“It happens every time… they all become blueberries.” For some of us, the scene in Willy Wonka where Violet Beauregarde turns into a blueberry is almost not too far off from reality. I kid, but we do ...

Denise Nickerson, who played the gum-chewing brat-turned-human-blueberry Violet Beauregarde in “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” is in critical condition after suffering a stroke in late June, ...

Who could forget bratty Veruca Salt, chocoholic Augustus Gloop, the shrunken down and stretched out Mike Teevee or Violet Beauregarde – who swelled up like a giant blueberry after eating a ...