Sylvester Stallone on forgiving his father lifts Jenna & Sheinelle
The interview is on course for about twelve times a usual first day, while the rest of the channel runs at little more than half its normal pace.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 57,662 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (4,706).
Sylvester Stallone on His Tough Upbringing, Forgiving His Father
Sylvester Stallone's interview on TODAY with Jenna & Sheinelle passed 40,000 views before it had been up a full day. Its title names two subjects: the tough upbringing he came from and the father he says he has forgiven.
This is not how new videos usually start here. A fresh upload on the channel normally finishes its first day with a few thousand views. The Stallone conversation is heading for roughly twelve times that, and it is doing so while the channel's overall daily views sit well below their usual level.
The channel belongs to TODAY's fourth hour, the stretch of the morning show hosted by Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones. Its guest has told a story about struggle before, on screen. Stallone wrote Rocky and starred in it as the Philadelphia boxer nobody expected much from, and the film won the Oscar for Best Picture. This time the story is his own childhood, told in his own words.
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- Channel
- TODAY with Jenna & Sheinelle
- Subscribers
- 246,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 148,554 (on a normal day: 266,681)
- Video published
- September 29, 2026
- Video views so far
- 43,085 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 57,662
The numbers
The figures show a single interview far outpacing a normal opening day, on a channel otherwise going through a slower stretch.
💡 Test your knowledge
In which 1982 film did Sylvester Stallone first play John Rambo?
First Blood, released in 1982, introduced Stallone as the Vietnam veteran John Rambo and launched the Rambo series.

