document_title: List of School of Rock episodes

question_text: how many episodes in school of rock season 2

text: List of School of Rock episodes

text: Series overview[edit]

text:
Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired

1
12
March 12, 2016 (2016-03-12)
June 18, 2016 (2016-06-18)

2
13
September 17, 2016 (2016-09-17)
January 28, 2017 (2017-01-28)

3
20
July 8, 2017 (2017-07-08)
April 8, 2018 (2018-04-08)[1]

text: Episodes[edit]

text: Season 1 (2016)[edit]

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Title [2][3]
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U.S. viewers
(millions)

1
1
"Come Together"
Jonathan Judge
Jim Armogida & Steve Armogida
Mike White
March 12, 2016 (2016-03-12)
112
2.38[4]

Dewey Finn, a rock musician, becomes the new substitute teacher for a class when their teacher, Mrs. Calpakis, was taken to rest indefinitely due to falling from a skateboard. The students quickly discover that he's not a real teacher. Mr. Finn then discovers that the students are very talented with music and has an idea to have them play rock music to learn. The students like it at first, but they're afraid that Principal Mullins will catch them so they come up with a plan to be a secret band. Mr. Finn thinks that he's not qualified to be a teacher and decides to quit, but the students convince him to come back and start a secret band which he agrees to.
Guest stars: Jama Williamson (Principal Mullins), Vernèe Watson

2
2
"Cover Me"
Jonathan Judge
Gigi McCreery & Perry Rein
March 19, 2016 (2016-03-19)
102
1.68[5]

The band needs a singer to be able to compete in "Battle of the Bands", so Summer decides to do it so that Freddie will notice her. The problem is that she can't sing, so Tomika teaches her but still isn't able to get it right. Tomika helps Summer by having her lip synch and Tomika will do the actual singing. The class realizes that Summer can't sing and that Tomika can. The class tries to convince Tomika to be the singer but she rejects the idea. Summer then tries to convince Tomika to be the singer and finally Tomika agrees.
Special guest star: Pete Wentz

3
3
"Video Killed the Speed Debate Star"
Bruce Leddy
Jeremy Hall
March 26, 2016 (2016-03-26)
104
1.63[6]

In an effort to provide warnings whenever Principl Mullins comes to the class, Lawrence inadvertently suggests to put a camera on the class, which disables the band to practice. Meanwhile, Mr. Finn helps Summer for the speed debate contest through rapping. As Mr. Finn and Lawrence install the video of him teaching on Mullins' office, Summer buys them time by slowing down the debate, but goes rapping when they are finished, which make her winning the speed debate. The next day, Principal Mullins ask Lawrence to put the camera down due to camera tape on her dancing in the hallway gets leaked.
Guest star: Jama Williamson

4
4
"The Story of Us (But More About Me)"
Bruce Leddy
Eric Friedman
April 2, 2016 (2016-04-02)
103
1.42[7]

Guest star: Jama Williamson

5
5
"We're Not Gonna Take It"
Trevor Kirschner
Laurie Parres
April 9, 2016 (2016-04-09)
105
1.47[8]

When Zack's father catches him playing rock on the electric guitar when he is supposed to be playing classical music on the classic guitar, he moves Zack to another class, convinced that Mr Finn is a bad influence on Zack. The class that Zack is moved to is very boring and Mr Finn, Tomika, Lawrence and the gang must work together to get Zack back. They device a plan: every time Mr Finn comes with a distraction for Zack's new teacher, Zack jumps out of the class window to escape for band practice and Freddy and Lawrence catch him. However, Principal Mullins catches Zack when Freddy and Lawrence run away when spotting her, leaving a clueless Zack to jump out right in front of Principal Mullins. Zack's father is called to the school and talks to Principal Mullins, Mr Finn and Zack. After discovering that Mr Finn has been able to influence Zack to be able to express his opinion by himself like Zack's father has never done, Zack's father agrees to let Zack return to Mr Finn's class. The episode ends with Zack returned to Mr Finn's class and the band being able to continue holding practices, ensuring the continuation of the band.
Guest stars: Jama Williamson, James Kyson, Matt Champagne

6
6
"A Band with No Name"
Michael Shea
Kevin Jakubowski
April 16, 2016 (2016-04-16)
106
1.42[9]

As the band gets their first gig on the birthday party of a seven-year-old girl, they are faced with a challenge: they have to choose a band name or else they will end up with a princess band name. Mr. Finn suggests "Paradoxx", but nobody seems to like that idea. After a lot of arguing over the name, the band splits up to two parts, "Summer and the Timewarps" and "Smog Check". Mr. Finn gets them back together by lying to both of them that only they will be performing at the birthday party. The girl notices that the band split up and makes the princess she hired as a backup perform a song instead, but after some time, the band stops fighting and they sing a rock version of the princess' song, and everyone likes it. They end up with the name "School of Rock".
Guest stars: Kira Kosarin, Tom Wilson, Ashlyn Faith Williams

7
7
"We Can Be Heroes, Sort Of"
Savage Steve Holland
Jay Kogen
April 23, 2016 (2016-04-23)
108
1.25[10]

Tomika becomes shy after her brothers post some videos of her making silly faces while practicing at home. Mr. Finn helps her overcome her fear by suggesting her to take inspiration from her idol, who is Demi Lovato. Mr. Finn lies that he knows Lovato, who is in town for the week, but he fails to find her in the hotel because she used a fake name. Meanwhile, Tomika dresses up like Lovato, but she ends up pushing the band too hard by trying to match Lovato's band too closely. Tomika apologizes to the band for pushing them too hard, and after some rehearsals they have done earlier, they end up performing Lovato's song "Heart Attack" by being themselves rather than trying to copy her band. As Mr. Finn enters the classroom dressed up like Lovato, the students immediately recognize him and he says he was unable to find her. To everyone's surprise, Lawrence says he met Lovato in the hotel, and everyone gets tickets to her show that night.
Guest stars: Jama Williamson, Iqbal Theba

8
8
"Should I Stay or Should I Go?"
Sean Lambert
Gigi McCreery & Perry Rein
April 30, 2016 (2016-04-30)
107
1.41[11]

Guest stars: Kendall Schmidt, Sam Horrigan

9
9
"Money (That's What I Want)"
Trevor Kirschner
Gigi McCreery & Perry Rein
May 7, 2016 (2016-05-07)
110
1.11[12]

Guest stars: Jama Williamson, Shaun Brown

10
10
"Freddy Fights for His Right to Party"
Jay Kogen
Jeremy Hall
June 4, 2016 (2016-06-04)
109
1.40[13]

Guest star: Lucas Adams

11
11
"(Really Really) Old Time Rock and Roll"
Jonathan Judge
Eric Friedman
June 11, 2016 (2016-06-11)
111
1.29[14]

Guest stars: Jama Williamson, Haley Powell, Shanti Lowry, Aaron Hendry

12
12
"We Are the Champions ... Maybe"
Trevor Kirschner
Jay Kogen
June 18, 2016 (2016-06-18)
113
1.39[15]

The band rehearse their song for Battle of the Bands, unaware that Justin and The Night Lizards is spying on them. The band sneak out of the school to go the competition, outsmarting a suspicious Clark. However, they face some troubles on their way. When they arrived wet, they are denied entry, so they decide to put some pajamas (as there was only a pajama store open nearby). Things got worse when they discover that their song is being performed by the Lizards. As they begin to lose hope, they rehearse "Shut Up and Dance" on the rooftop, where the Lizards lock them up. To cheer the kids, Mr. Finn encourage them to perform for themselves. The judges overhear their performance and go upstairs, where School of Rock was crowned winner, much to the dismay of Justin. As everyone is upstairs, Clark failed to show Principal Mullins that the students snuck out.
Special guest star: Pete Wentz
Guest stars: Jama Williamson, Kendall Schmidt, Sam Horrigan

text: Season 2 (2016–17)[edit]

text:
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U.S. viewers
(millions)

13
1
"Changes"
Trevor Kirschner
Jim Armogida & Steve Armogida
September 17, 2016 (2016-09-17)
201
1.34[16]

