#MAGFAB: Timothée Chalamet Covers GQ’s November Issue!
GQ’s November cover story marks the third for actor Timothée Chalamet, who first sat down with GQ’s global director of content development Daniel Riley in 2017, then subsequently in 2020, and now for part three, in 2023. In it, the actor discusses fame, former costar Armie Hammer, finding inspiration from Tom Cruise and Austin Butler, and the community of people he considers ‘good-energy Hollywood.’
On Fame: “You start going on Instagram, seeing people from your high school getting married, friends having kids, and you start going: This balls-to-the-wall thing, even at this amazing level I’m at that probably couldn’t have gone better – you still start wondering, How long till you have to change?” Over the past six years, as Chalamet has become more famous, he is not naïve about how celebrity culture works. “I can’t say that this stuff doesn’t matter,” he tells GQ, “because my intense fandom has led me to where I am.” But he also bristles at the suggestion that he might not be entitled to a wholly private life.
On the allegations against former costar Armie Hammer: “Disorienting is a good word”: During preproduction of Bones and All, a cannibal love story in which Chalamet plays an “eater,” reports revealed that Chalamet’s Call Me by Your Name costar Armie Hammer had been accused by several women of sharing sexual fantasies in which he represented himself as a cannibal.
“I mean, what were the chances that we’re developing this thing?” Chalamet tells GQ, reflecting on that strange period. When false reports suggested the film was inspired by the news, “it made me feel like: Now I’ve really got to do this…Because this is actually based on a book.”
On Fame: “You start going on Instagram, seeing people from your high school getting married, friends having kids, and you start going: This balls-to-the-wall thing, even at this amazing level I’m at that probably couldn’t have gone better – you still start wondering, How long till you have to change?” Over the past six years, as Chalamet has become more famous, he is not naïve about how celebrity culture works. “I can’t say that this stuff doesn’t matter,” he tells GQ, “because my intense fandom has led me to where I am.” But he also bristles at the suggestion that he might not be entitled to a wholly private life.
On the allegations against former costar Armie Hammer: “Disorienting is a good word”: During preproduction of Bones and All, a cannibal love story in which Chalamet plays an “eater,” reports revealed that Chalamet’s Call Me by Your Name costar Armie Hammer had been accused by several women of sharing sexual fantasies in which he represented himself as a cannibal.
“I mean, what were the chances that we’re developing this thing?” Chalamet tells GQ, reflecting on that strange period. When false reports suggested the film was inspired by the news, “it made me feel like: Now I’ve really got to do this…Because this is actually based on a book.”
When asked how he personally experienced the allegations against Hammer, Chalamet says that “these things end up getting clickbaited so intensely. Disorienting is a good word.”
On the advice he received from actor Tom Cruise: “After I met Tom Cruise, right after finishing the first Dune, he sent me the most wonderfully inspiring email,” Chalamet recalls. It included a Rolodex of sorts of all the experts he might need for stunt training. A motorcycle coach. A helicopter coach. “He basically said, in Old Hollywood, you would be getting dance training and fight training, and nobody is going to hold you to that standard today. So it’s up to you. The email was really like a war cry.”
GQ’s November issue, on newsstands October 31.
#RHOA: Former star Pheadra Parks named in lawsuit as butler claims he was assaulted on set!
ATLANTA — A man who served as a butler during a season of “The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip” has filed a lawsuit claiming that he was sexually assaulted during filming.
Marco Vega was hired as a butler at former “The Real Housewives of New York City” star Dorina Medley’s Blue Stone Manor where the second season of the spinoff was filmed in 2021, according to PEOPLE.
“The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip” brings together cast members from other shows in the “Real Housewives” franchise.
Vega is credited as appearing in all seven episodes of the second season, which began airing on Peacock in June 2022.
On Friday, court documents obtained by PEOPLE show that Vega’s attorneys filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court against Bravo and its affiliates, including Warner Brothers Entertainment, NBCUniversal Media and Peacock TV LLC.
The lawsuit alleges that during filming, Vega was sexually assaulted by former “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Brandi Glanville.
It goes on to say that during one episode, Glanville became drunk, groped him and told him to “deliver [expletive]” to the other Housewives before revealing wine bottles shaped like genitalia, the lawsuit alleges.
In another instance, Vega alleges that “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Phaedra Parks “slapped” him “on his buttocks.” The same night, Glanville is alleged to have ripped his “shirt off of him exposing his bare chest and torso.”
Neither Parks or Glanville is named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
Vega is suing for punitive damages, attorneys’ fees, costs, and disbursements of action
#MusicNews: Brandy Announces New Holiday Album ‘Christmas With Brandy’
Grammy Award-winning musician Brandy announced her first holiday album, Christmas with Brandy, where listeners will experience the R&B icon delivering classic covers and original holiday material.
In what will be her first project since 2020’s B7, Christmas with Brandy features songs such as “Someday At Christmas,” originally sung by Stevie Wonder, “Jingle Bells,” “Deck the Halls,” and other soulful grooves that will move audiences who have been waiting for a contemporary, fresh take on these timeless tracks.
Brandy additionally recorded original material that explores the festive season — from “Christmas Party For Two,” to the holiday breakup anthem “Feels Different,” Christmas with Brandy is a beautiful journey through the ups, downs, and surprising twists that accompany the holidays.
Alongside new music, Brandy will also star in the Netflix original film Best Christmas Ever debuting November 16.
#HipHopNews: Cardi B’s Suicide Hints ‘Scares’ Ed Lover: ‘Take Your Time & Get Your Mental Right’
Cardi B‘s recent threat of suicide has scared Ed Lover, who has since imparted some words of wisdom on the “Bodak Yellow” rapper.
Taking to his Instagram on Sunday (October 22), the pioneering radio DJ and former Yo! MTV Raps host posted a recap of the situation from his C’Mon Son! podcast, before offering some comfort for the Hip Hop superstar.
“You mean to tell me you nasty muthafuckin’ little bitches and n-ggas affected Cardi that much, that you make her want to put a bullet in her head?” he said rhetorically. “That scares me. It scares me. Cardi, take your time, and get your mental right.”
