Legendary actress and comedian Marla Gibbs, whose career has spanned five decades, is doing much better after she appeared to faint while accepting her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday.
During the event, which was also livestreamed, the 90-year-old actress, who starred in classic sitcoms The Jeffersons and 227, paused mid-sentence, drawing concerns from onlookers who thought she might fall during the ceremony. Gibbs was helped to a chair by her son, who later moved her inside due to concerns about heat exhaustion.
A rep told Entertainment Weekly that Gibbs was overheated but is “doing great” and had a “great time at the after-party.”
“I never thought it would happen, but here it is,” Gibbs said after the ceremony resumed, 30 minutes later. “I just got overwhelmed for a minute. I haven’t been excited until this moment!”
The Emmy-nominated performer also thanked fellow actress Tisha Campbell and The Jeffersonsproducer Norman Lear, who both gave speeches before Gibbs took the stage.
Fans on social media are complimenting singer-songwriter Vory for his performance on Kanye West’s new song, “No Child Left Behind,” from is forthcoming album, DONDA.
The Grammy-winning artist sang vocals on the song used in the latest Beats by Dre commercial, starring runner Sha’Carri Richardson, who was suspended from the U.S. Olympic team after testing positive for THC earlier this month.
“Our voices must be heard. Sha’Carri, we standing with you,” Vory wrote on Instagram, sharing a clip of the video. “Wait til y’all hear what we got on the album… DONDA OTW.”
Fans in the comments shared fire and diamond emojis – a nod to Vory’s label Dream Chasers Records.
“Legendary. I’m proud of you, bro! Glad I got to witness history being made,” wrote social media personality Justin Laboy, who listened to Ye’s album earlier this week. “You just getting started, king. You belong here! BLESS UP.” Other fans called 24-year-old Vory a “legend” in the making.
Vory is among the featured guests on Kanye’s tenth album, DONDA, which drops this Friday. Before releasing his self-titled EP in December, the Kentucky-bred artist appeared on Meek Mill’s EP, Quarantine Pack. Vory also vocally contributed to Bryson Tiller’s Trapsoul, Drake’s Scorpion, and The Carters’ Grammy-winning album, Everything Is Love, which won Best Urban Contemporary Album.
A few years ago, Adam Levine teamed with rock star Sammy Hagar to create Santo Mezquila, a premium booze that mixes tequila and mezcal. Now get ready for Adam and his wife’s new pink tequila.
Adam and wife Behati Prinsloo are partners in CALIROSA, a tequila company, and have invested in its Mexico distillery “to help introduce the brand to the world,” according to a press release.
CALIROSA’s rolling out in 14 states to start with, with two products: Rosa Blanco and Anejo [ah-NAY-ho]. The Rosa Blanco is aged in California red wine barrels for 30 days, which makes it pink and gives it a hint of cherry and orange peel flavors. The Anejo is aged in the barrels for 18 months, which turns it rose gold in color, with notes of chocolate, toffee and vanilla.
Adam and Behati can both be seen on CALIROSA’s Instagram feed but unless you know it’s them, it’s not entirely obvious that you’re looking at the celebrity couple.
Jason Aldean fans are placing bets on which fellow star he might have enlisted to join him for his next duet, out Friday.
The singer started teasing a new release on social media this week, sharing that the song’s title is “If I Didn’t Love You.” He also noted that it’s a collaboration, but declined to mention the other person who’s featured on the song.
“Who do y’all think is singing on this one with me?” Jason wrote in the caption of his post, asking fans to drop their guesses in the comments section. While plenty of fans had an idea or two about who it might be, the singer’s not sharing any more clues — at least, for now.
Jason’s previously demonstrated his knack for putting out hit duets: “Don’t You Wanna Stay,” a collaboration with Kelly Clarkson, was a fan-favorite smash back in 2010.
“If I Didn’t Love You” is coming out at the end of a big week for Jason, who just celebrated his 25th number-one country radio hit with “Blame It On You.” He’s also gearing up for a return to the road — his 2021 Back in the Saddle Tour kicks off in August, with opening acts Hardy and Lainey Wilson.
