Month: May 2023

Lil Baby dropped the video for “Go Hard” last week. In the track, Baby raps, “Need a Nike deal how I’m runnin’ sh*t,” but he should be perfectly happy with his ongoing Axe partnership.

Earlier this week, Axe and Baby announced they have collaborated on a forthcoming manga, Shonen Baby, due out July 11.

According to ComicBook, the collaboration is meant to commemorate Axe’s “new Fine Fragrance Collection at Walmart.” Fans must purchase an Axe product from the collection at Walmart to gain access to the manga, which will officially be available for download “during an exclusive invite-only virtual launch event” this summer.

The report continues, “Produced by Passion Pictures with artist Future Power Station and Lil Baby in tow, Shonen Baby is teased as a manga that taps into the aspects of Shonen action manga releases. Shonen Baby sees Lil Baby and AXE ’embark on a unique journey to save Atlanta from the evil Culture Vultures out to drain the city of its juice, while unlocking their inner G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time).’ Lil Baby will be tapping into special powers for the manga as well.”

If anybody is qualified to save Atlanta, it’s Baby, who already has his own day recognized by the city.

Axe’s official website has initiated a countdown clock to the Shonen Baby release and laid out all the necessary steps: purchase any qualifying Axe product via Walmart before May 31, upload proof of receipt by June 15, and voila, “unlock the Ll Baby experience.”

Axe has served as a vessel for Baby to express his love for anime before. Last September, as relayed by Revolt, Axe and Baby generated “three animated digital episodes” to “give people an inside look into some of [Lil Baby’s] most distinct memories associated with Axe scents.”

Baby said in a statement at the time, “I’ve always been a big fan of anime, so having Axe turn some of my intimate memories and thoughts into an animated mini-series is kind of surreal.”

Watch the teaser for Shonen Baby above.

When The Falcon and The Winter Soldier burst onto Disney+ in March 2021, Marvel Studios already had over 20 movies under its belt and a release schedule that got thrown to the wind because of the COVID pandemic. With those factors in play, it’s understandable that the timeline for TFATWS got a little… murky. However, a new book has set the record straight on when the series took place, and how long Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) hesitated on accepting the mantle of Captain America from Steve Rogers (Chris Evans).

According to a new book that will create a definitive chronological order for the MCU, the events in TFATWS took place in 2024 a year after Avengers: Endgame, the film that saw Steve gift Sam his shield. At the start of the series, Sam donates Cap’s shield to the Smithsonian, and the book confirms this took place in 2024.

Via The Direct:

At first glance, this new information seemingly goes against what the show’s director, Kari Skogland, said on the topic. After she revealed the series is six months after Avengers: Endgame, many took that to mean it was simply later in 2023.

So, either there are some big contradictions or the assumed timeframe for Endgame was wrong all along, and six months after is actually in 2024.

Of course, this information is mostly for the wonkiest of the wonky MCU fans. Thanks to the blockbuster franchise’s current focus on the Multiverse, time and space really have no meaning at the moment. In fact, Season 2 of Loki will follow Tom Hiddleston’s trickster God as he tracks Kang through time and ripens history for the conquering.

(Via The Direct)

When Christina Applegate attended the SAG Awards earlier this year, she suggested that this could be her “last awards show as an actor probably,” but hopefully, she will also be nominated for an Emmy after the third season of Dead To Me. To that end, the actress spoke with Vanity Fair about the end of her excellent Netflix series and also reflected upon how not-wonderful it was when Hollywood tried to typecast her as a over-sexualized, ditzy-blonde type.

Applegate also necessarily discussed her battle against MS (which she has told where to shove it), and the progressive nature of the disease causes her to fear setting foot on set again. As she describes, that fear extends to everyday tasks that we all take for granted, including showering. As well, the Married… With Children star opened up about why she had to challenge right-wing troll Candace Owens, who went off on a rant about Kim Kardashian’s Skims clothing line for the “inclusivity thing.” This was related to Owens’ irritation that the company dared to have a disabled model star in an underwear shoot, and here’s why Applegate couldn’t let this behavior slide:

“I had to say it because it’s crap. I know how hard I tried to get my bra on today and I was stuck. And thank God Skims, the beautiful company that has adaptive clothing for people, sent me the one that you can just put on like a vest and it has things in the front for you to clip. With the underwear, you can just pull it up one leg and clip it on the other. We sometimes sit on the toilet for an hour because we can’t get our pants on. It was sad that that person–whose name I don’t speak–took so much space in my f*cking energy field.”

