News about Bob Ross

Paedophile was caught ordering teenage girl to perform sex acts in video call just months after being released from prison for almost identical offences as judge blasts him for 'learning nothing' from his time behind bars and jails him for nine years

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 28, 2024
Ethan Rich was found to have targeted the 14-year-old in 2023, with police finding recordings of him masturbating while encouraging her to perform actions on herself on a phone he was not supposed to have. On the device officers found the sex offender had signed up to multiple social media sites, including WhatsApp, Telegram and Snapchat , using the name of American painter Bob Ross as a pseudonym. The discovery was made just five months after he was released from prison for almost identical offences which saw him target a 15-year-old girl, something for which he was jailed for three years in 2020. Locking him behind bars again last week at Swansea Crown Court, Judge Paul Thomas KC said it was clear Rich had 'learned nothing - or at least nothing positive' from his time in prison.

With a $15,000 'Choose Topeka' campaign to lure border crossers to the Democratic-led city to fill 7,000 open positions, Kansas claims it wants migrants to migrate there

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 1, 2024
Cities such as New York, Chicago, and Denver are struggling to accommodate 100,000 migrants bussed in from Texas, which are estimated to be over 10,000 crossing the border every day. However, Topeka, Kansas' capital, needs a few of those buses to join its burgeoning Hispanic population, which accounts for up 17 percent of the population. The city has a unemployment rate of just 2 percent and 7,000 open jobs, which it can't fill from the ranks of its approximately 175,000 locals.

"A Walk in the Woods," Bob Ross' first painting 'A Walk in the Woods' sold for nearly $10 million

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 21, 2023
Bob Ross' very first painting was auctioned for $9.8 million to an anonymous buyer. This was just one of over 400 creations he made on his PBS show with 403 episodes.

Bob Ross's first ever TV painting 'A Walk in the Woods sells at auction for nearly $10 MILLION - 40 years after iconic artist created it in 30 minutes

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 21, 2023
The painting, which has been on display at the Modern Artifact Art Gallery, has sold to an anonymous patron. It was the first of more than 400 paintings that Ross created in less than 30 minutes. On the bottom left corner of the oil-painted canvas, it displayed a fall-like scene with a pond in the woods as well as his signature transcribed in red. After the episode was taped, Ryan Nelson, the gallery's owner, said he purchased the painting from a lady who appeared on Ross' show and decided to buy it.

The RAF officer, 24, who said he'accidentally' developed an obsession with child abuse photographs, will not face prison time

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 29, 2023
Stefano Rinaldi, a RAF specialist, was discovered to have used a Twitter account to capture and post explicit images of children as well as educational pornographic videos involving animals. The 24-year-old, who has a girlfriend, said he became interested in videos demonstrating child sexual abuse, which later led to his inability to control himself.

Owen Wilson is seen as a successful painter in the paint trailer

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 9, 2023
The first trailer has arrived for Paint just months after the first photograph of Owen Wilson playing a painter with a similarity to Bob Ross. Although Bob Ross' life - who died in 1995 at the age of 52 after lymphoma - was clearly inspired by Ross, the 54-year-old Wilson's character - Vermont painter Carl Nargle - appears to have been heavily influenced by Ross. Nargle's meteoric rise to fame is challenged by a gifted younger painter with a similar style in this film, which opens in theaters on April 7 from IFC Films.

Tree surgeon from Oxfordshire sees image of Jesus in growth rings from tree he chopped down

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 29, 2022
When Callum Johnson saw the portrait of Jesus smiling back at him from the tree's growth rings (left) in Wantage, Oxfordshire, his jaw dropped. A striking snapshot of the Christ-like visage in the log decay shows a clearly defined head, nose, moustache, beard, and trademark flowing locks. The 16-year-old apprentice said he and his four-strong crew, some of whom have been in the industry for 40 years, had never seen anything like it before.

In the first still from Owen Wilson's forthcoming film Paint about a fictional TV painter, he describes him as "cozy."

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 25, 2022
In the first still from Owen Wilson's forthcoming film Paint, he channeled late painter Bob Ross. In the film In the resemblance to Bob, who died on July 4, 1995 at the age of 52, the 54-year-old actor portrays a fictional television painter. According to a plot summary, Carl Nargle, who has been hosting the top painting exhibition in Vermont for almost three decades, has the film centers on him.