Month: November 2021

Elliot Page may be spearheading a fit boy fall. Over the holiday weekend, the 34-year-old Umbrella Academy star took to Instagram to share a six-pack centered selfie, cleverly captioning the Nov. 28 Instagram pic, "Oh good, my new phone works." In less than 24 hours, Elliot's photo has received over 1 million likes on the social media platform, along with tons of comments from fans and fellow celebs, praising the Academy Award-nominee. 13 Reasons Why star Tommy Dorfman reacted to Elliot's selfie by writing, "brooooo," while Awkwafina added, "New phone??" Director Ian Daniel also entered the chat, writing, "You're gonna break that phone with your intense hotness." This wouldn't be the first time the Juno alum posted a shirtless selfie. The actor also shared one back in May, celebrating as h...

Dave Chappelle is telling his critics to put their money where their mouth is and donate to his former high school in order to stop a theater from being named after him. The comedian has been steeped in controversy since September when comments he made about the transgender community landed him in the crosshairs of critics and activists alike. Now, the comedian is hoping to use the debate surrounding his name as a way to raise funds for Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Georgetown, where he attended high school. Chappelle was due for an appearance at the school to commemorate a theater being named in his honor. While he did pay a visit to the school before Thanksgiving, the theater naming was postponed to April amid backlash to give administrators a chance to open a proper dialogue ...

On New Year's Day 1999, eight months before Sebold's memoir was published, Broadwater, then 38, was released from prison after about 16 years behind bars. Now with his conviction overturned, Broadwater will be removed from the sex offender registry, to which he was added following his sentence. His status on the list and his criminal record made it hard for him to make a living. "A lot of doors have been slammed in my face for jobs," he told reporters outside the court. Broadwater told CNN, "I did what I could do and that was just you know—creating work for myself doing landscaping, tree removal, hauling, clean-outs." In 1999, after his release from prison, Broadwater started seeing his now-wife, Elizabeth. "She wanted children. I wouldn't bring children in the world because of th...

Judge James Linn said during an October hearing no cameras will be allowed in court. On the same day attorneys for the actor made a final push to have the case dismissed. The judge denied the motion. With the trial kicking off more than two years after Smollett said he was attacked, here's a look at how we got here. Smollett told authorities he was attacked in the early morning hours of January 29, 2019 by two men who were yelling racial and homophobic slurs. He said the two men put a noose around his neck and poured an unknown substance on him, according to Chicago police. Celebrities, politicians and advocacy groups rallied behind the actor, with former President Donald Trump calling the alleged attack "horrible." In his first public statement since the reported attack, Smollet...

Spider-Man: No Way Home is crashing sites everywhere. Marvel Fans of Marvel and the MCU may remember that the release of tickets for Avengers: Endgame did a number on cinema ticket sites across the US in 2019. It looks like Spider-Man: No Way Home did precisely the same thing late Sunday, with fans online claiming both AMC and Fandango were down as a result of the demand. As of e...

PARIS — Virgil Abloh, the founder of luxury streetwear brand Off-White and artistic director of men’s wear at Louis Vuitton, has died from cancer at the age of 41. One of the most influential designers of his generation, Abloh had been privately battling the disease for several years, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton said in a statement on Sunday. The designer died in hospital in Houston on Sunday, according to sources familiar with the matter.  “We are all shocked after this terrible news. Virgil was not only a genius designer, a visionary, he was also a man with a beautiful soul and great wisdom,” Bernard Arnault, chairman and chief executive officer of LVMH, said in the statement. “The LVMH family joins me in this moment of great sorrow, and we are all thinking o...

Kanye West's fleet of cars from his Wyoming ranch did huge numbers on the auction block ... and the winning bid for one of his trucks made history. Ye's used vehicles were open for bidding at Musser Bros. Auctions ... and the owner of the auction house, Harold Musser, tells us the winning bids for the 7 cars totaled a whopping $434,780. We're told the auction, which ended Tuesday, had over 137,000 views and over 800 bids from folks spread across the country -- from Florida to California -- making this the biggest auction ever for Musser Bros. Sounds like Yeezy is a big deal. One of those bids set a record ... we're told Kanye's 2019 F-150...