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Thursday, January 17, 2019
Rep. Greg Pence Read My Lips ... VP Pence & His Wife Are Not Anti-LGBT
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Larissa from 90 Day Fiance: See Her Mug Shot, Read New Arrest Details
Larissa Dos Santos Lima may have recently called herself a survivor on Instagram, but the Las Vegas Police Department had a different label for this 90 Day Fiance star over the weekend:
Abuser.
As previously reported, the TLC reality star was arrested a few days ago on a charge of domestic battery.
New details (and Larissa’s mug shot!) regarding the incident have now emerged on the Internet.
“On Nov. 10, 2018, at approximately 1:15 p.m., officers were dispatched to a family disturbance at a residence in Northwest Las Vegas,” reads a statement by Las Vegas Police Officer Larry Hadfield.
This statement was obtained by In Touch Weekly and it continues:
“Two people were contacted at the home who were arguing.
“At the conclusion of the investigation, it was determined that Dos Santos had committed Battery Domestic Violence on her husband and transported to the Clark County Detention Center.”
Specifically, Larissa was arrested and detained on one count of misdemeanor domestic battery last Saturday.
She freaked fans out and caused major concerns when she locked herself in a bathroom, added her phone number to her Instagram bio and wrote on social media:
HELP ME …HE TURNED OFF HIDE MY PHONE HELP ME HE WANTS TO CALL THE POLICE HELP ME.
Larissa and her fiance, Colt, it should be noted, met online and are featured on this very season of 90 Day Fiance.
You can tune in each week to see their unusual relationship play out.
According to Larissa, her fight with Colt took place because he told his girlfriend NOT to share any photos of him on her Instagram account.
He said the status of their relationship had to remain a mystery, for the sake of the show.
She then went on to allege that Colt caused some damage in their home the two bickered over this demand — and she also claims that, at some point during their fight, he took her phone away.
That’s when she posted the above plea for help.
After posting a $ 1,000 bond, Larissa went back on Instagram in order to assure supporters that she was fine.
“Hello everyone. Thank you for the support and love. I am safe and resting,” she wrote, adding:
The past 48 hours have been the most difficult in my life. But reading the messages from all of you has made me smile. God bless and thank you. I’ll update soon.”
But, wait, is she still with Colt?
Yes.
“We are together and strong. We just choose [to not] expose it,” Larissa added.
Colt, meanwhile, has also responded to questions and stories about Larissa’s arrest, as well as his role in the incident.
He thinks people on the World Wide Web should stop playing amateur detective and leave the couple alone, basically.
“Self proclaimed internet sleuths who think they are Woodward and Bernstein,” he wrote late Monday on Instagram.
“They are simply people that spread misinformation, lies, and chaos to make themselves look important. They are nothing and will never be relevant.”
We don’t know what actually transpired between Colt and Larissa, of course, but we can say this much:
When you are accused of being at the center of a domestic battery confrontation… you may be best served NOT to come across as hostile in your response to it.
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Ariana Grande: Read Her Heartbreaking Statement About Mac Miller"s Death
Hope you’re prepared to get in a good cry right now.
Because if you continue reading, trust us, it’s coming.
As you surely know by now, rapper Mac Miller passed away last week.
He was only 26 years old.
We still don’t have too many details about what happened, but here’s what we do know:
Mac was found dead in his home last Friday around noon, and when emergency responders arrived on the scene after receiving a 911 call, they saw that he’d been dead for several hours.
There’s no official cause of death yet, but the assumption is that he died of an overdose, considering the fact that he’s been dealing with addiction for several years.
Toxicology reports take a while, so it will likely be several more weeks before we learn what happened to him.
The night before his body was found, he’d been hosting a party in his home, and it sounds like the party got a bit out of hand.
Witnesses even claimed that several of his guests were there until Friday morning, when they rushed out of the house just before police arrived.
Because of this, some people are suspicious that something more than an overdose happened that night, but police aren’t investigating.
On a different note, another thing we know about his death is that as awful and implausible as it sounds, many of Mac’s fans are blaming Ariana Grande.
Ariana and Mac dated for a couple of years before breaking up in May, and a few weeks after that, she was engaged to Pete Davidson.
The idea seems to be that she should have done more to help him with his problems, or that her quick engagement broke his heart and caused him to ramp up his drug use.