Take a listen to the snippet HERE:
Cardi B clashed with a few Twitter trolls early Wednesday morning (October 18), which resulted in her admitting to having suicidal thoughts.
After one user joked about her being “the only Mexican I know that don’t work hard,” Cardi — whose father is Dominican and mother is a Trinidadian of African and Spanish descent — fired back by writing: “Hope you and ur mom die.”
Another fan chimed in and scolded Cardi for wishing death on others, warning her that karma could “come back on you.”
The Bronx native clapped back with: “IDGAF Fuck y’all … y’all can call me Mexican, bring me down and hurt my feelings talk shit about everything that’s why I don’t release music.”
She then hinted at wanting to end it all by writing: “I just want to put a bullet in my head.”
However, in an Instagram Live story dated Thursday (October 19), the Bronx rapper addressed some concerns that some fans had after she tweeted what appeared to be a thought of suicidal ideation.
“When I burst, I’m very outspoken,” she told fans. “When I get into one of my bad moments, I will literally curse everybody out, and I’ll be fuckin’ like, ‘I want you to die. Bitch, I wanna die. I don’t give a fuck!’ Because that’s just how I’ll be feeling in the moment.”
She continued: “I was just very overwhelmed yesterday. I was very sad. And, I don’t know — I feel like I was just having such a good week, and then, when I got home, and I started paying attention to so much shit that people were saying about me, and all the funny shit about me … I just started getting upset about it.”
Despite deleting her posts, the mother of two’s tweets still went viral on social media and prompted her sister, Hennessy Carolina, to come to her defense.
“Anybody that dont like my sister can suck [a dick],” she wrote in The Neighborhood Talk‘s Instagram comment section.
Editorial note: Anyone struggling with suicidal thoughts or their mental health is encouraged to call the toll-free 24-hour Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988.
Cher Claims Madonna Forgave Her After 'Mean' And 'Spoiled Brat' Remarks
Cher claimed that Madonna has forgiven her following her hurtful remarks. After calling Madonna "mean" and "spoiled brat" in the past, the "If I Could Turn Back Time" singer revealed that she and the "Material Girl" hitmaker ended their feud "a long time ago."
The 77-year-old songstress opened up about her previous statement about Madonna in an interview published by The Los Angeles Times on Friday, October 20. Upon receiving a question if she was saying that Madonna was "mean," she clarified, "She can be." Fortunately, she unveiled that the two artists "buried that hatchet a long time ago."
"Because I called her something so much worse, and she forgave me," Cher, whose real name is Cherilyn Sarkisian, went on to reveal. She further gushed, "But I give her this: There's no one like her that had their ear to the ground and knew everything before anybody else."
The "I Got You Babe" singer additionally elaborated, "I mean, she knew what was coming, and she was right on it." She continued, "I always felt that was her greatest gift, that she could know the trends before any of us."
Recently, Madonna displayed a clip of Cher's interview, featuring her "mean" and "spoiled brat" remarks, during one of the former's "Celebration Tour" shows. In the 1991 chat itself, Cher could be heard saying, "There's something about her that I don't like. She's mean. I don't like that."
"I remember having her over to my house a couple of times, because Sean Penn and I were friends, and she just was so rude to everybody," Cher recounted. "It seems to me that she's got so much that she doesn't have to act that way."
"She acts like a spoiled brat all the time, the "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" actress continued. "And it seems to me when you reach the kind of acclaim that she's reached, and you can do whatever you want to do, you should be a little bit more magnanimous, and a little bit less of a c**t."
Billy Porter Takes 'A Break' From Love To Date Around After Divorce
Billy Porter is "dating around." The Tony-winning actor/singer and his husband Adam Smith announced in July they were divorcing after six years of marriage, and he has now admitted he is happily trying out potential new partners.
He told Page Six about how his love life has recently changed, "I'm gonna take a break for a minute. Daddy is dating around." The actor made the admission while walking the red carpet at a gala for cancer charity DKMS at Cipriani Wall Street, where he also performed.
When asked if anyone at the charity event had caught his eye for a future romance, Billy joked, "I see them, don't you think I know? But I'm not peeping nobody yet, they got to peep me. They got to take care of me, honey."
Billy has a new album "The Black Mona Lisa" out on November 17 and said of his nerves ahead of its release, "I am breaking a sweat. I have broken a sweat." He explained, "Because it is about expanding my audience and helping my audience know that I am not new to this. I am true to this."
"Many people got on the Billy Porter train at different times, but the singing was first… type it in Google and you will understand," the 54-year-old star elaborated. "She ain't new with this pop music thing."
Billy also said about how he started his career and was advised to focus on "one thing," sharing, "I met with a manager… and he said you have to choose one thing, you can't do everything at the same time. I'm grateful that I did not listen to him."
Billy added his diverse range of performing talents has helped during the SAG-AFTRA strike of Hollywood actors. He said, "I'm so multihyphenated that I'm blessed to always have something to do. I was working. I'm one of the lucky ones. I'm one of the blessed one, but I'm grateful that I followed my own instinct and heart."
Billy has previously said he was forced to sell his home because of the strike, as well as the recent WGA strike. He told the Evening Standard, "I have to sell my house. I don't know when we're gonna go back. The life of an artist, until you make f**k you money - which I haven't made yet - is still (paycheque-to-paycheque.)"
Dave Chappelle Spars With Audience After Comments About Israel and Palestine at Boston Show
Dave Chappelle verbally sparred with at least one audience member over comments the comedian made about the Israeli-Hamas conflict while performing in Boston this week, according to multiple, somewhat contradictory accounts of the show first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
According to the paper, Chappelle condemned the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas before labeling the ongoing military aggression against Gaza a war crime. As one audience member put it, “it was like witnessing a verbal hurricane.”
People who say they were in the audience have also chimed in on Reddit. One person described attending the show as “an absolute mind-blowing experience” and noted that the comedian “didn’t shy away from expressing his thoughts, acknowledging that violence from either side was just plain wrong.”
At some point, accounts agree that another audience member yelled, “Shut the f— up” at Chappelle, which changed the dynamic. They added, “He tore into the person who shouted out and didn’t hold back on his thoughts about Israel. He said things that others might consider controversial, but that’s what made it all the more powerful. He compared the silence around discussing Israel to the inability to speak freely about transgender issues. It was a gut-punch of truth and honesty.”