At the time, Candace didn’t accept Applegate’s challenge to get educated, and one surely cannot expect her to step up and do so now because that would involve admitting being in the wrong. Applegate, however, made her point and remains a beloved figure, and one can rest assured that, no matter what she does next, people will be listening and watching.

(Via Vanity Fair)

Everyone has a Muhammad Ali story, even if just a memory of witnessing him from afar or an awareness of his perpetual influence.

Louise Argianas had three. Before recently retiring, she headed up clearance and licensing for ABC Sports/ESPN for forty years. Ali visited the ABC Sports office in 1991, putting on a magic show for employees’ children, including Argianas’ oldest son, Jesse. Ali returned nearly ten years later, pulling new magic tricks from up his sleeve, and politely asked to use Argianas’ back as a surface to sign autographs — “he had his entourage trying to pull him away, but he just wanted to be with the people.” She attended his 70th birthday bash at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in 2012, four years before his death at 74 from Parksinson’s.

“Ali was one of the most central sports personalities of my career. If you’ve seen any documentaries or movies on Ali, I probably had a hand in them because they had to come to me for [archival] footage,” Argianas says. She pauses, then adds, “But meeting him three times? That just doesn’t happen.”

Max Siegelman, Argianas’ youngest son, has his own Muhammad Ali story now — applying a fresh coat of paint to Ali’s cemented legacy as “The Greatest,” in essence and in resume, as a revolutionary 20th-century icon across activism, boxing, and humanitarianism.

On April 28, Siegelman Stable and the Muhammad Ali Estate released a six-piece capsule collection featuring three hats, one boxing-style cut-off sweatshirt, boxing shorts, and boxing tape — all made from dead stock material. Printed across the sweatshirt are four never-before-used photos of Ali standing with one of his horses juxtaposed by his most-used-catchphrase, “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”

“There’s a handful of people that you can go anywhere in the world and say their name and 99.9 percent of the time, someone’s facial expression will be a smile, or the first thing that they have to say will be positive and impactful,” says Max, who founded Siegelman Stable in the summer of 2020. “To be such a young brand, even though we have a heritage story, and to be able to attach to such an unattainable person and tell this piece of his story that may be unknown to a lot of people, that opens doors.”

Everyone has a Muhammad Ali story. And since Max transformed Robert Siegelman Racing Stable, his father’s harness horse-racing and equine therapy stable since 1982, into Siegelman Stable, a full-blown luxury sports and streetwear brand, he’s learned that everybody also has a horse story.

This is Muhammad Ali’s.

In 1979, Ali raced a harness horse in a non-betting race at Maywood Park in Melrose Park to benefit Chicago’s Provident Hospital, the first Black-owned-and-operated hospital in US history. Yes, the three-time heavyweight champion of the world won the race (as reported by The New York Times).

Ali grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, not far from Churchill Downs. The Ali x Siegelman Stable collection purposefully arrived one week before this year’s May 6 running of the Kentucky Derby, and a portion of proceeds will benefit equine therapy — but Ali’s relationship with horses was not a competitive one. For Ali, horses presented a conduit back to his humanity.

In 1963, Ali was spotted running alongside Queen Elizabeth II’s horse carriage in London. His hood was up, but that didn’t deter people from recognizing him. Ali returned to boxing in 1970 after he’d been banished from the sport for three years due to his stand against fighting in the Vietnam War, and the public eye was (somehow) more intensely trained on him. And so, in 1972, he built “Fighter’s Heaven” near Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, where he trained until his last boxing match in 1981.

Ali discovered the six-acre property through Bernie Pollack, a boxing fan who owned Pollack’s Mink Farm three miles down the road. Ali trained at an outdoor boxing ring at Pollack’s. He hated the unpredictability of the weather threatening his regimen, but he loved the tranquility in nature and the ability to jog the backroads without detection.

