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Published by BANG Showbiz English Brooke Shields “blamed herself” when she was sexually assaulted in Hollywood more than 30 years ago. The 57-year-old model mistakenly believed she was having a meeting about a part in a movie when she was invited to a hotel room in the 1990s but thought no-one would believe her if she told of the attack and since opening up about the incident in her new Hulu documentary ‘Brooke Shields: Pretty Baby’, explained that it is a “miracle” she survived the trauma. She told this week’s edition of PEOPLE: “People weren’t believing those stories back then. I thought I would never work again. Doing the documentary, you see it all together, and it’s a miracle that I survived. It’s taken me a long time to process it. I’m more angry now than I was able to be then. If you’re afraid, you’re rightfully so. They are scary situations. They don’t have to be violent to be scary. I thought I was getting a movie job, I didn’t fight, I just froze. “I kept saying, ‘I shouldn’t have done that. Why did I go up with him? I shouldn’t have had that drink at dinner.'” The ‘Suddenly Susan’ star – who has daughters Rowan, 16, and 16-year-old Grier with husband Chris Henchy but was initially married to married to tennis champion Andre Agassi from 1997 to 1999 – went on to add that she has always had a “disassociation” with her own sexuality and was able to put herself into a “fight-or-flight” mode after the alleged attack as she admitted it was “easier” to shut off the whole ordeal because of her career. She added: “It was really easy to disassociate because by then it was old hat. And because it was a fight-or-flight type of choice. Fight was not an option, so you just leave your body. ‘You’re not there. It didn’t happen. It was really easy to disassociate because by then it was old hat,” she recalls. “And because it was a fight-or-flight type of choice. Fight was not an option, so you just leave your body. ‘You’re not there. It didn’t happen. “I was mostly a cover girl, so it’s all here. And it was just easier to shut myself off. I was good at it.” ‘Brooke Shields: Pretty Baby’ streams on Hulu from April 3. View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Samantha Ronson thinks it is “great” that her ex-girlfriend Lindsay Lohan is pregnant. The 45-year-old DJ dated ‘Mean Girls’ actress Lindsay, 36, – who is now married to businessman Bader Shammas- for a short period of time in the late 2000s and has sent her well-wishes to her former girlfriend following the news that she and her husband are expecting. She told TMZ: “I wish her all the best. It’s always great news when someone is expecting a baby!” At the time of their split in 2009, Lindsay remarked that she just wanted to “focus on herself” and after returning to acting last year in ‘Falling For Christmas’ after more than a decade away reflected that she and Samantha were ” always more like best friends” than a romantic couple. On Tuesday, ‘Freaky Friday’ star Lindsay took to Instagram to share a snap of a white baby onesie that reads “coming soon…” Lindsay captioned the photo: “We are blessed and excited! [prayer, heart and baby emojis] (sic)” A rep for the couple said: “We are very excited for our new family member to arrive and we are looking forward to this next chapter of our lives!” Lindsay started her career as a child actress, first appearing on the soap opera ‘Another World’ before getting her big break in the dual role of long-lost twins Hallie Parker and Annie James in the 1998 comedy ‘The Parent Trap’ alongside Dennis Quaid and the late Natasha Richardson. But now, the actress thinks it’s important to strike a healthy balance between her work life and her professional life. She recently explained: “You can take breaks, but you just have to know when the time is right. Because it’s also good to keep the pace going. “You become a family when you’re on a set, and then when the project wraps, it just stops. So it’s like a culture shock – you don’t know what to do with yourself. It’s good to keep your mind active. View the full article

Published by OK Magazine mega Donald Trump allegedly attempted to cover up his messy 2006 affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election because he was “scared” his wife, Melania, would find out, according to biographer Tim O’Brien. mega “I don’t think he was only worried about his campaign potentially getting blown up,” the author of TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald explained during his appearance on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House on Sunday, March 12. “I think he was also worried about his marriage getting blown up.” Noted O’Brien, “Donald Trump has a long history of cheating on his wives, and I think he was probably more afraid at that point of Melania Trump