• Tiger King’s Joe Exotic Reveals Cancer Diagnosis, Requests Prison Release

    Tiger King’s Joe Exotic Reveals Cancer Diagnosis, Requests Prison Release

    ‘Tiger King’ star Joe Exotic revealed his cancer diagnosis while asking for fans to help him get released from prison amid 22-year sentence — details
  • Nicolas Cage Won’t Star as Tiger King’s Joe Exotic as Amazon Scraps Series

    Nicolas Cage Won’t Star as Tiger King’s Joe Exotic as Amazon Scraps Series

    Nicolas Cage revealed he will no longer portray the titular ‘Tiger King’ in Amazon's highly-anticipated scripted drama — get the details
  • Carole Baskin says finding missing former husband would be ‘huge relief’

    Carole Baskin says finding missing former husband would be ‘huge relief’

    Carole Baskin said it would be a “huge relief” if her missing former husband — rumored to have been killed and fed to tigers — were to be found thanks to a commercial that ran during her “Dancing With the Stars” debut. Baskin reacted this week to the spot put out by the family of …
  • Family of Carole Baskin’s missing ex-husband airs ad during ‘DWTS’

    Family of Carole Baskin’s missing ex-husband airs ad during ‘DWTS’

    The family of Carole Baskin’s missing millionaire ex-husband aired a commercial during her “Dancing With The Stars” debut, demanding answers about his disappearance. Don Lewis’s daughters and attorney bought airtime as the infamous “Tiger King” star prepared to hit the dancefloor on the ABC show Monday night. The spot featured Lewis’ three daughters Gale, Lynda …
  • Andy Dick plays Joe Exotic in ‘Tiger King’ mockumentary

    Andy Dick plays Joe Exotic in ‘Tiger King’ mockumentary

    Wild comic Andy Dick will play Joe Exotic in his latest project — a “Tiger King” sendup called “Tiger Dick.” The upcoming mockumentary series centers on Dick filming an Exotic biopic with himself in the lead role and as an “unstable version of himself between takes,” according to a release. Andy Dick and Paris Dylan …
  • Joe Exotic series starring Nicolas Cage lands at Amazon for development

    Joe Exotic series starring Nicolas Cage lands at Amazon for development

    The scripted series about “Tiger King’s” Joe Exotic starring Nicolas Cage has been set up at Amazon for development, Variety has learned. Variety exclusively reported the project was in the works from CBS Television Studios and Imagine Television in May. Amazon Studios has now boarded the project and will produce along with CBS TV Studios and Imagine TV. The series is is based on the …
  • Carole Baskin’s first ‘Dancing with the Stars’ song revealed

    Carole Baskin’s first ‘Dancing with the Stars’ song revealed

    Carole Baskin’s got the “Eye of the Tiger.” On Wednesday, the “Dancing with the Stars” contender, 59, revealed she’ll be making her grand ballroom entrance to Survivor’s hit 1982 single, “Eye of the Tiger” — a not-so-subtle nod to her Netflix series, “Tiger King.” “I was just approved yesterday to release that we are doing …
  • Joe Exotic launches ‘Tiger King’ undies with his face on crotch

    Joe Exotic launches ‘Tiger King’ undies with his face on crotch

    He’s got the clothing market by the seat of its panties. Despite sitting behind bars, controversial former “Tiger King” star Joe Exotic is getting close to his fans another way — by releasing a cheeky line of leopard-print underwear for men and women with his face emblazoned on the crotch. “I can’t wait for the …
  • Kate McKinnon’s ‘Joe Exotic’ series to air on NBC, Peacock and USA Network

    Kate McKinnon’s ‘Joe Exotic’ series to air on NBC, Peacock and USA Network

    The Kate McKinnon-led series about Carole Baskin and the “Tiger King” Joe Exotic has received a multi-platform series order at NBCUniversal Television, Variety has learned. The limited series, currently titled “Joe Exotic,” is now set to air on NBC, Peacock and USA Network. In addition, Etan Frankel has boarded the project as writer and executive producer …
  • Carole Baskin fears for big cats at shuttered ‘Tiger King’ zoo

    Carole Baskin fears for big cats at shuttered ‘Tiger King’ zoo

    “Tiger King” star Carole Baskin is roaring mad over what might happen to the big cats who were housed at Joe Exotic’s former Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park. It has been closed after the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service suspended the license of Jeff Lowe, who now operates the zoo. “Jeff … closing …