In what may be the toughest blow, ego-wise, in the fallout from Kanye West’s antisemitic rants last week, Forbes announced today that the rapper is no longer on its glitzy list of the world’s billionaires. A chief cause for the change was Adidas ending its relationship today with Ye, as he is now known. He had been among the first hip-hop […]
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James Corden admitted he was “ungracious” to a staffer at New York City restauranter Keith McNally‘s Manhattan establishment the Balthazar last week. On The Late Late Show, Corden came before the cameras for the first time since it was alleged he threatened a negative Yelp review over a bit of egg white in what was supposed to be […]
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Production on Season 3 of “Call Me Kat” will pause production following the death of Leslie Jordan, Variety has learned. The actor died on Monday in a car accident age 67. Season 3 is currently airing on Fox, having premiered on Sept. 29. Since the comedy series debuted in 2021, Jordan has held the series regular role of Phil, the head […]
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Andy Cohen is apologizing to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Garcelle Beauvais after the Bravo host received backlash from viewers. During the second part of the RHOBH reunion, Lisa Rinna admitted that she was the one that threw Beauvais’ autobiographical book in the trash and not Erika Jayne who had shared the moment on Instagram. While talking about the situation at the […]
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Kanye West is no longer a client at CAA, Variety has confirmed. In addition, a completed documentary about West will be shelved in light of his recent antisemitic comments, MRC studio executives Modi Wiczyk, Asif Satchu and Scott Tenley announced in a memo on Monday. “This morning, after discussion with our filmmakers and distribution partners, we made the decision not […]
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Leslie Jordan, the goofy character actor perhaps best known for his Emmy-winning turn as Beverley Leslie, the cynical foil to Megan Mullally’s Karen Walker, on Will & Grace, has died. He was 67. Jordan was at the wheel of a BMW when he crashed into the side of a building at Cahuenga Boulevard and Romaine Street […]
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Three of Hollywood’s top agency chiefs are now calling on the entertainment industry to cut ties with Kanye West given the rapper and fashion mogul’s antisemitic rhetoric on multiple platforms and interviews. On Sunday evening, UTA chief Jeremy Zimmer sent a companywide memo to staff titled “Rise of Anti Semitism and Hate,” writing that West’s comments’ “embolden […]
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Allen Media Group, the African American-focused news, lifestyle, sports and entertainment platform founded by Byron Allen, is set to launch The Grio With Eboni K. Williams and The Grio with Marc Lamont Hill, a daily two-hour news block beginning Monday, October 24. It will also be available via TheGrio streaming app. Hosted by author and television personality Williams, and author, activist, and scholar Hill, each […]
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Angelina Jolie will star in Oscar-nominated director Pablo Larraín’s next movie, a biopic about famous opera singer Maria Callas. Titled “Maria,” the film “tells the tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and re-imagined during her final days in 1970s Paris,” according to its logline. Steven Knight (“Spencer,” “Peaky […]
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A New York jury has sided with Kevin Spacey in a $40 million civil lawsuit, finding that the Oscar-winning actor did not molest Anthony Rapp when he was a teenager and is not liable for battery. After roughly 80 minutes of deliberations, jurors reached a unanimous decision that Rapp’s lawyers had failed to prove that Spacey “touched […]
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Jesse Lee Soffer isn’t leaving the Windy City just yet. The actor, who made his final appearance on “Chicago P.D.” earlier this month, will be returning to direct episode 16, Variety can exclusively reveal. The episode will air in 2023. Soffer starred in 189 episodes of NBC’s police procedural, portraying Det. Jay Halstead. In August, he confirmed that the 10th […]
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Chelsea Handler will host the 2023 Critics Choice Awards, the Critics Choice Association said Thursday. The 28th annual awards show will take place Jan. 15, airing live on The CW from the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. Handler had a seven-year run as the host of E!’s Chelsea Lately, during which she was the only female late-night talk […]
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Ari Emanuel is encouraging businesses that work with Kanye “Ye” West to pull their involvement with him following the rapper’s recent antisemitic remarks. In an op-ed for the Financial Times published online Wednesday, the Endeavor CEO wrote that West’s business partners, including companies that profit off his music — such as Apple, Spotify, Adidas and his touring partners — should […]