Just when the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences thought — or maybe, hoped — this year’s Emmys would be back to normal, comes a new pandemic cancellation.
In a statement, the organization behind the awards show noted that for the second year in a row, the Governors Balls that have traditionally followed both the Emmys and Creative Arts Emmys have been scrapped.
The reason cited was “ongoing concerns and public health mandates regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Infection rates have been rising in nearly every state, ABC News has reported. The highly contagious Delta variant’s rise has led to mask mandates being reinstated in many cities, including the Emmys’ home in Los Angeles County, even for the vaccinated.
In place of the balls, “The Academy will host a series of enhanced Emmy nominee celebrations in advance of the Emmys,” which the organization calls “intimate-themed gatherings” to honor its nominees “across the numerous peer groups.”
As recently reported, the 73rd Emmy Awards will return with a limited live audience on Sunday, Sept. 19 at 8 p.m. Eastern time. The telecast will be hosted by Cedric the Entertainer and broadcast on CBS, and also streamed live and on demand on Paramount+.
A federal judge rejected a request from students to block Indiana University’s vaccine mandate this week, clearing the way for the school to require students to get the COVID-19 shot to attend class.
The ruling may set a precedent for future cases about COVID-19 vaccine mandates at universities, according to Eric Feldman, a professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, though he cautioned against generalizing too much from the case at hand.
“We’ve got a Trump-appointed judge in a relatively conservative district, dealing with an issue that I think will be a variety of courts,” Feldman said. “My guess is we’re going to see other opinions that track this opinion.”
“The law is on the judge’s side,” he added.
The lawsuit alleged that the university violated students’ rights as well as Indiana’s recently passed vaccine passport law, which prohibits state and local governments from creating or requiring vaccine passports. In the lawsuit, the students claimed they were being coerced into vaccination and that if they did not comply, they would face “the threat of virtual expulsion from school.”
In June, school administrators announced that students would have to verify their vaccination status with the school unless they applied for a medical or religious exemption. Those without exemptions could have their class schedules canceled, their student IDs deactivated and wouldn’t be allowed to participate in on-campus activities, according to the lawsuit.
“This certainly impacts the public interest,” said U.S. District Judge Damon Leichty, who was nominated to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana by President Donald Trump in 2018. However, “the students ‘are not asking to be allowed to make a self-contained choice to risk only their own health’ in making this decision — their decision necessarily bears on the health of other students, faculty, and staff,” the South Bend judge added.
“The balance of harms doesn’t weigh in the students’ favor here.”
Contrary to the students’ claim that they were being forced into unwanted medical treatment, the judge said students could choose from alternatives, including getting a vaccine, applying for a religious or medical exemption, applying for a medical deferral, taking a semester off, going to another school or taking online courses.
“That leaves the students with multiple choices, not just forced vaccination,” Leichty said.
Feldman pointed to Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a 1905 Supreme Court decision that found public entities have the right to impose vaccine mandates to protect the public’s health. “One would expect based upon Jacobson and many, many cases that have followed, that courts are more likely to support the mandate than to find against it,” Feldman said.
Feldman described the ruling as “awfully detailed and thoughtful” but pushed back on Leichty’s assertion that the constitutionality of vaccine mandates at universities is a novel question. While COVID-19 vaccines are new, universities have long mandated other vaccines for students who attend, Feldman explained. “What arguably makes the COVID-19 vaccine mandate unique is that the vaccines were approved under emergency use authorization, but full approval is inevitable, so that distinction will soon be moot,” he said.
Chuck Carney, a university spokesperson, told ABC News that “when the case was filed, we felt confident in the outcome that we would prevail.” He added, “we appreciate the quick and thorough ruling, which allows us to focus on a full and safe return. We look forward to welcoming everyone to our campuses for the fall semester.”
Indiana lags slightly behind the national average in vaccinations. As of Monday, 46% of residents had received at least one dose, and 44% were fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By comparison, 57% of Americans have gotten at least one shot, and 49% are fully vaccinated.