than he was of the electorate, so he had a motivation to try and get this out of the way.” mega ‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade Criticizes President Joe Biden For Constantly Blaming Emerging Problems On Donald Trump Donald Trump Fires Back At Mike Pence, Says He’s To ‘Blame’ For January 6 Capitol Attack Mike Pence Harshly Criticizes Donald Trump For His Role In The January 6 Capital Attack: ‘His Reckless Words Endangered My Family’ This comes four months after Trump’s former senior aide Kellyanne Conway testified to a panel that while the embattled ex-president listened to many of his advisors, he “reserves fear for one person, Melania Trump.” Donald and Melania tied the knot in 2005 — one year before his reported flings with the adult film actress, as well as Playboy model Karen McDougal, who alleged she also had an entanglement with the controversial businessman in 2006. Donald and Melania share one son, 16-year-old Barron Trump. mega As for Stormy, she previously spilled toOK! that she found being constantly asked about the scandal to be “exhausting and eyerolling,” but not “surprising.” “Every time he pops out, I wish he would go away,” the 43-year-old dished at the time. “But you know what? If it keeps my name out there … maybe that is why I was put here. I hope seeing Trump naked was not for nothing. I can hopefully spin it and bring attention to other things.” “I am not going to sit here and act all holier-than-thou,” she added. “I did get paid, the check cleared, thank you very much. But like I said, I can bring awareness to other important things.” Never miss a story — sign up for the OK! newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what OK! has to offer. It’s gossip too good to wait for! View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Lil Nas X has apologised to the trans community after being accused of making them the “punchline of a joke”. The ‘Industry Baby’ hitmaker faced a backlash after he shared a photo of influencer Glow Princess – whose real name is Armanda Tounghui – and jokingly suggested that it was actually a picture of him after “surgery”. He tweeted: “the surgery was a success [double heart emoji] (sic)” When fans called out the 23-year-old rapper for making the trans community the “punchline of a joke”, he hit back: “I’m literally just saying she looks like me y’all cannot be f*****’ serious. And when another fan asked why he “had to mention surgery,” he replied, “because she has t******? are u dense?” But shortly afterwards, the ‘Old Town Road’ singer – whose real name is Montero Hill – deleted his tweets and issued an apology. He wrote: “apologies to the trans community i def handled that situation with anger instead of considering why it was not cool. much love to you guys. sorry (sic)” Nas recently revealed he snubbed an offer to party with Beyonce because he didn’t want to let down his fans. He said: “I’ve actually been invited to come to one of her’ Renaissance’ parties and that was super dope. think it was on the day of one of the shows and I was like, ‘Do I completely leave my fans stranded and don’t come to the show to see Beyoncé or not?’ but you know I couldn’t. “ However, he is hoping he’ll receive another invitation one day in the future. He added: “Some time though for sure!” The rapper went on to heap praise on Beyonce for making bold moves with her album ‘Renaissance’. He said: “The overall idea of this super duper pop legend, not even, this music legend in general, going into this direction that’s not really mainstream at all. I think that’s just so big of her. It’s liberating.” View the full article

Published by DPA The eighth studio album from US singer Miley Cyrus sweeps across various genres, from psychedelia to country and hard rock, all while apparently looking backwards on her life until now. Yui Mok/PA Wire/dpa A decade and a half after she started making records — first as her Disney Channel alter ego, Hannah Montana, then as herself (or maybe “herself”) — Miley Cyrus on her eighth studio album sounds like a woman looking back at everywhere she’s been, both musically and emotionally, and assessing where all her travels have put her now, newly divorced and having just entered her 30s. The LP is called “Endless Summer Vacation,” which gets at the coolly euphoric country-disco vibe of a song like “Flowers,” the smash lead single that spent six weeks atop Billboard’s Hot 100 on its way to racking up more than a billion streams. But the true subject of these dozen tunes (plus a bonus-track demo of “Flowers”) is the hard work of introspection and the even harder work of self-reliance. “I love when you hold me / But loving you is never enough,” she sings in “Wildcard,” the sting of acceptance still fresh in her voice, “Don’t wait for me / ‘Cause forever may never come.” How to account for the