Further up in the conversation, a second audience member clarified that the person who yelled might not have been directing their aggression at Chappelle at all. The Redditor clarified that his friend was the person who yelled, but that he was yelling at fellow audience members.
“From what he told me the girls had been a distraction for quite some time. Apparently they left and at the point he yelled at them had returned and were being a problem again. The girls were loud and annoying to the point that he couldn’t hear what Dave was talking about , he said they were fighting. He was so fed up with them that he yelled at them to STFU,” they said.
According to the second person, Chappelle mistakenly thought that he was being yelled at. After discussing the matter with security, the man who yelled said he and his wife were allowed to remain at the show.
The Wall Street Journal reported, “An audience member’s command for the comedian to shut up drew an emotional response from Chappelle, who criticized the Israeli government for cutting off water and other essentials to Gaza and accused it of killing innocent people, according to the attendees.”
The accounts of two people who claimed to have been at the show are similar to those shared by the Journal’s reporter Sabrina Siddiqui, who did not attend the show herself.
She wrote, “Here’s how it went down, per attendees: Chappelle condemned the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, but said it was wrong for students to lose job offers over their support for Palestine.”
Siddiqui added, “This prompted an audience member to shout, ‘Shut the f— up, Dave!’ That is what triggered more of a reaction from Chappelle, according to attendees. He said the Hamas attacks were not an excuse to cut off water, electricity etc. or commit war crimes.”
She continued, “Some people in the audience cheered and shouted ‘Free Palestine!’ while others yelled ‘What about Hamas?’ A couple attendees say Dave also said ‘Free Palestine,’ but others in the crowd say they did not hear him say that.”
The Wall Street Journal also reported that “Some in the crowd got up and left” the show. Like many comedians, Chappelle requires that phones are locked away during his performances.
A spokesperson for Chappelle told the Wall Street Journal that he “denies being in Boston last night.”
Kanye West will not run for president in 2024, lawyer says
Kanye West has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, his attorney Bruce Marks told Rolling Stone. “He’s not a candidate for office in 2024,” Marks said in his statement to the magazine.
Back in April, Kanye West reportedly told Adam Camacho, a film maker he’d hired to document his life in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, that he was no longer focusing on the campaign. “Right now, I am living my life — like I’m concentrating on the school, The Donda Academy, and my new wife, and my kids, and that’s it,” West was quoted by Camacho as saying. “I just want to be left alone.” (A week earlier, two former Donda Academy teachers sued West for racial discrimination and wrongful termination.)
An anonymous employee of West backed up Camacho’s account. “His interests are focused on his children, family, and creative endeavors,” the source told the Daily Beast. Anyone that is representing Ye in any political capacity is a charlatan. There is no political shop.” Less than a month later, though, another Daily Beast report found that Milo Yiannopoulos — an far-right troll whose popularity peaked in the pre-Trump era — was revamping West’s campaign, and allegedly committing campaign finance fraud.
In the time since, West has largely avoided bad press after months of erratic behavior and anti-semitic statements lost him his long-running Def Jam deal, untold millions in brand partnerships, and more.
In late July, he returned to Elon Musk’s social media website after being suspended in December 2022 for tweeting an image of a swastika (back when the site was still called Twitter). A week later, Travis Scott surprised the audience at Rome’s Circus Maximus by bringing him out to perform. In a recent interview, Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden said he didn’t think West had meant his hateful statements about Jews and others.
Forbes reported in September that Kanye was working on a new album that could drop soon, “potentially without warning.” And last week, Billboard confirmed that West and Ty Dolla $ign were shopping a collaborative record to distributors. On Friday, October 13th, Billboard Italia wrote that Ty and West were planning a concert together at an undisclosed location in Italy. Tickets to the October 27 show were scheduled to go on sale on Sunday the 15th, according to the report, but the date went by with no official confirmation of the concert, and such an announcement has still not been made.
How Simone Ledward Boseman Found Her Voice And Became Sahn While Grieving The Loss Of Her Famed Husband
On the advice he received from actor Tom Cruise: “After I met Tom Cruise, right after finishing the first Dune, he sent me the most wonderfully inspiring email,” Chalamet recalls. It included a Rolodex of sorts of all the experts he might need for stunt training. A motorcycle coach. A helicopter coach. “He basically said, in Old Hollywood, you would be getting dance training and fight training, and nobody is going to hold you to that standard today. So it’s up to you. The email was really like a war cry.”
GQ’s November issue, on newsstands October 31.
#RHOA: Former star Pheadra Parks named in lawsuit as butler claims he was assaulted on set!
Marco Vega was hired as a butler at former “The Real Housewives of New York City” star Dorina Medley’s Blue Stone Manor where the second season of the spinoff was filmed in 2021, according to PEOPLE.
“The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip” brings together cast members from other shows in the “Real Housewives” franchise.
Vega is credited as appearing in all seven episodes of the second season, which began airing on Peacock in June 2022.
On Friday, court documents obtained by PEOPLE show that Vega’s attorneys filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court against Bravo and its affiliates, including Warner Brothers Entertainment, NBCUniversal Media and Peacock TV LLC.
The lawsuit alleges that during filming, Vega was sexually assaulted by former “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Brandi Glanville.
It goes on to say that during one episode, Glanville became drunk, groped him and told him to “deliver [expletive]” to the other Housewives before revealing wine bottles shaped like genitalia, the lawsuit alleges.
In another instance, Vega alleges that “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Phaedra Parks “slapped” him “on his buttocks.” The same night, Glanville is alleged to have ripped his “shirt off of him exposing his bare chest and torso.”
Neither Parks or Glanville is named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
Vega is suing for punitive damages, attorneys’ fees, costs, and disbursements of action
#MusicNews: Brandy Announces New Holiday Album ‘Christmas With Brandy’
Grammy Award-winning musician Brandy announced her first holiday album, Christmas with Brandy, where listeners will experience the R&B icon delivering classic covers and original holiday material.
