Month: March 2021

Britney Spears in 2019Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images The long and complicated saga of Britney Spears’ conservatorship—the legal arrangement that has dominated and controlled the musical superstar’s life and finances for more than a decade—has reached another, not wholly surprising step this week. Variety reports that an attorney for Spears has moved to finally request that her father, Jamie Spears, be permanently removed from his role as her personal conservator, a position he’s held (barring at least one leave due to medical absences) for the majority of the last 13 years. Said position has given the elder Spears incredible control over his daughter’s life, including medical decisions, the appointment of bodyguards, and the ability to decide what visitors she’s allowed to ...

Monaco's Prince Albert has Queen Elizabeth's back, or so it seems ... 'cause he's ripping Meghan Markle and Prince Harry for discussing Royal family matters on primetime TV. Albert was asked for his 2 cents about Harry and Meghan's sit down with Oprah, and he told the BBC the CBS primetime special was the wrong time and place for them to be pouring out their feelings. In a rare interview, Prince Albert of Monaco gives advice to Prince Harry "this type of public display of dissatisfaction... these types of conversations should be held in the intimate quarters of the family... it did bother me" booke...

Disneyland has unveiled long-term plans for theme park, retail and parking expansion as the Anaheim theme park prepares to work with the city to reimagine what the resort district will look like over the next couple decades. DisneylandForward is Disney’s effort to work with the city to grow the Disneyland resort, update the blueprint for the resort district and propel Anaheim’s economic rebound following the COVID-19 pandemic. Disney will be asking the city over the next weeks and months for more flexibility in plans approved in the 1990s in order to be able to add a mix of theme park, hotel, retail, dining and entertainment on the eastern and western edges of the Disneyland resort. Disneyland portfolio executive for Walt Disney Imagineering Jeanette Lomboy said during a media br...

As 17,000 hours of wrestling programming transition from WWE Network to Peacock, fans have noticed that some scenes are missing. Some classic episodes of WWE are being revised in their move to Peacock. Racist moments from wrestling franchise's history are quietly being deleted from the archive as the massive programming library gradually transitions from the WWE Network. According to sources familiar with the situation, the NBCUniversal-owned streaming service is reviewing all 17,000 hours of WWE content to ensure it aligns with Peacock's standards and practices. WWE is also being made aware of any changes made. One of the alterations has been to 1990's WrestleMania 6, which had a match between Roddy Piper and Bad News Brown that included Piper (a white wrestler) painting ...

Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan have a royal critic. In an interview with BBC World News, Prince Albert II of Monaco gave his take on the couple's explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey, saying he found their "public display of dissatisfaction" inappropriate. "It’s very difficult to be in someone’s place," he told the BBC's Yalda Hakim on Thursday. "I can understand the pressure that they were under." But the prince said he believes "these types of conversations should be held within the intimate quarters of the family" adding that "it doesn’t really have to be laid out in the public sphere like that." "It did bother me a little bit," he said. "I can understand where they're coming from in a certain way, but I think it wasn’t the appropriate forum to be able to have these kinds of discuss...

Mighty Ducks of a feather flock together. Entertainment Weekly recently revealed that an upcoming episode of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers — the new Disney+ series based on the beloved '90s franchise — will reunite Coach Gordan Bombay (Emilio Estevez) with several members of his pee-wee hockey league from back in the day, including enforcer Fulton Reed (Elden Henson), forward Connie Moreau (Marguerite Moreau) and the frequently injured, Lester Averman (Matt Doherty). But at least one Duck won't be attending the reunion: Goalie Greg Goldberg, played by Shaun Weiss, wasn't invited back. In real life, Weiss has struggled with drug addiction, and multiple arrests, before entering recovery in early 2020. The now-42-year-old actor reportedly celebrated one year of sobriety this past January, ...