“Nick News with Linda Ellerbee: My Big Fat Failure”: Celebrities and children discuss failure and how to turn it around
On the half-hour special “Nick News with Linda Ellerbee: My Big Fat Failure,” premiering at 8 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26, on Nickelodeon, celebrities and children talk about their failures and how they overcome them.
Tina Fey, Brian Williams, Richard Branson, Wendy Williams, Russell Simmons, George Lopez, Julie Bowen, Nick Cannon, Melissa Joan Hart, Wally Amos, Jimmie Johnson, author Rick Riordan, snowboarder Kelly Clark and YouTube creator Chad Hurley discuss on the program how they turned down to up, according to a news release.
Some of the celebrity quotes on failure, provided by Nickelodeon, are as follows:
- “I don’t know anyone who hasn’t failed,” says NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. “I don’t want to know anyone who hasn’t failed.”
- “I was hopeless in school,” says billionaire businessman Richard Branson. “It was all mumbo-jumbo to me.”
- “I wanted to be a comedian since I was 11 years old,” says George Lopez. “But when the time came to do it, I’m not sure that I had ever been that nervous, that afraid.”
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