It’s silly, because it’s not Ariana couldn’t force him to give up drugs, and she’s not responsible for his choices, no matter what.
People were so cruel about this that she had to turn off comments on her Instagram, as if she wasn’t hurting enough.
Speaking of Instagram, she shared a sweet picture of Mac there last weekend, and although she didn’t say anything about his death, it was a lovely little tribute.
But now, in another post, she’s really opening up about what happened.
And it is rough.
This time, she posted a video of him, and while it’s a little hard to tell what’s happening, it’s still precious.
He’s talking with someone else about something when he notices Ariana filming him, and he laughs and says “Baby, stop!”
They start laughing together, and she says “it makes me so happy,” so he tells her “I’ll tell you the story as many times as you want.”
It’s sad enough to see him laughing and having a good time after knowing how things turn out for him, but things get even sadder once you read the caption she wrote to go along with the video.
“i adored you from the day i met you when i was nineteen and i always will,” she began.
“i can’t believe you aren’t here anymore. i really can’t wrap my head around it. we talked about this. so many times.”
“i’m so mad,” she continued. “i’m so sad i don’t know that to do. you were my dearest friend. for so long. above anything else.”
“i’m so sorry i couldn’t fix or take your pain away. i really wanted to.”
She finished by calling Mac “the kindest, sweetest soul with demons he never deserved.”
“i hope you’re okay now,” she told him. “rest.”
Mac’s funeral will take place sometime in the next few days in Pittsburgh, his hometown, and according to reports, she’ll be in attendance.
Here’s hoping she can get a little bit of closure from that, because it sounds like she’s really hurting right now.
Sunday, August 26, 2018
John McCain: Read the Tributes in His Honor
American has lost an icon.
No matter how you felt about John McCain"s politics, it"s impossible to argue with the impact this Vietnam War hero had on his nation.
The Republican nominee for President in 2008 and a Senator from Arizona since 1987, McCain died from brain cancer on Saturday, August 25.
Within minutes, tributes poured forth from past Presidents, current politicians and many others.
McCain was viewed with respect from both sides of the aisle unlike perhaps any politician in the last 50 years.
Read some of the most notable messages below and join us in sending condolences to the entire McCain family…
1. Meghan McCain
2. Mitch McConnell
3. Barack Obama
4. Sarah Palin
5. Joe Biden
6. George W. Bush
Sunday, April 22, 2018
Acicii: Read His Ex-Girlfriend"s Moving Tribute
The entertainment world is still reeling from the loss of Acicii.
As reported late last week, the beloved DJ was found dead on Friday at the very young age of 28.
In the days since, authorities have ruled out criminal suspicious as a cause of death, with local police in Oman (where Avicii was found) saying on record to CNN:
“Two postmortems were carried out … and we can confirm that there is no criminal suspicion in the death.”
So while we wait for further details to come in regarding what transpired with the musician, we can at least share more tributes to Avicii from those who knew him best.
Such as Emily Goldberg.
The ex-girlfriend of the DJ, Goldberg dated Avicii for two years and responded to his passing by sharing multiple photos of herself and the late star.
She also shared a moving message in his honor.
“‘Come on babe, don’t give up on us. Choose me, and I’ll show you love.’ Those are lyrics from a song Tim wrote for me,” Emily wrote to open the caption to the picture below, adding:
“I wish I could have lived up to them.
“For the two years we were together, he was my closest confidante, and my best friend. Now I can’t look at Bear without knowing I’ll never see his face again.”
Avicii’s parents, two sisters and one brother arrived over the weekend in the city of Muscat to repatriate his body this week, according to police in Oman, which is a popular vacation destination on the Arabian Peninsula.
They are “completely devastated,” authorities say.
So is Goldberg.
She concluded one of her posts by using lyrics from the DJ’s hit “Wake Me Up,” writing:
“I’m still collecting my thoughts and thank you for all your kind words and texts. Wake me up when it’s all over, because I don’t want it to be real. #ripavicii #avicii @avicii.”
Via her Instagram page, Goldberg also shared what looks to be a screenshot of a text exchange between herself and Avicii (real name Tim Bergling) expressing their love for each other.
She captioned the post with a black heart emoji, and added the hashtags “#ripavicii #avicii.
