{"id":95584,"date":"2026-10-18T22:13:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T05:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95584"},"modified":"2026-10-18T22:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T05:13:35","slug":"not-leaving-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/10\/18\/not-leaving-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Leaving Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After his recent suicide attempt, <strong>Carrot Top <\/strong>has finally issued a statement: \u201cI\u2019m truly overwhelmed by the outpouring of love, support, prayers, and well wishes I\u2019ve received over the past couple of weeks.&nbsp; Every message, text, and kind thought has meant more to me than you will know.&nbsp; While I haven\u2019t been able to respond to everyone individually, please know that I\u2019ve felt your love and appreciate each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart.&nbsp; Thank you for being there for me during this time.&nbsp; It truly means the world to me!\u201d&nbsp; While I am glad he\u2019s OK, I still would like to know more about this alleged extortion and claims of sexual misconduct.&nbsp; Perhaps he\u2019ll mention it during his shows at <strong><em>Luxor<\/em><\/strong> in Las Vegas, which are scheduled to resume by the time you read this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Las Vegas, <strong>Barry Manilow <\/strong>is making all sorts of news.&nbsp; Two weeks ago, he returned to the stage of the <strong><em>International Theater <\/em><\/strong>at the <strong><em>Westgate Las Vegas <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 his first performance since recovering from bronchitis.&nbsp; It was a short-lived return.&nbsp; After a successful first performance back, the second show was truncated.&nbsp; He left the stage after two songs, saying, \u201cTalk amongst yourselves\u201d.&nbsp; He never returned.&nbsp; The rumors started and they actually reached Barry!&nbsp; When he took to the stage a week later, he asked the capacity crowd, \u201cSo, how was your week?\u201d&nbsp; He then continued: \u201cI was reading the papers, and I read \u2018singer collapses in the wings\u2019.&nbsp; I said, \u2018Who can that be?\u2019&nbsp; So I read a little bit more, and it\u2019s me!&nbsp; But that was all bullshit.&nbsp; That didn\u2019t even happen at all.&nbsp; But I loved it!&nbsp; Has anybody here had bronchitis?&nbsp; You know that you cannot sing with bronchitis, and I thought, well, I\u2019ll give it a try.&nbsp; And it didn\u2019t work.&nbsp; And we had to cancel the show.&nbsp; Oy, the Jewish guilt!\u201d&nbsp; He wrapped up by saying, \u201cBut I\u2019m feeling fine now, so thanks for giving me another chance to come to our show.\u201d&nbsp; Catch him while you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his recent suicide attempt, Carrot Top has finally issued a statement: \u201cI\u2019m truly overwhelmed by the outpouring of love, support, prayers, and well wishes I\u2019ve received over the past couple of weeks.&nbsp; Every message, text, and kind thought has meant more to me than you will know.&nbsp; While I haven\u2019t been able to respond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95585,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95584\/revisions\/95585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}