enormous success of “Flowers”? Though she’s never lacked for showbiz visibility — see her recent New Year’s Eve TV special where she sang with Dolly Parton and David Byrne — Cyrus was a long way from her previous No. 1, 2013’s “Wrecking Ball,” when she recorded the winning empowerment jam with Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson, the same duo that produced Harry Styles’ Grammy-winning “Harry’s House.” And perhaps their golden touch had something to do with it; perhaps it’s the lyrical and melodic DNA the song shares with Bruno Mars’ chart-topping “When I Was Your Man,” a supposed favorite of Cyrus’ ex-husband actor Liam Hemsworth. But “Flowers,” which fans have heard as an explicit response to “When I Was Your Man,” also captures this veteran shapeshifter in just the right spot: peeved but amused, shady yet sincere. Thematically, “Endless Summer Vacation” revolves around Cyrus’ split from Hemsworth; she fondly recalls some of their good times, identifies red flags that arose eventually, ponders the pleasures and the complications of singledom and finally rediscovers a longing for romance. (In addition to Johnson and Kid Harpoon and other established pop pros such as Greg Kurstin, Tobias Jesso Jr. and Mike Will Made It, the singer’s studio collaborators here include her current boyfriend, musician Maxx Morando.) Stylistically, the songs pull from all over the place. Like the actor she is, Cyrus in the past used each of her albums to explore a single genre: hip-hop on “Bangerz,” psychedelia on “Her Dead Petz,” country music on “Younger Now” — remember that before she was a Disney kid she was the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus — and hard rock on “Plastic Hearts.” Yet “Endless Summer Vacation” jams together bits of all that stuff as she moves through heartbreak to savor the clarity that follows. What holds the music together is Cyrus’ singing, which stood out easily from the likes of Selena Gomez and the Jonas Brothers in the mid-2000s and which still feels distinct now that she’s competing with SZA and Taylor Swift. In “Jaded” and “Muddy Feet,” she emphasizes the grainy texture in her voice over stomping rock grooves; “Rose Colored Lenses” has her rounding the edges of each phrase with a woozy sensuality. Brandi Carlile shows up to belt alongside Cyrus in the blippy-folky “Thousand Miles,” but she hangs back in the mix, limiting herself to ghostly high harmonies against Cyrus’ low growl. “River” and “Violet Chemistry” are the album’s most rhythmic cuts, with Cyrus doling out quick staccato lines amid ravey synths played in part in the latter by James Blake. And “You” is the album’s vocal centrepiece: a saloon-ready retro-soul ballad à la Rihanna’s “Love on the Brain” in which Cyrus channels the yearning of someone gingerly entering a new relationship and that same someone’s reluctance to get hurt again. Indeed, her singing is vivid enough on “Endless Summer Vacation” to make up for some mushy songwriting here and there: “Fingers start to dance along the figures and the shapes,” goes one line in “Violet Chemistry,” “mixing all the colours like we’re making a Monet.” (Yikes.) But to get too hung up on a cringey lyric is to miss the point of Miley Cyrus at this phase of her weird, winding, one-of-one career. As she puts it in “Thousand Miles”: “I’m out of my mind / But still I’m holding on like a rolling stone.” View the full article

Published by OK Magazine @donaldtrumpjr/instagram Donald Trump Jr. made sure to send his fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle, well-wishes on her birthday on March 9 — but fans couldn’t help but point out how much her appearance has changed in the past few years. “Happy birthday to the best broad ever @kimberlyguilfoyle (inside joke but she knows that’s the highest form of compliment ever!) so relax Karens. 29 only comes once or twice so enjoy it princess. I love you. ,” the 45-year-old captioned a slew of photos via Instagram. @donaldtrumpjr/instagram Of course, people couldn’t help but look closely at the TV personality’s face. One person wrote, “Why does she look different in every pic ?” while another said, “She has a similar mouth and lips to Jeff Bezos broad. Is this the procedure where the upper lip gets cut and curled up?” A third person simply stated, “She’s 90 percent plastic.” However, there were a lot of positive comments about how cute the pair are. “Pretty sure we’re looking at a future President and the First Lady after dad serves his term! Let’s hear it for Trumps in the White House for the next 24 years WHO’S WITH ME?!? ,” one person gushed, while another said, “Kimberly is the best!!!!” @donaldtrumpjr/instagram Kimberly Guilfoyle Trolled After Failing To Draw Crowd At Conservative Convention: ‘So Many Empty Seats’ Ivanka Trump Gushes Over Donald Trump Jr.’s Fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle On Her Birthday Despite Not ‘Trusting Her’ Donald Trump Jr. Sends Birthday Wishes To ‘Princess’ Kimberly Guilfoyle: ’29 Only Comes Once Or Twice’ As OK! previously reported, this is hardly the first time the brunette beauty has accused of going under the knife. In February, Guilfoyle was seen at a charity event. “Amazing time last week at yet another incredible event by @curetivityfoundation raising money for pediatric cancer! #curetivity #stjudes To get involved or donate, please visit www.curetivity.com,” she wrote on social media on February 8. Some took a moment to discuss her face, with one person writing, “@kimberlyguilfoyle you’re my favorite victim of shoddy plastic surgery! Number one in my book!” However, others loved seeing the star in her element. “,” one person commented, while another said, “.” @donaldtrumpjr/instagram Never miss a story — sign up for the OK! newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what OK! has to offer. It’s gossip too good to wait for! Despite the negative comments, Guilfoyle has been soaking in this time with her man. The two recently hung out with actor Russell Brand in Florida. “Grand opening of the new headquarters for @rumblecreators in Sarasota, Florida with @donaldtrumpjr, Chris Pavlovski and the whole amazing Rumble Team plus our great friend, @realdevinnunes, head of #TruthSocial. Naturally, couldn’t resist a pic with the incomparable #AldousSnow. #IYKYK. @russellbrand,” she wrote. View the full article

Published by Raw Story A video showing a woman going on a homophobic rant inside a Miami Starbucks has been viewed more than 3 million times, Local10 reported. The video was recently uploaded to TikTok with the caption: “Karen in the wild.” The couple targeted by the woman said she began yelling homophobic comments at them in the middle of a Miami Starbucks on March 6. The woman can be heard in the video telling the couple that homosexuality is wrong “because you touch children, you rape children.” “She accused us of being predators, that we rape children, and saying that lesbians assault children and we are horribl… Read More View the full article

Published by AlterNet Prosecutors in Florida have dropped charges against Retired District of Columbia Police Lieutenant Brett Parson, who last year was accused of soliciting sex with an underage male. Parson, who during his career led DC’s Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit, “was arrested in Broward County, Florida, in February 2022 and charged with two counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor — a 16-year-old boy,” WTOP reported on Tuesday. “According to prosecutors,” the outlet continued, “Parson and the boy agreed to meet at a gas station, then drove to a more remote parking lot, where they engaged in sexual ac… Read More View the full article

Published by Global Voices Made by Global Voices with OpenAI The Twitter account of the Feminist Resistance Movement (a grassroots anti-war organisation originated in Russia) published tragic news about the death of a transgender girl from Russia who committed suicide in a refugee camp in the city of Drachten in the Netherlands. Трансгендерная девушка из России покончила с собой в лагере для беженцев в Нидерландах Хина Захарова подала прошение о предоставлении ей убежища в декабре 2022 года. Ранее девушка сообщала, что в стране серьёзные проблемы с очередью на получение гормонозаместительной терапии.pic.twitter.com/H5BA… Read More View the full article

Published by NJ.com New Jersey is everywhere. But everywhere is not New Jersey. Actor Kal Penn, who was born and raised in the Garden State, knows that very well. “Being from New Jersey is like an ethnicity,” Penn once said in an interview with NJ Advance Media. So when the star of the “Harold & Kumar” movies became a guest host on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” this week, he relished the chance to riff on an “only in Jersey”-type news story. “Let’s check in on my home state of New Jersey,” Penn said, introducing one segment on Tuesday night’s show. “I’m sure they’re not doing anything incredibly stupid.” Penn… Read More View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Azealia Banks was once so “broke” she had to sleep in storage space. The 31-year-old rap star now has an estimated net worth of $3 milllion but admitted there was a time when there was no work coming in for her despite her fame and ended up sleeping rough. She told Dazed magazine: “There was a point in time when people didn’t want to book me. I had n***** stealing my royalties and all type of s***. “Like, there was a point in time when I was so f****** broke that I was sleeping in a storage space. You know, famous and broke.” The ‘Broke with Expensive Taste’ hitmaker has made various controversial comments over the years