Avicii’s death was confirmed on Friday via the following statement:
It is with profound sorrow that we announce the loss of Tim Bergling, also known as Avicii.
He was found dead in Muscat, Oman, this Friday afternoon local time, April 20th.
The family is devastated and we ask everyone to please respect their need for privacy in this difficult time. No further statements will be given.
Fans then gathered in Stockholm on Saturday to pay tribute to the 28-year-old Swedish superstar.
Avicii thrilled club goers with his catchy hits, flashing lights and soulful collaborations.
At one point, it would be safe to say he one of the world’s most successful DJs, along with being a major name in the electronic dance music genre known as EDM.
However, citing stress and anxiety, Avicii announced two years ago that he needed to take a break from touring.
“I was drinking way too much, partying in general way too much,” he said at the time, adding of one side effect:
“Then I got a pancreatitis attack [at 21], which is very rare. So that forced me to do a 180 and stop drinking.”
It’s unclear right now whether this condition played a role in his death.
May Avicii rest in peace.
Here is a look at what others have said about him since news of his passing went public:
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Caleb Williams Speaks on Jana Duggar Courtship: Read My Lips ...
For weeks now, talk of Jana Duggar courting Caleb Williams, a longtime friend of her family’s, has been circulating across the Internets.
Erroneous reports of Jana courting seem to surface quite often, but this time, there was real reason to believe these claims had legitimacy.
Not only has Caleb Williams been spending time with Jana, the man also put in one-on-one time with Jim Bob Duggar, her dad.
Any courtship candidates need Jim Bob’s explicit approval – if he doesn’t arrange them personally – so this looked like a key sign.
All the while, both Caleb and Jana downplayed involvement with one another, while not explicitly denying courtship chatter either.
In other words, this rumor had legs.
The oldest Duggar daughter about to turn 28, and we all know Jana likes a rebel, so fans have been quite excited over this.
Are they or aren’t they courting, though? Williams finally spoke out on his Facebook page to clear the air once and for all …
We have good news and bad news, it appears, and whether it’s good or bad largely depends on what you were hoping for here.
The bad news, at least if you were hoping for Jana Duggar to be married off by the end of this spring, is that it’s not happening.
The good news is that if you’re interested in courting her yourself, or weren’t a fan of Williams, well, she’s still very available!
Caleb personally wrote in a Facebook post:
“There has been speculation regarding a relationship between myself and Jana. Now to clear the fog and avoid any confusion …”
“‘Read my lips … I am not dating Jana Duggar."”
“Over the past several months since an extremely unflattering image was posted by my friends and spread across the world,” he said.
The aforementioned photo of himself, in which Williams was less than fully clothed, spread “faster than a viral cat video,” as he put it.
All of that said, Caleb leaves no wiggle room when he writes that “the extent of our relationship is purely friends and nothing more.”
“Hopefully with this clarification the Internet (as well as the space-time continuum) can heal,” he adds, from this devastating blow.
Or the photo that gave him his 15 minutes, a.k.a. “the day my Gluteus Maximus gave Kim Kardashian a run for her money.”
Caleb, seen above with Jana’s dad Jim Bob at a football game in October, certainly seems like a good dude with a sense of humor.
Not unlike reports that linked Jana to Tim Tebow or Bringing Up Bates star Zach Bates or Jonathan Hartono, it just was not to be.
Described as a “bad boy” and “a lot more liberal than his possible future in-laws,” it’s unclear if he ever considered courting Jana.
Did he want to and get shot down? Did Jana and/or Jim Bob want this and Caleb wasn’t into it? We will likely never know for sure.
All we know for certain is that with her 28th birthday coming up next week, Jana is the last of her of-age sisters to remain single.
Sweet Jana’s single status is perhaps the longest-running topic of debate among card-carrying members of Duggar Nation.
She’s said in the past that she’s been approached by men interested in courting, but has not found the right partner among them.
Yet. Which is completely fair.
If younger siblings Jill, Jessa, Jinger, Joy-Anna and Joseph already have or are about to have kids, it wouldn’t be that notable.
Jana has long been seen as maligned, however, forced by her parents to raise her siblings while unable to pursue her dreams.
When Anna Duggar hopes Jana stays single forever, we know she’s kidding, but at the same time, it kind of hits a nerve.
