Reports surfaced yesterday that Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid broke up following an argument Malik had with Hadid’s mother Yolanda. Now more light has been shed on the situation, as TMZ reports Malik faced four charges of harassment against Gigi and Yolanda and pled no contest to them.
Malik reportedly entered his plea on Wednesday and was fined. He’s on 90 days of probation for each count, for a total of 360 days, and he must complete both an anger management class and a domestic violence program. Additionally, he is also forbidden from contacting Yolanda.
According to court documents, Malik got into an intense argument with Yolanda, calling her a “f*cking Dutch slut” and demanding that she “stay away from [his] f*cking daughter.” He allegedly “shoved [Yolanda] into a dresser, causing mental anguish and physical pain,” but Malik denies the physical contact. Malik reportedly also screamed at Gigi, “Strap on some f*cking balls and defend your partner against your f*cking mother in my house.” Gaga was apparently in Paris during the incident, so Malik would have said this to her over the phone.
There was also a security guard present, and Malik apparently tried to fight him and screamed, “Get the f*ck out of my f*cking house, copper.”
Malik seemingly confirmed the no contest plea in a tweet yesterday, in which he wrote, “As you all know I am a private person and I very much want to create a safe and private space for my daughter to grow up in. A place where private family matters aren’t thrown on the world stage for all to poke and pick apart. In an effort to protect that space for her I agreed to not contest claims arising from an argument I had with a family member of my partner’s who entered our home while my pattern was away several weeks ago. This was and still should be a private matter but it seems for now there is divisiveness and despite my efforts to restore us to a peaceful family environment that will allow for me to co-parent my daughter in a manner in which she deserves, this has been ‘leaked’ to the press. I am hopeful though for healing for all involved with the harsh words shared and more importantly I remain vigilant to protect Khai and give her the privacy she deserves.”
Stephen Colbert is laughing at Mark Zuckerberg—and not for the first time. While we all knew it was coming, on Thursday the Facebook co-founder and CEO officially announced that the company would be rebranding as Meta… and the jokes immediately followed. On Thursday night, Colbert kicked off his opening monologue with his own take on the name change.
While Colbert admitted that he has never had a Facebook page and does not get Facebook, even he was aware of how big the news was that the embattled social media giant was renaming itself Meta. “That’s right, Meta,” Colbert said. “As in your Aunt Gloria saying, ‘I meta guy on Facebook who says the vaccine makes his balls magnetic.’”
“Along with the new name, they have a new logo,” Colbert continued. “And of course, since this is the internet, in less than one minute, somebody drew a penis on it.”
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“And, of course, then they put a dick next to it,” he added.
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The jokes did not end there. After comparing Facebook to a dystopian universe, Colbert confirmed that the site you use to message with your mom because she thinks it’s her cell phone’s text feature will still be known as Facebook. “The company says the name Facebook is not going away,” Colbert explained. “‘From now on, we’re going to be the metaverse first. Not Facebook first,’” he read from a press statement—but told viewers, “Don’t you worry: The self-esteem of teenage girls will always be last.”
“The announcement came in a video by Facebook’s chief humanoid simulation Mark Zuckerberg, who addressed some of the recent controversy the company is going through.” Zuck did his best to make these references as general as possible, and focus on the future—and how any past mistakes only make them better equipped to learn and build a better place for people to gather on the internet. Zuckerberg also spoke about how the metaverse experience will be much better than the Zoom existence that’s become our new normal; that it will be a place where we can make eye contact and feel more connected to the people in our lives.
“And I enjoy making eye contact, because it is something that we as humans do in order to feel connections on an emotional level,” Colbert joked, doing his best Zuckerberg-as-a-soulless-robot impression. “A level I definitely have.”
“Are you ready for this?” – Something that I never thought that I’d hear Geralt of Rivia say, and it’s happening in this Season 2 trailer.
