Month: August 2020

In response to incidents of police brutality across the United States, singer Macy Gray is ramping up her nonprofit My Good. The organization, founded quietly earlier this year, seeks to help families and loved ones of victims of police violence with financial, emotional and mental health support. The org is also at work curating different platforms for the victims’ families to be heard including support groups with grief experts and ministers among other initiatives. One needn't search far and wide to find examples as recent deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, to name a few, gripped the nation and helped inspire Black Lives Matter protests across the country. For Gray, this issue and the aftermath for families is personal. Gray watched her aunt and uncle struggle after t...

American Ninja Warrior winner Drew Drechsel was arrested Tuesday following accusations of having an inappropriate relationship with an underage girl. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of New Jersey, Drechsel, who won the last season of NBC’s athletic competition show, was arrested in his Florida home. The office’s official press release detailed that Drechsel, 31, traveled to New Jersey to engage in sexual activity with a minor. The Florida native also encouraged the girl to send him inappropriate pictures of herself. Drechsel is being charged with manufacture of child pornography, enticement of a minor to travel for illicit sexual conduct, among other crimes. Official documents say that Drechsel and his victim met in 2014 at a filming of American N...

Kourtney Kardashian declares she is 'not OK' as son Reign Disick, five, shaves off his long locks By Sameer Suri For Dailymail.com Published: 21:51 EDT, 4 August 2020 | Updated: 01:36 EDT, 5 August 2020 Kourtney Kardashian revealed on her Instagram page this Tuesday that her five-year-old son Reign has gotten his head shaved. The 41-year-old reality star previously defended her son from social media trolls who criticized his long locks. But early this week she posted a picture of him in the backyard with a hand on his new bald head, and she captioned: 'I am not ok.' 'I am not ok': Kourtney Kardashian revealed on her Instagram page this Tuesday that her five-year-old son Reign has gotten his head shaved Kourtney shares Reign and her two ...

Eva Longoria has done it again. The 45-year-old actress took to Instagram on Tuesday to strut her stuff in a new swimsuit pic. In the sultry photo, Longoria leans against a wall with one arm raised above her head as she grabs her hair, which is pulled up into a neat bun. EVA LONGORIA, 45, FLEXES HER MUSCLES IN WORKOUT GEAR: ''FEELING FIT' The star donned a black, one-piece suit with a deep-V that stretched to the middle of her torso. The collar of the suit was dotted with eyelets. The photo was simply captioned with three black heart emojis. In the comments, Longoria's fans gushed over the actress' look. "Eva you’re so cute," said one, adding several flame emojis. "Just killing it, hermama!" wrote another, using the Spanish word for "sister." EVA LONGORIA, 45, FLAUNTS BIKINI BOD...

UPDATED: Former Ellen resident DJ Tony Okungbowa, who worked on the show from 2003-2006 and from 2007-2013, on Tuesday supported accounts by other former staffers alleging a toxic work environment on the daytime talk show. “While I am grateful for the opportunity it afforded me, I did experience and feel the toxicity of the environment and I stand with my former colleagues in their quest to create a healthier and more inclusive workplace as the show moves forward,” he wrote on Instagram. Also on Tuesday, former Daily Show correspondent Vance DeGeneres called the allegations against his sister’s Emmy-winning show “all bullsh*t.” “If you don’t support Ellen, then you don’t support me,” Vance DeGeneres wrote in a Facebook page. He encouraged those who feel differently about...

The reigning champ of NBC’s “American Ninja Warrior” competition was arrested Tuesday after being accused of having a years-long sexual relationship with teen girl from New Jersey, federal prosecutors said. The alleged victim came forward in June 2019, telling cops that she and Drew Drechsel had sex several times beginning in 2015, when she was 15 and he was 26, according to a criminal complaint. They first met and exchanged phone numbers in 2014, at an event attended by several “American Ninja Warrior” contestants, the complaint states. For her 15th birthday present, Drechsel allegedly invited the girl to his Hamden, Connecticut gym, where the two had sex after his girlfriend left the establishment, the court documents says. The teen told her mother about it the next day....

Maddie Ziegler is apologizing for her past actions, which she says were "ignorant and racially insensitive." The 17-year-old professional dancer and former "Dance Moms" star took to her Instagram story on Tuesday to address old videos of herself that resurfaced on social media.  "There are a few videos some of you have seen from when I was about 9 years old where I thought it was funny to mock people and accents," she wrote. "I'm honestly ashamed and I'm truly sorry for my actions." Ziegler also noted that the decisions she made in those videos "are absolutely not decisions I would make today." "What I thought was silly humor when I was younger I know was actually ignorant and racially insensitive," she continued. "We have all made mistakes in our lives and learn to be better people."...