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Cameron Diaz Turns 45: Read Her Husband"s Cute Birthday Message!
Cameron Diaz is one of the hottest actresses in Hollywood, so it comes as no surprise that she’s off the market and has been for a few years now.
The actress is married to Good Charlotte Rocker Benji Madden, and they appear to be happy with one another.
Their relationship could be summed up as whirlwind when you consider the fact that they knew each other for seven months before getting engaged.
In fact, it was none other than Nicole Richie who introduced them to each other. What a small world we live in.
Their engagement spanned just seventeen days before they got married in a beautiful ceremony at their home in Beverly Hills in 2015.
It’s crazy how quickly the milestones can come when you find someone who feels the same way about you.
With Diaz turning 45 yesterday, Madden took to his Instagram account to share a picture of them on a boat trip and to reveal his undying love for the Charlies Angels beauty.
Oh yes, we will always remember Cameron from that movie. Maybe not the sequel, that one is still mentally blocked from our minds.
Have a look at the picture below.
Aren’t you just blinded by the love in the above picture?
It’s clear they are very much together and going strong, and that’s a good thing.
“Happy Birthday to my Beautiful Wife. I feel like I am the LUCKIEST guy ALIVE,” Madden, 38, captioned the photo of the boat ride.
“I don’t think anyone could ever know the Depth, Kindness, and Compassion that I get to experience everyday thanks to My One and Only- You got me til the end baby,” he said in the love note that would make even the most heartless of people blush.
Earlier this year, Cameron opened up about not finding someone she felt she could spend her life with until she was 42.
“I think it’s a matter of I just hadn’t met my husband,” Diaz said during a Gwyneth Paltrow-moderated panel for the pretentious company known as Goop.
“I had boyfriends before, and there’s a really, really distinct difference between husbands and boyfriends.”
Okay, what do you all think about this?
Sound off below!
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Dallas McCarver: Read His Girlfriend"s Moving Tribute
Dallas McCarver is no longer with us.
The bodybuilder sadly and suddenly died on Monday evening after choking on food at home by himself in Florida.
He was only 26 years old at the time.
The nearly 300-pound weight lifter finished in eighth place at last year’s Mr. Olympia contest and had been on the phone with girlfriend Dana Brooke (a WWE Superstar) not long before his fatal accident.
“I love you,” McCarver said to Brooke to conclude their call. “Goodbye.”
There were no signs of foul play at the scene and no reason to think the man known as “Big Country” wanted to harm himself.
By every indication, this was just a terrible, freak accident.
In response to losing the love of her life, Brooke has taken to Instagram and shared a moving tribute to McCarver.
“So here it goes, I’ll try & be short– aug 22 the lord received another angel, who happens 2 be my LIFE,” Brooke wrote, adding:
“MY Dallas the one WHO ONLY UNDERSTOOD ME! I can speak on the behalf of his family– the love and support you all are showing for him & us is OVERWHELMING!!”
In March of this year, McCarver collapsed on stage at the 2017 Arnold Classic Australia, alarming fans to a significant degree.
But this incident did not appear to play any role in what happened on Monday.
“Dallas would always tell me “just keep swimming his little pengutimous (hippo mixed with penguin)” he would tell everyone the same — just keep swimming, keep moving through life and he will be your angel above!!” continued Brooke.
“He had a way with making people laugh!! Dallas was an exceptional body builder, but I didn’t see him for that .. I saw him for HIM AND HIS HEART!!”
Here is how the WWE Superstar concluded her post:
He is the best individual I have ever met– my ying to my yang.. finished my sentences and knew what I was thinking before I’d say it!! We had it all figured out – new WWE superstar “Big country” & “country strong” mixed tag team!!! — you were my life , you are my life.
I still smell u and feel ur presence, NEVER LEAVE MY SIDE — like I have always asked; and u said NO NEVER Mrs. McCarver.
I had your back and I knew you had mine!! Your our angel– STAYED TUNED FOR A NONPROFIT I have started — and as well as a memorial service as details will be out soon!
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
This Twitter Account is the Funniest Thing You"ll Read All Week
Remember the Blockbuster video chain?
Actually, perhaps we should rewind and rephrase:
Remember the concept of video?
