On The Late Late Show with James Corden, the host returned from a week off and addressed the flap regarding his treatment of staff at the New York City restaurant Balthazar.
As reported, restaurateur owner Keith McNallybanned Corden from the eatery, calling him “a Hugely gifted comedian, but a tiny Cretin of a man” and “the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago,” for allegedly berating staff members.
What resulted was worldwide headlines.
“At the time I considered tweeting about it, or Instagramming about it,” Corden told his audience, adding he instead defaulted to his motto: “never complain, never explain.” His dad, however, told him, “You did complain, so you need to explain.”
Corden relayed to his audience, “Look, when you make a mistake, you gotta take responsibility” and shared one of the incidents at his “absolute favorite restaurant.”
The talk show host explained his wife has a “serious food allergy” and sent the meal back three times — this was in reference to the omelette that had “a little bit of egg white” in it, according to McNally.
Corden said, “in the heat of the moment, I made a sarcastic comment about cooking the meal myself.”
He added, “It was wrong. It was ungracious to the server.”
That said, Corden mentioned he called McNally to “clear the air…But by this point, the story was out there.” “People were upset,” Corden understated before quoting mean tweets that flowed about him, including one that read, “When I become president of hell, I’m gonna make super hell and put James Corden in it.”
The comedian apologized to the staff on the air and vowed to do so in person if he’s “allowed in” Balthazar next time he’s in New York City.
(HARTLAND, Wis.) — Four children and two adults whose bodies were found at an apartment fire in Wisconsin died in a murder-suicide, according to authorities.
All six individuals were shot once, Hartland police announced Monday. The adult man, Connor McKisick, had a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
The other adult was identified as Jessica McKisick, police said.
The children were only identified by police as a 14-year-old girl, a 12-year-old girl and two 3-year-old boys. The boys were twins and the children of Connor and Jessica McKisick, Hartland Police Chief Torin Misko added.
The six bodies were found early Friday morning when crews responded to a fire at the four-family apartment building in Hartland, which is about 26 miles west of Milwaukee.
Police said in a statement Monday that there’s “evidence of an ignitable liquid in the apartment where it normally would not be located.”
No other persons of interest were identified, police said, adding, “there is no further danger to the community.”
The exact times of the shootings are not yet clear, but the chief said the shootings were believed to be close to the report of the fire, which was at 5:11 a.m. local time.
Several guns have been recovered from the apartment, Misko said.
The three other families who lived in the apartment building have been displaced, officials said.
After much anticipation surrounding RoddyRicch‘s upcoming mixtape, the Grammy-winner confirmed Feed the Streets III will release November 18.
The announcement arrives just days after releasing his latest single “Aston Martin Truck” which is expected on the new album, along with new song “Stop Breathing” the rapper dropped off in September.
“MY GIFT TO YOU,” he wrote in the Instagram announcement alongside the project’s official cover art. The image shows Roddy at the head of a dinner table full of food, holding hands with others whose eyes are closed while Roddy’s remain open.
Feed the Streets III follows the Los Angeles rapper’s latest EP, The Big 3 and his RIAA certified 2-times multi-platinum debut album Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial.
Roddy currently assists PostMalone on his Twelve Carat Tour which continues through November. Remaining tour dates can be found on Roddy Ricch’s official website.
Taylor Swift has already teased some as-yet-unannounced U.K. concert dates, but Monday night, she told Jimmy Fallon that she may have a more extensive trek in mind to support her new album, Midnights.
While appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Taylor responded to Fallon’s comment that she hadn’t toured in four years by saying, “I think I should do it!” As the audience cheered, Fallon asked, “Are we talking sooner than later?” to which Taylor responded, “Um, y’know, I should DO it!”
“When it’s time, you’ll let us know,” Fallon countered.
“When it’s time, we’ll do it,” Taylor agreed.
“I miss it, I really miss it,” she continued. “Y’know, when you write songs and you’re proud of the songs and you have the fans reacting…the most potent way that you can see them react is when you’re looking into their faces, do you know what I mean? I miss that a lot! I really miss that connection.”
As for the record-breaking numbers that her new album Midnights has been posting — including selling more than one million copies in just three days — Taylor said, “I’m beside myself I’m feeling very overwhelmed by the fans’ love of this record. I’m also feeling, like, very soft and fragile. The two can exist at once.”
Oh, and make sure to watch the Tonight Show video to marvel at Taylor’s ability to name 24 breeds of cats in 30 seconds.
The first batch of performers for the upcoming 2022 CMA Awards has been announced.
The 56th annual CMA Awards, airing Wednesday, Nov. 9, live on ABC at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, will be filled with performances from artists including MirandaLambert, Kelly Clarkson, HARDY, Marcus King, Jimmie Allen, Kelsea Ballerini, Carly Pearce, Carrie Underwood, Morgan Wallen, Lainey Wilson and Zac Brown Band.
Luke Bryan, who is co-hosting the show with Peyton Manning, will also take the stage to perform.
