( Photo Credit: Zach Hyman)
( Photo Credit: Zach Hyman)

There’s a new character on “Sesame Street” who had her big debut yesterday! The muppet’s name is Julia. She’s 4. And she’s on the autism spectrum.

In it, we see Julia playing a game with her friends and her job is to find objects shaped like certain geometric shapes.Julia Bascom, deputy executive director of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network says:

“Often autistic people get left out of societal conventions about us. In the show itself, it’s been really great to see her movements and her way of communication respected. Julia flaps and jumps when she’s happy.”  

(theGrio)
(theGrio)

Oscar Munoz, the CEO of United Airlines says employees “followed established procedures” in an incident which saw a passenger literally dragged off a plane. A disturbing scene unfolded on a United flight from Chicago to Louisville on Sunday when cops forcibly dragged a doctor off the plane after he refused to give up his seat on the overbooked aircraft. “Not a good way to treat a doctor trying to get to work,” passenger Tyler Bridges tweeted along with video of the incident. “Kids were crying.” Another tweeted, “United overbooked and wanted four of us to volunteer to give up our seats for personnel that needed to be at work the next day. No one volunteered, so United decided to choose for us. They chose an Asian doctor and his wife. The doctor needed to work at the hospital the next day, so he refused to ‘volunteer.’ United decided to use force on the doctor…The doctor’s face was slammed against an armrest, causing serious bleeding from his mouth.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uZsaP4l8bw

https://twitter.com/Tyler_Bridges/status/851214160042106880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fuproxx.com%2Fnews%2Funited-airlines-forcibly-removes-doctor-from-flight%2F

(TooFab)
(TooFab)

Katy Perry has hilariously weighed in on the rumors that she’s dating Ryan Phillippe. The pop star took to Twitter to respond to the actor’s message from over the weekend, in which he asked the press to leave him alone. “I am not dating Katy Perry,” he wrote. Barely know her. Please stop flying helicopters over my house. She is not here. Thx.” Perry chimed in on Monday afternoon by writing, “Can you let me out of this basement pls?” She added, “Hi, @RyanPhillippe. Nice to meet you. Sorry about that. Carry on.” Perry is single after splitting from Orlando Bloom in February. Meanwhile, Phillippe called off his engagement to his girlfriend of five yaers, Paulina Slagter, last year.

(Heavy.com)

(Heavy.com)

Gordon Ramsay won’t be leaving his fortune to his four children in his will. “It’s definitely not going to them, and that’s not in a mean way; it’s to not spoil them,” he tells The Telegraph. “The only thing I’ve agreed with [my wife] Tana is they get a 25 per cent deposit on a flat, but not the whole flat.” Ramsay goes on reveal that the kids get a weekly allowance and are expected to pay their own bus fare, phone bills and luxury items they’re eyeing. “The earlier you give them that responsibility to save for their own trainers and jeans, the better,” he notes. In fact, Ramsay’s strict parenting extends to vacations as well. “They don’t sit with us in first class. They haven’t worked anywhere near hard enough to afford that,” he declares. “At that age, at that size, you’re telling me they need to sit in first class? No, they do not. We’re really strict on that.” He adds, “I turn left with Tana and they turn right and I say to the chief stewardess, ‘Make sure those little f**kers don’t come anywhere near us; I want to sleep on this plane.’ I worked my f**king arse off to sit that close to the pilot.”