Back before streaming services, people would get in their car… drive to a store.. and actually rent tapes (or, later, DVDs) to slide into a player attached to their television set.
They would then watch a movie and return said tape by a designated date, lest they be forced to pay late charges.
It"s a strange concept, we know, but it was wildly popular for decades.
And a company called "Blockbuster" led the way, building establishments across the country and creating its own impressive empire.
That was then, however. Now, nearly every Blockbuster is out of business due to the rise of Netflix, Hulu and a number of other online services.
One store remains. And it has a Twitter account (@loneblockbuster) that is a must-read for movie fans, Internet fans and pretty much anyone with a sense of humor…
1. I Love for This!
DVDs for days, people. Bring em on.
2. Amazon Prime is Fast and Easy and Convenient and at Your Fingertips, But…
… right?!?
3. We Don’t Want to Beg
But PLEASE RENT A VIDEO!
4. How Many Times Can You Watch Jingle All the Way?
Come on now, Mary.
5. Thanks a Lot, Patty
At least you tried to tape it.
6. The Perfect Uniform
We don’t understand why we haven’t received more job applications.
Monday, July 31, 2017
Chester Bennington: Go Inside His Funeral, Read a New Tribute
Chester Bennington was laid to rest on Saturday in Rancho Paolo Verdes, California.
According to TMZ, over 200 friends, family members and loved ones turned out to pay tribute one final time to the late Linkin Park singer, who killed himself at the age of 41 this month.
The artist’s body was found hanging in his home by a housekeeper on July 20, prior to another employee dialing 911 to alert the authorities.
There was nothing paramedics could do when they arrived on the scene, however.
All guests at the funeral this weekend were given a yellow wristband and a pass with Bennington’s photograph on it, the sort of admission item VIP fans would receive at a concert.
Austin Carlile – the ex-lead singer of the group Of Mice and Men – shared a picture of the token on Instagram.
As you can see below, the back of the guest pass featured an image of Bennington singing into a crowd that’s illuminated by the light from the cell phones of concert attendees:
“The service today was beautiful. Thank you Linkin Park, thank you Chester. For everything,” Carlile wrote as a caption to the image.
On July 24, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office confirmed that Bennington died of suicide by hanging.
Since then, words of mourning and remembrance have been shared online by countless individuals in the music business.
Late last week, the singer’s grief-stricken widow released her first public statement since Bennington’s passing.
“One week ago, I lost my soulmate and my children lost their hero – their Daddy,” Talinda Bennington wrote, adding:
“How do I move on? How do I pick up my shattered soul? The only answer I know is to raise our babies with every ounce of love I have left.”
She concluded as follows:
“He was a bright, loving soul with an angel’s voice.
“And now he is pain-free singing his songs in all of our hearts. May God bless us all and help us turn to one another when we are in pain. Chester would’ve wanted us to do so.
“Rest In Peace, my love.”
Bennington joined the Linkin Park in 1999 and the band went on to win two Grammy Awards, while selling over 70 million albums.
In a series of Tweets on Saturday, bass player Dave Phoenix Farrell said goodbye to his close friend.
“It goes without saying, this last week has been extremely difficult,” he wrote.
“The outpouring of love and kindness I’ve received from friends and Fans from all over the world has been incredible.
“I wish I could personally thank every one of you for your love and support…
“A huge part of Chester’s legacy will be the memories we hold of him in our hearts. He was an enthusiastic, playful father…
“An honest, and passionate musician, and a loyal friend. I’ve been touched to see memorials that have been held worldwide.”
We continue to send our own condolences to Bennington’s family during this impossibly difficult time.
May the singer rest in peace.
Friday, July 28, 2017
George Clooney: See His Twins! Read His Irate Statement!
A French magazine called Voici has shared the first photos of George and Amal Clooney’s baby twins.
Much to the actor’s understandable chagrin.
The famous couple welcomed their kids into the world early last month, with sources confirming at the time that they were named Ella and Alexander.
But neither George nor Amal has spoken out in any kind of detail about the kids, while not sharing pictures of the children on social media, either.
They have done all they can to keep information about the twins as private as possible.
On the cover of this random publication, however, we see one photo of Clooney holding a twin and another of Amal cradling what appears to be her daughter.
The stars are at the actor’s Lake Como estate in Italy’s Lombardy region in the controversial images.
