Chris Rock is continuing to slam Will Smith for his Oscars slap, and now, Dave Chappelle is joining in.
Rock and Chappelle are touring together, and they commented about the Independence Day star’s attack during a performance over the weekend at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, England.
“Did that s*** hurt? Goddamn right,” Rock said, according to Entertainment Tonight. “The motherf***er hit me over a bulls*** joke, the nicest joke I ever told!”
During Chappelle’s co-headlining set, he said that before the Oscars incident, Smith did “an impression of a perfect man for 30 years,” according to the British newspaper, The Telegraph. The 49-year-old comedian added that the actor from Philadelphia “ripped his mask off and showed us he was as ugly as the rest of us.”
Jennifer Lawrence opened up to Vogue‘s October issue about motherhood and her new film Causeway in an article in which she also revealed the baby boy she had this past spring is named Cy.
According to the actress, the baby was named in honor of Cy Twombly, an American artist who is a favorite of her gallerist husband, Cooke Maroney.
“The morning after I gave birth, I felt like my whole life had started over,” Lawrence expressed.
“Like, ‘Now is day one of my life.’ I just stared. I was just so in love. I also fell in love with all babies everywhere. Newborns are just so amazing,” she enthused. “Now I hear a baby crying in a restaurant, and I’m like, ‘Awwww, preciousssss.'”
Lawrence said it’s “scary” to talk about motherhood. “If I say, ‘It was amazing from the start,’ some people will think, ‘It wasn’t amazing for me at first,’ and feel bad,” she explained. “Fortunately I have so many girlfriends who were honest. Who were like, ‘It’s scary. You might not connect right away….'”
Lawrence miscarried twice in her life before Cy was born. The first time was when the now-32-year-old actress was 20. She said she was going to abort the baby before she lost it.
The second, which occurred while she was filming the Netflix apocalypse comedy Don’t Look Up, required a surgical procedure known as a D&C.
The latter “haunted” Lawrence during her pregnancy to Cy, she explained, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“I remember a million times thinking about it while I was pregnant,” she said, lamenting many women won’t have the access she had to the medical procedures. “…[I]t would occur to me sometimes: What if I was forced to do this?”
Jimmie Allen is preparing for his opening slot on Carrie Underwood‘s Denim & Rhinestones Tour.
After wrapping up months of his own headlining tour dates, the country singer is taking a moment to reflect on life on the road and what he’s learned thus far.
“As this part of my journey comes to and end, I’m thankful for the lessons I’ve learned. I step into the light covered by this new horizon as it embraces new realms,” he expresses in an Instagram caption, accompanied by photos of him onstage and a closeup of a blue leather jacket displaying the word “dream.” “Standing confidently in who I am, I see the path has been illuminated for me. Now the work begins,” he adds with #denimandrhinestonestour.
Jimmie will spend the rest of 2022 and the early part of 2023 on the road with Carrie, serving as the opening act for the duration of the Denim & Rhinestones Tour. It kicks off on October 15 in Greenville, S.C. and concludes on March 17 in Seattle, WA.
(TULSA, Okla.) — An Oklahoma news anchor and a TV actress are raising awareness about women’s stroke risk at any age by sharing their own experiences.
Julie Chin, an anchor for Tulsa, Oklahoma, NBC affiliate KJRH, was anchoring a live broadcast on Sept. 3, when she began to experience difficulty speaking.
“I’m sorry,” Chin said, interrupting the broadcast to throw it to the station’s meteorologist. “Something is going on with me this morning and I apologize to everybody.”
Chin later shared an update on Facebook, writing that her doctors believe she suffered the “beginnings of a stroke” while on the air.
“The episode seemed to have come out of nowhere. I felt great before our show. However, over the course of several minutes during our newscast, things started to happen,” she wrote. “First, I lost partial vision in one eye. A little bit later my hand and arm went numb. Then, I knew I was in big trouble when my mouth would not speak the words that were right in front of me on the teleprompter. If you were watching Saturday morning, you know how desperately I tried to steer the show forward, but the words just wouldn’t come.”
Chin wrote that her coworkers called 911, and she was hospitalized for several days while undergoing multiple medical tests.
“There are still lots of questions, and lots to follow up on, but the bottom line is I should be just fine,” she wrote, adding, *Most importantly* I’ve learned that it’s not always obvious when someone has a stroke, and action is critical. This acronym helps identify the symptoms to look for: BE FAST and then if needed, be fast and call 911.”
“BE FAST” is a version of the acronym “FAST,” which is intended to help people remember the different signs of a stroke and what to look for, according to the American Stroke Association. It stands for “face drooping” or numbness of the face; “arm weakness” or numbness of the arms or legs on one side of the body; “speech difficulty” or slurred speech; and “time to call 911,” which reminds people to act quickly if you — or someone else — are experiencing any of the aforementioned symptoms.
“NCIS” star Pauley Perrette also revealed recently that she nearly died from a “massive stroke” a year ago at the age of 52.
