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Welcome to this week’s 205 Live review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and here comes…El Pollo Loco! Wrestling Takedown Federation brings the action to you! When Hammerclaw sleeps with The Rad Russian’s girlfriend, will he get revenge? Stan The Man wants Bad Irene out of Juggernaut’s life! Triceratops is the man, baby! Love! Thrills! Danger! Action! W.T.F! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Match #1: Ever-Rise def. Leon Ruff & Adrian Alanis The following is courtesy of wwe.com:

Ever-Rise have been on a mission to prove they are one of the best true tag teams in WWE, and they used a battle with Leon Ruff & Adrian Alanis to send a message on 205 Live. The two teams traded blows early, but Matt Martel & Chase Parker ascended for the victory with brutally effective teamwork.

My Opinion: 1.4 out of 5 – This was a dull squash match. Do you wanna...

El Pollo Loco made a gross mistake and tossed a crazy extra ingredient into a side of macaroni and cheese ... at least according to a new lawsuit. A California woman claims she took her 3 kids to the chicken joint, and found a "foreign object" in her side dish. According to docs, obtained by TMZ, that object was a bloody alcohol swab. She doesn't say if it actually got in her boca. In the suit, she's...

From a cultishly followed burger to a much maligned burrito.

Trying to determine which restaurants are the best in the fast food world has seemingly become an industry all its own. Decades ago McDonald’s pulled away from the pack in terms of sales, and Subway has a downright absurd lead when it comes to number of stores, but what’s it mean when customers create demand for a restaurant or spend their money there really?

Market Force Information is the most recent company to try their hand a teasing out the true fast food cream from the rest of the crop.

It’s your birthday and, in the words of Kanye West, you’re most likely “stronger, better, faster.”

But what are you really wishing for? How about a chocolate-drizzled vanilla sundae? The cherry on top — it’s totally free.

To celebrate your day, restaurant chains across America are offering a diverse selection of birthday freebies. So pick your favorite spot(s), gather a group, and feast — for free.

Related: The Slice Is Right! The Best Celebrity Birthday Cakes

Applebee’s: Get a free birthday dessert when you sign up for their email list.

Arby’s: Get a free roast beef...

Santa Ana police are trying to determine what happened to a 21-year-old mother who vanished without a trace nearly two weeks ago. Police say Claudia Reyes was last seen with her husband Eddy on the evening of May 6 at their California apartment complex by their landlord. She did not show up for her shift at El Pollo Loco the following day. "She didn't call in," Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna tells People. "She just didn't show up for her day of work. That is why the people at El Pollo Loco thought it was odd because she always shows...

Santa Ana police are trying to determine what happened to a 21-year-old mother who vanished without a trace nearly two weeks ago. Police say Claudia Reyes was last seen with her husband Eddy on the evening of May 6 at their California apartment complex by their landlord. She did not show up for her shift at El Pollo Loco the following day. "She didn't call in," Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna tells People. "She just didn't show up for her day of work. That is why the people at El Pollo Loco thought it was odd because she always shows...

A little boy was hurt when he was manhandled by Pluto at Disneyland ... and his mom says theme park officials tried to keep the incident on the Qt. It happened Thursday in Toontown, when 8-year-old Ethan walked up to Pluto to give him a hug. The Plutonic cast member obliged, but when you watch the video in slow mo it appears he hyperextends Ethan's back. The boy begins to cry almost immediately, saying he's in pain.

Since breaking out over 20 years ago in "Thelma & Louise," Brad Pitt has been difficult to miss.

After landing his place in cinematic history as a hunky (and shirtless) criminal, Pitt's career blossomed with starring roles in critical and box office hits alike, such as "A River Runs Through It" (1992), "Seven" (1995), and "12 Monkeys" (1995) -- just to name a few. In the past two decades, Pitt has become one of Hollywood's biggest stars, but his role has expanded beyond just acting. In only the past few years, he's produced two Best Picture nominated films, "Moneyball" (2011) and "12 Years a Slave" (2013). This fall, he's back in front of the camera leading his battle-hardened platoon into Nazi Germany in "Fury."

