Arrow Season 4 Episode 12 Recap: A Daddy Issue

Viewers witnessed a significant return and a major reveal on Arrow Season 4 Episode 12.

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First, we welcomed back Colton Haynes as Roy “Arsenel” Harper, as the heor was blackmailed by a villain known as The Calculator.

He was coerced into steal some Palmer tech toys.

The details of Roy’s rescue aren’t overly important, however, because it was what took place after Oliver and company solved this forced servitude problem that has all fans talking today:

The Calculator (portrayed by veteran actor Tom Amandes) spent a bulk of the episode squaring off against Felicity over the computer screen, meaning these two never lay eyes on each other.

But just because our favorite wheelchair-bound heroine emerged victorious in an entertaining clash of keyboards, that didn’t her business with the mysterious menace was over.

Meaning what, exactly?

Following a rousing presentation to the Palmer Tech board, Felicity came face-to-face with The Calculator’s public persona, Noah Cutler.

But that’s not what she knows him as. She knows him as… DAD!

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Allow us to repeat: The Calculator is Felicity’s father!!!!!

Showrunner Wendy Mericle spoke to TV Line about the revelation and viewers will learn a lot more next Wednesday about Cutler, his history and where things may go from here.

Before you go watch Arrow online to relive this significant installment, though, here’s a tease regarding how Felicity will react, courtesy of Mericle:

She wants to believe that her father loves her and that he has a vested interest in who she is and knowing her and having a relationship with her, and she feels very torn about that – even though she knows right off that bat, at the top of [next episode], who he really is.

Angela Raiola Hospitalized with Stage 4 Lung and Brain Cancer

Very sad news this week out of the television world:

Mob Wives star Angela “Big Ang” Raiola has been hospitalized for stage 4 lung and brain cancer.

Raiola’s sister, Janine Detore, revealed this tragic diagnosis to fans on Wednesday, saying that treatments for the VH1 reality star have not been working.

As a result, she has created a GoFundMe page in the hopes of raising $ 25,000 for alternative cures.

“My sister was diagnosed with stage 4 brain and lung cancer,” Detore wrote on this GoFundMe page.

“Chemotherapy was started January 5th. On January 26th the doctor reviewed her CT scan and informed us that the treatment was not working, and in fact one tumor grew larger and the other tumors had no change.”

Last March, the 55-year old told People Magazine that she was diagnosed with a lemon-sized tumor in her throat.

A mother of two, Angela said she quit smoking (following 40 years of the habit) that day and underwent surgery in June.

“We were advised that she would start immunotherapy the following week,” Detore writes online, bringing fans up to date.

“Here we are at the emergency room waiting to see why her breathing is labored and the amount of pain she is having is by far more than she could handle.

“So I suggested cannabis oil as an alternative. This is why I am putting up this go fund me to try to help my sister to get this oil to help her at least be pain free. Angela cannot function to work anymore.”

Thus far, supporters have surpassed the family’s goal and raised over $ 30,000 for Big Ang.

We send her our very best wishes.

Taylor Swift Video Game: Coming Soon!

Taylor Swift is about to make like Kim Kardashian.

No, she won’t be starring in a sex tape. Nor will she be talking endlessly about weight loss or cinching a waist trainer around her midsection.

But Swift WILL be featured in her very own video game!

According to a press release, Swift is teaming up with Glu Mobile on a “new, one-of-a-kind digital gaming experience,” which is slated for release some time this winter.

Glu Mobile is the company behind Kardashian’s wildly successful game, along with one released last year that features Katy Perry.

Scarcely any details surrounding Swift’s upcoming app store offering have been released.

But it does as if this game will differ a bit from Kardashian’s and Perry’s, both of both take the player on a journey toward stardom.

“We realize that Taylor and her global fan base expect a new and highly differentiated mobile gaming experience,” says Glu Chairman and CEO Niccolo de Masi in a statement.

“Glu is equally committed to designing never before seen gameplay elements that utilize Taylor’s unique creativity. Accordingly, we will spend the required development time to ensure this innovation is achieved.”

We can only presume that the app will have something to do with achieving #SquadGoals, writing songs about ex-boyfriends and, of course, hanging out with cats named after TV characters.

As for why Taylor Swift would want to partner with a video game company?

We can think of about 200 million reasons why.

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Blac Chyna & Rob Kardashian: Bonding Over Getting "F--ked" By His Family!

Controversial lovebirds Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna have had so much to discuss in the early stages of their blossoming romance.

They get along great, but there was, and is, one common thread that particularly bonded this unlikely couple from the start, however …

“Both of them felt f–ked over by the family,” a source close to Rob tells Us, noting that he and Blac “bonded over their shared pain.”

The enemy of my enemy is my … revenge f–k buddy, personal trainer and partner in Internet trolling crime? Stranger things have happened. 

They held grudges for different reasons, of course.

Diagnosed with diabetes in December, Rob was “seething” when he learned his family was staging a health intervention in January.

There has even been talk of Rob Kardashian SUING Kim for mocking him on Keeping Up with the Kardashians in an episode last month.

He was none too pleased when his sister quipped that his expanded girth turned a tattoo of his ex Rita Ora “into a Cabbage Patch doll.”

Whether he actually takes legal action against his own family remains to be seen, and we’d consider it extremely unlikely to be honest.

Lashing out at them more subtly – but still making his point and then some – by getting into bed with Blac Chyna is another story however.

Blac, of course, was once a close friend of Kim, and was later dumped by Tyga, who left her for another of Rob’s sisters, Kylie Jenner.

This happened in 2014, when Kylie was just 16; Tyga and Chyna have a three-year-old son, King. Blac was quite justifiably pissed.

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Chyna, says one Rob friend, always “intended to get back at the Kardashians,” as her feud with Kylie (see gallery below) is proof of that.

It was Rob who reached out first, texting Chyna, ‘Hey, how are you?’ He was always friendly with her, so he had her number,” the insider says.

“And she’s Rob’s type,” so when they began hanging out shortly thereafter, they realized they had much more in common than beef.

Hip-hop lovers, they “found out that they like the same music and doing the same things” and this “blossomed into a love thing quickly.”

Indeed, the love-struck, “obsessed” Rob drove to Texas to pick up Chyna from jail after she was arrested at the Austin airport last weekend.

Moreover, he’s sent many signals to his family that Blac’s not going anywhere, leaving the Kards scrambling to make sense of all this.

“They are shocked, confused and in disbelief,” explains a family source. Especially one sister. “Kylie says Rob has stabbed her in the back.”

Maybe so, but there’s also been some chatter about a Kylie Jenner-Blac Chyna truce, so perhaps cooler heads will finally prevail in all this?

Who are we kidding. It’s a nice thought, though.

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