After their victory at Battle of the Bands, they still have to keep their band a secret. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Calpakis returns and Mr. Finn was released from duty. The class gets bored by Mrs. Calpakis' strict guide-ridden teaching style. Then they realize they would rather have Mr. Finn as their teacher and they plan to get Mr. Finn back. Principal Mullins agrees to rehire Mr. Finn as a regular teacher for kindergarteners, where he gets tortured by them. When the kids discovers that Mrs. Calpakis could discipline the kindergarteners more, Summer made a deal with them to exchange their respective teachers. Mr. Finn finally becomes their regular and permanent teacher.
Guest star: Vernee Watson

14
2
"Wouldn't It Be Nice?"
Trevor Kirschner
Jay Kogen
September 24, 2016 (2016-09-24)
202
1.33[17]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger (Kale), Haley Powell, David Pressman

15
3
"With or Without You"
Jody Margolin Hahn
Sarah Jane Cunningham & Suzie V. Freeman
October 1, 2016 (2016-10-01)
203
0.96[18]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, David Pressman, Meyrick Murphy
Absent: Jama Williamson as Principal Mullins

16
4
"Brilliant Disguise"
Trevor Kirschner
Steve Skrovan
October 8, 2016 (2016-10-08)
204
1.32[19]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, Ivan Mallon

17
5
"I Put a Spell on You"
Jonathan Judge
Lindsay Golder
October 15, 2016 (2016-10-15)
208
1.58[20]

Future Superstars, a singing competition and Summer and Tomika’s favourite show comes to town. Summer wants to audition with Tomika, but Tomika wants to audition alone, fearing that Summer would embarrass herself. Summer has Mr Finn hypnotise her to sing beautifully so she can audition with Tomika without embarrassment. Summer performs Hide Away in front of the whole class, much to their amazement. After the performance, Summer finds out that Tomika only wanted to audition alone because she is afraid that Summer would embarrass her, they have a fight and they storm out of the classroom. Later, at the audition, they reconcile with help from Mr Finn and they decide to audition together. However, after the judges repeatedly say the trigger word for Summer’s singing, Summer sings horribly again. Summer tries to let Tomika audition alone, but Tomika says that no matter what, they were best friends and would audition together. Later, it is revealed that their audition was so terrible it made the episode where they showed the failed auditions.
Guest stars: Daya, Ivan Mallon

18
6
"Welcome to My Nightmare"
Trevor Kirschner
Alison Flierl & Scott Chernoff
October 22, 2016 (2016-10-22)
210
1.50[21]

As Halloween approaches, the students inform Mr. Finn that Principal Mullins has banned Halloween and changed it to a harvest festival. With Principal Mullins sick, the school holds a Halloween party, where Vice Principal Sternhagen offers a pizza party for the scariest class. The band competes with Clark's class by building a haunted house, where it almost fails when a drunken by meds Principal Mullins returns to school. When she's aware of what's going on, Freddy pretends to be the schoolboard head to praise the Halloween celebration, making Principal Mullins officially disband her restriction towards Halloween.
Guest stars: Ivan Mallon, Elisha Henig, Haley Powell, David Pressman

19
7
"Truckin' "
Trevor Kirschner
Jeremy Hall
November 5, 2016 (2016-11-05)
209
1.22[22]

When the cafetaria gets closed due to a rat invading it, Zack brings a food truck to sell his "Meal Shakes". It is a success until Justin from the Night Lizards comes to the school and brings his own food truck and sells sticked food called "Stick It to Ya!" in revenge for School of Rock's victory in Battle of the Bands. The food trucks compete as the Principal only allows one to operate, and Stick It to Ya! quickly outshines Meal Shakes. Zack gets angry when the rest of his bandmates eat Stick It to Ya!. They make it up by helping Zack improve his truck and promoting it better, which beats Stick It to Ya's popularity and forces Justin to leave the school in disgrace. Mr. Finn is assigned to catch the rat, but is so frightened. He overcomes his fear when the rat is willing to go to the cage and in return he secretly keeps him in his teacher desk.
Guest stars: Kendall Schmidt, Ivan Mallon, Will Kindrachuk

20
8
"Voices Carry"
Eric Dean Seaton
Jeremy Hall
November 12, 2016 (2016-11-12)
207
1.42[23]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, Ivan Mallon, Augie Isaac

21
9
"Is She Really Going Out with Him?"
Jonathan Judge
Harry Hannigan
November 19, 2016 (2016-11-19)
206
1.70[24]

Summer is very jealous of Freddy’s relationship with Kale. After a few failed tries to get Freddy’s attention, she almost gives up when Kale asks her what to give Freddy for their one-month anniversary. Summer attempts to sabotage their relationship by telling Kale to give Freddy a hat, which he will hate. She plans to swoop in with the perfect gift for Freddy after he unwraps Kale’s gift. Tomika tries to stop Summer from doing it, but to no avail. At the last moment, Summer decides against it and quickly swaps Kale’s gift for her own. Although Kale and Freddy are still together , she is satisfied she did the right thing. Tomika tells Summer that she is proud of her.
Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, Ivan Mallon

22
10
"Total Eclipse of the Heart"
Jay Kogen
Corinne Marshall
January 7, 2017 (2017-01-07)
211
1.29[25]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, Ivan Mallon, Will Kindrachuk
Absent: Jama Williamson as Principal Mullins

23
11
"Takin' Care of Business"
Jonathan Judge
Scott Chernoff & Alison Flierl
January 14, 2017 (2017-01-14)
205
1.56[26]

Absent: Jama Williamson as Principal Mullins

24
12
"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
Trevor Kirschner
Jay Kogen
January 21, 2017 (2017-01-21)
212
1.23[27]

Guest stars: Haley Powell, Devion Harris

25
13
"Don't Stop Believin' "
Jonathan Judge
Steve Armogida & Jim Armogida
January 28, 2017 (2017-01-28)
213
1.18[28]

Special guest star: Ryan Tedder
Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, Will Kindrachuk, Ivan Mallon, Haley Powell, Johnathan McClain, Cleo Berry

text: Season 3 (2017–18)[edit]

text:
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overall
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season
Title [2][3]
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Original air date [2][3]
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code [2]
U.S. viewers
(millions)

26
1
"Hold On Loosely"
Jonathan Judge
Jim Armogida & Steve Armogida
July 8, 2017 (2017-07-08)
301
1.03[29]

Guest stars: Ivan Mallon, Augie Isaac, Tamara Mello, Christopher Darga

27
2
"Do You Want to Know a Secret?"
Eric Dean Seaton
Suzie V. Freeman & Sarah Jane Cunningham
July 15, 2017 (2017-07-15)
302
0.91[30]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, Will Kindrachuk

28
3
"True Colors"
Victor Gonzalez
Steve Skrovan
July 22, 2017 (2017-07-22)
303
1.14[31]

Guest stars: Ivan Mallon, Augie Isaac

29
4
"Leader of the Band"
Trevor Kirschner
Jeremy Hall
July 29, 2017 (2017-07-29)
305
0.89[32]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, David Anthony Higgins
Absent: Jama Williamson as Principal Mullins

30
5
"The Other Side of Summer"
Victor Gonzalez
Jay Kogen
August 5, 2017 (2017-08-05)
307
1.32[33]

Guest stars: Miriam Flynn, David Pressman

31
6
"Minimum Wage"
Jay Kogen
Clay Lapari
August 12, 2017 (2017-08-12)
309
1.00[34]

Guest stars: JoJo Siwa, Chelsea Ricketts, Jason Michael Snow
Absent: Jama Williamson as Principal Mullins

32
7
"Heroes & Villains"
Trevor Kirschner
Harry Hannigan
November 18, 2017 (2017-11-18)
304
1.06[35]

Guest stars: Ivan Mallon, Will Kindrachuk

33
8
"Jingle Bell Rock"
Jonathan Judge
Suzie V. Freeman & Sarah Jane Cunningham
December 3, 2017 (2017-12-03)
315
0.85[36]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, Ivan Mallon, Augie Isaac

34
9
"Kool Thing"
Victor Gonzalez
Sarah Jane Cunningham & Suzie V. Freeman
January 7, 2018 (2018-01-07)
311
0.60[37]

