{"id":47291,"date":"2019-02-10T17:33:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T23:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=47291"},"modified":"2019-02-10T17:33:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T23:33:35","slug":"julian-edelman-shaves-beard-during-taping-of-the-ellen-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/julian-edelman-shaves-beard-during-taping-of-the-ellen-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Edelman shaves beard during taping of &#8216;The Ellen Show&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman arrived on set to tape a segment of \u201cThe Ellen Show\u201d sporting his big, bushy beard and left mostly clean-shaven.<br \/>\nEllen Degeneres, you see, made him an offer he could not refuse.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Extended: Ellen Shaves Off Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman&#039;s Beard for Charity\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QMYpVHi2xLg?start=2&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She said she would donate $10,000 to the Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of Boston, a pet Edelman project, if he would let her shave it off right then and there. After the briefest of hesitations, because after all \u201cIt\u2019s kind of grown on me,\u201d Edelman agreed to the deal, and threw in his own $10,000 donation.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen led him to a barber\u2019s chair that miraculously rolled on to the set and snapped on a smock bearing the logos of both The Ellen Show and the Patriots. Before going to work she asked Edelman if he had any last words for his beard \u2013 he did:&nbsp; \u201cI love you beard, it\u2019s been a hell of a year.\u201d &nbsp;After shaving off both Edelman\u2019s beard and mustache, Ellen quipped that she would auction off the hair ball for more donation money.<\/p>\n<p>The show aired on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview before the shave, Edelman said that winning the Super Bowl was the most important part of the night, but that: \u201cGetting the MVP is kind of a win for me and my other team, and that\u2019s my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father was a tough, hard-nosed guy and pushed me to limits I never thought I could get to. And my mother, being the loving little lady that she is, I was never late to a practice, she was always there. \u2026 I mean, I had a bag lunch until junior college. She took care of me for a long time. So this is like a full-family kind of win,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He told Ellen he let his beard grow because he was following literally the instruction of team head coach Bill Belichick, who told his players at the start of the season to \u201cput everything in the drawer\u201d and worry about it when the season is over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEating is a nightmare,\u201d Edelman told Ellen of his unruly beard. \u201cI have to shower after I eat.\u201d<br \/>\nEdelman also arrived carrying the Vince Lombardi Trophy but left with the silver football engraved with his name which is given to the Super Bowl MVP. Ellen said it was delivered to the Hopefully someone touched up the shave Ellen gave him before he left the studio.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Julian%20Edelman%20shaves%20beard%20during%20taping%20of%20%27The%20Ellen%20Show%27\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7139,1491],"tags":[9856,8790,8795,9855,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47292,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47291\/revisions\/47292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}