Month: February 2022

Contestants on The Bachelor are ineligible for most major awards. Although the Emmys does give out five awards for reality TV shows, but none for actual cast, and The Bachelor has never been nominated. But don’t tell that to Shanae, who begged on Monday night’s episode for either an Oscar, Emmy, or Golden Globe and probably deserved all three. She is one of the greatest villains in the history of The Bachelor. I don’t say this lightly. I have great respect for villains of Bachelor past—but with a truly despicable performance, she has cemented her legendary status. Monday night’s episode starts with Clayton trying to find out the true extent of Shanae’s temper tantrum from last week. Contestants tell him about how Shanae crashed their after-party and threw their hard-earned football ...

A beloved Hollywood talent manager who worked with actors like the late Chadwick Boseman and Julianne Moore has died by suicide. Chris Huvane, a talent manager at Management 360 and a former magazine editor, died by suicide Sunday night after years of battling depression, Deadline reports. He was 47 years old. Huvane's death was confirmed Monday by his business partners, who said in a statement: 'We are devastated beyond words this morning, Chris was simply "the best of the best." A brilliant manager, consummate colleague and friend, a rock of our company and our culture, beloved by every single person who ever met him. 'It's an incalculable loss and our hearts go out to his family and friends,' they said. 'We are all better for having known Chris, and we commit to honoring his legacy eve...

Joe Rogan has been offered $100m “over four years” to leave Spotify for the conservative-leaning platform Rumble. Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski told Mr Rogan in a statement posted to Twitter that the Canadian video-sharing platform stands “with you, your guests, and your legion of fans in desire for real conversation”. “So we’d like to offer you 100 million reasons to make the world a better place. How about you bring all your shows to Rumble, both old and new, with no censorship, for 100 million bucks over four years? This is our chance to save the world. And yes, this is totally legit,” he added. It has been reported that Mr Rogan signed a deal with Spotify in 2019 for more than $100m for the platform to be the exclusive host of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. Both Mr Rogan...

Neil Young has told Spotify workers that the company’s CEO — not Joe Rogan — is the real problem, and is urging them to “get out of that place before it eats up your soul” (via Variety). This comes after Young pulled his music from Spotify, claiming the company was “spreading fake information about vaccines” through Joe Rogan’s podcast. Young’s recent fight against Spotify initially targeted Rogan’s podcast, but now he seems to be blaming Spotify’s leadership instead. In an open letter posted to his website on Monday, Young says that CEO Daniel Ek is all about “numbers - not art, not creativity.” Neil urges people to “ditch the misinformers” in his letter. Young ended Monday’s letter by urging Spotify employees to “be free and take the good path.” (I’d argue it’s difficult to ...

"Our show is in no way a moral tale to teach people how to live their life or what they should be doing." Euphoria is a great show — and it's also very intense and deals with some serious subject matter, including Rue's (Zendaya) issues with addiction. The anti-drug organization D.A.R.E. — which itself has a questionable track record as an anti-drug organization — recently issued a statement claiming that the hit HBO TV show glamorizes drug use and sex. Eddy Chen / HBO "Rather than further each parent’s desire to keep their children safe from the potentially horrific consequences of drug abuse and other high-risk behavior,"...

Kylie Jenner announced the birth of her second child with Travis Scott, seeming to confirm the baby's gender with a blue heart emoji in the caption. The billionaire, who is also mother to daughter Stormi, announced the arrival of her baby via Instagram on Sunday, February 6, 2022. On a black and white photo of her holding a newborn's hand, the mogul captioned the image, "2/2/22." From branding for her baby line featuring the color blue to her telling Instagram captions, Kylie has been dropping hints that she's having a boy all throughout her pregnancy. While promoting her Kylie Baby line, the mom-of-two posted a picture of Stormi wearing duck egg blue clothes. The mother and daughter due also posed together dressed in blue for the promotional shots, leading many to speculate...