The night will open with a powerful with tribute to late country music legend Loretta Lynn, who died on Oct. 4 at the age of 90. Artists participating in the tribute performance have not yet been revealed.
The night’s star-studded performances will of course be filled with plenty of epic collaborations with fan-favorite country stars. Ballerini will sing her new song “YOU’RE DRUNK, GO HOME” with Clarkson and Pearce, HARDY and Wilson will take the stage to sing their duet “wait in the truck,” and Zac Brown Band will perform their song “Out in the Middle” with Allen and King.
Additional artists performing at the 2022 CMA Awards will be announced ahead of the show on Nov. 9.
The nominations for country music’s biggest night were revealed in September. Lainey Wilson leads this year, with six nods in major categories including album of the year, song of the year, female vocalist of the year, music video of the year, musical event of the year and new artist of the year.
(NEW YORK) — Jenny Mitchell said she first started using chemical hair-straightening products in 2000 when she was in third grade.
Nearly two decades later, Mitchell, now 32, was diagnosed with uterine cancer, despite having no family history of the disease. She said she had no choice but to undergo a full hysterectomy to remove her uterus.
“Not being able to carry my own children has been the hardest thing that I’ve ever had to deal with,” she told ABC News’ Good Morning America. “This is a dream of mine that I’ve always wanted.”
Now, Mitchell, represented by a group of attorneys, including Ben Crump, is suing five hair relaxer manufacturers, including L’Oreal USA, alleging their products caused her cancer.
Her lawsuit, filed in Illinois, comes one week after a new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and funded by the National Institutes of Health suggested that frequent users of chemical hair-straightening products may be more likely to develop uterine cancer than those who didn’t use those products.
Scientists caution that it’s not clear yet if these products cause cancer. For now, research only hints at only a probable link.
Around 60% of women in the study who reported using chemical straightening products were self-identified Black women.
When Mitchell learned about the study, she said she was “shocked.”
“But at the same time, I also thought that maybe this could be an answer to my diagnosis,” she said.
Mitchell said many Black women like herself face pressures to use hair-straightening products, which she said she typically used every four weeks, to adhere to American beauty standards.
“As an African American woman, it is the societal norm to have your hair look a certain way,” she said. “‘Don’t wear your natural hair because it looks unprofessional.’ A lot of women deal with that in all types of settings.”
“I’m hoping to be the voice for millions of other African American women out there because we start so young, getting these chemical relaxers in our hair,” she added.
The defendants did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment.
Uterine cancer rates and deaths are on the rise in the U.S., with death rates highest among non-Hispanic Black women, according to the National Institutes of Health, which tracked data from 34,000 women in the Sister Study for more than a decade. The Sister Study is a project that’s been tracking the health of about 50,000 women in the U.S. since 2003.
According to the study, chemical hair straighteners typically contain products that are known endocrine disrupters and can affect hormone-sensitive cancers. The products include parabens, bisphenol A, metals and formaldehyde, according to researchers in the NIH study. Chemical relaxers can cause lesions and burns on the scalp, making it easier for them to then be absorbed into the body, Dr. Madeliene Gainers, a board-certified dermatologist who was not involved in the study, told ABC News.
But the authors of the new study said that “more research is needed” to determine if hair-straightening chemicals could be shown to cause an increased risk for uterine cancer.
The study also only identifies an association between uterine cancer and the products, not a causal relationship — that one thing directly caused another, which Mitchell will need to demonstrate.
Crump said they also hope the lawsuit will spread greater awareness of the potentially harmful chemicals in hair relaxants so women can make more informed decisions for their health.
“Now that we have this knowledge, we have this information, it is incumbent upon us to bring them along,” he said. “We have to make this a public health crisis.”
(ST. LOUIS) — A 16-year-old girl and a 61-year-old woman were killed by a gunman in a shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday morning, according to authorities.
Seven other victims, all 15 or 16 years old, were hospitalized with injuries including gunshot wounds, police said. All were currently listed in stable condition, according to police.
The suspect also died, according to the St. Louis Public School District and St. Louis police.
Police identified the suspect as 19-year-old Orlando Harris, who graduated from the high school last year.
Police said Harris has no prior criminal history and they’re working to establish a motive, saying Monday there are “suspicions that there may be some mental illness that he was experiencing.”
St. Louis Police Commissioner Michael Sack said, “This could have been much worse — the individual had almost a dozen 30-round, high-capacity magazines on him. So that’s a whole lot of victims there.”
The shooting was reported at about 9:10 a.m. local time, police said. As students fled the building, they reported that a gunman was armed with a long gun, police said.
Authorities did not say how the gunman entered the building but police stressed that the school’s doors were locked.
Seven security guards were in the school, according to St. Louis Schools Superintendent Kelvin Adams. Officials said security staff identified the suspect’s efforts to enter the school and immediately notified other staff.
“It’s very easy to get guns,” Sack said. “I’ve said it before — the gun laws in Missouri [are] very broad … they can carry them openly down any street, and there’s really nothing we can do.”
