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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Praises Taylor Swift: “Nothing But a Positive”
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell praised Taylor Swift during his annual Super Bowl week press conference on Monday, saying “it’s great” for the singer to join his football league’s fandom. “Both Travis and Taylor are wonderful young people,” Goodell said, referring to Swift’s relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. “They seem very happy. […]
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King Charles Diagnosed With Cancer, Buckingham Palace Says
King Charles III has been diagnosed with a form of cancer, Buckingham Palace announced on Monday. In a statement, the Palace said the 75-year-old monarch “remains wholly positive about his treatment and looks forward to returning to full public duty soon.” Last month, it was announced that the King was hospitalized to have surgery for […]
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What a Messi! Argentine Star Fails to Play, Fans Boo Beckham as Inter Miami’s Match in Hong Kong Ends in Disaster
There’s a David Beckham meme, taken from the recent Netflix Beckham documentary, that’s popular on social media at the moment. You know the one, you’ve seen it a thousand times or more, the one where Beckham harangues Victoria Beckham to “be honest” several times before she finally relents and tells the truth about her privileged […]
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Dave Chappelle Wins Best Comedy Album Grammy for Speech at Alma Mater Defending Artistic Expression
Dave Chappelle has won his fifth Grammy for best comedy album and second in a row for What’s in a Name, a 40-minute Netflix special taken from a speech at his former high school, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, where he defended his controversial 2021 special The Closer, which won the comedy album […]
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Jamie Lee Curtis Celebrates 25 Years of Sobriety: “One Day at a Time”
Jamie Lee Curtis is celebrating a personal milestone. The Oscar-winning actress took to Instagram on Saturday to mark being “clean and sober” for 25 years. “One day at a time. 9,125 of them,” Curtis wrote. “What’s inside, as my old friend Adam sang, is a sense of calm, serenity, purpose and the greatest feeling that […]
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Jason Kelce Says NFL Would Be “Foolish” Not to Show Taylor Swift During Games
Jason Kelce took a moment to praise Taylor Swift when asked how he felt about the NFL’s attention toward her during Travis Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs games this season. “The attention is there because the audience wants to see it,” he told Caleb Noe, a reporter for Cincinnati’s ABC affiliate, WCPO 9. “I mean, if […]
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White House Declines Request for Joe Biden Super Bowl Interview
President Joe Biden will not be sitting down for an interview with CBS News prior to the Super Bowl on Feb. 11. The network said that the White House declined CBS News’ request for an interview with the President. This marks the second consecutive year that Biden will not sit down for a conversation with […]
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Here’s Why Demi Lovato Decided to Perform “Heart Attack” at Cardiovascular Health Concert
Demi Lovato faced some backlash on social media after she performed her 2013 hit song “Heart Attack” at a cardiovascular health event earlier this week. The track was among her 10-song set at the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Red Dress Collection Concert in New York City on Wednesday. The Hollywood Reporter learned on […]
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Matthew Bourne’s ‘Romeo + Juliet’ Opens in L.A. to Tears, Cheers From Melissa McCarthy, Adam Shankman
Center Theatre Group presented the North American premiere of Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet on Wednesday evening, and when it ended, the entire Ahmanson Theatre audience was on its feet offering a standing ovation. After the dance company had taken final bows — with Paris Fitzpatrick’s Romeo and Monique Jonas’ Juliet receiving the love while […]
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Tiffany Haddish Pleads No Contest to Vehicle Code Violation After L.A. Arrest Over Thanksgiving Holiday
Tiffany Haddish pleaded no contest to a vehicle code violation after she was arrested over Thanksgiving weekend in Beverly Hills and subsequently charged with driving under the influence. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the actress and comedian pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor vehicle code […]
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Japan’s Embassy Issues Statement About Taylor Swift’s Super Bowl Plans
This is getting silly. It was already silly, to be sure, but now the whole Taylor Swift/NFL/Travis Kelce/Super Bowl thing is truly getting surreal and more than a little off the rails. Here’s the latest: Japan’s embassy in Washington, D.C., has released a statement about Swift’s travel plans. In other words: Because a pop singer […]
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‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ Star Whitney Rose Lists Utah House for $2.1M
Immediately following a particularly volatile season of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, the hit reality TV show on which she’s starred since 2020, O.G. cast member Whitney Rose and her businessman husband Justin Rose have put their luxurious main Utah residence on the market. Asking $2.1 million, the 6,000-square-foot South Jordan house features a bevy of […]
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Beverly Hills Police Detain Suspect Following “Active Threat” at Waldorf Astoria Hotel
The Beverly Hills Police Department closed off a prime intersection in the 90210 to investigate an “active threat” at the Waldorf Astoria on Thursday. A source on the scene told The Hollywood Reporter that a major police presence surrounded the corners of Santa Monica and Wilshire boulevards including a SWAT vehicle and helicopter circling above. […]
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MPTF Adds Paramount’s Nicole Clemens, Producer John Goldwyn to Board of Directors
The Motion Picture & Television Fund is making moves on its board of directors. The organization has expanded the roster from 12 to 21 members by moving six existing members from its board of governors over to the board of directors and adding three new executives to the ranks. New blood includes Nicole Clemens, president […]
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Will Ferrell Doc ‘Will & Harper’ Lands at Netflix After Sundance Bow
Will & Harper, the doc about friends Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, has landed at Netflix in a massive eight-figure deal. The doc is about friends reconnecting after a major life event, and those friends just happen to be Ferrell and former Saturday Night Live head writer Steele. Following Steele coming out as a trans woman, the […]
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Alec Baldwin Pleads Not Guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter
Alec Baldwin pleaded not guilty Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter charges lodged against him by New Mexico prosecutors, who revived the criminal case against him earlier this month over his role in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of Rust. The actor and producer of the low-budget Western has maintained that he didn’t […]
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