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Dan Humphrey being revealed as the Gossip Girl after six seasons of the show resulted in years of fans screaming. While it’s been almost an entire decade since we left Serena, Blair, Dan, Nate, Chuck, and the rest of the Upper East Siders (and I guess Brooklynites), that controversial final twist has never faded from

For the second time in three weeks, Terry Crews, the Black American actor, has stirred controversy on Twitter by posting a divisive statement pertaining to racial equality in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the death of George Floyd last month. “If you are a child of God, you are my

When Sanders delegates first started their organizing effort, the California governor was widely viewed as the expectant heir to the chair. “Everybody I talked to had the assumption that Gavin Newsom would be the chair of the delegation,” Norman Solomon, a Sanders delegate and the national director of RootsAction.org, told me. “It was seen like

00:00 [country rock music] 00:04 [2 Chainz] All right here I come, comin’ in hot 00:06 2 Chainz man. 00:07 Ritch. Kevin, nice to meet you man. 00:08 What’s up man, what’s up Kevin? 00:09 What’s up Ritch, what’s going on boy? 00:10 [country rock music] 00:16 Oh, we’re just grilling and smoking 00:18 and

American rappers Kanye West and Travis Scott have joined forces for a brand new single called Wash Us in the Blood. The three-minute, 30 second track dropped on Tuesday (June 30), a month after it was initially teased by the Yeezus hit-maker in an in-depth GQ profiling and hears the duo together on a couple of verses. Along

It’s their eagerly awaited new charitable foundation, but Harry and Meghan’s Archewell apparently won’t be getting a high profile launch this summer. While the Covid pandemic is partly to blame, the couple have told their team they want to take their time getting the organization “right” and won’t be doing a high profile launch. The

Hollywood comedy legend Carl Reiner has died at the age of 98. Industry publication Variety confirmed with Reiner’s assistant that he died of natural causes, with his family by his side, at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. Reiner’s son, Rob, posted on Twitter Tuesday morning, writing: “Last night my dad passed away. As I

Maybe everything started when Pearl Thusi predicted the future. Earlier this year, Thusi, arguably one of South Africa’s biggest television stars, gathered a group of young women to appear in a Cosmopolitan South Africa photoshoot. She was the magazine’s cover model for the March 2020 Netflix issue, timed to her starring role in the streaming

Alessia Cara emerged the top winner at this year’s Juno Awards, scooping up three trophies in a pre-recorded ceremony that paired celebration with an acknowledgment that more needs to be done to represent the diverse voices of Canadian artists. While the Junos usually mark the biggest night for the country’s music industry, the Monday event,

Get ready for Love in the Time of Corona, an upcoming Freeform miniseries joining the glut of coronavirus-inspired movies and shows already flooding an industry that is still trying to sort out how to work through a pandemic. Freeform announced the new series Monday, revealing that the four-episode romantic drama will star and be executive

[embedded content] Over the weekend, a couple–dubbed “Karen & Ken” by the internet–chose to brandish firearms at a large group of peaceful protesters walking by their extravagant home. A couple pointed guns at protesters in St. Louis as a group marched toward the mayor’s home to demand her resignation. https://t.co/5EqDd43QCd pic.twitter.com/KWNaif77ch — ABC News (@ABC)

Canadian actor Pamela Anderson revealed that she wants to help Prime Minister Justin Trudeau adapt to the vegan lifestyle in a letter she wrote to him that also praises his support of the vegan food industry. Last week Trudeau announced that the Canadian government would make a $100-million investment into Merit Functional Foods, which creates

Welcome to another edition of Grooming Gods. This week: neglected quarantine hair finally finds its groove.  KJ Apa Grooming in 2020: Take the bar and lower, lower, lower. There.  Tan France If our natural hair color was this good, we’d grow it out and only wear terry bathrobes too.  Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade Most

Coty Inc., the global beauty conglomerate that in 2019 bought a 51% stake in Kylie Jenner’s cosmetics company, has just made another member of her family a billionaire. According to TMZ, the company has signed a $200 million deal with Kim Kardashian for a 20% stake in KKW Beauty, meaning Coty has valued the reality

Rapper Huey, best known for his song Pop, Lock & Drop It, has died at the age of 32. Huey, whose real name is Lawrence Franks Jr., was killed in a shooting on Thursday night in St. Louis, Missouri, according to authorities. The shooting happened just before 11 p.m. and according to police, Huey arrived at