including joking that she wanted to “spray a gay man in the face with pepper spray” and ended up banned from Twitter in 2020 over a series of tweets deemed transphobic but insisted that others are also capable of making “bad jokes”, quipping that they also get paid for it. She said: “Everybody makes a bad joke sometimes. Like, who cares? Quentin Tarantino gets paid $500m to make really bad jokes all the time, you know? Come on. Let me get my s*** off!” Meanwhile, Azealia lost her dad at the age of two to a battle with cancer and was often left wondering if her mother would ever come back following her schizophrenia diagnosis, leaving the future rap star to be raised by caretakers. She said: “I was raised by Dominican caretakers. My mom would throw them a couple thousand dollars and just disappear for five weeks. I would just be in my head, like, ‘Does my mother not want me anymore? Is she coming back? Is she alive?’ She would brag about how she did witchcraft and killed my father!” View the full article

Published by The Kansas City Star Kansas City-based endocrinologist Brandon Barthel has provided care for transgender adults for six years, including helping them go through hormone therapy. When he sees patients and talks to colleagues these days, he sometimes hears fear. The onslaught of legislation across Missouri, Kansas and much of the country targeting gender-affirming care has unsettled the region’s small community of providers and the patients who turn to these doctors, counselors and others to help them navigate difficult questions of gender and sex. Barthel worries the measures have created a chilling effect on docto… Read More View the full article

Published by St. Louis Post-Dispatch It’s problematic enough that a federal judge in Texas known for his aggressively right-wing politics from the bench is presiding over a lawsuit that seeks to outlaw a widely used abortion drug. If past is prelude, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk will do whatever he can to aid the anti-choice plaintiffs — as demonstrated by his remarkably brazen attempt this week to thwart protests and media coverage of the case. Kacsmaryk is a Donald Trump appointee who has a history of controversial rulings on immigration, LGBTQ rights and other issues. In the current case, he tried to postpone putting a Wednesday he… Read More View the full article

Published by Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — Margot Douaihy reached Chicago’s Lincoln Park in a roundabout way. She grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She came from a religious family and a long line of clergy. She went to Catholic school, but as she got older, Douaihy felt distanced from the church. She was queer and in the closet. She moved to Massachusetts and became a poet. Several years ago, when she decided to tiptoe toward her love of mystery novels, she came up with a kind of homage to the hard-boiled detective thriller, with a twist: Her amateur sleuth was a queer badass nun. The book critiqued institutions, foreground… Read More View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Diplo has “got a b*** job from a guy” before but doesn’t think it is “that gay”. The ‘Lean On’ producer – who has previously dated the likes of Katy Perry and M.I.A. – admitted he has received oral sex from a man in the past but doesn’t want to “define” himself as homosexual, though he could potentially see himself with a male “life-partner”. Speaking to Emily Ratajkowski on her ‘High Low’ podcast, he said: “I don’t want to define that I’m gay, but I think the best answer I have is I’m not not gay. “There’s a couple guys that I’d be like, ‘I could date this guy… life partner-wise.’ I’m not really aroused by men that much, that I know about. “I’m sure that I’ve got a b*** job from a guy before. I’ve got a lot of b*** jobs… Getting a b*** job’s not that gay, I think.” The 44-year-old producer – whose real name is Thomas Wesley Pentz – began talking about his sexuality after he explained his TikTok algorithm has recently showed him a number of “hot guys” chipping wood. Emily, 31, the asked if TikTok is why Diplo knows he isn’t completely heterosexual. He replied: “Maybe. The wood-chopping guy is kinda sexy. They’re hot guys, but I don’t know if that’s gonna be the thing that’s gonna set me over into the gay side, totally, is the wood-choppers, but they’re pretty hot guys.” He then described himself as “more of a vibe guy” than being concerned about a person’s gender, and he’s reflected on how “fluid” younger men seem to be now than when he was growing up. He said: “Men that are younger than me, and I meet a lot in the scene, they’re very fluid. It never was like that when I was in high school. “There was definitely like, you had gay kids in school, and you had gay cousins or whatever. It was different than it is now. “We knew that there was gay kids in middle school, but high school, there was always a small gay community at every school. “When everybody was coming out, like ‘Doss is gay,’ all these artists were gay, I felt like it wasn’t crazy. “It’s just weird how the temperature of our culture changed so much, but I thought it was never weird to be gay.” View the full article

