugh. Yes, I'm all good. Some stitches, slightly damaged pride, and some unparalleled dad lore." Don't try this at home, folks! Also in Internet Finds: Also in Internet Finds: Also in Internet Finds: Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
4 days ago
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CNN Guest Goes Viral After Live Backflip Ends In A Face Plant: 'Yes, You Have Permission To Laugh'
A CNN guest ended up needing stitches after a backflip fail live on CNN News Central. RobertAnthony Cruz, a member of the Savannah Bananas exhibition baseball team, face planted into the studio floor after being asked to showcase his skills by hosts Kate Bolduan and John Berman. More from Deadline David Gergen Dies: CNN Political Analyst & Presidential Adviser Was 83 CNN Defends Report On FEMA's Slowed Response To Texas Floods Amid Attacks From Trump's Department Of Homeland Security CNN Hires Brad Smith As Anchor For Its FAST Channel A 13-second clip of the incident has generated more than 5M views on X/Twitter alone, with Cruz making quite the thud as he splayed out on the ground. Bolduan could be heard exclaiming, 'Oh Jesus,' as Cruz attempted the flip. When the camera cut back to her, the presenter was clasping her hands over her mouth. 'What you just saw there is a brand new twist on America's favorite pastime,' Berman said. Luckily, Cruz was ok. In an Instagram post, which included a backstage video of the stunt gone wrong, the Savannah Bananas star said: 'The sound makes it 10x funnier. Yes, you have my permission to laugh. Yes, I'm all good. Some stitches, slightly damaged pride, and some unparalleled dad lore.' In a separate video reflecting on the fail, Cruz explained that he was running low on sleep before performing the stunt, and the bright light of the studio set meant that he lost his bearings in mid-air. 'I was pretty confused. My mic pack fell out of my pocket, my shoe flew off of my foot. I don't even know how that happened. I feel bad for the news anchors because they just sat there like, Ok, we're not supposed to laugh, but oh my gosh, that was funny,' Cruz observed. 'They just had to carry on.' Cruz said he was unable to take part in an interview because he was covered in blood from splitting his lip and chin. The video contained a photo of Cruz receiving medical attention, which he said included 'several stitches.' 'Thank God, aside from my damaged pride, I didn't sustain any significant injuries,' he said. Best of Deadline 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery Everything We Know About Season 3 Of 'Euphoria' So Far Solve the daily Crossword
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
CNN guest's attempt at backflip goes disastrously wrong live on air
A CNN guest face-planted after attempting to perform a backflip live on-air. The flub from a Savannah Bananas baseball performer left CNN News Central hosts Kate Bolduan and John Berman briefly at a loss on Thursday. They looked on in shock as the accident played out in real time. This is a breaking news story; please check for updates. This Savannah Bananas baseball performer face plants a backflip on CNN live. — Eddie Scarry (@eScarry) July 24, 2025
Yahoo
20-07-2025
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One-Handed Backflip: Best Wave Pool Air Ever?
Before most people could buzz from their morning coffee, 18-year-old Hughie Vaughan was bouncing off the walls. Yesterday, the 18-year-old Australian, fresh off winning Stab High Japan and entering the 2025 Swatch Nines at the 11th hour, paddled out for the first session of the day and landed one of the most inverted, off-axis airs ever seen in Waco's famed wave pool. Hughie greased a one-handed stalefish backflip — with no straps or winch pull — right in front of slack-jawed filmers. When the clip circulated on social media, plenty of heavyweights chimed in on Hughie's accomplishment. From Mick Fanning to Julian Wilson to Mateus Herdy to Paul Fisher, they were all stunned. "There's a new standard," Julian Wilson said. "That was unbelievable." A few hours later, while eating banana cream pie before his last session of the day, the grom got another surprise as he scrolled through his phone. 'No way,' Hughie exclaimed. 'Tony Hawk just followed me.' The living skate legend dubbed Hughie's move 'The Stale Fish Flipper' and instantly gave the young surfer major kudos. This is the kind of cross-pollination Swatch Nines strives for. It's a surf, skate and BMX playground where ideas are shared, attempted and lauded. The unexpected is celebrated, and Hughie's rotation is already being hailed as arguably the best air ever done in a wave pool. Certainly, Jacob Szekely, Matt Meola and Mikey Wright could add their names to the hat, but a one-handed backflip without straps or a winch? That has to take the cake. '(Hughie) didn't even know what he did today,' Chippa Wilson said. 