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones said she had visited students when the school year started.
“They were bright eyed, bushy-tailed. We laughed, we sang, we danced. And now to be here for such a devastating and traumatic situation breaks my heart,” she said. “I’m heartbroken for these families who send their children to our schools hoping that they will be safe. Our children shouldn’t have to experience this.”
The mayor added, “I’m sure that everyone involved is going to have to deal with the trauma that will reverberate across our community.”
When asked about the shooting, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “We need additional action to stop the scourge of gun violence.”
“Every day that the Senate fails to send assault weapons ban to the president’s desk, or waits to take … other commonsense actions, is a day too late for our families and communities impacted by gun violence,” she told reporters.
(NEW YORK) — A Russian court has denied the appeal of WNBA star Brittney Griner, who is facing nine years in a Russian prison on drug charges.
Griner appeared virtually at her appeal hearing on Tuesday and urged the court of reassess her sentence, saying that people found guilty of lesser crimes were given shorter sentences.
“I beg that the court takes in all of the stakes that was overlooked in the first court and reassess my sentence here,“ Griner said, apologizing for her “mistake” and saying that it has been “traumatic” to be away from her family.
Griner, a 31-year-old Houston native who plays professional basketball for the Phoenix Mercury, was detained on Feb. 17 at Sheremetyevo International Airport in Khimki as she returned to Russia to play during the WNBA’s off-season after she was accused of having vape cartridges containing hashish oil, which is illegal in the country.
Griner pleaded guilty to drug charges in July, saying that the vape cartridges containing hashish oil were in her luggage mistakenly and that she had no “intention” of breaking Russian law.
As the U.S. works to secure the basketball star’s freedom, Griner’s attorney told ABC News earlier this month that the basketball star is worried that she may not be released.
“Her being afraid of not being released is mostly connected to the negotiations, which we are not aware of at all,” Griner’s attorney Alexandr Boikov told ABC News on Oct. 13.
After being detained in Russia for more than five months, Griner was found guilty on drug charges in a Moscow-area court on Aug. 4 and was sentenced to nine years in prison. Her attorneys filed an appeal on Aug. 15.
“She is not very much hopeful for the appeal because the first court decision — the verdict showed that the case is totally unjust even by present Russian standards, and we are not hoping for a big release, but of course we hope for the best,” Boikov previously told ABC News.
The WNBA star turned 32 behind bars in Russia on Oct. 18, but she was able to spend a few hours with her lawyers who relayed birthday messages to her, as well as speak on the phone with U.S. officials.
“Thank you everyone for fighting so hard to get me home. All the support and love are definitely helping me,” Griner said through a message shared by her attorneys.
The U.S. government classified Griner’s case on May 3 as “wrongfully detained,” meaning the U.S. will more aggressively work to negotiate her release even as the legal case against her plays out, the State Department has said.
Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine began one week after Griner was detained, and some officials have expressed concern that Americans jailed in Russia could be used as leverage in the ongoing war.
State Department spokesperson Ned Price told ABC News earlier this month that securing the release of Griner and Paul Whelan — an American detained in Russia since 2019 — remains “a priority for this administration.”
(NEW YORK) — Adidas on Tuesday said it has terminated its relationship with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, immediately and will cease production of Yeezy branded products.
“Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech,” the company said in a press release. “Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.”
There has been growing pressure on big-name brands to cut ties with the rapper after he made antisemitic remarks on Twitter a few weeks ago.
The rapper later followed with more offensive comments against the Jewish community on Revolt TV’s Drink Champs in a since-deleted interview.
Ye’s comments against the Jewish community were also referenced over the weekend by a group of Los Angeles neo-Nazis who hung antisemitic flyers on a 405 freeway overpass.
In addition to Ye’s remarks against the Jewish community, another recent controversy has seen the Donda rapper sporting a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt during his surprise Yeezy Season 9 show in Paris along with conservative political commentator Candace Owens.
The phrase has been described by the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center as a white supremacist hate slogan that originated in 2015 as a response to the civil rights movement Black Lives Matter. The groups note that the phrase has been commonly used by white supremacist groups such as the Aryan Renaissance Society and the Ku Klux Klan on everything from promotional materials to campaigns.
Responding to the backlash over the T-shirts, Ye wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post, “Here’s my latest response when people ask me why I made a tee that says white lives matter… THEY DO.”
Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency, also known as CAA, announced Monday that it would no longer represent the rapper. Film and television studio MRC also said it would be shelving a documentary on West, saying in a statement that it “cannot support any content that amplifies his platform.”
Several reports have also stated that brands such as Balenciaga will no longer work with Ye.
Ye’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, along with many other public figures have stood in solidarity with the Jewish community following his antisemitic remarks.
“Hate speech is never OK or excusable,” Kardashian tweeted on Monday. “I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end.”
Kendall Jenner, Reese Witherspoon, Amy Schumer, John Legend and others have also spoken out against Ye’s comments aimed at the Jewish community.