From his early days in Missouri to his unlikely romances, here are 35 things you probably don't know about Brad Pitt.

1. Brad Pitt was born December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma to Jane Hillhouse and William Pitt.

2. His mother was a school counselor,...

Keyshia Cole's estranged husband shocked her by filing divorce papers before she could, or so it seemed ... but Daniel "Boobie" Gibson says it was actually an impostor -- with a thing for El Pollo Loco -- who did the deed.TMZ broke the story ... the singer was on the verge of filing for divorce last month, but still hadn't pulled the trigger when Gibson supposedly filed last week in L.A. County Superior Court.

Coolio is banking on a whole lotta ass making him a player in the music biz again -- he's teamed up with a porn website for his new music video ... and it's filled with wet t-shirts, garden hoses, twerking dinosaurs ... and even Coolio.Coolio tells TMZ ... Pornhub.com agreed to provide all the "talent" for his video -- "Take it to the Hub" -- and in exchange he's going to debut all his new music on the website.

It feels like so long ago that Channing Tatum was just another hunky dancer in a movie about dancing teens. Approximately eight years later, Tatum is a mega-star who married his onscreen dance partner, and a new generation of dancers has taken over. And they're going to Vegas, baby, Vegas!

Redonkulously handsome Ryan Guzman ("Step Up Revolution," "Pretty Little Liars," "Jem and the Holograms") puts on his dancing shoes to join Briana Evigan ("Step Up 2: The Streets") and a bunch of other "Step Up" alums to compete for their very own Vegas show. Yeah, this is a far cry from the dainty ballerinas and krumping flash mobs of years past.

This is director Trish Sie's first feature-length film. You might know her work from Ok Go's video for "Here It Goes Again," which featured the band in a crazy treadmill routine that Sie choreographed and co-directed. That...

The world's entertainment capital is losing out as studios switch big TV and film productions to other locations to save money, leaving studios as little more than grand tourist attractions

Among the tourist hordes on the "walk of fame" last week, you could feel Hollywood casting its spell. They genuflected at the names of actors and film-makers embedded in pink stars in the pavement. Gloria Swanson. John Wayne. Will Smith. Francis Ford Coppola. Quentin Tarantino. Generations of glamour and talent, ringed in brass and close enough to touch.

Open-air vans and double-decker buses packed with camera-toting passengers swayed past palm trees and the Chinese Theatre en route to celebrity home tours – which are in truth celebrity hedge tours, because you seldom glimpse the mansions behind the shrubbery. No matter, the tours are extremely popular: there are now about 40 operators, up from just a handful a few years ago.

With an azure sky and balmy sunshine,...

A-list celebrities weren't always super famous and successful. Before making it big, stars like Sandra Bullock, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were working odd jobs just like the rest of us. Bullock was a bartender struggling to pay her rent long before winning an Oscar. Now, she's one of the highest paid actresses around! As for Aniston? The Friends star wasn't so glamorous back in the day when she was cleaning toilets. And her ex Pitt at an El Pollo Loco in L.A.! Bullock, Aniston and Pitt aren't the only celebs who worked their way up. Check out our brand new gallery for the scoop on stars like Miley Cyrus, Tom Cruise, Hugh Jackman and many more!

It wasn't always bright lights and red carpets for some of our favorite stars - even they had to do the odd job or two before becoming famous. Unsurprisingly, a lot of celebrities spent time working in the food industry to make ends meet, but there's also a handful who took really strange work opportunities in their younger years. Check out our list of odd celebrity jobs to see the typical, the unexpected, and the downright unbelievable. Celebrities Who Worked at Restaurants Madonna was a Dunkin' Donuts clerk, according to a History Channel biography. Rachel McAdams, Pink, and James Franco all worked at McDonald's. Brad Pitt used to dress up as a chicken for El Pollo Loco. Gwen Stefani used to work at Dairy Queen. Jennifer Hudson and Queen Latifah both used to work at Burger King. Barack Obama and Julia Roberts were both ice cream scoopers at Baskin Robbins.

