‘Tiger King’ star Carole Baskin has an upcoming gig in Florida. All cool cats invited
Hey, all you cool cats and kittens: Carole Baskin is in the house.
The animal activist is throwing out the first pitch at a Florida minor league baseball game in a few weeks if you’d like to see the “Tiger King” star in person.
The Mighty Mussels take on The Jupiter Hammerheads, a Miami Marlins affiliate, at 7 p.m. April 15 at Hammond Stadium in Fort Myers.
The Fort Myers Mighty Mussels have the home field advantage at the stadium, which has a capacity of 7,500. The team’s players will be wearing tiger-themed jerseys. The shirt will be available for auction with proceeds going to Baskin’s Big Cat Rescue tiger sanctuary in Tampa.
Baskin will be sticking around after the game to collect donations for her animals, the organization says on its website.
Miss the saga that was “Tiger King?” Americans were captivated by both seasons of the Netflix series, which started in March 2020, right as lockdowns for the COVID-19 pandemic began.
You’re in luck: Peacock is coming out with its own scripted spin called “Joe vs. Carole,” whose trailer just dropped.
“Saturday Night Live” comedian Kate McKinnon plays Baskin and director John Cameron Mitchell (“The Sandman”) plays her nemesis Joe Exotic.
The former Oklahoma zoo owner (real name: Joseph Maldonado) is serving a 21-year sentence after being convicted in 2019 in a murder-for-hire plot against Baskin, as well as other crimes that include animal abuse.
Seems their beef is still real.
On “Nightline” last week, Maldonado, who has prostate cancer, said that he is suffering behind bars and is upset that others are profiting from his pain.
“Everybody in the world is making money off of me but me,” he said, adding a message for Baskin: “Carole, go find another reason to live other than Joe Exotic. Because enough is enough.”
Tickets: www.milb.com/fortmyers