'He didn't know he just did the best air ever done in a wave pool.' Due to the format of the event, things like Hughie's wave can go down at any moment. In removing the constraints of competition like heats and scores, organizers created a caldron of creativity. Head to the bathroom and you're liable to miss an air. Grab a sandwich and you won't see the boardslide. But you'll hear the cheers. You can watch for a while, see nothing land, but then the remarkable happens when you glance away. 'It's wild—there's nothing else like it,' said BMX star Kevin Peraza, fresh off his recent X Games bronze medal in Tokyo. 'You've got creativity, and a bunch of different athletes feeding off each other—it's non-stop.' Hughie's air has been the most impactful move from Swatch Nines Surf thus far, but plenty of highlights have gone down over the last two days: A 200-ton crane hoisting an illuminated 8-foot aluminum ring, surfers flying through (and crashing into) said ring, boardslides on floating rails, winch-whipped full rotations and a barrage of technical airs. In the last light day two, Robbie "Rasta Rob" McCormick stomped a huge backside 540 off the winch on the left, and a few minutes later, Jacob Szekely landed a lofty tail-high 360 (sans winch) with a burned finger he sustained while holding a flare on an earlier attempt. Gotta pay to play, they say. One of the biggest changes between last year's inaugural event and this year's edition is the enormous floating skate ramp and rails suspended by the crane. Surfers have three rails to choose from: a straight rail, a kink rail and an arched wallriding feature. And after just a few sessions, things are already clicking. Mason Ho, Noah Beschen and Zeke had several clean attempts on the left. Cam Richards, battling bruised knees and bloody shins, has also been a standout. He's glided across the kink rail numerous times and completed a clean fakie boardslide over the wallride, a move so sweet that Nines founder Nico Zacek ran the length of the pool to embrace him. If nothing else, the Nines challenge surfers. It makes them put into practice things that normally only exist in a deep, dark corner of their brains. Even for creatives and technical maestros like Mason and Chippa, who have seen and done much in their careers, Waco offers something different. 'I've loved trying wallrides or any sort of boardslides in surfing,' Mason said. 'I've loved it just because I'm a little crazy and there's rocks or something in the way. It's so fun to tear a wave apart, but now it's like, I'm in the water, then out of the water. It's all about the combo. 'Last year, they had the rail and the hamster ball, and it was one of the funnest events I've been a part of," he continued. "This year is even more special and it feels like just the beginning. Last year, we used this tractor for the rail. And it was at the very end of the wave. Now, we've asked them to move it to the middle and gone way bigger with the crane. They've gone to the next level and it's like a dream come true.' 'I've never done pool rails, but I did skate a lot when I was a kid,' Chippa said. 'And this was the closest feeling to hitting your first rail as a kid. It's crazy. A front boardslide feels so sick. So when I first hit this setup, I was so fired up. I almost stuck it and I just needed to go again.' Call it novel, experimental, random or radical. Stuff is happening at Swatch Nines. One-Handed Backflip: Best Wave Pool Air Ever? first appeared on Surfer on Jun 25, 2025
Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Entertainment
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Internet-Breaking Aussie Surfer Hughie Vaughan Lands New Sponsor
Last month, 18-year-old Hughie Vaughan launched into the mainstream-verse for his one-handed backflip during the Swatch Nines Surf event in Waco. The algorithm soaked up the footage like water on a sponge, and everyone wanted a piece of Hughie. Tony Hawk lauded his "stalefish flipperr". Even The Today Showand The Guardianpicked it up. But Hughie has no-so-quietly been killing it in the ocean years before he blew up for a wavepool air. Born and raised on the central coast of New South Wales, Hughie is a grom's grom. Big airs, big slabs, damn the consequences (Check out a proper highlight reel here). He runs on candy and soda. His energy and surf-all-day attitude make him a perfect fit for his new sponsor, the red-hot rider-backed eyewear brand known as Ritual Vision. Hughie's addition adds to an already loaded roster: The three founders, Mikey Wright, Noa Deane, and Harry Bryant, along with creative director Dion Agius, plus Mason Ho, Parker Coffin, Rolo Montes, Holly Wawn and Milla Coco Brown. All of those surfers will be featured in Ritual Vision's debut film, Ritualistic Tendencies, set to debut this December. Directed by renowned filmmaker Wade Carroll (Repeater, Saturn). Word is that the location-based includes an all-time score at a board-crunching Mexican point break. Hughie's tendency to stick massive punts and charge solid waves has endeared him to some of the best freesurfers in the world, the same guys who are now his teammates with Ritual Vision. And Hughie needs good shades right now. He's future is looking Aussie Surfer Hughie Vaughan Lands New Sponsor first appeared on Surfer on Jul 20, 2025
