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King of the Hill star Johnny Hardwick has died aged 59. The talented voice actor - who played Hank Hill's conspiracy theorist next door neighbor Dale Gribble on the iconic animated series in 258 episodes from 1997-2010 - was found dead at his home in Texas on Tuesday after police were called for a welfare check and found his body. Hardwick was pronounced dead at the scene with no foul play suspected - the cause of death is currently unknown, reports TMZ. Hardwick also served as a staff writer, story editor, and producer for the show, scoring four Prime Time...

Call it The Revenge of #MeToo. It frightens me. The erasure of Hardwick from the airwaves and the public square was swift, brutal and nearly complete. This was a hard-core reaction to an online essay published on Thursday by Hardwick’s ex-girlfriend, Chloe Dykstra. Without mentioning Hardwick by name, she detailed, in often cringe-worthy fashion, emotional and sexual abuse she claims to have suffered during a nearly three-year intimate relationship with the host of TV programs including “Talking Dead,’’ the aftershow that dissects AMC powerhouses “The Walking Dead’’ and “Fear the Walking Dead.” Hardwick, for his part, denies completely engaging in...

Updated with Nerdist statement: Chris Hardwick, the Nerdist founder and host of NBC’s game show The Wall, AMC’s Talking Dead aftershow and a regular emcee in Hall H at Comic-Con, has been scrubbed from the Nerdist website he founded after being accused of sexual abuse and “long-term abuse” by his former girlfriend Chloe Dykstra. Legendary Entertainment, which owns Nerdist Industries where Hardwick launched his career as a comic and podcaster, just released a statement. “Chris Hardwick had no operational involvement with Nerdist for the two years preceding the expiration of his contract in December 2017,” it reads. “He no longer...

Using taxpayer funds, government officials in Orange County have spent the last 16 years arguing the most absurd legal proposition in the entire nation: How could social workers have known it was wrong to lie, falsify records and hide exculpatory evidence in 2000 so that a judge would forcibly take two young daughters from their mother for six-and-a-half years? From the you-can't-make-up-this-crap file, county officials are paying Lynberg & Watkins, a private Southern California law firm specializing in defending cops in excessive force lawsuits, untold sums to claim the social workers couldn't have "clearly" known that dishonesty wasn't acceptable in...

Doyle Hardwick found himself back at the Land O'Lakes jail this week, this time for 60 days, all because he wanted to check his Facebook page in peace. The trouble began brewing the evening of Sept. 24, as Hardwick plied his wife with beer, hoping she would go to bed. She drank. And drank. But didn't feel like going to sleep. So he called 911.