Guest stars: Hey Violet, Haley B. Powell, Shelby Simmons, Marianne Muellerleile, Michael Marc Friedman
Absent: Jama Williamson as Principal Mullins

35
10
"Would I Lie to You?"
Katy Garretson
Alison Flierl & Scott Chernoff
January 14, 2018 (2018-01-14)
308
0.61[38]

Guest star: David Pressman

36
11
"Puppy Love"
Katy Garretson
Scott Chernoff & Alison Flierl
January 21, 2018 (2018-01-21)
306
0.54[39]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, Ivan Mallon, Haley B. Powell, Cole Jensen, Bentley Green

37
12
"Love Is a Battlefield"
Trevor Kirschner
Harry Hannigan
January 28, 2018 (2018-01-28)
312
0.53[40]

Guest stars: Ivan Mallon, Will Kindrachuk, Augie Isaac

38
13
"A Matter of Trust"
Katy Garretson
Steve Skrovan
February 11, 2018 (2018-02-11)
310
0.73[41]

On a stormy day, Tomika is playing in a puddle inside the school and encourages Summer to do the same; however, when Summer tries, she slips and falls into a bucket. A stranger offers to help Summer out of the bucket, but when she looks up, she discovers it is Justin from Night Lizard, who claims they have been repeatedly failing to get a gig. Still upset about the trouble he has previously caused, Tomika is quick to not trust him, despite him apologizing. Meanwhile, Freddy, Zack, and Lawrence pull a prank on Mr. Finn involving an oatmeal cannon. Upset that this happened, he wants nothing more to do with pranks, but when Zack says that they also wanted to pull the prank on Summer, he suddenly changes his mind. When Tomika and Summer walk in, Mr. Finn desperately tries to get the prank to succeed. However, when Summer sits at her desk and takes out a pencil, nothing happens. Mr. Finn then becomes upset and looks into the desk's cubby, only to be shot with oatmeal again. Later, Zack and Lawrence find and start reading Summer's diary. At first, Freddy disapproves of this; however, when he hears that it is about what to find in a perfect man, he quickly changes his tune. Meanwhile, Tomika and Summer are in the classroom when Justin walks in, whom Tomika still does not trust. When Justin hears about how smart of a manager Summer is for School of Rock, he suggests that she manages Night Lizard. Summer wants to help, but Tomika does not believe a single word. Later, the group discovers that they were not chosen to perform in Battle of the Bands, which upsets Tomika. Wanting to see who stole their gig, Tomika later brings the group to Battle of the Bands. She then discovers that the band who stole their gig was none other than Night Lizard and that Summer agreed to be their new manager. The next day when Mr. Finn calls a band meeting, Tomika states that Summer is no longer School of Rock's manager, which upsets Summer, who was just trying to help someone, causing her to leave. In the hallway, Summer tells Justin that she is no longer part of School of Rock. Justin then casually enters the classroom to check up on the others and is very sarcastic about the situation on the way out. Later, the others discuss about firing Summer, which pleases Justin. Mr. Finn then states that School of Rock is officially broken up, which further pleases Justin, who has been listening outside. Mr. Finn then opens the door and Justin falls on the floor. Tomika then confronts Justin and insists it is his fault, which at first he sarcastically denies, but then admits it was him. When Tomika threatens to tell Summer, Justin tells her he will just deny it and that Summer will believe him because she is a softy. Unfortunately for him, Summer has been in the cabinet listening to everything. Later, Freddy, dressed as the "perfect man", runs into Summer's grandmother, where he discovers that the diary belongs to her and that she just lent it to Summer for her creative writing class.
Guest stars: Kendall Schmidt, Mindy Sterling
Absent: Jama Williamson as Principal Mullins

39
14
"Don't Know What You Got ('Til It's Gone)"
Tony Cavalero
Shawn Simmons
February 18, 2018 (2018-02-18)
314
0.61[42]

Guest stars: Ivan Mallon, Max Jimenez, Haley B. Powell

40
15
"Not Afraid"
Steve Armogida
Jeremy Hall
February 25, 2018 (2018-02-25)
319
0.60[43]

Guest stars: Brec Bassinger, JoJo Siwa, Lilimar, Haley B. Powell, Greg Romero Wilson, Sean Whalen
Absent: Jama Williamson as Principal Mullins

41
16
"Surprise, Surprise"
Jay Kogen
Jeremy Hall
March 4, 2018 (2018-03-04)
313
0.72[44]

Guest stars: Ivan Mallon, Will Kindrachuk

42
17
"We Gotta Get Out of This Place"
Jonathan Judge
Shawn Simmons
March 11, 2018 (2018-03-11)
316
0.70[45]

Guest stars: Kelly Perine, Ivan Mallon, Annie Cavalero, Kevin Berntson

43
18
"Photograph"
Jim Armogida
Jay Kogen
March 18, 2018 (2018-03-18)
320
0.65[46]

Guest stars: Ivan Mallon, Haley B. Powell, Saylor Bell, Roni Akurati

44
19
"I Love Rock and Roll: Part I"
Trevor Kirschner
Steve Armogida & Jim Armogida
April 1, 2018 (2018-04-01)
317
0.45[47]

Special guest stars: Pete Wentz, Pat Monahan
Guest stars: Jack Griffo, Ivan Mallon, Augie Isaac, Alexander Neher

45
20
"I Love Rock and Roll: Part II"
Trevor Kirschner
Steve Armogida & Jim Armogida
April 8, 2018 (2018-04-08)
318
0.67[48]

Guest stars: Jack Griffo, Ivan Mallon, Augie Isaac, Alexander Neher


document_title: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

question_text: when was the forst harry potter book published

root

text: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

text: Plot[edit]

text: Dumbledore picks Harry up from his aunt and uncle's house, intending to escort him to the Burrow, home of Harry's best friend Ron, and his large family. On the way, they make a detour to the temporary home of Horace Slughorn, former Potions teacher at Hogwarts, and Harry unwittingly helps persuade Slughorn to return to teach. Harry and Dumbledore then proceed to the Burrow, where Hermione has already arrived.

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text: Severus Snape, a member of the Order of the Phoenix, meets with Narcissa Malfoy, Draco's mother, and her sister Bellatrix Lestrange, Lord Voldemort's faithful supporter. Narcissa expresses her extreme concern that her son might not survive a dangerous mission, given to him by Lord Voldemort. Bellatrix feels Snape will be of no help until he surprises her by making an Unbreakable Vow with Narcissa, swearing on his life that he will protect and assist Draco in his mission.

text: The next morning, Harry, Ron, and Hermione get their Ordinary Wizarding Level (O.W.L.) results, along with lists of school supplies. Later, Harry, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger follow Draco to Dark Arts supplier Borgin and Burkes. Harry is instantly suspicious of Draco, whom he believes to be a Death Eater.

text: On the Hogwarts Express, Harry discusses his suspicions of Draco’s allegiance with Lord Voldemort, however Ron and Hermione are doubtful with the lack of evidence. Harry wears his invisibility cloak and hides in the same carriage that Malfoy is seated in. He overhears Draco bragging to his friends about the mission Lord Voldemort has tasked him. However, Malfoy is suspicious that someone else is in the carriage and discovers Harry Potter was listening to his conversation. He petrifies him and breaks his nose out of rage. Harry cannot get off the carriage, and is worried the Hogwarts Express will depart before he can move again. To his relief however, Nymphadora Tonks finds Harry and escorts him back to the castle during the opening feast.

text: The students return to school, where Dumbledore announces that Snape will be teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts. In the meantime, Horace Slughorn will resume his previous post as Potions teacher. Harry now excels in Potions, thanks to having received a used Potions textbook that once belonged to someone named "The Half-Blood Prince," a mysterious former student who wrote numerous tips and spells in his Potions textbook. Harry uses this information to achieve superb results. After a class contest, The Half-Blood Prince's tips help Harry win a bottle of Felix Felicis, more commonly known as "Liquid Luck." Though Harry's success pleases Slughorn, his newfound brilliance in potions angers Hermione, who feels he is not truly earning his grades and also does not trust the Half-Blood Prince.