“Bernie brought him up to where ‘Fighter’s Heaven’ is now,” relays Mick Stefanek, the “Fighter’s Heaven” general manager since August 2017. “He wasn’t at his best. He had his license suspended, and then he lost to Joe Frazier [in 1971], his first career loss. He wanted somewhere he could get back to basics. There was nothing built here.”

Except for a barnstable.

“The story I’ve heard most often is he took a liking to the horses that were here through the Pollack family,” Stefanek adds.

Ali kept the barnstable and built his boxing gym nearby. When Ali had to be on, he was on — as clever as he was confident, boisterous as he was unbeatable — but when he was at “Fighter’s Heaven,” he could be.

Stefanek notes that it’s “an eye-opener” for most people who tour “Fighter’s Heaven” to see a photo of Ali riding a horse —like the horse photographed next to him on the Siegelman Stable sweatshirt — hanging by his boxing ring. If it wasn’t important to Ali for his cabin to have running water or electricity in the early years, why was it important to have horses?

The Siegelman Stable crew visited in mid-March to film this collection’s campaign, and they understood why Ali benefitted from having horses nearby. The magic in the air was infectious, and Max could only imagine what the energy must have been when the cabins were filled with not just Ali’s presence, but everyone else who came to be around him.

“Butterflies start as caterpillars, right? Muhammad was a caterpillar. We all were caterpillars at some point, but he was able to become that butterfly,” says Thai Richards, who has modeled for Siegelman Stable since its 2020 inception.

For one day, Richards felt honored to “exude what I was able to garner from [Ali]” and “add to how transcendent he is as a figure.” Of course, Richards’ emulation of Ali wouldn’t have been complete without posing with the horses on the property.

There’s a belief that Ali’s horses knew him better than anyone, experiencing him at his most human, and being around horses symbolized a return home to Louisville, before he belonged to the world.

Max Siegelman spent much of his adolescence in Long Island (NY) commuting to his dad’s New Jersey stable and learning to appreciate horses as powerful athletes. Robbie Siegelman would approach Max’s soccer injuries the same way he would an injured horse. The Siegelmans treated their horses in a humane way that wasn’t always afforded to Muhammad Ali.

Siegelman and Karoline Spenning, Siegelman’s girlfriend and Siegelman Stable’s creative director, watched hours of Ali footage. There are usually missing files in the retelling of someone’s life. It’s less likely with someone as exhaustively documented as Ali, and because of how publicly he lived, an authentic campaign message was hiding in plain sight: Footage of Ali reciting a poem called “Truth.”

Spenning explains, “In the very beginning of our video, we have Muhammad Ali’s interviews where he talks about how confident he is. If you’re good with horses, you have to be confident. You have to be sure. A horse can read energy way better than humans.”

“A big piece of Siegelman Stable going forward is bringing attention to harness racing and to horses being athletes,” Siegelman adds, noting that boxing tape is in this collection because it doubles as compression tape for a horse’s legs. “Ali is talking about the truth and what that looks like and or is perceived as. Karoline’s idea was to utilize his words as showing a horse as an athlete, and the truth of that, and the truth of Muhammad Ali as an individual.”

And then, there’s the truth of Siegelman Stable.

Like “Fighter’s Heaven,” Siegelman Stable was built from scratch. Argianas drew the logo on a napkin in the 1980s so that Robbie, her husband, could found a training stable as dedicated to harness horse-racing as providing equine therapy to traumatized groups, like inner-city youth or children in hospitals.

Max moved to New York City in 2014 and was surprised to find that people unfamiliar with Siegelman Stable admired it as a fashion statement. He’d wear his grandfather’s old Siegelman Stable jacket out and about, and more and more strangers approached him to ask where they could cop one. “That’s when I started selling hats and sweatshirts,” he says. “Everybody used to say they had a family member who went to races or grew up with horses, some [tie to] horses,” he says.

The pandemic hit in 2020, and Max went in all on carrying his family’s legacy forward.

“When he told us he was going to make Siegelman Stable clothes with the logo from his dad’s stable, I was like, ‘Who is gonna wear that?’” Argianas says, laughing now because that reminds her of Max’s US history teacher in high school, Mr. Davis, telling her, “Max is going to do something where he has his finger on the pulse of American pop culture.”