Perrette, now 53, took to Twitter on Sept. 2 to share an update on her recovery.
“I feel good. Been through a lot in the last two years, things that are harder than having a stroke … but I am still here,” said Perrette, who suffered the stroke not long after she lost her father to COVID-19.
The actress told ABC News she had one of the major warning signs of stroke — numbness in half of her body — but that she was not aware that it was a warning sign.
In addition to sudden numbness in the face, arm or leg, especially on one side of the body, other warning signs of a stroke include facial drooping, vision changes, dizziness or loss of balance and difficulty speaking, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death for women in the United States. One in 5 women between the ages of 55 and 75 will have a stroke, according to the CDC.
“Women need to be aware of this. Women of all ages need to be aware of this,” ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton said Tuesday on “Good Morning America.” “This isn’t just something that happens to men and older men.”
Ashton said that for both men and women, common risk factors include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, obesity and diabetes. Women have other risk factors, including hormones.
“Any hormonal state — being pregnant, taking birth control pills, taking hormone replacement therapy, we call it a class effect. It increases the risk of clotting,” said Ashton. “That doesn’t mean we don’t use those medications. That doesn’t mean women avoid pregnancy to avoid stroke, in most cases, but you need to know.”
The highest rates for stroke remain among older populations, and women generally live longer than men, but over the past several decades the stroke rates for younger adults have increased by more than 40%, according to the American Heart Association.
Signs of a stroke can develop quickly over hours and even days, according to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Symptoms can also depend on the type of stroke and the area of the brain that’s affected, the institute also reported.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 4 in 5 strokes are preventable in women. Ashton said that women can prevent strokes or lower risk factors by creating healthy habits.
“If you smoke, do everything in your power to quit,” said Ashton. “You want to control your blood pressure, know what both of your numbers are and control it in a safe range and then [maintain a] healthy lifestyle — moderate or no use of alcohol, exercise and eating well, they are massively important.”
(NEW YORK) — Juul agreed to pay nearly half a billion dollars Tuesday as part of a settlement with 34 states over the way it marketed its vaping products.
The $438.5 million agreement in principle with Juul Labs resolves a two-year investigation into the e-cigarette manufacturer’s marketing and sales practices. In addition to the financial terms, the settlement would force Juul to comply with a series of strict injunctive terms severely limiting its marketing and sales practices.
The company also misrepresented that its product was a smoking cessation device without U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to make such claims, according to the investigation.
While traditional cigarette use has plummeted among youth, vaping is skyrocketing, undermining national progress toward reducing tobacco use. The National Youth Tobacco Survey conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in 2019 that more than 5 million youth reported having used e-cigarettes within the past 30 days, up from 3.6 million just one year prior.
The FDA removed Juul products from the U.S. market earlier this year.
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, one of those states in the settlement, said Juul became the dominant player in the vape market “by willfully engaging in an advertising campaign that appealed to youth, even though its e-cigarettes are both illegal for them to purchase and are unhealthy for youth to use.”
The investigation found that Juul relentlessly marketed to underage users with launch parties, advertisements using young and trendy-looking models, social media posts and free samples. It marketed a technology-focused, sleek design that could be easily concealed and sold its product in flavors known to be attractive to underage users. Juul also manipulated the chemical composition of its product to make the vapor less harsh on the throats of the young and inexperienced users, according to the investigators.
To preserve its young customer base, Juul relied on age-verification techniques that it knew were ineffective, Tong said.
The investigation further revealed that Juul’s original packaging was misleading in that it did not clearly disclose that it contained nicotine and implied that it contained a lower concentration of nicotine than it actually did. Consumers were also led to believe that consuming one Juul pod was the equivalent of smoking one pack of combustible cigarettes.
Yungblud took his cover game up a notch for his latest performance on the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge.
The U.K. rocker unveiled a mashup that began with Black Sabbath‘s “War Pigs” before transitioning into Kanye West‘s King Crimson-sampling “Power” and concluding with The 1975‘s new single “Part of the Band.”
You can watch footage of the performance streaming now on YouTube.
During his last Live Lounge set in 2020, Yungblud played a mashup of Taylor Swift‘s “cardigan” and Avril Lavigne‘s “I’m With You.”
Yungblud just released his new, self-titled album last Friday. It includes the single “The Funeral” and the WILLOW collaboration, “Memories.”
The track was posted on Diamond Dave‘s official YouTube channel along with a caption that reads, “Roth Lives! … David Lee Roth Studio Live.” The clip features an archival photo of the Van Halen frontman standing with his arms crossed as a scantily clad woman peers out of a window behind him.
According to the reliable Van Halen News Desk fan site, “Panama” was one of 14 songs that Roth recorded on May 2 of this year during a two-hour session at Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles.
Accompanying Roth at the session were the current members of his solo backing band — guitarist Al Estrada, bassist Ryan Wheeler and drummer Francis Valentino.