text: Believing that Harry needs to learn Voldemort's past to gain advantage in a foretold battle, Dumbledore schedules regular meetings with Harry in his office. Amidst these lessons, Ron starts dating a girl named Lavender Brown, who is also a sixth year Gryffindor student, and Ron and Hermione start yet another quarrel. Also during this time, Dumbledore and Harry use Dumbledore's Pensieve to look at the memories of those who have had direct contact with Voldemort. Harry learns about Voldemort's family and his foe's evolution into a murderer, obsessed not only with power, but with gaining eternal life. Dumbledore shows Harry a memory involving Slughorn conversing with the young Tom Riddle at Hogwarts, which has clearly been tampered with. He sets Harry the task of convincing Slughorn to give him the true memory so that Dumbledore can confirm his suspicions about Voldemort's rise to power and near-invincibility. This is proven vital in the defeat of Voldemort.

text: After being sent an invitation to the funeral for Aragog the Spider, he uses an hour's dose of Felix Felicis and succeeds in retrieving Slughorn's unedited memory while at the funeral. In it, Slughorn tells Riddle about the process of splitting one's soul and hiding it in several objects called Horcruxes. Only by committing a murder can a wizard turn an object into a Horcrux; Voldemort has created six of them, making himself virtually immortal by placing a piece of his soul in each one, and keeping the seventh and last one within his body. Dumbledore explains that in order to destroy Voldemort, all the Horcruxes must first be destroyed. Two Horcruxes, Riddle's diary from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and a ring belonging to Voldemort's grandfather Marvolo Gaunt, have already been destroyed; but four others remain.

text: As Harry learns more about his great enemy, the love lives of the main characters start to become more active. Ron and Hermione grow closer together, but after learning from his sister Ginny, that Hermione had previously kissed Viktor Krum, Ron is angered and shuns her. Harry's attempts to repair things between the two fail, resulting in Ron going out with Lavender Brown and making Hermione jealous. After Ron is nearly killed in an attempt on Dumbledore's life, he and Hermione reconcile. Ron and Lavender break up when Lavender sees the two of them walking out of the boys dormitories together. Harry develops deep feelings for Ginny, but is reluctant to pursue her for most of the year because of his friendship with Ron. Following a wild Gryffindor Quidditch victory, Harry and Ginny finally strike up a relationship, with Ron's reluctant consent.

text: Near the end of the year, Harry and Dumbledore journey to a cave to retrieve a suspected Horcrux, Slytherin's locket. Dumbledore expertly finds a secret passageway to a large, pitch black underground lake, which Harry and Dumbledore cross in a small boat to an island in the centre. The locket is at the bottom of a basin on the island, and can only be reached by drinking the potion above it. Harry aids Dumbledore, who drinks the potion, causing him hallucinations and immense pain. Though Dumbledore is severely weakened after finishing the potion, together the two manage to fight off Voldemort's Inferi that have been hiding in the lake. They take the locket and return to Hogwarts, to find that the Dark Mark has been placed over the highest school tower in their absence. Harry and Dumbledore ascend to the tower where they are ambushed by Draco Malfoy, accompanied by Death Eaters that he helped get inside Hogwarts. Dumbledore freezes Harry under his Invisibility Cloak with a body-bind spell, to keep him hidden. Draco disarms Dumbledore of his wand and then threatens to kill him, which turns out to have been his mission from Voldemort all along. Draco is unable to go through with it and when Snape arrives, he casts the spell to kill Dumbledore instead. Harry ignores the battle raging in Hogwarts to pursue Dumbledore's killer. Snape successfully fights Harry off, and he reveals that he is in fact the Half-Blood Prince before he, Draco, and the rest of the Death Eaters escape.

text: After Dumbledore's funeral, Harry decides to break up with Ginny, saying it is too dangerous for her to let their relationship to continue. Harry finds out that the locket is not the real Horcrux, containing only a note from someone named "R. A. B.". Harry is so devastated by Dumbledore's death (and upset by its futility) that he tells his friends he will not be returning to Hogwarts. Instead, he will spend the next year searching out Voldemort's Horcruxes. Ron and Hermione insist on joining him in destroying Lord Voldemort for good.

text: Development[edit]

text: Franchise[edit]

text: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth book in the Harry Potter series.[1] The first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was first published by Bloomsbury in 1997, with an initial print-run of 500 copies in hardback, 300 of which were distributed to libraries.[2] By the end of 1997, the UK edition won a National Book Award and a gold medal in the 9- to 11-year-olds category of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize.[3] The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was originally published in the UK on 2 July 1998 and in the US on 2 June 1999.[4][5] Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was then published a year later in the UK on 8 July 1999 and in the US on 8 September 1999.[4][5] Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was published on 8 July 2000 at the same time by Bloomsbury and Scholastic.[6] Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the longest novel in the Harry Potter series, was released 21 June 2003.[7] After the publishing of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the seventh and final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was released 21 July 2007.[8] The book sold 11 million copies within 24 hours of its release: 2.7 million copies in the UK and 8.3 million in the US.[9]

text: Background[edit]

text: Rowling stated that she had Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince "planned for years", but she spent an entire two months going over her plan before she began writing the story seriously. This was a lesson learned after she did not check the plan for Goblet of Fire and had to rewrite an entire third of the book.[10] She started writing the book before her second child, David, was born, but she took a break to care for him.[11] The first chapter, "The Other Minister", which features the meeting between the Muggle Prime Minister, the Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge, and his successor, Rufus Scrimgeour, was a concept Rowling tried to start in Philosopher's Stone, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Order of the Phoenix, but she found "it finally works" in Half-Blood Prince.[12] She stated that she was "seriously upset" writing the end of the book, although Goblet of Fire was the hardest to write.[13] When asked if she liked the book, she responded, "I like it better than I liked 'Goblet', 'Phoenix' or 'Chamber' when I finished them. Book six does what I wanted it to do and even if nobody else likes it (and some won't), I know it will remain one of my favourites of the series. Ultimately you have to please yourself before you please anyone else!"[14]

text: Rowling revealed the title of Half-Blood Prince on her website on 24 June 2004.[15] This was the title she had once considered for the second book, Chamber of Secrets, though she decided that the information disclosed belonged later on in the story, in book six.[16] On 21 December 2004, she announced she had finished writing it, along with the release date of 16 July.[17][18] Bloomsbury unveiled the cover on 8 March 2005.[19]

text: Controversies[edit]

text: The record-breaking publication of Half-Blood Prince was accompanied by controversy. In May 2005, bookmakers in the UK suspended bets on which main character would die in the book amid fears of insider knowledge. A number of high value bets were made on the death of Albus Dumbledore, many coming from the town of Bungay where, it was believed, the books were being printed at the time. Betting was later reopened.[20] Additionally, in response to Greenpeace's campaign on using forest friendly paper for big-name authors, Bloomsbury published the book on 30% recycled paper.[21]

text: Right-to-read controversy[edit]

text: In early July 2005, a Real Canadian Superstore in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada, accidentally sold fourteen copies of The Half-Blood Prince before the authorised release date. The Canadian publisher, Raincoast Books, obtained an injunction from the Supreme Court of British Columbia that actually prohibited the purchasers from reading the books before the official release date or from discussing the contents.[22] Purchasers were actually offered a Harry Potter T-shirt and an autographed copy of the book if they returned their copies before 16 July.[22]

text: On 15 July, less than twelve hours before the book went on sale in the Eastern time zone, Raincoast warned The Globe and Mail newspaper that publishing a review from a Canada-based writer at midnight, as the paper had promised, would be seen as a violation of the trade secret injunction. The injunction sparked a number of news articles alleging that the injunction had restricted fundamental rights. Canadian law professor Michael Geist posted commentary on his blog;[23] Richard Stallman called for a boycott, and requesting the publisher to issue an apology.[24] The Globe and Mail published a review from two UK-based writers in its 16 July edition and posted the Canadian writer's review on its website at 9:00 that morning.[25] Commentary was also provided on the Raincoast website.[26]

text: Style and themes[edit]

