Month: August 2021

Billy Eichner has hit out at Matt Damon after the actor said he recently stopped using a homophobic slur once his daughter told him not to. The actor faced criticised for revealing that he used the “f-slur for a homosexual” just “months ago” while at home, which then caused his daughter to write “a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous”. “I made a joke, months ago, and got a treatise from my daughter,” he told The Sunday Times in a new interview. “I said, ‘I retire the f-slur!’ I understood.” The actor also suggested he thought it was OK to use the offensive term as it had featured in the Farrelly brothers’ 2003 comedy Stuck on You, which he starred in, as well as the fact it “was commonly used” when he was a child, but “with a different application”. Damon’s a...

“Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane is fed up with Fox about the misinformation aired on Fox News, and wishes his iconic TV series was broadcast anywhere else.  MacFarlane, whose show is on the Fox TV network ― part of the same corporate family as Fox News ― called out the company over one of its hosts, Tucker Carlson, who has played a major role in spreading conspiracy theories about the coronavirus and the COVID-19 vaccine as well as the Jan. 6 insurrection:  Tucker Carlson’s latest opinion piece once again makes me wish Family Guy was on any other network. Look, Fox, we both know this marriage isn’t working anymore. The sex is only once a year, I don’t get along with your mother, and well… I’ve been having an affair with NBC.— Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) August 1, 2021 ...

The case against Wu, 30 -- whose Chinese name is Wu Yifan -- is still under investigation, police in the Chaoyang district of the Chinese capital said. The allegations first emerged last month on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform, when a woman posting under the verified handle "Du Meizhu" alleged she was sexually assaulted when she was a student at the Communication University of China in Beijing. She said she was 17 at the time of the alleged assault. The allegations gained further traction after she was interviewed by 163.com, a major news portal. CNN has reached out to Wu's representatives and is still awaiting a response. Wu, who was born in southern China but is a Canadian citizen, denied the allegations on his personal Weibo account last month. His company announced it was purs...