The Witcher‘s Geralt of Rivia shall soon return to grace The Continent with his monster-hunting skills, and this full-on trailer delivers the feeling that this has all been worth the wait. As we saw in the final moments of last season, Ciri and Geralt had found each other (in a paternal way), and she’s clearly now seizing her destiny and is in training mode. The show’s got a lot to live up to, given that it defied expectations during its debut, and Henry Cavill has also revealed that his character will somehow be less grumpy this time around. At least, that will outwardly be the case because Geralt will do less grunting since he’ll be more “verbose and be philosophical and speak more and be intellectual.”
Get ready for that, for sure. Meanwhile, Yennifer’s out on her own, and not doing so well after the Battle of Sodden, as she’s apparently working her way back toward Geralt’s neck of the woods. We also receive the visual confirmation of more Jaskier, who’s been jailed and making new friends and, hopefully, composing more horrible-yet-catchy bangers to torture everyone. Quite possibly, we hear Kim Bodnia’s voice as Vesimir, Geralt’s mentor, and we definitely get to see more of Kristofer Hivju in highly unflattering prosthetics. From the official synopsis:
Convinced Yennefer’s life was lost at the Battle of Sodden, Geralt of Rivia brings Princess Cirilla to the safest place he knows, his childhood home of Kaer Morhen. While the Continent’s kings, elves, humans and demons strive for supremacy outside its walls, he must protect the girl from something far more dangerous: the mysterious power she possesses inside.
The Witcher returns to The Continent on Friday December 17th. Here’s some absolutely stunning key art, and I can’t wait to see Ciri in badass mode.
Tucker Carlson isn’t used to being told “no.” Which partly explains how Patriot Purge, his new three-part documentary series which claims that January 6th was a “false flag” operation, came to be. Needless to say, the fact that the events of that infamous day—which left five dead—are being called into question at the same time the January 6th commission is doing its best to interview witnesses and participants (not all of them willingly) is enraging a lot of people. Chief among them, Liz Cheney, who holds one of the committee’s highest positions.
On Thursday morning, Cheney tweeted about the series, saying it’s this same type of dangerous propaganda that led to January’s insurrection in the first place: “It appears that @FoxNews is giving @TuckerCarlson a platform to spread the same type of lies that provoked violence on January 6. As @FoxNews knows, the election wasn’t stolen and January 6 was not a “false flag” operation.”
While Cheney is far from the first or only person to express her outrage over the Patriot Purge trailer—even Carlson’s Fox News colleague Geraldo Rivera called it “bullshit”—Carlson took Cheney’s tweet as an opportunity to clutch his pearls and play dumb.
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Carlson, who’s now referring to Patriot Purge as an “investigative documentary” (yes, you can laugh), told viewers to:
“Keep in mind that Liz Cheney hasn’t even seen the film that she’s so angry about. Just the trailer. A minute and 42 seconds pulled from three full episodes. Liz Cheney’s not waiting for the facts here, she knows for certain that we’ve got weapons of mass destruction and she plans to invade.
According to Liz Cheney, this show is dangerous. Because we dared to report on what actually happened on January 6th, this show is somehow, she says, abetting violence.”
To Carlson, Cheney’s brand of reasoning is “a staple of the purple-haired college activists you see yelling at people in viral videos. ‘Your speech is violence,’ they shout. ‘Our speech… our violence is speech.’” Not even Carlson seems able to keep track of his own arguments. But, as The Hill reports, Carlson then set his diatribe up for the big payoff when he said that he could see why Cheney is so enraged by his trailer:
“Until yesterday she and Nancy Pelosi had a monopoly on how Americans were allowed to understand Jan. 6. Unfortunately for them, that’s not how a free society works. Politicians don’t get to put parameters around your thoughts or conversations. Free people are allowed to ask any question they want. They can follow the facts to their own logical conclusions and that’s exactly what we set out to do months ago when we began reporting out this story.”
Carlson ended his rant, which largely just served as a promotional spot for Patriot Purge, by mentioning that they had invited Cheney onto the show to discuss the docuseries, but that “she emphatically refused to come. It turns out that Liz Cheney is not simply a liar, she is also a coward,” Carlson concluded.
