Would you ever spend $30 on a single Chicken McNugget? Several opportune people are hoping to take advantage of The Kid LAROI fans by reselling pieces from his new McDonald’s meal collab for drastically marked up prices.
LAROI teamed with Mickey Dee’s in Australia to sell his favorite meal, which is a six-piece Chicken McNugget meal with barbecue sauce, medium fries, medium frozen Coke and a cheeseburger with no pickles.
The “Stay” singer caught wind of the scalpers inflating the prices of his new menu offering and shared one of the listings on his Instagram Story. The listing advertises a “Circle Kid Laroi nugget” and is asking for a whopping $30 in Australian dollars — or about $22 USD.
He captioned his post, which shows 19 people saved the listing, with three sobbing emojis.
For the record, a six-piece McNugget sells for about $5.79 USD, according to tracker Menu and Price. But, more interestingly, all you need to do is cough up $15 to buy the LAROI meal.
In other LAROI news, he is finally well enough to perform again and alerted fans via Instagram Story on Tuesday that he is ready to rock Brisbane, Australia. “I am here,” he shouted out. “See [you] tonight.”
LAROI was previously under doctor’s orders to postpone several shows so he could recover from the flu.
On Tuesday, Amazon Prime dropped a teaser to A League of Their Own, the series reboot of the late Penny Marshall’s 1992 hit starring Tom Hanks and Geena Davis.
Set in a musically anachronistic choice, to Steve Nicks‘ “Edge of Seventeen,” the show is set in 1943 and again centers on the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which took up America’s Pastime while World War II kept millions of men overseas.
Broad City creator and star Abbi Jacobson is among the cast, along with D’Arcy Carden, Kate Berlant and Chanté Adams subbing for the team from the original film, which included Oscar winner Davis, Rosie O’Donnell, Lori Petty and Madonna.
The snippet doesn’t show any dialog, but gives glimpses into the characters and their relationships. According to its producers, “A League of Their Own evokes the joyful spirit of Penny Marshall’s beloved classic, while widening the lens to tell the story of an entire generation of women who dreamed of playing professional baseball.”
Amazon Studios adds, “The show takes a deeper look at race and sexuality, following the journey of a whole new ensemble of characters as they carve their own paths towards the field, both in the league and outside of it.”
Was Harry Styles ever in the running to play Elvis Presley? According to Elvis director Baz Luhrmann, the answer is a definite no.
The director opened up about his casting choices in an interview with Australian station NovaFM. He suggested the audience might have struggled to fully see Harry as the late rocker. “The real issue with Harry is — he’s Harry Styles,” Luhrmann said. “He’s already an icon.”
“Harry and I came to a place, genuinely I mean, he was just desperate to put the suit on and explore. He’s such a great spirit and I have nothing but great things to say about Harry Styles,” he continued. Luhrmann also clarified that the singer never auditioned for the role, which eventually went to actor Austin Butler.
The Australian director said he is open to working “on something with him” in the future that is more his — dare we say it — style. “Harry is a really talented actor,” Luhrmann said.
Harry is starring in the upcoming movies Don’t Worry Darling and My Policeman, a psychological drama and a romantic drama, respectively, which are both set to debut in theaters later this year.
Eric Church pays tribute to the people “Doing Life With Me” in his new single.
Co-written by Eric, Jeffrey Steele and Casey Beathard during a writing retreat in the mountains of Eric’s native state of North Carolina, the lyrics find the superstar comparing himself to a “runaway train,” acknowledging the battle scars of life while expressing gratitude for the people who stick with him through all the ups and downs.
“Every big every little in the everyday things/The notes and the words and the songs I sing/To the ones doing life with me,” he sings in the chorus of the gentle acoustic number.
“Doing Life With Me” is featured on &, the second installment of Eric’s three-part Heart & Soul album released last year. It follows the top five hit “Heart on Fire.”
Up-and-coming rapper Saucy Santana has had a year of big wins and great successes. Since hitting the rap scene in 2019 with his debut single “Walk Em Like a Dog,” he quickly rose to hip-hop stardom for his catchy, upbeat songs; his unapologetic style and flow as an openly gay rapper; and his viral TikTok hits. In the latest accolades for the rising star, Teen Vogueannounced Santana as one of its June cover stars.