(WASHINGTON) — After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday rejected two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s recommendations for the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, McCarthy said he would pull all his Republican nominees unless she reverses course.
Pelosi rejected two of McCarthy’s recommendations — Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio, a staunch defender of former President Donald Trump.
Banks and Jordan both voted to overturn the election results on Jan. 6 and Pelosi said their appointments could impact “the integrity of the investigation.”
“I have spoken with him this morning about the objections raised about Representatives Jim Banks and Jim Jordan and the impact their appointments may have on the integrity of the investigation,” she said in a statement. “I also informed him that I was prepared to appoint Representatives Rodney Davis, Kelly Armstrong and Troy Nehls, and requested that he recommend two other Members.
“With respect for the integrity of the investigation, with an insistence on the truth and with concern about statements made and actions taken by these Members, I must reject the recommendations of Representatives Banks and Jordan to the Select Committee,” she said.
“The unprecedented nature of January 6th demands this unprecedented decision,” Pelosi added.
. @SpeakerPelosi tells me she spoke with McCarthy about her decision to reject two of his picks to serve on the Jan. 6th commission.
I asked her why she made the decision. She told me “January 6th.” And left it at that. pic.twitter.com/hYUTu4UjGG
McCarthy shot back at a news conference on Wednesday, saying Pelosi had created “a sham process.”
“House Democrats must answer this question,” he said. “Why are you allowing a lame-duck speaker to destroy this institution? This is the people’s house, not Pelosi’s House.”
He said unless Pelosi changes her mind and seats all five nominees, “we will not participate.” But, he said, Republicans will run their own investigation to answer why the Capitol was “ill-prepared” for the riot — something he and Republicans have blamed Pelosi for.
“Speaker Nancy Pelosi has taken the unprecedented step of denying the minority party’s picks for the Select Committee on January 6,” he said in an earlier statement. “This represents an egregious abuse of power and will irreparably damage this institution. Denying the voices of members who have served in the military and law enforcement, as well as leaders of standing committees, has made it undeniable that this panel has lost all legitimacy and credibility and shows the Speaker is more interested in playing politics than seeking the truth,” it read in part.
The House Select Committee was expected to hold its first hearing on Tuesday.
House GOP Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., on Tuesday signaled some of the lines of inquiry Republicans would try to advance — calling for an examination of “the whole array of political violence that led up to Jan. 6 and still has gone on after that” along with the security posture on Capitol Hill before the insurrection.
“There have been many questions raised about why there hasn’t been a higher National Guard presence,” Scalise said, hitting on a point McCarthy drove home on Wednesday.
As to how Republicans would respond to Democrats calling for GOP members to testify under oath about Jan. 6, Scalise said he would “let members of the committee discuss that and debate that.”
Asked at his press conference if he was still prepared to testify about his phone call with Trump during the riot, McCarthy said his phone call is “out there.”
“The question is, you make a phone call after people are in the Capitol to advise the president of what’s going on, doesn’t get to the answer of why were we ill-prepared,” he said. “That’s really playing politics, and it really shows if that’s the issue that they want to go to, before they want to drive, we don’t get all the answers.”
President Joe Biden did not answer shouted questions on the Jan. 6 commission developments while departing the White House Wednesday, but the White House issued a statement emphasizing that Biden stands behind Pelosi’s decision to reject two of the Republican lawmakers.
“The President has made clear that the shameful events of January 6th deserve a full, independent, and transparent investigation to ensure something like that never happens again, and he has full confidence in the Speaker’s ability to lead that work,” White House spokesperson Michael Gwin said in a statement.
(WASHINGTON) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she rejects two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s five recommendations for the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol — Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio.
Banks and Jordan both voted to overturn the election results on Jan. 6 and Pelosi said their appointments could impact “the integrity of the investigation.”
“Monday evening, the Minority Leader recommended 5 Members to serve on the Select Committee,” Pelosi said in a statement. “I have spoken with him this morning about the objections raised about Representatives Jim Banks and Jim Jordan and the impact their appointments may have on the integrity of the investigation. I also informed him that I was prepared to appoint Representatives Rodney Davis, Kelly Armstrong and Troy Nehls, and requested that he recommend two other Members.”
