Hairspray Live! college sophomore Maddie Baillio, as her first professional role. In November 2016, it was announced that Ricki Lake and Marissa Jaret Winokur (who portrayed Tracy Turnblad in the 1988 film and the Broadway version respectively) would make cameo appearances; Winokur and Lake appeared as employees of Mr. Pinky's boutique. Darren Criss served as an on-air host, hosting a half-hour "Countdown to Hairspray Live!" show on NBC with Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes, as well as behind-the-scenes reports throughout the live broadcast. Oreo, Reddi-wip, and Toyota broadcast live, themed commercials during "Hairspray Live!"; Oreo's ad featured the character of Corny Collins,
Ricki Tarr Ricki Tarr Ricki Tarr is a fictional character created by John le Carré, and is a major figure in le Carré's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". Ricki Tarr was a field agent, a member of "scalphunters", a section used when a bit of physical derring-do might be called for by the Circus, based at a fictitious Brixton laundry and jokingly described as "cosh and carry" by Smiley. He is sent on a mission to Hong Kong to run the rule over a Russian potential blackmail target who, when he gets there, Tarr realizes is a "Moscow Centre trained hood" engaged in