In the digital issue, which dropped Tuesday, Santana, born Justin Harris, opened up about his dream music collaborations with Lizzo and Lil Nas X, his original aspiration to be a celebrity makeup artist and embracing his gender identity in hip-hop.
“Before, I didn’t want to be labeled a gay rapper,” he said. “Then, in the middle of my career, I started to embrace it because I just felt like it was helpful to my culture and to my people.”
Santana says he’s happy his rap career took off, but he wasn’t expecting it to because he had other dreams.
“I thought I was going to be a celebrity makeup artist, I didn’t think I was going to be the celebrity getting their makeup done. I didn’t think that I would be a rapper. But I’m happy it happened.”
He says he’s “manifesting” and “praying” for a Lizzo collab soon and already has a new song Lil Nas on the way, called “Down South Ho’s,” expected this summer. Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane is also on his list of hopeful music partnerships.
Santana just teased his latest track, “Booty,” with Latto, which comes on the heels of his tour run alongside the Atlanta rapper. The track is expected this Friday, June 10.
(WASHINGTON) — A son of the oldest victim in the Buffalo supermarket shooting, appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday in a hearing on domestic terrorism, called on lawmakers to “yield your positions” if they’re unwilling to meet “the urgency of the moment” in the wake of the apparent racially-motivated attack that left 10 Black people dead, including his 86-year-old mother.
“You expect us to continue to just forgive and forget over and over again. And what are you doing?” Garnell Whitfield Jr., the oldest son of Ruth Whitfield, a victim of the Buffalo shooting, asked the Senate panel. “You’re elected to protect us, to protect our way of life.”
“I ask every one of you to imagine the faces of your mothers as you look at mine, and ask yourself, ‘Is there nothing that we can do?’ Is there nothing that you personally are willing to do to stop the cancer of white supremacy and the domestic terrorism that inspires?” he continued, maintaining his composure but holding back tears. “Because if there is nothing, then respectfully senators, you should yield your positions of authority and influence the others that are willing to lead on this issue. The urgency of the moment demands, no less.”
“My mother’s life mattered — and your actions here today would tell us how much it matters to you,” he added.
The hearing, which kicked off at 10 a.m., is titled, “Examining the ‘Metastasizing’ Domestic Terrorism Threat After the Buffalo Attack” and examines “the continued threat posed by violent white supremacists and other extremists, including those who have embraced the so-called ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory, as well as the federal government’s response to this threat,” according to a committee release. It comes amid a national reckoning over gun violence as lawmakers consider solutions this week.
Opening the hearing, Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., called the Buffalo mass shooting “one of the worst domestic terrorist attacks in recent memory” and read the victims’ names into the record.
“Every one of these victims left behind loved ones who are grieving that loss — and several of those loved ones are in the room with us today. I think there are no words that fill the empty chairs at your dinner table or the empty spaces in your heart,” Durbin said. “But your willingness to sit in this room to honor the memory of those lost is a lesson in courage and love.”
“Please know that you are not alone,” he added. “We offer our deepest condolences, and most importantly, our commitment to do something.”
Ruth Whitfield was mourned by her family, including her son Garnell, a former Buffalo fire commissioner, in an emotional press conference last month. He said she was returning home from visiting her husband in a nursing home, what her son called “a daily ritual” for eight years of their 68-year marriage, when she stopped by the Tops grocery store to pick up groceries, and the gunman opened fire.
“For her to be taken from us and taken from this world by someone that’s just full of hate for no reason … it is very hard for us to handle right now,” Garnell said at the time. “We need help. We’re asking you to help us, help us change this. This can’t keep happening,” he added.
At the same press conference, civil rights attorney Ben Crump slammed what he called the “accomplices to this mass murder” and the cause of the indoctrination of hate among young people, referring, in part, to far-right-wing websites, politicians and cable news pundits.
“Even though they didn’t pull the trigger, they did load the gun for this young white supremacist,” Crump said. “Black America is suffering right now and we need to know that our top leader in America reacts and responds when we are hurt.”