In what will be her first project since 2020’s B7, Christmas with Brandy features songs such as “Someday At Christmas,” originally sung by Stevie Wonder, “Jingle Bells,” “Deck the Halls,” and other soulful grooves that will move audiences who have been waiting for a contemporary, fresh take on these timeless tracks.
Brandy additionally recorded original material that explores the festive season — from “Christmas Party For Two,” to the holiday breakup anthem “Feels Different,” Christmas with Brandy is a beautiful journey through the ups, downs, and surprising twists that accompany the holidays.
Alongside new music, Brandy will also star in the Netflix original film Best Christmas Ever debuting November 16.
#HipHopNews: Cardi B’s Suicide Hints ‘Scares’ Ed Lover: ‘Take Your Time & Get Your Mental Right’
Taking to his Instagram on Sunday (October 22), the pioneering radio DJ and former Yo! MTV Raps host posted a recap of the situation from his C’Mon Son! podcast, before offering some comfort for the Hip Hop superstar.
“You mean to tell me you nasty muthafuckin’ little bitches and n-ggas affected Cardi that much, that you make her want to put a bullet in her head?” he said rhetorically. “That scares me. It scares me. Cardi, take your time, and get your mental right.”
Take a listen to the snippet HERE:
Cardi B clashed with a few Twitter trolls early Wednesday morning (October 18), which resulted in her admitting to having suicidal thoughts.
After one user joked about her being “the only Mexican I know that don’t work hard,” Cardi — whose father is Dominican and mother is a Trinidadian of African and Spanish descent — fired back by writing: “Hope you and ur mom die.”
Another fan chimed in and scolded Cardi for wishing death on others, warning her that karma could “come back on you.”
The Bronx native clapped back with: “IDGAF Fuck y’all … y’all can call me Mexican, bring me down and hurt my feelings talk shit about everything that’s why I don’t release music.”
She then hinted at wanting to end it all by writing: “I just want to put a bullet in my head.”
However, in an Instagram Live story dated Thursday (October 19), the Bronx rapper addressed some concerns that some fans had after she tweeted what appeared to be a thought of suicidal ideation.
“When I burst, I’m very outspoken,” she told fans. “When I get into one of my bad moments, I will literally curse everybody out, and I’ll be fuckin’ like, ‘I want you to die. Bitch, I wanna die. I don’t give a fuck!’ Because that’s just how I’ll be feeling in the moment.”
She continued: “I was just very overwhelmed yesterday. I was very sad. And, I don’t know — I feel like I was just having such a good week, and then, when I got home, and I started paying attention to so much shit that people were saying about me, and all the funny shit about me … I just started getting upset about it.”
Despite deleting her posts, the mother of two’s tweets still went viral on social media and prompted her sister, Hennessy Carolina, to come to her defense.
“Anybody that dont like my sister can suck [a dick],” she wrote in The Neighborhood Talk‘s Instagram comment section.
Editorial note: Anyone struggling with suicidal thoughts or their mental health is encouraged to call the toll-free 24-hour Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988.
Cher Claims Madonna Forgave Her After 'Mean' And 'Spoiled Brat' Remarks
Cher claimed that Madonna has forgiven her following her hurtful remarks. After calling Madonna "mean" and "spoiled brat" in the past, the "If I Could Turn Back Time" singer revealed that she and the "Material Girl" hitmaker ended their feud "a long time ago."
The 77-year-old songstress opened up about her previous statement about Madonna in an interview published by The Los Angeles Times on Friday, October 20. Upon receiving a question if she was saying that Madonna was "mean," she clarified, "She can be." Fortunately, she unveiled that the two artists "buried that hatchet a long time ago."
"Because I called her something so much worse, and she forgave me," Cher, whose real name is Cherilyn Sarkisian, went on to reveal. She further gushed, "But I give her this: There's no one like her that had their ear to the ground and knew everything before anybody else."
The "I Got You Babe" singer additionally elaborated, "I mean, she knew what was coming, and she was right on it." She continued, "I always felt that was her greatest gift, that she could know the trends before any of us."
Recently, Madonna displayed a clip of Cher's interview, featuring her "mean" and "spoiled brat" remarks, during one of the former's "Celebration Tour" shows. In the 1991 chat itself, Cher could be heard saying, "There's something about her that I don't like. She's mean. I don't like that."
"I remember having her over to my house a couple of times, because Sean Penn and I were friends, and she just was so rude to everybody," Cher recounted. "It seems to me that she's got so much that she doesn't have to act that way."
"She acts like a spoiled brat all the time, the "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" actress continued. "And it seems to me when you reach the kind of acclaim that she's reached, and you can do whatever you want to do, you should be a little bit more magnanimous, and a little bit less of a c**t."
Billy Porter Takes 'A Break' From Love To Date Around After Divorce
He told Page Six about how his love life has recently changed, "I'm gonna take a break for a minute. Daddy is dating around." The actor made the admission while walking the red carpet at a gala for cancer charity DKMS at Cipriani Wall Street, where he also performed.
When asked if anyone at the charity event had caught his eye for a future romance, Billy joked, "I see them, don't you think I know? But I'm not peeping nobody yet, they got to peep me. They got to take care of me, honey."
Billy has a new album "The Black Mona Lisa" out on November 17 and said of his nerves ahead of its release, "I am breaking a sweat. I have broken a sweat." He explained, "Because it is about expanding my audience and helping my audience know that I am not new to this. I am true to this."
"Many people got on the Billy Porter train at different times, but the singing was first… type it in Google and you will understand," the 54-year-old star elaborated. "She ain't new with this pop music thing."
Billy also said about how he started his career and was advised to focus on "one thing," sharing, "I met with a manager… and he said you have to choose one thing, you can't do everything at the same time. I'm grateful that I did not listen to him."
Billy added his diverse range of performing talents has helped during the SAG-AFTRA strike of Hollywood actors. He said, "I'm so multihyphenated that I'm blessed to always have something to do. I was working. I'm one of the lucky ones. I'm one of the blessed one, but I'm grateful that I followed my own instinct and heart."
Billy has previously said he was forced to sell his home because of the strike, as well as the recent WGA strike. He told the Evening Standard, "I have to sell my house. I don't know when we're gonna go back. The life of an artist, until you make f**k you money - which I haven't made yet - is still (paycheque-to-paycheque.)"