Published by Radar Online Mega Nearly 40 Russian officials have been found dead under mysterious circumstances after criticizing Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, RadarOnline.com has learned. In a startling development to come more than one year after Putin first invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a total of 39 Russian oligarchs, scientists, and military generals have been found dead under “odd” and “unexplained” circumstances. Mega According to Daily Star, nearly all of the 39 deceased passed away from mysterious “suicides” and “accidents” and were found dead shortly after criticizing the 70-year-old Russian leader and denouncing his war in Ukraine. Most recently, Russian real estate tycoon Sergey Grishin – who made headlines after selling Prince Harry and Meghan Markle their Montecito, California mansion – died from sepsis after criticizing Putin’s military regime. Mega Even more shocking was an incident last week in which a Russian scientist named Andrey Botikov was found strangled to death with his belt inside his Moscow apartment not long after denouncing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. According to Russian sources, Botikov – who was once in charge of creating a Covid-19 vaccine for Russia – was “most likely” murdered on behalf of Putin and the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin’s Allies Drop Like Flies As Russia Enters Second Year Since Invading Ukraine Vladimir Putin ‘Concerned About His Own Safety’ As Russian Oligarchs And Generals Turn On Embattled Politician Vladimir Putin Suffers New Mutiny As Russian Troops Refuse To Fight In Ukraine: ‘We’re Being Sent To Certain Death’ As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Grishin and Botikov’s sudden and mysterious deaths came just weeks after millionaire Russian sausage tycoon Pavel Antov was declared dead after falling from a hotel window in India while on vacation for his 66th birthday. Vladimir Budanov, Antov’s close associate, was also found dead after suffering an alleged heart attack in India less than 48 hours before Antov fell to his death. Mega But while the mysterious and sudden deaths of nearly 40 Russian officials over the past year have created suspicion towards Putin and the Kremlin, an intelligence official named Professor Anthony Glees has since claimed the passings are nothing more than a “course of conduct” for the Russian leader and his acolytes. “There are two kinds of victim, as far as we can tell: those who are opposed to Putin’s Ukraine policies,” Glees explained, “and those who Putin believes have double-crossed him.” Never miss a story — sign up for the RadarOnline.com newsletter to get your daily dose of dope. Daily. Breaking. Celebrity news. All free. Mega “Oligarchs from the world of business who have taken the money but not done his bidding, whether kept cash not meant for them, or opposed him politically,” Glees continued, “or perhaps both.” “It is this that makes [Putin] so dangerous.” Meanwhile, Putin has reportedly started to grow increasingly more paranoid that he may be assassinated in a potential coup over his failure to successfully take Ukraine more than one year after launching an invasion that was purportedly only supposed to take a matter of days. View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Tilda Swinton has refused to adhere to COVID-19 protocols on the set of her new movie. The 62-year-old actress had been told to wear a mask “at all times” whilst on the set of her upcoming motion picture – which is set to begin shooting in Ireland within the coming months – but refused to do so as she insisted she is “very healthy” despite having contracted the virus multiple times. Speaking as part of her keynote speech at the SXSW Film and TV Festival on Monday (13.03.23), she said: “I’m about to shoot a picture in Ireland, and I was told to wear a mask at all times, and I’m not. I’m sure this is being recorded. I’ve had COVID-19 multiple times so I’m full of antibodies and very healthy.” In 2022, the Academy Award-winning actress explained that while she had got off “relatively lightly” with the virus, she still suffered from vertigo and noticed a mental decline as she struggled to learn her lines for various projects. She said: “I was coughing like an old gentleman who smoked a pipe for 70 years, and had nasty vertigo. I got off relatively lightly, but the worst thing is how it affected my brain. I did two films that I had to learn a lot of text for. I’m normally quite quick at studying, and picking stuff up, but this was like chewing a really big piece of gum. I couldn’t remember my lines. [I have recovered] More or less, but I’m still forgetting things. I have to work my brain!” View the full article