You can watch Carlson’s full segment below, and not watch his docuseries beginning November 1.
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Earlier in the week, Meghan McCain put Lindsey Graham on blast after the South Carolina senator debunked a claim in her audiobook that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump “crashed” her father John McCain’s funeral. The former The View co-host called out Graham in a tweet, and it was a notable rebuke given he once considered a very dear friend to the family. In fact, McCain had repeatedly referred to him as “like an uncle” over the years.
While appearing on The Guy Benson Show on Thursday, McCain defended calling out Graham and lamented that their relationship had devolved to this point. However, she also didn’t refute his assertion that Jared and Ivanka’s presence at her father’s funeral was approved by her mother Cindy McCain.
I don’t want to speak negatively of people who at one point in time were close with my dad, but I also will defend myself, and I will defend my work, and I will defend my life, and he doesn’t get to speak for me and like he’s not a spokesperson for Meghan McCain or the McCain family, and you know, I don’t want to go to like too deep into it, because honestly it’s just been extremely emotionally taxing to have this happen.
Meghan also described the situation as “horrible,” but her central beef with Graham seems to be that he did this in public.
“I never ever would have brought something like this public in my life, because I think it’s distasteful and just bizarre and gross, but I will defend myself if I need to,” McCain said while promoting her tell-all audiobook, Bad Republican, which airs all of her grievances with The View in public.
Next month will bring the premiere of Tiger King 2, for which Netflix shared a trailer a couple days ago. Ahead of that, though, Joe Exotic is looking for help with getting out of prison and has called on Cardi B for assistance, a call that Cardi recently answered.
On October 21, Exotic’s unverified Twitter account shared a photo of a handwritten note that is addressed to Cardi and reads, “When you see the truth in Tiger King 2 I need you to rally everyone together to be my voice of freedom! Be my hero girl.” Cardi finally saw the post yesterday, as she shared it and wrote, “Wait is this the real tiger king?”
John Michael Phillips, Exotic’s lawyer, responded to Cardi’s tweet, writing, “I represent Joe. He heard about your message from prison. I’d love to put you two together on a phone call next week.” He later added, “I can’t even imagine facilitating the call between @iamcardib and @joe_exotic. That collaboration may make the world explode. Here kitty kitty (the WAP remix) is so 2022. Cardi, I can probably get you on a call with Joe next week. He’s grateful for you taking on Carole early.”
I represent Joe. He heard about your message from prison. I’d love to put you two together on a phone call next week.
I can’t even imagine facilitating the call between @iamcardib and @joe_exotic. That collaboration may make the world explode. Here kitty kitty (the WAP remix) is so 2022. Cardi, I can probably get you on a call with Joe next week. He’s grateful for you taking on Carole early. https://t.co/ePM9yi1OkMpic.twitter.com/Fmz7mHUTDA
Exotic sees an ally in Cardi due to her previous run-ins with Carole Baskin. Baskin shared criticisms about Cardi over the animals used in her “WAP” video, and Cardi responded, “I’m not gonna engage with Carole Baskin on that. Like, that’s just ridiculous, you know? Oh, Lord. Like, girl: you killed your g*ddamn husband.”
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Dave Chappelle’s recent list of demands for speaking with Netflix employees are looking even worse after his Thursday night show in New Orleans. In the process of making those demands last week, he took a swing at Hannah Gadsby (who criticized his “emotionally stunted partial world view”), and he praised Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos for being “the only one that didn’t cancel me yet.” Chappelle appeared to be very upset at the backlash over his latest Netflix special, The Closer, in which he declared himself “Team TERF” and in agreement with J.K. Rowling’s statements about gender. Also, a recent interview from a Netflix walkout organizer expressed disappointment for how Dave’s “mocking us” with his demands.