text: Some reviewers noted that Half-Blood Prince contained a darker tone than the previous Potter novels. The Christian Science Monitor's reviewer Yvonne Zipp considered the first half to contain a lighter tone to soften the unhappy ending.[27] The Boston Globe reviewer Liz Rosenberg wrote, "lightness [is] slimmer than ever in this darkening series...[there is] a new charge of gloom and darkness. I felt depressed by the time I was two-thirds of the way through". She also compared the setting to Charles Dickens's depictions of London, as it was "brooding, broken, gold-lit, as living character as any other".[28] Christopher Paolini called the darker tone "disquieting" because it was so different from the earlier books.[29] Liesl Schillinger, a contributor to The New York Times book review, also noted that Half-Blood Prince was "far darker" but "leavened with humor, romance and snappy dialogue". She suggested a connection to the 11 September attacks, as the later, darker novels were written after that event.[30] David Kipen, a critic of the San Francisco Chronicle considered the "darkness as a sign of our paranoid times" and singled out curfews and searches that were part of the tightened security at Hogwarts, as a resemblance to our world.[31]

text: Julia Keller, a critic for the Chicago Tribune, highlighted the humour found in the novel and claimed it to be the success of the Harry Potter saga. She acknowledged that "the books are dark and scary in places" but "no darkness in Half-Blood Prince...is so immense that it cannot be rescued by a snicker or a smirk." She considered that Rowling was suggesting that difficult times could be worked through with imagination, hope, and humour, and compared this concept to works such as Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.[32]

text: Rosenberg wrote that the two main themes of Half-Blood Prince were love and death, and praised Rowling's "affirmation of their central position in human lives". She considered love to be represented in several forms: the love of parent to child, teacher to student, and the romances that developed between the main characters.[28] Zipp noted trust and redemption to be themes promising to continue in the final book, which she thought "would add a greater layer of nuance and complexity to some characters who could sorely use it."[27] Deepti Hajela also pointed out Harry's character development, that he was "no longer a boy wizard; he's a young man, determined to seek out and face a young man's challenges".[33] Paolini had similar views, claiming, "the children have changed...they act like real teenagers."[29]

text: Publication and reception[edit]

text: Critical reception[edit]

text: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was met with positive reviews. Liesl Schillinger of The New York Times praised the novel's various themes and suspenseful ending. However, she considered Rowling's gift "not so much for language as for characterisation and plotting".[30] Kirkus Reviews said it "will leave readers pleased, amused, excited, scared, infuriated, delighted, sad, surprised, thoughtful and likely wondering where Voldemort has got to, since he appears only in flashbacks". They considered Rowling's "wry wit" to turn into "outright merriment", but called the climax "tragic, but not uncomfortably shocking".[34] Yvonne Zipp of The Christian Science Monitor praised the way Rowling evolved Harry into a teenager and how the plot threads found as far back as Chamber of Secrets came into play. On the other hand, she noted that it "gets a little exposition-heavy in spots" and older readers may have seen the ending coming.[27]

text: Christopher Paolini, writing for Entertainment Weekly, pointed out that the change of tone was "disquieting" as the world evolved, and praised the character development, though he considered Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire the best.[29] The Boston Globe correspondent Liz Rosenberg wrote, "The book bears the mark of genius on every page" and praised the imagery and darker tone of the book, considering that the series could be crossing over from fantasy to horror.[28] The Associated Press writer Deepti Hajela praised the newfound emotional tones and ageing Harry to the point where "younger fans may find [the series] has grown up too much".[33] Emily Green, a staff writer of the Los Angeles Times, was generally positive about the book but was concerned whether young children could handle the material.[35] Cultural critic Julia Keller of the Chicago Tribune called it the "most eloquent and substantial addition to the series thus far" and considered the key to the success of the Potter novels to be humour.[32]

text: Awards and honours[edit]

text: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has won several awards, including the 2006 British Book of the Year Award[36] and the 2006 Royal Mail Award for Scottish Children's Books for ages 8–12 in its native United Kingdom.[37] In the United States, the American Library Association listed it among its 2006 Best Books for Young Adults.[38] It won both the 2005 reader-voted Quill Awards for Best Book of the Year and Best Children's Book.[39][40] It also won the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Seal for notable book.[41]

text: Sales[edit]

text: Before publication, 1.4 million pre-orders were placed for Half-Blood Prince on Amazon.com, breaking the record held by the previous novel, Order of the Phoenix, with 1.3 million.[42] The initial print run for Half-Blood Prince was a record-breaking 10.8 million.[43] Within the first 24 hours of release, the book sold 9 million copies worldwide, 2 million in the UK and about 6.9 million in the US,[44] which prompted Scholastic to rush an additional 2.7 million copies into print.[45] Within the first nine weeks of publication, 11 million copies of the US edition were reported to have been sold.[46] The US audiobook, read by Jim Dale, set sales records with 165,000 sold over two days, besting the adaptation of Order of the Phoenix by twenty percent.[47]

text: Translations[edit]

text: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was published simultaneously in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.[48] Along with the rest of the books in the Harry Potter series, it was eventually translated into 67 languages.[49] However, because of high security surrounding the manuscript, translators did not get to start on translating Half-Blood Prince until its English release date, and the earliest were not expected to be released until the fall of 2005.[50] In Germany, a group of "hobby translators" translated the book via Internet in less than two days after release, far before German translator Klaus Fritz could translate and publish the book.[51]

text: Editions[edit]

text: Since its wide hardcover release on 16 July 2005, Half-Blood Prince was released as a paperback on 23 June 2006 in the UK.[52] Two days later on 25 July, the paperback edition was released in Canada[53] and the US, where it had an initial print run of 2 million copies.[54] To celebrate the release of the American paperback edition, Scholastic held a six-week sweepstakes event in which participants in an online poll were entered to win prizes.[55] Simultaneous to the original hardcover release was the UK adult edition, featuring a new cover,[56] and which was also released as a paperback on 23 June.[57] Also released on 16 July was the Scholastic "Deluxe Edition", which featured reproductions of Mary Grandpré's artwork and had a print run of about 100,000 copies.[58] Bloomsbury later released a paperback "Special Edition" on 6 July 2009[59] and a "Signature Edition" paperback on 1 November 2010.[60]

text: Film adaptation[edit]

text: The film adaptation of the sixth book was originally scheduled to be released on 21 November 2008, but was changed to 15 July 2009.[61][62] Directed by David Yates, the screenplay was adapted by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman and David Barron.[63] The film grossed over $934 million worldwide,[64] which made it the second-highest-grossing film of 2009 worldwide[65] and the fifteenth-highest of all time.[66] Additionally, Half-Blood Prince gained an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography.[67][68]


document_title: Tara Lipinski

question_text: where tara lipinski won her olympics gold medal at 15

text: Tara Lipinski

text: Biography[edit]

text: Early life[edit]

text: Lipinski was born on June 10, 1982, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,[5] the daughter of Patricia (née Brozyniak), a secretary, and Jack Lipinski, an oil executive and lawyer.[3][6][7] She spent her earliest years in Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey.[8][9]

text: Lipinski began ice skating in 1988,[5] learning technique initially from roller skating coaches in the Philadelphia area. Her first major competition was the 1990 Eastern Regional Championships for roller skating where she finished second. At the 1991 United States Roller Skating Championships, she won the primary girls freestyle as a nine-year-old.[10]

text: In 1991, her father's job required the family to move to Sugar Land, Texas. However, training facilities were not available there. In 1993, Lipinski and her mother moved back to Delaware, where she had trained before. She later moved to Detroit, Michigan, to train with Richard Callaghan.[11]

text: Competitive career[edit]

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text: Lipinski first came to national prominence when she won the 1994 U.S. Olympic Festival competition, which at the time was a junior-level competition. She became the youngest ladies figure skating gold medalist as well as the youngest athlete in any discipline to win gold. Later that season she placed fourth at the 1995 World Junior Championships and second in the junior level, behind Sydne Vogel, at the 1995 U.S. Championships.[12][13] Lipinski was coached by Jeff DiGregorio at the University of Delaware.[13] By 1995, she was the subject of a great deal of media attention, coined "Tara-Mania" by the media.