Prior to the new rendition of “Panama,” Dave debuted a previously unreleased solo song in July called “Nothing Could Have Stopped Us Back Then Anyway.” That song, which pays homage to his early days in Van Halen, was recorded years ago with current Rob Zombie and former David Lee Roth Band guitarist John 5.
(WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash.) — The names of 10 people who perished after a floatplane crashed in Washington’s Puget Sound were released on Tuesday, a day after a search for nine of the victims was suspended, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard called off the search around noon local time on Sunday after conducting 26 search sorties it said covered about 2,100 square nautical miles.
“The Coast Guard offers its deepest sympathies to those who lost a loved one in this tragedy,” Coast Guard Cmdr. Xochitl Castaneda, the search and rescue mission coordinator for this incident, said in a statement Tuesday morning.
Those presumed dead from the crash were identified by the Coast Guard as Jason Winters, the pilot of the aircraft, and passengers Patricia Hicks, Sandra Williams, Lauren Hilty, Ross Mickel, Luke Ludwig, Rebecca Ludwig, Joanne Mera and Gabrielle Hanna. Also killed was a child, identified as Remy Mickel, according to the Coast Guard.
The body of only one person aboard the aircraft was recovered, but the Coast Guard did not say which of the victims the remains were identified as belonging to.
The National Transportation Safety Board is conducting an investigation into the accident.
Capt. Daniel Broadhurst, the incident management branch chief for the 13th Coast Guard District, described the agonizing decision to end the search after no signs were found of the remaining nine victims or wreckage from the aircraft.
“It is always difficult when it comes time to make a decision to stop searching,” Broadhurst said in a statement Sunday. “The hearts of all the first responders go out to those who lost a family member, a loved one or a friend in the crash.”
The de Havilland DHC-3 Otter float plane crashed in Mutiny Bay off Whidbey Island around 3:10 p.m. local time Sunday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
There were 10 people onboard, nine adults and one child, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
At the time the search was suspended, rescue crews were focusing on Mutiny Bay, west of Whidbey Island, according to the Coast Guard.
“The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate,” the FAA said. “The NTSB will be in charge of the investigation and will provide additional updates.”
The NTSB said on Twitter Monday that it is sending a seven-member team to investigate the crash.
The plane was traveling from Friday Harbor on San Juan Island to Renton Municipal Airport near Seattle when it crashed, the USCG said, with the cause of the crash unknown at this time. The Coast Guard had initially said the plane was traveling from Friday Harbor to Seattle Tacoma International Airport, which it later corrected.
The Coast Guard responded to a report of the crash that was initially said to have eight adults and one child onboard, according to USCG Pacific Northwest. The USCG later corrected its statement, saying there were 10 people unaccounted for in the crash.
South Whidbey Fire/EMS said that its crew was at the scene near the west side of Whidbey Island.
ABC News’ Jenna Harrison, Marilyn Heck, Teddy Grant and Michelle Stoddart contributed to this report.
If you need more proof that 2022 is Harry Styles‘ year, just wait until you hear what Billboardis saying about him.
After fending off a hotly anticipated release from Britney Spears and Elton John from the number one spot this week, his summer smash “As It Was” continues its winning streak atop the Billboard Hot 100. This marks the song’s twelfth week overall in the number one spot.
After fans streamed the hit an additional 15.4 million times last week, in addition to buying 4,000 digital copies, “As It Was” is now the chart’s longest-running number one hit of the decade — or of the 2020s.
Harry’s hit song knocks Roddy Ricch‘s 2020 song “The Box,” which had spent 11 weeks at number one, out of the top spot.
That’s not all, reports Billboard. “As It Was” also tied a chart record for the most weeks at #2 — 21 weeks total, to be exact. The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber‘s “Stay” — which also spent 21 weeks in the second-highest spot — had previously claimed the record for the longest-running streak at number two in chart history.
As for what else Harry has going for him in 2022, he is currently on a massive tour, his third studio album Harry’s House became the first album of the year to be certified RIAA Platinum, and he’s starring in two upcoming movies — Don’t Worry Darling and My Policeman. While it’s too early to tell if these performances will score him any Academy Awards, there’s already buzz about the possibility.
On the topic of awards, we’ll find out if Harry is up for any Grammys when this year’s list of nominees is unveiled on Tuesday, November 15.
Gabby Barrett’s family threw a gift-filled shower for her and her baby boy.
The “I Hope” singer recently ventured back to her home state of Pennsylvania for the event, which according to Instagram Stories, featured a table filled with presents and decor including a teddy bear with balloons tied around its arm and a stack of blocks that spell out “baby.” The food table boasted all-blue treats like M&M’s, wrapped chocolates, cupcakes with blue frosting and a blue and white cake.
“My sweet family and friends showered little boy with gifts in Pittsburgh,” Gabby writes with a tear drop and blue heart emoji. “Thankful to my mom, sister & others who helped.”
Gabby and her husband, Cade Foehner, who met as contestants on season 16 of American Idol, are expecting their second child this year. They welcomed daughter Baylah in January 2021.