To that end, Durbin, in his opening statement, played a video clip of conservative news hosts echoing rhetoric espoused by the shooter to illustrate what he called “the role of the media and the role that they played in dragging hateful rhetoric into mainstream America, and sadly, how it’s inspiring acts of racist violence.”
“More than 400 episodes of Tucker Carlson’s show have amplified the so-called “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, the guiding principle of modern white supremacist movement,” Durbin added. “As lawmakers, we must speak in one voice and repeat repudiating this incendiary rhetoric, along with any individual or extremist group that resorts to violence.”
Other witnesses on Tuesday’s panel include Michael German, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent and fellow at the Brennan Center For Justice; Robert Pape, professor and director of The Chicago Project on Security and Threats at The University of Chicago; Justin Herdman, a former U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Ohio, and legal scholar Jonathan Turley, a professor at the George Washington University Law School and a frequent witness called by Republicans on the committee.
The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday morning warned of a “heightened” threat environment for “domestic violent extremists,” a term which the department uses to label those from a broad swath of the ideological spectrum from racially motivated extremists to white supremacists.
“Individuals in online forums that routinely promulgate domestic violent extremist and conspiracy theory-related content have praised the May 2022 mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas and encouraged copycat attacks,” The National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin said — marking the sixth time DHS has issued the NTAS bulletin since Biden took office.
ABC News previously reported on evidence indicating the Buffalo shooting was a calculated, racially-motivated execution by the suspect, an 18-year-old white male, according to multiple sources and a review of FBI cases and testimony. The gunman, who has pleaded not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder and is being held without bail, allegedly wanted a race war and live-streamed his attack in an apparent effort to spur others to kill minorities, sources said.
Included in a 180-page document posted online by the shooter was a far-right conspiracy idea called the “great replacement theory,” which baselessly claims that white populations are being intentionally replaced by minorities and immigrants. Democrats have slammed the theory and moved to fund new programs to target domestic terrorism, while some Republicans have faced backlash for echoing notions of the theory in their talking points.
Tuesday’s hearing comes as the Democrats on Capitol Hill ramp up efforts to push for legislation that would require stronger background checks for gun buyers and incentivize state red flag laws following the recent mass shootings. Twenty-one people, including 19 children, were killed in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days after the mass shooting in Buffalo. Another mass shooting on June 1 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, claimed four lives after a gunman stormed a medical facility with an AR-15-style rifle that police say he bought hours before the massacre.
Zeneta Everhart, who says her 21-year-old son, Zaire Goodman, is still recovering from gunshot wounds in the Buffalo shooting, one of three others injured there, as well as Miah Cerrillo, a fourth-grader who survived the shooting in Uvalde, are both expected to testify at another hearing on gun violence on Wednesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
Last month, Senate Republicans used the filibuster to block a bill designed to combat domestic terrorism from advancing to a key vote. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, D-Ill., was the only Republican in either chamber of Congress to vote for the measure, which would have created new offices within the Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security and FBI to “monitor, analyze, investigate, and prosecute domestic terrorism.”
Tuesday also marks the third in a series of hearings this committee has held on domestic terrorism.
When Thomas Rhett and his wife Lauren Akins head to the movies, there’s a specific treat Lauren must have.
Over the weekend, the country couple headed to the movies to see the new Top Gun, but not before stopping to pick up Lauren’s favorite snack: Milk Duds. The country superstar shared a photo of his wife sitting in their Jeep in the Walgreens parking lot, excitedly holding up a case of Milk Duds and a bottle of Dr. Pepper. While a case may seem excessive, it was the result of a potential disappointment that turned into good fortune thanks to a kind employee at the store.
“The guy at Walgreens said there is a shortage of milk duds.. he then brought a case outta the back. @laur_akins gotta have her milk duds to see [Top Gun],” Thomas explains in the caption alongside a photo of his happy wife. “Thanks to the man at Walgreens.. you are a hero.”
Thomas and Lauren share four children, daughters Willa, Ada, Lennon and Lillie.
As Chicago prepares to launch a new headlining tour Tuesday night with Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson, the band has announced plans to release its 38th studio album, Born for This Moment, on July 15.
The 14-track collection includes “If This Is Goodbye,” which Chicago released last month as a digital single. Fans who preorder Born for This Moment now will also receive access to a second track from the album, the funky, soulful “Firecracker,” which was made available to digital platforms Tuesday.