Britney Spears made a fortune last year -- way more than $10 million -- but she's still a hardcore bargain shopper ... this according to new legal docs obtained by TMZ.According to documents, Britney's conservatorship raked in nearly $14 mil in 2012.  But here's the thing ... she spent $6.8 mil, which sounds like a lot, but a closer look makes Brit look like a bargain hunter.-- $63.74 at a 99 Cents Plus-- $11.92 at Pay 99 Cents Or Less-- A tab from Subway,...

It wasn't always bright lights and red carpets for some of our favorite stars - even they had to do the odd job or two before becoming famous. Unsurprisingly, a lot of celebrities spent time working in the food industry to make ends meet, but there's also a handful who took really strange work opportunities in their younger years. Check out our list of odd celebrity jobs to see the typical, the unexpected, and the downright unbelievable. Celebrities Who Worked at Restaurants Madonna was a Dunkin' Donuts clerk, according to a History Channel biography. Rachel McAdams, Pink, and James Franco all worked at McDonald's. Brad Pitt used to dress up as a chicken for El Pollo Loco. Gwen Stefani used to work at Dairy Queen. Jennifer Hudson and Queen Latifah both used to work at Burger King. Barack Obama and Julia Roberts were both ice cream scoopers at Baskin Robbins.

A grease-filled barbeque torpedoed a big party at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch this Am.A large group was there for the shindig, when the staff lit the BBQ to get the coals hot.  We're told a grease build-up on the system ignited the hood system and caused some panic.  Three engines from the Santa Barbara County Fire Dept. arrived but the blaze had already been put out. The BBQ was cancelled.El Pollo Loco anyone?...

"Extra" takes a closer look at this year's Academy Award nominees for Best Actor -- Demián Bichir, George Clooney, Jean Dujardin, Gary Oldman and Brad Pitt.

Best Actor Oscar Nominees 2012: Did You Know?Demián Bichir

Nominated for: "A Better Life"Award-Worthy: Although a well-known actor in his native Mexico, this is Bichir's first Oscar nomination. He is best known to American audiences for playing the drug lord who falls for Mary Louise Parker in the Showtime series "Weeds.

A man is chased in the Everglades and after speaking in Spanish, he is shot by an arrow through the heart. Another man finds him and attempts to remove his necklace, but doesn't reckon with Horatio (David Caruso) sneaking up behind him. Horatio thinks he killed the other man. In french, he begs for Horatio to shoot him. Natalia (Eva Larue) and Ryan (Jonathan Togo) check the Cs and Natalia comments on the arrow going through the tissue and causing a lot of damage. The bow, the murder weapon, turns out to be a compound bow, which Ryan claims could be dumped anywhere out there., well not just anywhere, since Ryan will turn out to be the one who finds it. Me Tom (Christian Clemenson) finds the Vic had a brand on his arm in the form of the number 9, recently burned there. He also has a wound on his right ankle.

Jensen Ross Ackles was born on 1 March 1978 in Dallas, Texas. He is of Irish, Scots and English ancestry. Jensen's parents were going to name him Justin, but settled on Jensen as it wasn't too well known a name. He attended Dartmouth Elementary, Richardson, Texas and graduated from Lloyd Berkner High School, Richardson, Texas in 1996. He is 6' 1" and his height has been the brunt of many a joke in Supernatural. An avid sportsplayer, keen on Lacrosse and baseball, he had aspired to become a sports therapist and wanted to study Sports Medicine at Texas Tech University. Jensen's father, Alan Ackles is also an actor and his mother is Donna. He has an older brother, Josh and a younger sister, Mackenzie. Jensen's Texan accent comes and goes, but is especially strong when he's back home. At the tender age of 2, he began modelling and appeared in such commercials for Wal-Mart, Radio Shack and Nabisco.