. @SpeakerPelosi tells me she spoke with McCarthy about her decision to reject two of his picks to serve on the Jan. 6th commission.
I asked her why she made the decision. She told me “January 6th.” And left it at that. pic.twitter.com/hYUTu4UjGG
“With respect for the integrity of the investigation, with an insistence on the truth and with concern about statements made and actions taken by these Members, I must reject the recommendations of Representatives Banks and Jordan to the Select Committee,” she said.
“The unprecedented nature of January 6th demands this unprecedented decision,” Pelosi said.
McCarthy reacted to the news in a statement of his own, calling Pelosi’s decision to reject his selections “unprecedented.”
“Denying the voices of members who have served in the military and law enforcement, as well as leaders of standing committees, has made it undeniable that this panel has lost all legitimacy and credibility,” McCarthy said. He went on to accuse the Speaker of being “more interested in politics than seeking the truth.”
“Unless Speaker Pelosi reverses course and seats all five Republican nominees,” McCarthy concluded, “Republicans will not be party to their sham process and will instead pursue our own investigation of the facts.”
The House Select Committee was expected to hold its first hearing on Tuesday.
House GOP Whip Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, on Tuesday signaled some of the lines of inquiry Republicans would try to advance — calling for an examination of “the whole array of political violence that led up to Jan. 6 and still has gone on after that” along with the security posture on Capitol Hill before the insurrection.
“There have been many questions raised about why there hasn’t been a higher National Guard presence,” Scalise said.
As to how Republicans would respond to Democrats calling for GOP members to testify under oath about Jan. 6, Scalise said he would “let members of the committee discuss that and debate that.”
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
(WASHINGTON) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she rejects two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s five recommendations for the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol — Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio.
Banks and Jordan both voted to overturn the election results on Jan. 6 and Pelosi said their appointments could impact “the integrity of the investigation.”
“Monday evening, the Minority Leader recommended 5 Members to serve on the Select Committee,” Pelosi said in a statement. “I have spoken with him this morning about the objections raised about Representatives Jim Banks and Jim Jordan and the impact their appointments may have on the integrity of the investigation. I also informed him that I was prepared to appoint Representatives Rodney Davis, Kelly Armstrong and Troy Nehls, and requested that he recommend two other Members.”
. @SpeakerPelosi tells me she spoke with McCarthy about her decision to reject two of his picks to serve on the Jan. 6th commission.
I asked her why she made the decision. She told me “January 6th.” And left it at that. pic.twitter.com/hYUTu4UjGG
“With respect for the integrity of the investigation, with an insistence on the truth and with concern about statements made and actions taken by these Members, I must reject the recommendations of Representatives Banks and Jordan to the Select Committee,” she said.
“The unprecedented nature of January 6th demands this unprecedented decision,” Pelosi said.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
(SEATTLE) — The Seattle Kraken will build their initial roster Wednesday night during the NHL’s expansion draft, where they will choose one unprotected player from each of the other teams in the league.
ESPN reports that the Kraken will not select Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price, considered one of the top unprotected players available to them.
Price led the Canadiens to the Stanley Cup Final, and waived his no-movement contract clause to become available in the expansion draft. Sources told ESPN Price did so because he is unsure if he will be available to start next season due to injuries, and wanted to allow Montreal to protect their backup goaltender, Jake Allen.
The last time the NHL held an expansion draft was when the Las Vegas Golden Knights entered the league. The Golden Knights reached the Stanley Cup Finals in their first season, largely thanks to the selection of another star goaltender, Marc-Andre Fleury from the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Sources also say that the Kraken have used an exclusive negotiating window to reach deals with a pair of unrestricted free agents. The team is expected to sign Edmonton Oilers defenseman Adam Larsson and Florida Panthers goalie Chris Driedger. Those two players will count as Seattle’s selections from those teams in the expansion draft.
Seattle’s full roster will be revealed at 8pm ET on ESPN2.