The mocking appeared to continue during Chappelle’s sold-out Thursday night set, as reported by NOLA.com‘s Keith Spera. The show took place at New Orleans’ Smoothie King Center with Joe Rogan, who performed before Chappelle while insisting that (of his own remarks, “These are just jokes. They’re not even my real opinions”). Chappelle, who has complained that he’s been cancelled from film festivals (where he was booked for his upcoming documentary) remarked onstage that he’s endured “the worst three weeks of my life.” He doesn’t appear to regret his remarks about trans people during The Closer (and previous specials, including Sticks and Stones), however, because he told even more trans jokes during the set:
When an audience member offered a cup of beer, Chappelle declined out of fear it might contain “transgender formula.”
His revelation that one of his two well-dressed bodyguards previously played for the Dallas Cowboys was met with a chorus of boos. “Travis, hear that?” he retorted. “Sounds like someone’s team loses a lot.”
When the audience objected further, he quipped, “Don’t go all trans on me.”
Why, someone had asked him, did he need bodyguards? “Because these transgenders are trying to kill me!”
From there, Dave remarked upon how his wife had given him a pistol, “which, he complained, was not the manliest of weapons” due to its “pearl-handled, nickel-plated” design. And he referred to Louis C.K. as “my friend” who called him “a master baiter,” which was a reference not only to Louis C.K.’s own downfall but to an upcoming article about Chappelle that refers to him as “Cancel Bait.” Well, Chappelle’s audience hasn’t cancelled him and was there for him on Thursday night. The show was sold out and possibly the largest crowd ever to grace the Smoothie King Center, according to NOLA.com.
Meanwhile, Netflix has yet to comment upon Dave’s list of demands to speak with Netflix’s trans employees, who — it must be mentioned — haven’t expressed any interest in sitting down with him. Ted Sarandos previously claimed that “content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm” before Netflix issued an apologetic statement while also expressing support for the employee walkout.
You never know what to expect when Bill Murray appears on a late-night talk show. He might threaten to beat up a heckler, or he might pop out of a cake. Both of those incidents happened on David Letterman’s show, but with Letterman now on Netflix, Murray brought his unpredictable schtick to Jimmy Kimmel Live.
“This is a real treat. A virtual visit from one of the great actors, comedians, dare I say poets, a man who taught us that it just doesn’t matter and that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world,” host Jimmy Kimmel said to kick off his interview with Murray. Where was The French Dispatch star, besides “somewhere on the continent”? Unknown. Why was he wearing “inflatable leg things”? He’s in recovery mode, obviously. Why did he have two translators, one who spoke French and the other Arabic, but respond to Kimmel (or “Jim”) in English? “I assumed you wanted to reach as many people as possible,” Murray explained, and “rather than dub the questions,” he thought the translators would “help people understand in other continents.”
Later, Kimmel brought up Murray “strongly hinting” that he’s in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania to a German magazine. “I’m not supposed to, um, I’m not supposed to say… they’re making a movie. Paul Rudd plays Ant-Man. Evangeline Lilly plays the Wasp. Micheal Douglas, I forget what his name is in the movie. And Michelle Pfeiffer, they’re all in the movie,” he explained, “but I am not at liberty to talk about it.” Murray then turned to his translators and told them “we can talk about it when we eat dinner.”
You can watch the rest of the wonderfully bizarre interview above.
The first new album from The War On Drugs in four years has finally arrived. Steve considers The War On Drugs his favorite band of the last decade, while Ian considers them in a similar lane as Tame Impala or Beach House, where the music is enjoyable but does little more for him than establish “vibe.” Musically, I Don’t Live Here Anymore is a refinement of the craft the band explored on 2017’s A Deeper Understanding, which itself was a refinement of 2014’s Lost In The Dream. Will this finally be the record that wins Ian over?
In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Ian is plugging the new book Sellout, as well as Another Kill For The Highlight Reel, the new record from New Jersey band Save Face, which sounds like a lot of the bands covered in the book Sellout. Steve, on the other hand, wants to spread the good word about Myriam Gendron’s new album Ma Délire that was released earlier this month, a collection of reimagined folk standards that gives the songs new life.
New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 63 on Spotify below, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts here. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.