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A game of 'Border Patrol' sparked a real border crisis between Mexico and America on 'South Park' (Wed., 10Pm Et on Comedy Central). The boys were playing a game, with half of them border patrol and the other half Mexicans. Butters, playing a Mexican, wound up lost.

A well-meaning couple found him and tried to make him a happy Mexican by letting him do work around the house and yard, but as he wanted to go home, they dropped him off at El Pollo Loco. There he inadvertently sparked a movement among the other Mexicans to return to Mexico, where conditions are much better than in the U.S.

 

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Not that we would ever doubt it, but Channing Tatum must have been one talented stripper back in the day. Not only will his bump-and-grind past get the movie treatment, but the project was so appealing, it propelled Steven Soderbergh out of an early retirement. As EW reported Friday, the director will helm the film, inspired by Tatum’s past as a stripper. While moviegoers will still have to wait a while to watch the actor channel his humble G-string beginnings, it got me thinking about which other stars I’d love to see hop in the way back machine...

By Emily-Fortune Feimster

HollywoodNews.com: They may be making the big bucks now — but it wasn’t that long ago that these super stars were at the bottom of the barrel.

P. Diddy, one of the most well-known money makers of his time, started his career working for free. That’s right! He was an intern for the now-defunct Uptown Records and did everything from washing cars to fetching coffee. This bad boy worked his way up to being a dancer in Father Mc’s video “Treat Them Like They Want to be Treated” while attending the prestigious Howard University, majoring in Business. He now owns his own record label and is worth over $300 million. Guess working for free really pays off!

The Material Girl Madonna worked at a Dunkin Donuts in New York City’s Times Square before becoming an international pop icon. Donuts anyone? Having a whopping Iq...

From a clay trapper to dressing as a giant chicken, these A-listers had some pretty interesting jobs before they became big and famous. Try to figure out which celebrity did what job in this fun list!

Guess the Celebrity JobDunkin' Donuts

She had big dreams and just $35 in her pocket when she moved to New York in search of fame. A struggling dancer, she managed to land a counter job at Dunkin' Donuts in Times Square.

For many actors on successful sitcoms, summer hiatus represents a time to vacation, to recuperate, to maybe pick up a frivolous hobby or two. Simon Helberg, on the other hand, is using his time off from the CBS series "The Big Bang Theory" as an opportunity to cram in as much stage work as humanly possible. The actor will star in a pair of theater productions this season: "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," produced by Reprise Theater Company, and "Doctor Cerberus," a 1980s-set tale of a socially awkward young man who finds solace in horror movies, produced by L.A. Theatre Works for its The Play's the Thing radio series. "It's hard to convince your agents and managers to do theater, because it's not as financially rewarding and it takes up a lot of time," muses Helberg. "So I guess when you have the luxury of being...

Kultida Woods, mother of Tiger Woods, took time out from trying to avoid stories about her son yesterday to hit up a local El Pollo Loco.Clearly Tiger's mom also enjoys side dishes. More Tiger Woods Tiger's Alleged Mistress -- Too Bad for TV Tiger Woods All Up In Tony Romo's Box Where in the World is Tiger Woods' Mom? ...

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Regular readers of this site may know that we’ve been a little harsh on the forthcoming Cher/Christina Aguilera musical, Burlesque. We may have previously intimated that it might be the kind of movie that could boil the rivers away, darken the skies and set the Moon spinning wildly off its axis, killing millions.But today, Kristen Bell joined the cast, and shook us to our very core. Forget what we thought we knew, for everything we thought we knew was wrong. After all, Kristen Bell is a) wonderful, b) a goddess, c) Veronica Mars and d) all of the above, and her presence in the movie means that we’re all kinds of confused.The pixie-like Bell will sing and dance her little heart out as Nikki, the lead dancer at a burlesque nightclub run by Cher. When Aguilera shows up as a small-town girl with a heart...