Welcome back to great day Washington.
Gosh, we start our morning mix
today with some sad news singer
and actress Olivia Newton.
John has passed away.
I know you've been seeing
the tributes all morning.
She was best known of course,
for her role as Sandy in the 70s
blockbuster hit grease but she
is a four time Grammy winner.
She gained lots of success from her
80s pop album physical and sold more
than 100 million albums throughout
her career over the last 30 years.
Newton John has been treated
for cancer several times,
including most recently.
At the base of her spine,
Newton John's husband announced that she
lost her battle on Monday in California.
She was 73 years old.
Her grease co-star did say something.
John Travolta.
He posted this tribute to Instagram.
My dearest Olivia,
you made all of our lives so much better.
Your impact was incredible.
I love you so much.
We will see you down the road and
we will all be together again.
Yours from the first moment I saw
you and forever your Danny, your
John so sweet when I saw this come across.
This was just heartbreaking, right?
This was one of those icons.
I mean physical.
Her song physical and.
Front of the mirror, but grease of course.
That was her first movie right?
Is she ever did and John Travolta like
really rallied to get her to be Sandy.
They were looking at a couple other
actresses and he pulled her in there.
Seeing all the tributes this morning
and then also I'm learning things
with her having breast cancer and
fighting cancer for so many years.
I didn't realize she created a hospital.
Yeah she built a hospital.
She was later than treated
in herself so her legacy.
She lives.
Of course we take it from the
entertainment aspect and watching
grease over and over but also.
In the cancer community
has had quite an impact.
She's done so much,
helped her community in Melbourne
and we had her nephew Emerson on
here a few years ago on great day
Washington and he just raved about
his aunt and he just Olivia is the
nicest and what you would expect
her to be because I was like,
OK really.
How is she and he's like no,
she's a wonderful human being so big
thoughts and prayers to their family
actor Ashton Kutcher disclosed that
he has been battling an autoimmune
disease for over a year during
an interview for an upcoming.
Episode of National Geographics
running Wild with Bear Grylls.
The challenge the actor says he
had a rare form of vasculitis.
According to Kutcher,
the condition affected his sight
hearing and mobility and it took
him more than a year to recover.
Now vasculitis happens when a body's
immune system starts to attack arteries.
Veins, the small capillaries.
Actor director Harold Ramis,
best known for his films including Stripes,
Ghostbusters,
Groundhog Day.
He died of escalators in 2014.
Four years after he contracted the condition.
So now Ashton speaking out about
that and and really working hard
to to overcome that recover.
Thankful for the celebrities and their
transparency about what's going on,
because we see them at their best moments.
Of course, we're interviewing them
here when they are promoting something
that's big and that they love,
but things like Justin Bieber opening up
about what's going on with bells palsy.
Yeah, space.
I like that because it just means
that you know the stardom doesn't
make you immune from diseases.
And we're obviously seeing you know
the positive side of their lives
for everything on social media.
But to your point,
for them to share it and then
still be optimistic and positive,
I think helps so many others feel
better and feel like they're not alone.
Absolutely OK,
we have some uplifting news
we need to get to as well.
Ohio Governor Mike Dewine has declared
today honorary Dolly Parton Day in Ohio.
I'm so proud of my home State Park
will visit Columbus today to celebrate.
To also celebrate the success
of her imagination,
Library of Ohio Partons imaginary library
males more than 327,000 kids in Ohio,
a free book every month.
It's not just in Ohio, right?
Obviously we have it here.
We're lucky to have a decent country,
and even in other countries as well.
I believe Australian and another another one,
so it's what it's Speaking of
somebody else who has the talent
but leaving a legacy behind,
fighting the literacy,
helping the young kids was do
you remember like a big dog?
Was Dolly huge in Ohio growing up.
Do you remember any of that?
I don't not any bigger than what I remember.
OK,
I've heard other places so I
think she's having lunch today
with the First Lady of Ohio.
Nice, I think that's pretty cool.
You can watch it live.
Apparently you can live stream.
This lunch is going to be alright.
She'll be doing a lunch show.
Right, the Seattle Mariners?
They have a new team member
and an unofficial mascot.
This is Tucker.
He is a four year old Labrador
Retriever mix who the Mariners saved
from an animal shelter so the team
wanted to remind Seattle baseball
fans that there is a huge population
of animals who need forever homes.
I mean, how could you not adopt that face?
Tucker is popular at games
as you can imagine.
He's popular in social media.
He already has close to 24,000
followers on Twitter, Twitter and look,
he's.
Not like the largest field to rutted and joy,
and the best people who could throw a
ball really far for him to go chase.
Apparently it's going to go on some Rd games,
he will be many of the home games obviously,
but also some Rd games and my
favorite part was when they made
the announcement they talked
about they scouted him for a long
time and his numbers were high
so we had to take him
high in the draft it was.
It was a really funny.
I love that we had the cats
on yesterday on the show.
The dogs there are animals that
want to be adopted speaking.
A job opening that you might
want to sleep on Casper,
a mattress seller, of course,
posted a listing on its website
looking to hire someone with
exceptional sleeping ability.
The job includes napping and Casper stores,
as well as in quote unexpected settings.
The part time gig also calls for
someone who doesn't mind sleeping
with a camera on and who can
quote sleep through anything you
only have till Thursday to apply
if you are really good napper.
That's for you. Do you take naps?
Oh no.
I mean,
I hate now I'm not gonna terrible
when I wake up from a nap and I
can't sleep anywhere I've gotta.
I'm like my 9:00 PM to 5:00 AM everyday.
I can sleep,
but then I wake up feeling
like OK my back my neck like if
you don't have your own bed.
Yeah we do have a Casper and
I love it so be comfortable.