text: After a fifth-place finish at the 1996 World Junior Championships, Lipinski changed coaches, joining Richard Callaghan in Detroit. Later that season, at the senior level, she placed third at the 1996 U.S. Championships and qualified to compete at the senior-level World Championships. Lipinski was second in her qualifying round to Midori Ito, but fell twice in the short program, barely making the cutoff for the long program. Lipinski rallied to land seven triple jumps, including a triple salchow/triple loop combination, finishing 11th in the long program and 15th overall. Later that year, the International Skating Union voted to raise the minimum age for participating at the World Championships to 15. Lipinski, who was 13 at the time, was grandfathered in and remained eligible for future events, along with other skaters who had already competed at the World Championships before the new age requirement was introduced.

text: In late 1996, at the U.S. Postal Challenge, Lipinski became the first female skater to land a triple loop/triple loop jump combination, which became her signature element. In early 1997, Lipinski unexpectedly won the U.S. Championships and, at 14, became the youngest person to win the title ahead of Sonya Klopfer who won it in 1951 at the age of 15.[7] Lipinski also won the 1997 Champion Series Final, again becoming the youngest female ever to win the title. She went on to win the World Championships,[14] again becoming the youngest person to win the title.

text: The following season, Lipinski finished second to Michelle Kwan at Skate America and, while suffering from a bad head cold, to Laëtitia Hubert at Trophée Lalique. With Kwan sidelined due to a toe-related stress fracture injury, Lipinski defended her Champion Series Final title (now known as the Grand Prix Final). At the 1998 U.S. Nationals, Kwan and Lipinski met again, but after a fall on the triple flip in the short program, Lipinski ended the short program in 4th place with Kwan in 1st place. Although she landed seven triples in the long program, she finished second overall to Kwan.

text: At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Lipinski skated her short program to music from the animated movie Anastasia, placing second to Kwan. In the long program, Lipinski performed seven triples, including an historic triple loop/triple loop combination and, at the end, a triple toe/half loop/triple Salchow sequence, to overtake Kwan for the gold medal. She became the youngest ladies' Olympic figure skating champion and the youngest individual gold medalist, a record that had stood since Norwegian Sonia Henie won the same event at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, also at age 15. (In 2014, Yulia Lipnitskaya, six days younger than Lipinski at the time of her Olympic victory, became the youngest Olympic gold medalist in ladies figure skating by winning gold with the Russian team in the team event, not the individual event as Lipinski had.) Lipinski trained at the Detroit Skating Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.[5]

text: Professional career[edit]

text: On March 9, 1998, Lipinski announced her decision to withdraw from the 1998 World Figure Skating Championships, citing a serious glandular infection that required her to have two molars extracted, constant fatigue, and possible mononucleosis.[15]

text: On April 7, 1998, Lipinski announced her intention to turn professional in an interview with Katie Couric on the Today Show. She cited a desire to spend more time with her family, to have time for school, and to compete professionally against other Olympic champions. However, given the opportunities available to a newly crowned Olympic champion, Lipinski took on a full schedule of touring, publicity appearances, and acting engagements, albeit requiring constant travel.[16] She was criticized by some, such as Christine Brennan, for her decision to retire from competition at such a young age, who likened the pro skating circuit as "joining the circus".[17] However, this criticism was labelled as "petty backlash" following Lipinski's defeat of the expected-winner Kwan at the Nagano Olympics.[18]

text: In the spring and summer of 1998, Lipinski toured with Champions on Ice. She then toured with Stars on Ice for four seasons. Lipinski appealed to a younger audience, attracting new fans to what had traditionally been an adult-oriented show. Her signing to Stars on Ice was reported as a coup for the tour,[19] which at that time was doing well, with some performances routinely selling out months in advance.[20][21] Choreographer Sandra Bezic commented, "Tara reminds us why we're doing this – the idealism, the genuine love of skating. There's a real sweetness there that makes us all go, 'Yeah, I remember'".[20] Lipinski generally received favorable reviews and was popular with fans, sometimes signing autographs for hours after each show.[22]

text: Lipinski's decision to turn pro coincided with a change in the business climate for the skating industry. After the 1998 Olympics, many of the professional skating competitions that had sprung up in the aftermath of the 1994 Tonya Harding spectacle were converted to a pro-am format or discontinued entirely as audiences lost interest.[23] Lipinski did not want to compete in the new pro-am events, and not long after she turned professional, she broke an existing $1.2 million contract to appear in made-for-TV events sponsored by the USFSA.[24] Instead, she skated only in the remaining all-pro competitions, which were primarily team events such as Ice Wars. Another very notable individual victory came at the 1999 World Professional Figure Skating Championships; at age 17, she became the youngest person to win that event.[25]

text: Lipinski's professional skating career was hampered by a series of hip injuries. In August 1998, Lipinski suffered a hip injury in practice for Stars on Ice. In September 2000, she underwent surgery to repair a torn labrum in her hip.[26][27] She said her hip problem had been misdiagnosed for several years.[28] Lipinski suffered another hip injury in 2002 during a Stars on Ice show in St. Louis, when she fell hard on her right hip during a jump, and then tore muscles around the bruised area the next day.[29]

text: Many people[who?] have pointed to the repetitive stress of practicing the triple loop combinations Lipinski performed during her competitive days as the primary cause of her hip problems. Lipinski herself has issued contradictory statements about the timing, cause, and severity of her injuries. After her surgery in 2000, she stated in interviews that the real reason she had turned professional was that she had originally incurred the injury to her hip in the summer of 1997 and that she had skated the entire Olympic season in terrible pain,[30][31] contradicting her earlier account of the original injury having occurred in summer 1998 rather than in 1997.[27] In a 2010 statement on her web site, Lipinski denied that her hip injury was a factor in her decision to retire or that she suffered particular pain during her amateur career beyond "the norm for any athlete".[32]

text: Lipinski participated in rehearsals for a fifth season of the Stars on Ice tour in the fall of 2002 but withdrew from the tour before it began. She had been increasingly unhappy with life on the tour; she felt isolated from the off-ice camaraderie of the older skaters on the tour;[33] and her injuries caused friction with the show's producers and other cast members. She later wrote on her official web site, "It was really hard those last two years of touring for me. Emotionally I was drained and hurt. I have never been treated like that in my whole life."[34] In later interviews, she also expressed frustration with the artistic direction of the show at that time.[35] For example, reviewers had particularly panned the rap ensemble performed by Lipinski with Kristi Yamaguchi and Katarina Witt in the 2001–02 tour.[36][37][38]

text: Television and film career[edit]

text: Lipinski has made several television appearances, which have included guest roles on a number of prime-time shows (Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Touched by an Angel, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Malcolm in the Middle, Veronica's Closet, Whose Line Is It Anyway, Early Edition, 7th Heaven, and Still Standing), as well as a cameo in the theatrical film Vanilla Sky. Lipinski also played a brief supporting role on The Young and the Restless in 1999, starred in the TV movie Ice Angel in 2000, and was cast in the independent film The Metro Chase. Additionally, she has been a celebrity guest on VH-1's The List, Fox's Beach Party, several Nickelodeon productions, and Girls Behaving Badly, and has appeared on numerous magazine covers as well as every major talk show. In 1999, CBS aired a prime-time special, Tara Lipinski: From This Moment On.

text: Lipinski made an appearance on The Today Show on March 18, 2011, where she skated to Ben Harper's "Forever".

text: In October 2013, it was announced that Lipinski would be a commentator and analyst on NBC, NBC Sports, and Universal Sports during the Sochi Winter Games.[39][40][41] As a result of positive reviews for the event, Lipinski and fellow analyst Johnny Weir were invited to appear as fashion commentators for Access Hollywood at the 86th Academy Awards with host Billy Bush.[42] In September 2014, Lipinski and Weir were promoted to NBC's primary figure skating broadcasting team with Terry Gannon after more than a decade of Scott Hamilton, Sandra Bezic, and Tom Hammond at the helm. This promotion meant the B team of NBCSN from the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games would be commentating at every major skating event aired on NBC networks including the Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Skate America and the United States Figure Skating National Championships. Before the promotion, Lipinski, Weir, and Gannon only did the other five Grand Prix events and the Grand Prix Final, while Hamilton, Bezic, and Hammond got the bigger events like the National Championships.[43]

text: NBC has increased Lipinski and Weir's exposure in having them as "fashion and lifestyle experts" for the Kentucky Derby since 2014, and in 2016, the pair was announced as "cultural correspondents" for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.[44][45][46] The pair has also done commentary for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Lipinski and Weir have been described as having "chemistry...that brings the artistry and makes their conversations truly shine...[while] engaging to listen to and they are excellent tutors, providing random nitty-gritty figure skating obscurities along the way".[47][48]

text: In July 2016, Lipinski became an executive producer for a potential Hulu drama series centered on figure skating.[49]

text: Personal life[edit]

text: In December 2015, Lipinski announced her engagement to Todd Kapostasy, a television producer.[50] They were married on June 24, 2017, in Charleston, South Carolina.[51] Lipinski's broadcast partner Johnny Weir was a bridesman at her wedding.[47]

text: Figure skating[edit]

text: Programs[edit]

text:
Season
Short program
Free skating
Exhibition

1997–98
[5]