Dave Chappelle Spars With Audience After Comments About Israel and Palestine at Boston Show
Dave Chappelle verbally sparred with at least one audience member over comments the comedian made about the Israeli-Hamas conflict while performing in Boston this week, according to multiple, somewhat contradictory accounts of the show first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
According to the paper, Chappelle condemned the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas before labeling the ongoing military aggression against Gaza a war crime. As one audience member put it, “it was like witnessing a verbal hurricane.”
People who say they were in the audience have also chimed in on Reddit. One person described attending the show as “an absolute mind-blowing experience” and noted that the comedian “didn’t shy away from expressing his thoughts, acknowledging that violence from either side was just plain wrong.”
At some point, accounts agree that another audience member yelled, “Shut the f— up” at Chappelle, which changed the dynamic. They added, “He tore into the person who shouted out and didn’t hold back on his thoughts about Israel. He said things that others might consider controversial, but that’s what made it all the more powerful. He compared the silence around discussing Israel to the inability to speak freely about transgender issues. It was a gut-punch of truth and honesty.”
Further up in the conversation, a second audience member clarified that the person who yelled might not have been directing their aggression at Chappelle at all. The Redditor clarified that his friend was the person who yelled, but that he was yelling at fellow audience members.
“From what he told me the girls had been a distraction for quite some time. Apparently they left and at the point he yelled at them had returned and were being a problem again. The girls were loud and annoying to the point that he couldn’t hear what Dave was talking about , he said they were fighting. He was so fed up with them that he yelled at them to STFU,” they said.
According to the second person, Chappelle mistakenly thought that he was being yelled at. After discussing the matter with security, the man who yelled said he and his wife were allowed to remain at the show.
The Wall Street Journal reported, “An audience member’s command for the comedian to shut up drew an emotional response from Chappelle, who criticized the Israeli government for cutting off water and other essentials to Gaza and accused it of killing innocent people, according to the attendees.”
The accounts of two people who claimed to have been at the show are similar to those shared by the Journal’s reporter Sabrina Siddiqui, who did not attend the show herself.
She wrote, “Here’s how it went down, per attendees: Chappelle condemned the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, but said it was wrong for students to lose job offers over their support for Palestine.”
Siddiqui added, “This prompted an audience member to shout, ‘Shut the f— up, Dave!’ That is what triggered more of a reaction from Chappelle, according to attendees. He said the Hamas attacks were not an excuse to cut off water, electricity etc. or commit war crimes.”
She continued, “Some people in the audience cheered and shouted ‘Free Palestine!’ while others yelled ‘What about Hamas?’ A couple attendees say Dave also said ‘Free Palestine,’ but others in the crowd say they did not hear him say that.”
The Wall Street Journal also reported that “Some in the crowd got up and left” the show. Like many comedians, Chappelle requires that phones are locked away during his performances.
A spokesperson for Chappelle told the Wall Street Journal that he “denies being in Boston last night.”
Kanye West will not run for president in 2024, lawyer says
Back in April, Kanye West reportedly told Adam Camacho, a film maker he’d hired to document his life in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, that he was no longer focusing on the campaign. “Right now, I am living my life — like I’m concentrating on the school, The Donda Academy, and my new wife, and my kids, and that’s it,” West was quoted by Camacho as saying. “I just want to be left alone.” (A week earlier, two former Donda Academy teachers sued West for racial discrimination and wrongful termination.)
An anonymous employee of West backed up Camacho’s account. “His interests are focused on his children, family, and creative endeavors,” the source told the Daily Beast. Anyone that is representing Ye in any political capacity is a charlatan. There is no political shop.” Less than a month later, though, another Daily Beast report found that Milo Yiannopoulos — an far-right troll whose popularity peaked in the pre-Trump era — was revamping West’s campaign, and allegedly committing campaign finance fraud.
In the time since, West has largely avoided bad press after months of erratic behavior and anti-semitic statements lost him his long-running Def Jam deal, untold millions in brand partnerships, and more.
In late July, he returned to Elon Musk’s social media website after being suspended in December 2022 for tweeting an image of a swastika (back when the site was still called Twitter). A week later, Travis Scott surprised the audience at Rome’s Circus Maximus by bringing him out to perform. In a recent interview, Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden said he didn’t think West had meant his hateful statements about Jews and others.
Forbes reported in September that Kanye was working on a new album that could drop soon, “potentially without warning.” And last week, Billboard confirmed that West and Ty Dolla $ign were shopping a collaborative record to distributors. On Friday, October 13th, Billboard Italia wrote that Ty and West were planning a concert together at an undisclosed location in Italy. Tickets to the October 27 show were scheduled to go on sale on Sunday the 15th, according to the report, but the date went by with no official confirmation of the concert, and such an announcement has still not been made.
How Simone Ledward Boseman Found Her Voice And Became Sahn While Grieving The Loss Of Her Famed Husband
It was nearly three years to the day that sahn rose from the ashes of heartbreak and grief.
Simone Ledward Boseman, as she’s known by her government name, was reeling from the Aug. 28, 2020 death of her husband, Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman, after enduring four years of balancing the euphoric highs of a meteoric rise with the shattering lows that included setbacks, hospital visits, surgeries, and the burden of keeping his grueling battle with colon cancer completely private.
Simone Ledward Boseman says the death of her husband, Chadwick Boseman, motivated her to find her voice as a musician.
“Grief is not a linear journey. It's back and forth, and it's up and down, and it's sideways and it's inside out,” she tells Yahoo Entertainment in an exclusive interview .
So she put pen to paper, attuned to her sorrow, spilled her heart into verse, and found her voice as a musician. “Writing songs has always been a way for me to process my emotions,” she says. “And after my husband passed, I had this kind of intolerance for excuses. For anyone outside of me, and especiallly for myself."
It began with “wake up my love,” a haunting lullaby over minimal bass and strings and punctuated by stirring chants in which the singer motivates herself to overcome both paralyzing despair and fear of failure. It continued with the sultry, bassy lead single “angelsxdemons,” and the percussive, mournful spoken word eulogy for her beloved Chad, “the mornings.”