Published by Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday issued an executive order aimed at expanding background checks for gun purchases to bring down mass shootings in the country. Biden also asked Congress to take additional action to reduce gun violence and urged the Federal Trade Commission to issue a public report analyzing how gun manufacturers market firearms to minors, according to the order released by the White House (Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Rami Ayyub in Washington, Editing by Doina Chiacu) View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Jamie Lee Curtis has tearfully told how she has decided to call her Oscar trophy “they/them” in honour of her transgender daughter Ruby. The ‘Halloween’ actress, 64, scooped Best Supporting Actress for her role in the multi-Oscar winning ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ during Sunday’s (12.03.23) 95th Academy Awards, and started sobbing during a video link appearance on the ‘Today’ show on Tuesday (14.03.23) while watching her acceptance speech back for the first time. She wiped away tears as she told hosts Savannah Guthrie, 51, and Hoda Kotb, 58, after the footage of her emotion-filled moment of victory was played: “I hadn’t watched that. So, that was the first time I’ve seen it.” Jamie – who has adopted daughters Ruby, 27, and Annie, 36, with her 75-year-old husband Christopher Guest – added as she held up her Oscars statue and declared it was non-binary: “Here they are! In support of my daughter Ruby, I’m having them be a they/them. I’m just going to call them ‘them’ – they/them. And they are doing great. They are settling in.” Jamie first revealed Ruby was transgender in 2021, and told AARP magazine she and Christopher had “watched in wonder and pride as our son became our daughter Ruby’. Jamie also said after Sunday’s Oscars about having gender-neutral awards categories, and the inclusivity challenges that would come with the move: “Obviously I would like to see a lot more women be nominated so that there’s gender parity in all the areas and all the branches, and I think we’re getting there. “We’re not anywhere near there. And of course, the inclusivity then that involves the bigger question, which is, how do you include everyone when there are binary choices, which is very difficult. “As the mother of a trans daughter I completely understand that.” Jamie also warned: “And yet, to de-gender the category, also, I’m concerned (that) will diminish the opportunities for more women, which is something I also have been working hard to try to promote. “So it’s a complicated question, but I think the most important thing is inclusivity and more women.” View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Blac Chyna has vowed to dissolve her face filler as part of her dramatic make-under. The 34-year-old model and reality TV star, who rose to fame as Nicki Minaj’s stunt double in the music video for the rapper’s ‘Monster’ hit, also said she was going to stop using “long stiletto nails” after she shocked fans by last week toning down her trademark curves with a breast and bum reduction. She told of her intentions to make her beauty regime even plainer when a fan commented on her most recent Instagram posts, saying: “Please get some face filler dissolved too… you don’t need it and would look 10x more beautiful without it.” Blac – real name Angela White, who has son King, 10, with rapper Tyga, 33, and daughter Dream, six, with 35-year-old Rob Kardashian – replied it is “next on my list”. And in an Instagram Story post in which she showed off her bare, natural nails, she added: “I feel so free without the long stiletto nails. “Shoutout to all the women that wear them. They no longer serve my purpose.” The socialite, who has had a huge range of cosmetic surgeries including four breast surgeries, liposuction, and a silicone backside enlargement when she was 19, posted a series of videos to Instagram documenting her surgeries. She said: “I just want all the ladies out there to know: do not get silicone shots because you can get sick, you can die, have complications and all this other crazy stuff. “I’m past that stage. Been there, done that. I’m passing the baton to the younger ladies.” She added she was heading into “a different way” in her life and captioned her post: “I want you all to be a part of my life changing journey. I reduced my breasts and gluteus maximus. “You all have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that.” Her final video in the series about her surgeries showed her lying in bed in a darkened room covered in bandages, and said she was a few days into recovering from her make-under. Blac added about her latest procedures: “I must say I am very very very happy. “I’m in recovery mode. I’ve got my bandages on… also I got the reduction in my butt. Normally my procedure would have taken four hours tops. “My procedure took over eight and a half hours, y’all. Whatever that silicone mass in my buttocks kept clogging the machine and breaking the machine.” Blac recently said she was deactivating her OnlyFans account – said to have made her $240 million after she offered a subscription for $450 a year – because of her kids. View the full article