Sammy Hagar has clarified some contentious remarks he made recently about feeling “comfortable playing a show before there’s a vaccine” in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, so long as reported cases started “declining.” The former Van Halen singer took to Instagram on Thursday, saying that when he made the “radical statement,” he was

The shocking report that a Russian military intelligence unit offered rewards to Taliban-linked militants for targeted attacks on coalition forces—including U.S. troops—in Afghanistan is apparently intelligence President Donald Trump has known and done nothing about for months, sources say. The New York Times reported that American intelligence officials came to the conclusion “months ago” that

On Friday, Ariana Grande celebrated her 27th birthday with a Midsommar-themed birthday bash thrown by her friends and her boyfriend, Dalton Gomez. Friday was also the day that Grande and Gomez went Instagram official. Ariana GrandeInstagram The above photo was one of several that Grande included in her initial birthday post, but on Saturday, she

The Rolling Stones are threatening U.S. President Donald Trump with legal action for using their songs at his rallies despite cease-and-desist directives. The Stones said in a statement Sunday that their legal team is working with music rights organization BMI to stop use of their material in Trump’s reelection campaign. Read more: Mick Jagger, Paul

“Who wants to chop ‘em up like the Saudis do?” a bearded, overalls-wearing Sacha Baron Cohen asked a group of hollerin’ attendees at a Washington State Three Percenters gathering in Olympia, Washington on Saturday. The “March For Our Rights 3” event drew a crowd of 500 to Heritage Park, according to The Olympian. The pro-gun

You may not recognize the name but you undoubtedly know the work of Kelly Asbury. The legendary animator directed the Oscar-nominated films Shrek 2 and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. He also worked on classics like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Toy Story, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Chicken Run, Wreck-It Ralph,

When you get into a car, what’s the first thing you do after fastening your seatbelt? You look for some entertainment. And for 90 years, we’ve been reaching for the radio for our mobile music, news, sports, and entertainment. Listening to the radio (or some other form of audio entertainment) is one of the few

Hip Hop Harry aired on Discovery and TLC from 2006 to 2008. Imagine Barney and Friends, but if you replaced all of the songs about learning and processing your emotions with … rapped versions of songs about processing your emotions. Oh, and if Barney wore a tilted wide brim hat and an enormous chain. (Coincidentally,

Senior British royal Kate joined families at a children’s hospice to plant a garden this week, supporting what she described as “amazing” work made even more difficult by the coronavirus pandemic. Officially titled the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate has often used her public role as the wife of Prince William, second in line to the

Pop sensation Ariana Grande took to her Instagram to share pictures and all-lowercase commentary from her 27th birthday party. In the posts, she divulged that the event was modeled after last summer’s flower-forward film Midsommar. “my friends and i went with a midsommar theme because help me,” she wrote Saturday. Previously, the Florida-born “break up

LOS ANGELES — Animated TV comedy The Simpsons is ending the use of white actors to voice characters of colour, producers said on Friday. “Moving forward, The Simpsons will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters,” they said in a brief statement. The statement did not elaborate but the move follows years of public

Close to three years after the release of Hari Kondabolu’s documentary The Trouble With Apu, producers for The Simpsons announced Friday that white actors will no longer voice non-white characters. They did not elaborate as to whether or not these roles will be recast or simply written-out. Hank Azaria, the voice of Kwik-E-Mart owner Apu

Most celebrities have been out of the paparazzi’s lens throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Selena Gomez among them. But on Wednesday, the singer was photographed hanging with friends. Gomez was dressed up in a boho pink print off-the-shoulder blouse and light jeans. She wore her hair, now very long, down. TheImageDirect.com This is one of the

Mississippi-born country singer Faith Hill took to Twitter on Thursday demanding that her home state change its flag, as she said that it includes “a direct symbol of terror for our Black brothers and sisters.” The flag in question consists of three stripes; red, white and blue and is the last of the Southern U.S.

[embedded content] Waiting for the return of Wynonna Earp has felt like being in, well, purgatory for fans of SyFy’s hard-living, demon-fighting badass, but at long last, the wait for the fourth season is over. Well, almost. Along with releasing the above kickass trailer, SyFy has announced that season four will debut on July 26th,