You can see them here:
The magazine may have messed with the wrong superstar, though.
Clooney isn’t sitting back and letting this privacy violation simply take place without having his say, both verbally and possibly in a court of law.
The 56-year-old actor said on Friday that he has plans to prosecute the French outlet for secretly taking and publishing paparazzi pics of his newborn twins.
“Over the last week photographers from Voici magazine scaled our fence, climbed our tree and illegally took pictures of our infants inside our home,” Clooney said in a statement, adding:
“Make no mistake the photographers, the agency and the magazine will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The safety of our children demands it.”
Clooney has always been outspoken, especially when it comes to the paparazzi and its treatment of celebrities around the world.
Three days after Princess Diana was killed in a car accident, following a high-speed chase with photographers, Clooney held a press conference and said the following:
Princess Di is dead. And who should we see about that? The driver of the car, the paparazzis, or the magazines and papers who purchase these pictures and make bounty hunters out of photographers.
The same magazines, television shows, and papers that use their pages creating the news, causing altercations and then filming them. Well you must be exhilarated.
You bought and paid for one of the greatest news stories of the year… You’ve deflected responsibility. Yet I wonder how you sleep at night. You should be ashamed.
I watch as you scramble for high ground, saying that you won’t purchase these pictures. Pictures of a dying Princess trapped in her car. I’m impressed. What ethics!
Upon hearing the news and what Clooney had to say about this development, Voici released the following statement to Entertainment Tonight:
“George and Amal Clooney have been very public personalities for the last few years.
“Their wedding in Venice, in September 2014, was a very mediatic event, the pictures of them smiling to the public were seen all around the world.
“The birth of their twins, Ella and Alexander, had also been commented a lot, by themselves and their families. The images published in Voici this Friday are a response to a public demand.
“People love George Clooney and have been following his life story for years now.
“Those pictures do not put in danger Mr Clooney, his wife or their kids.”
Monday, July 24, 2017
Linkin Park Pens Open Letter to Chester Bennington: Read the Tribute Here
Linkin Park has issued its first public statement since lead singer Chester Bennington committed suicide last week at his home.
As previously reported, following several years of substance abuse and depression, the 41-year old stunned the music community by hanging himself around 9 a.m. on Thursday, July 20.
The frontman for a group that sold over 70 million albums and earned two Grammy Awards, Bennington had talked openly in the past about being sexually abused as a child.
Authorities have said there were no indications at the scene that any drugs were in Bennington’s system, but we’ll need to wait for toxicology reports to be completed before we know for sure.
All we can say at the moment is that, just a couple months after Chris Cornell also hanged himself, the entertainment world has lost another widely respected musician.
On its official Facebook page this morning, Linkin Park penned an open letter to Bennington.
It begins with “Dear Chester” and then it continues as follows:
Our hearts are broken. The shockwaves of grief and denial are still sweeping through our family as we come to grips with what has happened.
You touched so many lives, maybe even more than you realized. In the past few days, we’ve seen an outpouring of love and support, both public and private, from around the world.
Talinda and the family appreciate it, and want the world to know that you were the best husband, son, and father; the family will never be whole without you.
Talking with you about the years ahead together, your excitement was infectious. Your absence leaves a void that can never be filled—a boisterous, funny, ambitious, creative, kind, generous voice in the room is missing.
We’re trying to remind ourselves that the demons who took you away from us were always part of the deal. After all, it was the way you sang about those demons that made everyone fall in love with you in the first place.
You fearlessly put them on display, and in doing so, brought us together and taught us to be more human. You had the biggest heart, and managed to wear it on your sleeve.
Our love for making and performing music is inextinguishable. While we don’t know what path our future may take, we know that each of our lives was made better by you.
Thank you for that gift. We love you, and miss you so much.
The band signed the letter with “Until we see you again.”
Powerful, moving, heartbreaking stuff.
In addition to this tribute, Linkin Park has set up the website Chester.LinkinPark.com.
It simply features a photo of Bennington in concert, surrounded by the light from thousands of fans’ phones, with the hashtag #RIPCHESTER and the following message…
In case you or someone you know needs support, here are some resources:
Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-TALK.
Crisis Text Line, the free, nationwide, 24/7 text message service for people in crisis, is here to support. For support in the United States, text HELLO to 741741 or message at facebook.com/CrisisTextLine.