“What a weird thing to say, but how true it became,” she says.

Some of today’s most influential people became loyal Siegelman Stable fans because they love that logo, starting in the NBA Bubble with Dallas Mavericks forward Tim Hardaway Jr. The brand’s A-list customer base is growing all the time, boasting the likes of Aaron Judge, Dwyane Wade, Future, Post Malone, Justin Bieber, Kendall Jenner, Kane Brown, Justin Turner, The Chainsmokers, and more. Official collaborations to this point have included the Hambletonian, San Antonio Spurs, Kygo’s Palm Tree Crew, and Johnnie Walker Blue Label.

The mounting visibility caught the eye of Barry Clarke of Authentic Brands Group, which acquired the Ali Estate in 2013, last August.

“Siegelman Stable is a luxury sportswear and streetwear brand that is capturing a young audience through purpose. Their deep connection to horses and history make them the perfect partner to bring this rarely visited aspect of Muhammad’s story to life,” says Mychal Bogee, brand director of entertainment at Authentic Brands Group.

At “Fighter’s Heaven,” the synergy was undeniable for the Siegelmans.

“You can feel how special of a place it was. There are a bunch of different cabins where his family, trainers, or other boxers lived. The boxing ring is in a cabin, and it opens to a concrete basketball court, and then 20 feet past that was a horse stable,” Max says. “He obviously surrounded himself with things that either made him happy, comfortable, or just brought him joy. It’s cool to see that horses were a part of it.”

Ken Burns’ 2021 four-part docuseries, Muhammad Ali, could have opened with any number of iconic fights scenes or evoking speeches. Instead, the first scene is of Ali tricking his toddler-aged daughter into looking out the window at “a pretty horsey” so he could playfully steal a bite of her food.

It was the same genuine, imaginative Ali that Argianas watched perform magic tricks for Jesse and other children in an ABC Sports conference room.

“Horses force you to live in the moment. You forget about your past and everything that haunts you. Horses don’t care if you are rich or poor or famous; they only judge you on who you are at that moment,” Argianas says. “Anyone who met Ali felt special because, in that moment, you felt like this amazing icon, who has done so much not only for his sport, but for all humanity through charities and his fight for social justice, is focusing on you in the most inclusive way. To him, all people were important and mattered. You appreciate this as a gift.”

There was no horse outside on that day decades ago, but the thought of one delighted Ali. If he were looking through that window now, he might see a pretty horsey on a black-and-red Siegelman Stable hat, worn by someone with a new Muhammad Ali story to tell.

Everyone has a Muhammad Ali story, even if just a memory of witnessing him from afar or an awareness of his perpetual influence.

Louise Argianas had three. Before recently retiring, she headed up clearance and licensing for ABC Sports/ESPN for forty years. Ali visited the ABC Sports office in 1991, putting on a magic show for employees’ children, including Argianas’ oldest son, Jesse. Ali returned nearly ten years later, pulling new magic tricks from up his sleeve, and politely asked to use Argianas’ back as a surface to sign autographs — “he had his entourage trying to pull him away, but he just wanted to be with the people.” She attended his 70th birthday bash at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in 2012, four years before his death at 74 from Parksinson’s.

“Ali was one of the most central sports personalities of my career. If you’ve seen any documentaries or movies on Ali, I probably had a hand in them because they had to come to me for [archival] footage,” Argianas says. She pauses, then adds, “But meeting him three times? That just doesn’t happen.”

Max Siegelman, Argianas’ youngest son, has his own Muhammad Ali story now — applying a fresh coat of paint to Ali’s cemented legacy as “The Greatest,” in essence and in resume, as a revolutionary 20th-century icon across activism, boxing, and humanitarianism.

On April 28, Siegelman Stable and the Muhammad Ali Estate released a six-piece capsule collection featuring three hats, one boxing-style cut-off sweatshirt, boxing shorts, and boxing tape — all made from dead stock material. Printed across the sweatshirt are four never-before-used photos of Ali standing with one of his horses juxtaposed by his most-used-catchphrase, “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”

“There’s a handful of people that you can go anywhere in the world and say their name and 99.9 percent of the time, someone’s facial expression will be a smile, or the first thing that they have to say will be positive and impactful,” says Max, who founded Siegelman Stable in the summer of 2020. “To be such a young brand, even though we have a heritage story, and to be able to attach to such an unattainable person and tell this piece of his story that may be unknown to a lot of people, that opens doors.”