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CBS President and CEO George Cheeks told TheWrap on Wednesday that even if NBC plans to dump its 10 p.m. hour shows, CBS does not intend to follow suit. “We are committed to 10 p.m. and continuing our ratings success in that time period,” Cheeks said in a statement. Some of the network’s biggest hits […]
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Howard Stern lashed out at Kanye West during the Oct. 19 episode of his SiriusXM radio show (via Mediaite). West has courted controversy in recent weeks for making antisemitic statements, most recently in an interview with Chris Cuomo where the rapper cited the “Jewish underground media mafia.” Stern compared West to Hitler and criticized his defenders who cite mental […]
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Jake Tapper took Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to task for her endorsement of various conspiracy theories over the years. The CNN host called Greene an “extremist” who is tolerated and even “embraced” by her fellow Republicans because of her preternatural ability to fundraise and receive the clout that goes with it. Tapper then aired a series of clips interspersed with his […]
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The move to cut “The Drew Barrymore Show” from an hourlong format to two half-hour segments has paid off for the syndicated talk show, which saw a 60% boost in ratings from this time last year, according to NNTV’s Tuesday ratings report. The daytime talk show that debuted in September 2020 saw the sharpest annual increase of […]
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Durham has been leading an investigation into the origins of the FBI’s probe into possible connections between Donald Trump and the Russian government, dating to his time as a candidate for president in 2015. Around that time, the Hillary Clinton campaign indirectly funded the efforts of British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who compiled raw intelligence on Trump gathered from sources, many of whom […]
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Kanye West made yet more anti-Semitic remarks on Monday, this time telling NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo a “Jewish underground media mafia” has it out for him. West has been restricted on social media for appearing to threaten Jews on Twitter. He has since agreed in principle to buy the far-right social media platform Parler. In a now-deleted tweet, he wrote, “I’m a […]
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ABC’s “Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration” has found its Lumière, Cogsworth and Mrs. Potts in Martin Short (“Only Murders in the Building”), David Alan Grier (“In Living Color”) and country music star Shania Twain, respectively. Rounding out the ensemble cast are Rizwan Manji (“Schitt’s Creek”) as Gaston’s loyal sidekick, LeFou; Jon Jon Briones […]
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Tucker Carlson delivered a puzzling monologue about Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) and suggested he’s currently part human and part machine after suffering a stroke in May. The Fox News host also misled viewers by stating Fetterman is unable to speak on his own. Fetterman is currently in a tight race with Republican Mehmet Oz to be the Keystone […]
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Alex Jones has been ordered to pay a total of $965 million in damages to the plaintiffs of the defamation trial surrounding his lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. The 15 plaintiffs of the case included the relatives of eight Sandy Hook victims, as well as a former FBI agent suing Jones. A […]
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Motherboard, a vertical of Vice, says it has obtained leaked footage from Fox News’s recent interview with Kanye “Ye” West that did not make it to air. The apparent leak marks a major breach for the cable news outlet, which aired West’s interview with network star Tucker Carlson on October 6. The tech publication alleges that it […]
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Jimmy Kimmel labeled Tucker Carlson and Kanye West as white supremacists during his opening monologue Monday. In a scorching rant, the ABC host detailed the recent debacles involving West including his clothing line featuring “White Lives Matter” t-shirts and anti-Semitic tweets that lead to his account being locked. In response to West’s tweet, Kimmel said, “he should change his name from […]
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Angela Lansbury, one of the most beloved and acclaimed actors of stage, film and television, died at her Los Angeles home today in her sleep, just five days short of her 97th birthday. Her death was announced by her family. “The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully […]
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