For support outside the US, find resources at http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html
The website also features a section where fans can leave their own messages of grief and/or support.
We continue to mourn the death of Chester Bennington and we send his loved ones our condolences.
May the musician rest in peace.
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Floyd Mayweather: I Can Read, Here"s Video Proof
Floyd Mayweather wants Conor McGregor to know … I’M LITERATE, BITCH! After Conor mocked Floyd at news conference #2 on Wednesday, the Mayweather camp released a video to our friends at BSO showing Floyd clearly reading fight promos off a…
Monday, July 10, 2017
Nelsan Ellis: Read This Heartfelt Tribute from Ex-True Blood Co-Star
As previously and tragically reported, Nelsan Ellis is dead at the age of 39.
The actor, best known for having played Lafayette Reynolds throughout the run of True Blood on HBO, died on Saturday due to complications from heart failure.
In response to this awful news, countless actors and actresses who worked with Ellis took to social media over the weekend to express their shock and condolences.
We’ve included many of their reactions in the slideshow below.
But Stephen Moyer has stood out for the extra considerate tribute he posted to Facebook on Sunday.
Moyer played lead vampire Bill Compton on the former HBO drama, starring opposite Ellis from the very first day of filming.
He shared a photo of the late star behind the scenes on his Facebook page yesterday, writing a lengthy caption along with the image.
“One of the first places we shot on the pilot of True Blood was Sam Merlotte’s Bar,” wrote Moyer, adding:
“The kitchen Suzuki Ingerslev built in Merlotte’s had a walk in freezer & working gas burners.
“It remained my favourite set throughout all 7 seasons – when shooting in Louisiana many months later she took us to the actual bar she had used as inspiration.
“It was almost as amazing as our Merlotte’s, but not quite – They didn’t have a Lafayette.”
Moyer then expounded in emotional fashion.
We can’t do his words justice and we want the actor to speak for himself… so we’ll just post Moyer’s Facebook tribute in full below and we’ll continue to hope that Ellis is resting in peace:
In the scene that was being shot that day, Lafayette, a male cross-dressing short order cook in the show, was expounding on his theory of men’s fear of the female anatomy.. specifically, the vagina.
‘I know every man whether straight, gay or George MotherFuckin’ Bush is afraid of the pussy.
I’m not sure I have ever seen, before or since, people crowd around a monitor at video village with their hands clapped to their mouths from shock, sheer laughter and wonder as the actor playing Lafayette jiggled and shook and humped the butchers block to get his point across.
it was completely original, funny, sardonic, risqué and brilliant.
That was Nelsan Ellis. All of the above.
I turned to Alan Ball when the scene was finished and whispered… ‘you can’t kill him!’ (Lafayette’s death at the of the first book is the cliffhanger that leads to Book 2… )
Nelsan Ellis was the only actor in the 7 years of True Blood whom Alan allowed to improvise. Actually, I’m going to take that back.
It wasn’t that Alan allowed him to do it, it was more that when Nelsan inhabited the world of Lafayette, he quite literally COULDN’T STOP himself. It was like he was possessed.
In actuality Nelsan was quiet, smart, thoughtful, warm and kind. A published playwright himself.
I think it would be fair to say that he taught all of us that intent and courage and fearlessness and freedom are the aspects of playing make-believe that spark the corners of the room where the dark is most impenetrable…
To shine a light on those corners within ourselves is the very reason we go back time and again to Movies, TV shows and Theatre. To see that spark ignited.
Nelsan had that electricity in an abundance I have rarely seen. I can’t believe he’s gone.
Ellis leaves behind a son, along with an array of awe-inspired former co-stars and friends.
We’ll provide more information on his death when it becomes available.
Friday, June 30, 2017
Internet Comes to Rescue of Bullied 9-Year Old: Read the Moving Birthday Tweets!
Twitter can be a wonderful place.
Unfortunately, there"s no place safe from bullies, and Twitter is just as full of vicious trolls as everywhere else. (And no, we don"t just mean the current President of the United States and his infamous tweets)
That"s why it is so, so nice to see Twitter used as a powerful force for good — even if the only person being directly helped is a British 9-year-old.