It eventually evolved and coalesced into her nine-track debut album the mornings, a triumph in genre-twisting, ambient alternative soul that presents sahn as a revelation in her own right, a fearless songstress with the chords like Jorja Smith, the smoky swagger of Erykah Badu, effortless sensuality of Sade and hypnotic meditative trances akin to Ali Farka Touré.
This is the story of how Simone became sahn.
A recording artist in waiting
sahn has been singing most of her life. Born Taylor Simone Ledward to a Black mother and Japanese-Hawaiian father in the northern Bay Area enclave of Vallejo, Calif., she began entering talent shows at 8 years old. She idolized Sam Cooke, inhaled Motown, blues and funk, loved hip-hop crews like A Tribe Called Quest and Hieroglyphics, and found kindred spirits and influence in Badu, Lauryn Hill and D’Angelo.
“But coming from the family I came from, I was definitely pushed more toward having a more kind of stable 9 to 5 with a 401K and benefits and all that stuff,” she says. “And so I didn't really look at performing or living as an artist as a plan A.”
She majored in music industry studies at Cal Poly Pomona, then worked in music promotion and talent booking for electronica festivals and famed Los Angeles venues like The Hollywood Bowl and the now-defunct Rockwell Table & Stage in Los Angeles.
After she began dating Chad, though, she watched as the venerated actor poured himself into roles like T’Challa in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, another historical icon in Thurgood Marshall (after previously playing Jackie Robinson and James Brown) and his searing swan song as a hot-tempered trumpeter in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
“I always sang on the side, but I think that it wasn't really until the events of the last few years,” she says, “and being able to watch an artist live as an artist and what that looked like and what it meant to pursue your art form in that kind of way. And it looked more real to me.”
Introducing sahn
“I think actually Simone's been becoming sahn for a while,” the singer says. “I would say in the last five or so years, before I had put a name to this persona, I was really just starting to come into myself. I was exiting my twenties and stepping into that new era [where] I felt a sense of self-awareness that I didn't have [before], and I just started to focus in on what I wanted for myself and how I wanted to operate and move in the world and what I felt God's purpose was for me. And so she was kind of born out of envisioning the highest version of myself.”
“sahn” is a meditation term, a breathing exercise meant to invoke peace. “It trains that endurance of breath for singers,” she explains.
She found inspiration in Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art and began writing in October 2020. “I used some of the superpowers that grief will give you to help me to push through, and it felt like a very clear direction. It felt like something that I had to write. [It wasn’t like], ‘I'm deciding to write an album today.’ The songs were just kind of coming and it was taking shape before I had to put a label on it."
The label would be the mornings, which has a double meaning once you add the “u.”
After “wake up my love,” “angelsxdemons” and “the mornings,” there was the poppy “gracenotes” and the autotuning rap track “high speed meditation.” She teamed with long-time collaborator Kayhan Azadi, who produced the full album, and recruited trumpeter Dontae Winslow for the evocative wordless opener, “chad’s prayer.” She added the head-snapping neo-soul album highlight “better with you,” acoustic number “strong friends, live from the backyard” and the tearjerking, wistful love ballad “green tea.”
Music is healing
Chad’s presence is felt across the entirety of the mornings.
“It's hard to say how his spirit didn't influence the album because it influenced me,” sahn says. “So I think about just the things that I learned from knowing Chad, from loving Chad, from being loved by Chad, from watching the way that he approached his life and his relationships and his work, I learned how to start to trust my spirit. I learned how to start to listen to the right influences… I was learning how to process my thoughts and decide which ones I wanted to listen to, and decide which ones were coming from a higher power and which ones were not… [There were] countless times when I would see certain signs that I kind of associate with being messages from different angels of mine, and I feel like his presence is all around me, all the time. And during the making of this album, it was no different than that, than it is every day.”
As a couple, the pair maintained as much privacy as they could. After Chad passed, sahn carried the torch for him, delivering heartfelt speeches while collecting his posthumous awards for his performance in Ma Rainey and launching a foundation in his name. In the public eye, it became clear how supportive she was; but the support was always mutual, sahn says. There was his encouraging words and constructive feedback around her fledgling artistry, and willingness to turn up at her modest gigs in small venues, where he instantly became the center of attention. “Those are not always comfortable situations for people in the spotlight,” she notes.
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Making the album was deeply therapeutic for sahn.
“It’s how I healed,” she says plainly. “It's how I got comfortable with the feelings. It's how I got comfortable with the vulnerability of it all. And it gave me a space, really safe space, to go through all of that.
“Grief is circular and it's cyclical, but I think discovering those moments when you make something that feels magical and that feels true, sparked this fire. It's like, I had this little light and now through this process, it's like burned a hole through the ceiling.”
What’s next
Released Friday, the mornings is already drawing attention and praise from outlets like Vibe, Soul Bounce and Blavity. Next week, she’ll release an accompanying (and stunning) full visual album.
There’s certainly more music in her. She wrote upwards of 40 songs before narrowing them down to the mornings’s nine tracks.
But for now, “I just want to enjoy releasing my first album,” she says. “And see what it feels like on the other side of that, because it's the first time I've done anything like this. And sometimes you have to do a thing to figure out whether or not you're going to want to do it again. I think I do. I'm already [thinking about] what does the second album sound like.
“But overall, one of the things I've had to get comfortable with is the fact that we can plan, but God has a purpose. So I'm just trying to be conscious of listening to where I feel like I'm being drawn to. And I think that on the other side of this release, I'll have the mental space to sit and listen to that. But for now, I just want to enjoy this moment.”
Music lovers discovering a golden new voice in alternative soul should enjoy this moment, too.
Just remember, call her sahn.
Mariah Carey Wows in Black Dress for Night Out WeHo
For her night out, Mariah wowed in a black dress with sparkling detailing on the corset.
Earlier this month, Mariah announced the return of her Christmas tour, Merry Christmas One And All!, for this year’s holiday season.
Pink tells '60 Minutes,' fans before fame. Plus, how she sings in a sling 100 feet in the air, and how she may land her act in Vegas.