Once Upon a December
Journey to the Past
from Anastasia
by David Newman
choreo. by Sandra Bezic

Prelude and Opening
(from The Rainbow)
by Carl Davis
Scenes of Summer-Festival
by Lee Holdridge,
London Symphony Orchestra
choreo. by Sandra Bezic

Journey to the Past
performed by Liz Callaway

1996–97

Little Women
by Thomas Newman
choreo. by Sandra Bezic

Much Ado About Nothing
by Patrick Doyle
Sense and Sensibility
by Patrick Doyle
choreo. by Sandra Bezic

Walking on Sunshine
by Katrina and the Waves

1995–96

On the Town
by Leonard Bernstein

Speed
by Mark Mancina
The Prince of Tides
by James Newton Howard

On the Town
by Leonard Bernstein

Speed
by Mark Mancina
The Prince of Tides
by James Newton Howard

1994–95

Cirque du Soleil

Samson and Delilah
by Camille Saint-Saens

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text: Eligible[edit]

text: GP: Champions Series (Grand Prix)

text:
International[5]

Event
1993–94
1994–95
1995–96
1996–97
1997–98

Olympics

1st

Worlds

15th
1st
WD

GP Final

1st
1st

GP Nations Cup

2nd

GP Skate America

2nd

GP Skate Canada

2nd

GP Trophée Lalique

3rd
2nd

Nebelhorn Trophy

4th

International: Junior[5]

Junior Worlds

4th
5th

National[5]

U.S. Champ.
2nd N
2nd J
3rd
1st
2nd

Levels – N: Novice; J: Junior

text: Professional[edit]

text:
1998 Skate TV Championships: 1st[52]
1998 Ice Wars: 1st (Team USA)[53]
1998 Jefferson Pilot Financial Championships: 1st[54]
1999 Team Ice Wars: 2nd (Team USA)[55]
1999 Ice Wars: 1st (Team USA)
1999 Grand Slam Super Teams of Skating: 1st[56]
1999 World Professional Championship: 1st
2001 World Ice Challenge: 1st (Team USA)
2002 Ice Wars: 1st (Team USA)

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text: Skating technique[edit]

text: Lipinski is best known for her consistent athletic ability which included a number of difficult jumping passes. She completed a triple loop/triple loop and a triple toe/half loop/triple Salchow. These combinations are very rare to this day. Lipinski's jumps were tight in the air with very fast rotations, and her double Axel technique became very popular among many skaters for years to come.

text: Film and television[edit]

text: Lipinski has appeared in multiple television series, films and other programs. Other than that, she has had several technical parts.[57]

text: Selected filmography[edit]

text:
Year
Title
Role
Notes

1999
Touched by an Angel
Alex Thorpe
Season 5 Episode 15, "On Edge"

1999
The Young and the Restless
Marnie Kowalski
11 episodes between episodes number 6561 and 6747

2000
Ice Angel
Tracy Hannibal
Television film

2000
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Ellen
Season 7 Episode 7, "The Tale of the Lunar Locusts"

2001
Vanilla Sky
Girl at Party
Uncredited

2002
Arli$$
Herself
Season 7 Episode 5, "Playing It Safe"

2002
At Home with Tara Lipinski
Herself
Television short

2003
7th Heaven
Christine
Season 7 Episodes 21 & 22, "Life and Death: Part 1 & 2"

2003
Generation Jets
Jessica (voice)

2004
The Metro Chase
Natalie Jordon
Television film

2005
Still Standing
Sarah
Season 3 Episode 18, "Still Admiring"

2005
What's New, Scooby-Doo?
Camp Counselor Grey (voice)
Season 3 Episode 9, "What's New, Scooby-Doo?"

2006
Malcolm in the Middle
Carrie
Season 7 Episode 20, "Cattle Court"

2016
Superstore
Herself
Episode "Olympics"

2018
Lip Sync Battle
Herself
Season 4, Episode: Johnny Weir vs. Tara Lipinski[58]

text: Achievements[edit]

text: Philanthropic work, endorsements, and publications[edit]

text: With Shaquille O'Neal and Denzel Washington, Lipinski is a national spokesperson for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. She is also a spokesperson for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids[59] and the Childhood Leukemia Foundation. Lipinski is also involved with the Office of National Drug Control Policy's anti-drug campaign. Her anti-drug public service announcement aired nationwide on TV and in theaters in 2000.

text: She is also dedicated to helping children in need, through the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Children's Circle of Care, the philanthropic organization for children's hospitals nationwide. She has also supported St. Jude Children's Research Hospital,[60] and numerous cancer research efforts.

text: Her portfolio of endorsements includes McDonald's, Charles Schwab, Chevrolet, Snapple, DKNY, Minute Maid, Capezio, Mattel, Campbell's Soup, Autoweb.com, Kellogg's, Coca-Cola, Kleenex, Kodak, Hallmark Cards, Office Depot, Smuckers, Target, and others. Lipinski has also been on the runway for Limited Too!. Lipinski has two official books in print: Totally Tara – An Olympic Journey and Triumph On Ice. In addition, there are numerous unofficial biographies, including:

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Tara Lipinski: Queen of the Ice, Bill Gutman
Tara Lipinski: Superstar Ice-Skater, Stasia Ward Kehoe
Tara Lipinski (Sports Superstars), Richard Rambeck
On Ice with Tara Lipinski, Matt Christopher
Tara Lipinski (Champion Sports Biographies), Annis Karpenko
Tara the Road to Gold, Wendy Daly
Tara Lipinski (Awesome Athletes), Jill Wheeler
Tara Lipinski (Female Skating Legends), Veda Boyd Jones
Tara Lipinski (Jam Session), Terri Dougherty
Tara Lipinski: Star Figure Skater, Barry Wilner

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text: The year before her Olympic win, the U.S. Olympic Committee named Lipinski the 1997 Female Athlete of the Year. Lipinski is particularly proud of the recognition she has received from fans. In 1999 and 2000, she was voted Best Female Athlete at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. In 1999, she won Best Female Athlete at the inaugural Fox Teen Choice Awards. She received similar awards from Teen People and Teen magazine. She has been recognized by the American Academy of Achievement, the Hugh O'Brien Youth Leadership Foundation, and many other organizations. In 2006, Lipinski was the youngest ever inductee into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame.