See, Ollie has one of those almost over-the-top bullies, as many 9-year-olds do, who wants to impress upon him that nothing that he does for his birthday could possibly measure up to the bully"s own celebrations.
We all know how that goes — some little kid wants to make another little kid feel like he can"t measure up. It"s the exact same motivation behind why adults are nasty to each other, basically.
So, Ollie"s dad Christopher took to Twitter to ask for people to ask any celebrities, major or minor, to send a pleasant birthday message in Ollie"s direction to give the 9-year-old a much-needed boost.
That"s not unreasonable — there are grown-ass adults who tweet at celebrities to ask for a birthday shout-out. This seems a great deal worthier, you know?
But Christopher and his wife Natalie clearly never expected the kind of response that they received. Take a look at these tweets, and know that we saved the best — or, at least, the most famous — for last.
1. Christopher’s tweets
These tweets by Ollie’s father, Christopher, are what started it all.
2. Stormzy’s tweet
Rapper Stormzy tweeted this out. The guy whose first album is “Gang Signs and Prayer” might not sound like the person you imagine would fight childhood bullying, but you’d clearly be wrong.
3. Regina Looby’s tweet
Regina Looby is a radio and television producer.
4. England’s tweet
To be clear, this is England the sportsball team, not England the entire country.
5. Chase Masterson’s tweet
Chase Masterson is a fairly well-known actress whose credits include The Flash, Star Trek, and the UK’s favorite timey-wimey nonsense, Doctor Who. Also she’s worked to combat bullying, so this is really no surprise.
6. Tom Bosworth’s first tweet
Tom Bosworth is clearly humble, but he’s a British racewalker who holds records for a ridiculous number of different lengths of race. And, you know, he’s an Olympian.
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Lee Garrett: Read The Bachelorette Suitor"s Racist Tweets!
Several weeks ago, ABC cast Rachel Lindsay as The Bachelorette, making her the first-ever African-American star of this beloved franchise.
But while the network was praised for taking this progressive step, it now faces a new, race-related controversy just two weeks into Season 13.
And it all centers on a suitor named Lee Garrett.
On Wednesday evening, a multitude of disturbing tweets allegedly sent from Garrett’s account were leaked on social media.
These messages would be considered ignorant at generous best, and extremely racist at more honest worst. To wit:
“What’s the difference between the NAACP and the KKK? Wait for it…One has the sense of shame to cover their racist a– faces.”
“America is becoming an urban Vietnam,” reads another Tweet, from June 2016. “Practice your second amendment. It’s there for a reason.”
Is it inherently racist to encourage gun ownership or gun use? Of course not.
But Garrett also linked to an article last year that labeled the Black Lives Matter movement as a terrorist organization.
Aside from making controversial remarks on race, Garrett also makes it very clear on many occasions that he doesn’t believe in the concept of feminism.
“When is the last time YOU saw a pretty feminist? There’s a reason for this,” he Tweeted just over a year ago.
ABC has yet to comment on these offensive Tweets, which certainly appear to have been sent by Garrett.
But we cannot verify with absolute certainty whether or not this is the case.
Garrett is a 30-year-old singer/songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee.
His Twitter account is set to private, but he describes himself as “pleasantly offensive” in his bio.
How far does Garrett go this season? You can visit our section of The Bachelorette spoilers to find out, but there’s where things get tricky for ABC.
This season has already taped. All episodes are “in the can” to use television jargon.
Producers can’t just go ahead and fire Garrett, no matter what sort of backlash ensues from this discovery.
And make no mistake: there WILL be backlash.
Just consider the Tweets above and below, one of which reads “Hillary is the millennial’s version of O.J.”
Yes, he’s comparing a Presidential candidate to a very likely murderer.
No one associated with The Bachelorette has spoken out yet on Garrett’s various viewpoints.
But a journalist also landed in hot water last week after writing an article that praised Lindsay as The Bachelorette, yet also pointed to research that said black women rarely date outside their race.
No one ever said making history would be easy we guess, huh?
It will be interesting to watch The Bachelorette online or on television each week going forward in order to analyze how Garrett interacts with Rachel.
What do you think of these Tweets?
Just someone expressing some opinions and no big deal?
Or someone expressing some hateful opinions and a very big deal that makes you wonder how the messages were not discovered during basic background checks?
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