In addition, a visualizer video for “Firecracker” has debuted at Chicago’s official YouTube channel.
“I hope that, 55 years from now, listeners will actually feel something about our music and our lyrics,” says founding Chicago singer/keyboardist Robert Lamm. “I mean, we’re all human. We all go through some variation of the same pain and joy at some point in our lives, and there’s a commonality to that. I hope listeners in the future will actually get all those feelings while listening to our music.”
Adds Chicago trumpet player Lee Loughnane, “One of the big reasons this album works so well is that when you put it on and play it, you hear something you’re not quite expecting to hear, and it immediately pulls you in musically and emotionally.”
Chicago trombone player James Pankow notes, “The very nature of these new tracks makes them very performable, and I’m looking forward to playing some fresh material onstage.”
Chicago’s tour with Wilson runs from Tuesday night’s performance in Phoenix through a July 26 concert in the Detroit suburb of Clarkston, Michigan. The band also has a series of North American headlining shows scheduled for late August and September. Visit ChicagoTheBand.com to check out all the dates.
Here’s the full Born for This Moment track list:
“Born for This Moment”
“If This Is Goodbye”
“Firecracker”
“Someone Needed Me the Most”
“Our New York Time”
“Safer Harbours”
“Crazy Idea”
“Make a Man Outta Me”
“She’s Right”
“‘The Mermaid’ Sereia Do Mar”
“You’ve Got to Believe”
“For the Love”
“If This Isn’t Love”
“House on the Hill”
Robert De Niro turns 79 in August, but he’s showing no signs of slowing down. He’s about to launch his 21st Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday — the first non-COVID-restricted event in two years.
On top of that, his Killers of the Flower Moon, a reunion with his Goodfellas director Martin Scorsese and his This Boy’s Life co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, debuts in November, and the screen legend joins fellow Oscar winner Jamie Foxx, and Emmy and Tony winner John Leguizamo next week to start the action movie Tin Soldiers.
So what keeps him going? “What else am I gonna do, go play golf?” he said with a laugh to ABC Audio.
“I can do that. But some people — you know, like the old [saying], ‘Some of my best friends … ?’ Some of my best friends play golf. But — and it’s interesting — but I’m, that’s not my [thing],” he admits.
He says of his still-growing filmography, “It’s a form of keeping busy, of course, I like to do what I’m doing, you know.”
As he nears a milestone birthday himself, we wondered about the recent 50th birthday of The Godfather. Of course De Niro scored an Academy Award for playing a young version of Marlon Brando‘s Vito Corleone in 1974’s The Godfather Part II.
“It’s great,” the icon says of the attention the original film got around its anniversary in March, beginning with a salute at this year’s Academy Awards.
“I mean, 50 years, 49 for me or 48 really because I’m in II, but still it’s long enough,” he smiled.
“No, I think it’s great. I think … it was a nice, it’s a nice celebration, if you will.”
Demi Lovato will be keeping busy in the second half of 2022: in addition to their hotly anticipated new album, they unveiled a multidate tour that kicks off this fall.
Demi will release their eighth studio album, HOLY F***, with a “v” instead of a “u” in the title, on August 19. Fans will not have to wait too long to see those new songs performed live.
The Grammy nominee will set out on tour before the album even drops. The 26-stop tour kicks off August 13 in Springfield, Illinois, and will hit up many major cities across U.S. and Canada. They will visit areas such as Portland, San Francisco, Toronto, Detroit, Boston, New York City, Atlanta, New Orleans and Houston before wrapping things up on November 6.
Demi will also include six South American dates August 30 through September 13, with pit stops in Argentina, Colombia, Brazil and Chile.
“I’m so excited to get back on the road after four years without touring, and even longer since I’ve toured in South America,” Demi said in a statement. “We’re working so hard to deliver an incredible show for all my fans and I can’t wait to see them in person to celebrate this new music.”
The singer last set out on tour in 2018 in support of their sixth studio album, Tell Me You Love Me.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 10, at 10 a.m. local time on DemiLovato.com — the same day Demi’s new song, “Skin of My Teeth,” drops.