Published by Raw Story An all-ages drag event in Ohio recently was disrupted by a group of neo-Nazis who chanted “there will be blood.” Newsweek reports that the event, which took place in Wadsworth, Ohio this past weekend, attracted not only neo-Nazis but other anti-LGBTQ groups including local chapters of White Lives Matter and the Proud Boys, both of which reportedly tried to distance themselves from the self-avowed Nazis who shared their distaste for drag events. In fact, Newsweek notes that spats between the Nazis and the other anti-drag activists got so intense at one point that local police actually had to de… Read More View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Julia Garner has her “fingers crossed” that the Madonna biopic will happen. The ‘Ozark’ star is set to play the ‘Material Girl’ hitmaker on the big screen and is still hopeful that the project will come to fruition despite being shelved for the time being as the pop icon embarks on her ‘Celebration’ world tour. Julia, 29, told Entertainment Tonight at the Vanity Fair Oscars party on Sunday (12.03.23): “Yeah, yeah. I don’t want to tell too much. I want to keep things… yeah, fingers crossed.” Madonna is set to direct her own biopic and the Queen of Pop believes that she is the only person who can do justice to her own story. The 64-year-old singer said: “I’ve had an extraordinary life, I must make an extraordinary film. “It was also a pre-emptive strike, because a lot of people were trying to make movies about me. Mostly misogynistic men. So, I put my foot in the door and said, ‘No one’s going to tell my story but me.’ “I have a very long script that is really hard for me to make shorter. I’ve been whittling away at it, but it’s like hacking off my limbs.” Madonna has previously opened up about the “draining” experience of writing a script that covers her childhood in Michigan to global superstardom. The ‘Like a Prayer’ singer said: “Writing my script is the most draining, challenging experience I’ve ever had. “It’s kind of like psychotherapy in a way, because I have to remember every detail from my childhood till now. “Remembering all the things that made me decide to be who I am, my journey as an artist, my decision to leave Michigan to go to New York, all the things that happened to me when I was young and naive, my relationships with my family and friends, watching many of my friends die.” View the full article

Published by BANG Showbiz English Lady Gaga wanted people to see the “real” version of herself when she went without makeup at the Oscars. The 36-year-old pop icon – who is known for wearing extravagant costumes and makeup – appeared at the annual awards ceremony on Sunday (12.03.23) to give a stripped-back performance of ‘Hold My Hand’ from ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and according to producer Ricky Kirshner, was so busy shooting ‘Joker: Folie: A Deux’ that she “didn’t have time” to do anything grand before hitting the stage bare-faced. He told The Hollywood Reporter: “We’ve built up trust in the relationship with Gaga over the years — I did the Super Bowl with her and Glenn has done many awards shows with her, including the ‘Shallow’ performance on the Oscars. “She really wanted to do something. She honestly was shooting her movie [the ‘Joker’ sequel] — there was no trickery involved. And Thursday, at four-something, we got a text that she wanted to try something, didn’t have time to put together a big performance, but wanted it to be raw and people to see the real Gaga, and, with a voice like that, you don’t need much more than that.” Ricky added that part of his job is “going with the flow” as he recalled that it was touch-and-go whether the ‘Poker Face’ hitmaker would even be able to perform at all. He said: “We’re doing the show for the people in the room and the people watching at home. Some people make it and some don’t. Glenn honestly said on Wednesday [during a preshow press conference] that Gaga wouldn’t perform, and then on Thursday and Friday that changed. We just go with the flow and produce the show for the people that are there and the people that we’re working with.” View the full article