In a year that’s been marked by economy-altering concert tours from major pop stars like Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, one performer has flown a bit under the radar while also flying high to pull off stunts her peers could only dream of. And that artist is Pink.
The three-time Grammy winner and notorious open book sat down with Cecelia Vega of 60 Minutes for Sunday’s episode to talk about things like her childhood, her past struggles with addiction and her foray into the world of winemaking. She also broke down why she doesn't care that her tour hasn’t gotten the same kind of attention as some of her peers’ have this year, and just how in the heck she can sing and be an acrobat at the same time while performing.
Pink’s era
In support of her album Trustfall, Pink launched her eighth-ever concert tour in London back in June called the Summer Carnival, which is slated to wrap up in March of 2024 in Australia. CBS reported that the tour has sold $350 million in tickets around the world so far this year, but when asked why she doesn’t think she wins the popularity contest with her peers, Pink doesn’t seem to care either way.
“We’ve sold three million tickets in the last six months, but you don’t really hear about it unless you went,” she said. “So, at the end of the day, do I really give a s*** who talks about me? As long as the mom and the daughter, or the dad who’s in the Pink T-shirt as well as his daughter and her three friends had a fantastic time. Or the gay couple that came together and felt super safe at my show because no one heckled them. That’s what really matters.”
Unfortunately for Pink, a few bumps in the road have derailed her current tour just a bit, after she was forced to cancel two shows in Tacoma, Wash., for a "family medical issue," and then had to cancel at least two more in Vancouver this past weekend for a "respiratory infection."
Pink in the sky
Along with countless hit songs from over 20 years in the music industry, Pink’s tour is highlighted by the fact that she also performs high-flying stunts while singing and flipping over 100 feet in the air.
The 44-year-old singer, who is also asthmatic, said she taps into her gymnastics classes from childhood to help her with the stunts, while also working with aerialist coach Dreya Weber. Since Pink doesn’t do any lip-syncing during her set, she trains to be able to sing while being upside down or right side up and everything in between. To further demonstrate, Pink had Weber stand on her stomach for the 60 Minutes cameras while Pink flawlessly belted out a few lines from a song.
"I'm not just a singer. I'm a gymnast. I can do all kinds of things. I'm physical,” Pink said. “This body, like, the muscles that scare people are — it's my power, right? It's like, I don't eat well to look good, I eat well to go far, fast and hard."
Pink’s future
If the notion of a performer singing and doing acrobatic stunts high above an audience sounds like an act built for Las Vegas, well, Pink is also thinking along those lines when it comes to her next chapter.
"I would like to have the best show that Vegas has ever seen,” she said. “And I think that I can. For a performer like me to have a stage that doesn't have to travel, oh my god, you can do so much."
To dig a little deeper into what the future holds, Pink said that the “hard edge” she’s had in life and the work she has put in as a result of it has given her a lot to lean on going forward.
“I never got a record deal because I was cute; I got a record deal because I was fiery,” she said. “I had a lot to say, and I had a voice. So I'm relieved I don't have to fall back on sort of conventional beauty. And that doesn't have to be my thing. And I don't have to keep that up, either, as I age. I don't have to be that. I can be all of this."
#EYECANDY: Neymar, Nick Bosa & Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Star in Skims Mens Campaign!
Kim Kardashian is unveiling the first campaign for the official launch of her brand Skims‘ new line, Skims Mens – and the guys she enlisted to model the first looks are looking super hot!
Skims Mens launched Monday (October 23) with an All Star campaign featuring football icon, Neymar Jr, 2022 NFL Defensive Player of the Year Nick Bosa and NBA All-Star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
The campaign was photographed by Donna Trope.
“Each iconic, superstar athlete represents excellence through their unique backgrounds, personal style and ability to connect with audiences beyond the world of sports,” the brand declares in a release.
“The expansion into the menswear space is a major milestone for the brand, and a testament to SKIMS’ commitment to providing solutions for everybody. To have an icon like Neymar Jr be the face of our launch campaign, along with NBA All-Star, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and NFL’s top Defensive Player Nick Bosa, I think speaks volumes to the way SKIMS has evolved into becoming a brand that can provide comfort for all audiences, not just for women. I am incredibly excited about this next chapter for SKIMS and cannot wait for everyone to experience our amazing range of products,” Kim says.
Skims Mens is available to shop exclusively on Skims.com starting October 26 at 9 a.m. PST, and arrives in sizes XS-5X with price ranging from $16-$54 for single pieces and $42-$98 for packs.
Michael Irvin Calls Out His Son's Rap Career: 'You Grew Up in a Gated Community Your Whole Life’
Dallas Cowboys legend Michael Irvin is calling out his son's rap career. Irvin brought up his son's rap career during a segment on the latest episode of Skip Bayless' FS1 show Undisputed. The Hall of Fame wide receiver brought up his son, who raps under the name Tut Tarantino, while talking about Ja Morant.
According to Irvin, Tut Tarantino raps about a life he hasn't lived, adding that the young man "grew up in a gated community" his entire childhood.
“I got a son. He raps. His rap name is Tut Tarantino,” Irvin shared at the 4:49 mark of the below clip. “ If you ever listen to some of his raps. I’m like, ‘Oh my god.’ Where does this come from, son? You grew up in a gated community your whole life. But he’s rapping my life. Because we romanticize and fantasize about that old thug life, ghetto life, and all of that stuff. When… we used to work to get away from. Now, we’ve gotten to a place somehow where we’re running back towards it. In the music, in everything.”
It isn't the first time Irvin has expressed his confusion over his son's rap career. During an appearance on the Dan Patrick Show in 2019, Irvin talked about his son, Elijah, for flaunting a fake persona as Tut Tarantino.
"He raps about some of the hardest stuff in the world," Irvin said. "I say to him, 'Son, you grew up in a 20,000 square foot. gated community! Where does this stuff come from?'"
Irvin added, "I worked hard to get you out of this, and you're rapping right back to it."
Elon Musk Offers Wikipedia $1 Billion in Exchange for Name Change to ‘D*ckipedia’
Elon Musk has proposed a generous donation to Wikipedia but with the condition that they change their site’s name.