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Chelsea Brady
Rachel Melvin as Chelsea BradyDays of our Lives characterPortrayed by
Mandy Musgrave (2004–05) Rachel Melvin (2005–09)Duration
1998, 2004–09First appearance
May 21, 1998Last appearance
June 11, 2009Created by
Sally Sussman MorinaIntroduced by
Ken Corday  Tom LanganClassification
Former, regularProfileOther names
Georgia Reed BradyChelsea BensonChelsea ReedOccupation
StudentResidence
London, England
showFamilyParents
Bo BradyBillie ReedHalf-brothers
Shawn-Douglas BradyZack BradyHalf-sisters
Ciara BradyGrandparents
Victor Kiriakis Shawn Brady (legal)  Caroline Brady Curtis Reed Kate RobertsAunts and uncles
Isabella Toscano Roman Brady Kimberly Brady Kayla Brady Johnson Frankie Brady (adoptive) Max Brady (adoptive) Philip Kiriakis Austin Reed Lucas Horton Cassie Brady Rex BradyNieces and nephews
Claire BradyFirst cousins
Brady Black Carrie Brady Reed Eric Brady Sami Brady Cassie Brady Rex Brady Andrew Donovan IV Theresa Donovan  Stephanie Johnson Joey Johnson Will Horton  Allie Horton Tyler KiriakisNoah Reed[1][2]

text: Chelsea Brady is a fictional character on the NBC Soap Opera Days of Our Lives. Created by head writer Sally Sussman Morina, the role was originally played by Mandy Musgrave.[3] The role was recast with  Rachel Melvin in 2005.[4] Melvin portrayed the character from 2005 to 2009, after the character moves to London to take care of her mother, Billie Reed.[5] She is the child of Bo Brady and Billie Reed. Chelsea is born by the name of Georgia Reed Brady. "Georgia" is presumed dead, and buried in a bayou in Louisiana. In 2005 after Chelsea Benson's parents are killed in a car accident, DNA tests show that she is Georgia Reed Brady.[6]

text: Character's background[edit]

text: Chelsea Brady is born onscreen as Georgia Reed Brady on May 22, 1998, in Louisiana.[6]  Chelsea is the long-lost daughter of Billie Reed and Bo Brady, who is initially buried in the bayou as Georgia Reed Brady in May 1998. The truth comes out when Chelsea's illegally adoptive parents are killed in a car accident and blood tests reveal her true lineage. Billie immediately steps in to care for Chelsea. Since 2006, Chelsea changes her last name to Brady, her biological father's last name.

text: As Abby Deveraux's best friend, Chelsea is a bad influence. She encourages Abby to smoke, drink, and lie often to her mother. She also has a few driving incidents, including having her license revoked. Of course, the most serious accident results in the death of Zack Brady — her half-brother, whom she hits while she is text messaging and driving simultaneously, thus incurring the wrath of Hope Brady and half-brother Shawn Brady.[7]

text: Chelsea is involved with Max Brady, who keeps Chelsea's secret about accidentally killing Zack. Chelsea is also obsessed with older men including Patrick Lockhart, who is conveniently staying at Abby's house. Seeing Billie Reed as her biggest competition, Chelsea hates her, that is, until she learned that Billie is actually her mother.

text: After all the bad things Chelsea does, she desperately wants to change. While serving her community service at the hospital, a gloved hand leaves a file for Chelsea to discover. The file says that Claire Brady is not her cousin, the daughter of Philip Kiriakis, but actually her half-niece, Shawn's daughter. Thinking she is doing the right thing, Chelsea leaves the file in Shawn's cubicle for him to find while he lies unconscious from alcohol poisoning. She feels letting him know he is Claire's father will give him a reason to live.

text: Belle and Shawn discover the file when he wakes up and they think the file is fraudulent because they do not remember sleeping together. The file is dusted for fingerprints and it is discovered that, apart from Shawn and Belle, Chelsea's are the only other fingerprints on the file. Bo arrests Chelsea, and Max blows up when he finds out, immediately dumping her. Bo decides that the only way to prove that Chelsea is guilty is to run the DNA test on Shawn to see if he is Claire's biological father. The tests come back positive and, in this turn of events, the charges are dropped.

text: Chelsea then goes on a quest to get Bo and Billie back together, and consults the help of her grandmother, Kate Roberts, who encourages Chelsea to be driven and go after what she wants. The stress of losing their child has torn apart Bo and Hope and when Hope sends e-mails to Bo expressing her desire for a divorce, Chelsea intercepts the emails and writes back pretending to be Bo and agrees to the divorce even though Bo is trying to get back together with Hope. When her actions are discovered, Bo and Hope are completely enraged and Bo disown Chelsea. After many weeks of feeling guilty she talks to her father and with the support of her mother, Billie, she is able to gain back her father's trust and he welcomes her back into his life.

text: Chelsea is then involved with a mystery lover online by the name of Dr. Shane Patten. She tells him all her feelings and her deepest secrets thinking she can trust him. She even goes so far as to plan their future together. She gets so into him she wants all the details about him so she gets Abby's cousin, Nick Fallon, to find everything out for her. After giving up on Nick finding out information about Patten because Nick won't talk to her, Chelsea finally learns that Dr. Patten is really Nick all along and he is just trying to get her to like him. She is upset and hurt at Nick's actions and completely ends their friendship, saying she can never trust him again.

text: Things became even worse between the two when Chelsea finds out that Nick had slept with her mother when she was drunk and he is depressed over the loss of Chelsea's friendship. She refuses to even be in the same room as Nick and moves out of her mother's house and moves in with her father and stepmother. Her mother desperately tries to repair their relationship, but there still remains some tension between the two.

text: Chelsea finds even more problems when her father's house is set on fire. The fire is actually started by Willow Stark, a former prostitute and ex-girlfriend of Shawn Brady, who is hired by EJ DiMera to break into the house. The fire is started unintentionally and Willow places a hairbrush of Chelsea's in the house to try to frame her for the fire. Chelsea panics at what her father would think considering her past troubles and under the pretense of wanting to rebuild their relationship she convinces Nick, a DNA assistant, to steal the brush in order to keep her father from finding out. Nick feels extremely guilty over his actions and is not completely sure if she is telling the truth about the fire and visits Willow in jail (she is arrested for stealing Hope's jewelry) to try to figure out which version of the fire story is true. Willow steals the hairbrush from Nick, which results in Nick trying to get the hairbrush back. Willow dies struggling to get the hairbrush back from Nick. Afterwards, Chelsea admits to her father that she asked Nick to steal the hairbrush from the lab.

text: It is believed that Chelsea truly does have romantic feelings for Nick, but due to past relationships she has trouble trusting people and has found it hard to forgive Nick, but Nick has stated that he is determined to prove to Chelsea he loves her no matter what it takes together.  Chelsea and Nick bond after Chelsea is kidnapped on the campus of Salem University, with Max also stopping a bomb from going off that is strapped to her body in exchange for Atermis and DeMarquette.

text: Then, Chelsea goes on to help have Ford Decker arrested for the rape of her two good friends Cordy and Morgan. Chelsea is not aware that Stephanie was also raped by Ford and ignores Stephanie's pleas to let Ford be.

text: Chelsea and the girls create posters depicting Ford as a rapist and are threatened by him on several occasions, the latest being at the Brady Pub where Nick is forced to defend her.

text: In November, Chelsea and Nick break into Ford's dorm to obtain proof that he is indeed the campus rapist. They have pictures that are illegally obtained. Chelsea's father Bo and Stephanie's father Steve are forced to confront Ford. After being appalled by the university's unwillingness to do anything to Ford, the girls lure him into their sorority house where Chelsea pretends to be interested in him. The girls drug his drink but Ford switches the drinks and Chelsea ends up drugged. In a fight on the stairs, Ford falls backwards and dies. The girls, with the help of Max Brady, bury Ford in the basement of the house.

text: Chelsea's father Bo Brady is later admitted to the hospital for pancreatic issues. Chelsea is found to be a match and is scheduled for an experimental operation to graft some of her pancreas to save Bo. Bo's handsome and earth-friendly doctor, Dr. Daniel Jonas, (who is brought in by Victor Kiriakis) performs the surgery. He and Chelsea grew to become friends and their friendship turned into an attraction that went beyond "just friends". However Daniel fought it at first. He was older, she was his patient at one point, and he was still mourning his late wife, for which he blamed himself for her death. However, he decided follow his heart with Chelsea and they started dating. Unfortunately, the happiness did not last as Chelsea found out that Daniel had slept with her grandmother Kate before they started dating. Chelsea broke up with Daniel.

text: Kate Roberts, her grandmother, and Dr. Jonas become involved as he treats her for lung cancer.

text: Afterwards, she begins defending Nick Fallon, her "first love," who is charged with Trent Robbins murder, and growing closer to her old flame, Max Brady, whom she kissed at New years dinner at Chez Rouge, suggesting that they may get back together. Max and Chelsea spend a lot more time together and old feelings come back. They both realize that they are in love with each other and that they need to be together now. Chelsea also volunteers at the hospital, where she establishes a connection with Abe and Lexie's son, Theo.

text: Chelsea goes to England to be with her mom after Billie is involved in a car accident. She later returns to Salem and announces that she will be staying in London. She reunites with Max and they get engaged. They decide to leave Salem and move to London.