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The good and bad news is this: Halloween is almost over, and so is the month of October. That means the holidays are almost around the corner, which probably exhausts you to think about, and why not relax and spend the weekend watching TV? As luck would have it, Netflix made sure that you’re covered, so you can ignore those trick-or-treaters and hide from civilization for at least a little bit longer. At the top of the heap this week is Zack Snyder’s prequel to his insanely popular Army of the Dead zombie movie. This time, there are only a few zombies and a whole lot of heisting, in the form of cracked safes and one key character who you’ll enjoy revisiting for his back story.
In addition, two iconic forces (Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick) team up for a new limited series that’s sure to inspire sports-and-non-sports fans alike. There’s also a thriller and a romantic dramedy and a biopic series, plus a whole slew of films leaving at the end of the month, so get cracking, just like those safes.
Here’s everything else coming to (and leaving) the streaming platform this week.
Army Of Thieves (Netflix film streaming 10/29)
Netflix bet on dead with Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, and that bet apparently paid off handsomely, which is a good thing because there’s already a prequel in the can and on the way to your queue. The prequel doesn’t take place terribly far into the past, either. Matthias Schweighöfer returns to the franchise as Dieter, a then-bank teller who’s recruited by a very convincing Nathalie Emmanuel (who promises “a life less ordinary”) to begin his heisting career. Of course, this prequel isn’t entirely devoid of zombies. The outbreak already existed, given that this is Snyder’s zombie universe, and soon enough, the safes start cracking.
Colin in Black & White (Netflix limited series streaming 10/29)
Ava Duvernay and Colin Kaepernick both executive produce this coming-of-age story that also wades into the hefty issues that Kaepernick does not shy away from on and off the football field. Expect an exploration of race, class, and culture as Young Colin transforms into an NFL quarterback and an indisputable icon, all against the backdrop of cultural and historical touchstones.
When a young woman decides to aim for self-improvement, she visits a widely-respected hypnotist, and everything soon goes wrong. Intense sessions and deadly consequences are afoot, all after her own personal trauma. Will she ever recover, even with the help of a detective who can help her solve a mystery that apparently erupted from her consciousness after being buried for so long? The spooky season continues.
Luis Miguel: Season 3 (Netflix series streaming 10/28)
Prepare for the final season of the story of the Puerto Rican-hailing Mexican singer, who’s also known as El Sol de México. Diego boneta portrays Luis Miguel, who’s working through two timelines. This time around, we’re seeing him at the peak of his career, including a Frank Sinatra duet, and we’re also seeing him facing later challenges in life that threaten both his professional and personal happiness.
In the mood for a romantic dramedy? This story follows a long-term couple who ends things and struggle to move on without each other. As the title indicates, the corresponding personal journey is only a matter of time.
Here’s a full list of what’s been added in the last week:
Avail. 10/24 We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Avail. 10/25
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Avail. 10/26 Roswell, New Mexico: Season 3 Sex: Unzipped
Avail. 10/27 Begin Again
Hypnotic
Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight Part 2
Sintonia: Season 2 Wentworth: Season 8 Luis Miguel – The Series: Season 3 The Motive
Avail. 10/29 Army of Thieves
Dear Mother
Mythomaniac: Season 2 Roaring Twenties
Thomas and Friends: Season 25 A The Time It Takes
And here’s what’s leaving next week, so it’s your last chance:
Leaving 10/31 60 Days In: Season 5 Angels & Demons
Battle: Los Angeles
Beowulf
Billy on the Street: Seasons 1-5 Catch Me If You Can
The Da Vinci Code
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Forged in Fire: Season 6 The Heartbreak Kid
The Impossible
Inception
Legally Blonde
Mile 22
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Reckoning: Limited Series
Snowden
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Yes Man
Leaving 11/1 My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Legend of Everfree
My Little Pony: Happy Birthday to You!
Leaving 11/4 Bucket List
The Lovers
Leaving 11/5 The Late Bloomer
Leaving 11/7 Sleepless
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