“I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia,” wrote Musk. “Please add that to the [cow and poop emojis] on my wiki page,” he continued. “In the interests of accuracy.”
The “offer” comes after Musk’s earlier tweet criticizing the Wikimedia Foundation for its financial demands.
“It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone!” tweeted Musk. “So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know … “
In response, The Community Notes clarified that the Wikimedia Foundation handles massive web traffic, necessitating substantial operating costs. They also employ third-party financial auditors, and their reports are public.
According to Business Insider, this is not the first clash between Musk and Wikipedia. In May, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales criticized Musk for limiting content on X before Turkey’s presidential election
The three-time Grammy winner and notorious open book sat down with Cecelia Vega of 60 Minutes for Sunday’s episode to talk about things like her childhood, her past struggles with addiction and her foray into the world of winemaking. She also broke down why she doesn't care that her tour hasn’t gotten the same kind of attention as some of her peers’ have this year, and just how in the heck she can sing and be an acrobat at the same time while performing.
Pink’s era
In support of her album Trustfall, Pink launched her eighth-ever concert tour in London back in June called the Summer Carnival, which is slated to wrap up in March of 2024 in Australia. CBS reported that the tour has sold $350 million in tickets around the world so far this year, but when asked why she doesn’t think she wins the popularity contest with her peers, Pink doesn’t seem to care either way.
“We’ve sold three million tickets in the last six months, but you don’t really hear about it unless you went,” she said. “So, at the end of the day, do I really give a s*** who talks about me? As long as the mom and the daughter, or the dad who’s in the Pink T-shirt as well as his daughter and her three friends had a fantastic time. Or the gay couple that came together and felt super safe at my show because no one heckled them. That’s what really matters.”
Unfortunately for Pink, a few bumps in the road have derailed her current tour just a bit, after she was forced to cancel two shows in Tacoma, Wash., for a "family medical issue," and then had to cancel at least two more in Vancouver this past weekend for a "respiratory infection."
Pink in the sky
Along with countless hit songs from over 20 years in the music industry, Pink’s tour is highlighted by the fact that she also performs high-flying stunts while singing and flipping over 100 feet in the air.
The 44-year-old singer, who is also asthmatic, said she taps into her gymnastics classes from childhood to help her with the stunts, while also working with aerialist coach Dreya Weber. Since Pink doesn’t do any lip-syncing during her set, she trains to be able to sing while being upside down or right side up and everything in between. To further demonstrate, Pink had Weber stand on her stomach for the 60 Minutes cameras while Pink flawlessly belted out a few lines from a song.
"I'm not just a singer. I'm a gymnast. I can do all kinds of things. I'm physical,” Pink said. “This body, like, the muscles that scare people are — it's my power, right? It's like, I don't eat well to look good, I eat well to go far, fast and hard."
Pink’s future
If the notion of a performer singing and doing acrobatic stunts high above an audience sounds like an act built for Las Vegas, well, Pink is also thinking along those lines when it comes to her next chapter.
"I would like to have the best show that Vegas has ever seen,” she said. “And I think that I can. For a performer like me to have a stage that doesn't have to travel, oh my god, you can do so much."
To dig a little deeper into what the future holds, Pink said that the “hard edge” she’s had in life and the work she has put in as a result of it has given her a lot to lean on going forward.
“I never got a record deal because I was cute; I got a record deal because I was fiery,” she said. “I had a lot to say, and I had a voice. So I'm relieved I don't have to fall back on sort of conventional beauty. And that doesn't have to be my thing. And I don't have to keep that up, either, as I age. I don't have to be that. I can be all of this."
#EYECANDY: Neymar, Nick Bosa & Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Star in Skims Mens Campaign!
Kim Kardashian is unveiling the first campaign for the official launch of her brand Skims‘ new line, Skims Mens – and the guys she enlisted to model the first looks are looking super hot!
Skims Mens launched Monday (October 23) with an All Star campaign featuring football icon, Neymar Jr, 2022 NFL Defensive Player of the Year Nick Bosa and NBA All-Star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
The campaign was photographed by Donna Trope.
“Each iconic, superstar athlete represents excellence through their unique backgrounds, personal style and ability to connect with audiences beyond the world of sports,” the brand declares in a release.
Michael Irvin Calls Out His Son's Rap Career: 'You Grew Up in a Gated Community Your Whole Life’
According to Irvin, Tut Tarantino raps about a life he hasn't lived, adding that the young man "grew up in a gated community" his entire childhood.
“I got a son. He raps. His rap name is Tut Tarantino,” Irvin shared at the 4:49 mark of the below clip. “ If you ever listen to some of his raps. I’m like, ‘Oh my god.’ Where does this come from, son? You grew up in a gated community your whole life. But he’s rapping my life. Because we romanticize and fantasize about that old thug life, ghetto life, and all of that stuff. When… we used to work to get away from. Now, we’ve gotten to a place somehow where we’re running back towards it. In the music, in everything.”
It isn't the first time Irvin has expressed his confusion over his son's rap career. During an appearance on the Dan Patrick Show in 2019, Irvin talked about his son, Elijah, for flaunting a fake persona as Tut Tarantino.
"He raps about some of the hardest stuff in the world," Irvin said. "I say to him, 'Son, you grew up in a 20,000 square foot. gated community! Where does this stuff come from?'"
Irvin added, "I worked hard to get you out of this, and you're rapping right back to it."
Elon Musk Offers Wikipedia $1 Billion in Exchange for Name Change to ‘D*ckipedia’
Elon Musk has proposed a generous donation to Wikipedia but with the condition that they change their site’s name.
“I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia,” wrote Musk. “Please add that to the [cow and poop emojis] on my wiki page,” he continued. “In the interests of accuracy.”
The “offer” comes after Musk’s earlier tweet criticizing the Wikimedia Foundation for its financial demands.
“It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone!” tweeted Musk. “So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know … “
In response, The Community Notes clarified that the Wikimedia Foundation handles massive web traffic, necessitating substantial operating costs. They also employ third-party financial auditors, and their reports are public.
According to Business Insider, this is not the first clash between Musk and Wikipedia. In May, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales criticized Musk for limiting content on X before Turkey’s presidential election
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