Everyone has a Muhammad Ali story. And since Max transformed Robert Siegelman Racing Stable, his father’s harness horse-racing and equine therapy stable since 1982, into Siegelman Stable, a full-blown luxury sports and streetwear brand, he’s learned that everybody also has a horse story.

This is Muhammad Ali’s.

In 1979, Ali raced a harness horse in a non-betting race at Maywood Park in Melrose Park to benefit Chicago’s Provident Hospital, the first Black-owned-and-operated hospital in US history. Yes, the three-time heavyweight champion of the world won the race (as reported by The New York Times).

Ali grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, not far from Churchill Downs. The Ali x Siegelman Stable collection purposefully arrived one week before this year’s May 6 running of the Kentucky Derby, and a portion of proceeds will benefit equine therapy — but Ali’s relationship with horses was not a competitive one. For Ali, horses presented a conduit back to his humanity.

In 1963, Ali was spotted running alongside Queen Elizabeth II’s horse carriage in London. His hood was up, but that didn’t deter people from recognizing him. Ali returned to boxing in 1970 after he’d been banished from the sport for three years due to his stand against fighting in the Vietnam War, and the public eye was (somehow) more intensely trained on him. And so, in 1972, he built “Fighter’s Heaven” near Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, where he trained until his last boxing match in 1981.

Ali discovered the six-acre property through Bernie Pollack, a boxing fan who owned Pollack’s Mink Farm three miles down the road. Ali trained at an outdoor boxing ring at Pollack’s. He hated the unpredictability of the weather threatening his regimen, but he loved the tranquility in nature and the ability to jog the backroads without detection.

“Bernie brought him up to where ‘Fighter’s Heaven’ is now,” relays Mick Stefanek, the “Fighter’s Heaven” general manager since August 2017. “He wasn’t at his best. He had his license suspended, and then he lost to Joe Frazier [in 1971], his first career loss. He wanted somewhere he could get back to basics. There was nothing built here.”

Except for a barnstable.

“The story I’ve heard most often is he took a liking to the horses that were here through the Pollack family,” Stefanek adds.

Ali kept the barnstable and built his boxing gym nearby. When Ali had to be on, he was on — as clever as he was confident, boisterous as he was unbeatable — but when he was at “Fighter’s Heaven,” he could be.

Stefanek notes that it’s “an eye-opener” for most people who tour “Fighter’s Heaven” to see a photo of Ali riding a horse —like the horse photographed next to him on the Siegelman Stable sweatshirt — hanging by his boxing ring. If it wasn’t important to Ali for his cabin to have running water or electricity in the early years, why was it important to have horses?

The Siegelman Stable crew visited in mid-March to film this collection’s campaign, and they understood why Ali benefitted from having horses nearby. The magic in the air was infectious, and Max could only imagine what the energy must have been when the cabins were filled with not just Ali’s presence, but everyone else who came to be around him.

“Butterflies start as caterpillars, right? Muhammad was a caterpillar. We all were caterpillars at some point, but he was able to become that butterfly,” says Thai Richards, who has modeled for Siegelman Stable since its 2020 inception.

For one day, Richards felt honored to “exude what I was able to garner from [Ali]” and “add to how transcendent he is as a figure.” Of course, Richards’ emulation of Ali wouldn’t have been complete without posing with the horses on the property.

There’s a belief that Ali’s horses knew him better than anyone, experiencing him at his most human, and being around horses symbolized a return home to Louisville, before he belonged to the world.

Max Siegelman spent much of his adolescence in Long Island (NY) commuting to his dad’s New Jersey stable and learning to appreciate horses as powerful athletes. Robbie Siegelman would approach Max’s soccer injuries the same way he would an injured horse. The Siegelmans treated their horses in a humane way that wasn’t always afforded to Muhammad Ali.

Siegelman and Karoline Spenning, Siegelman’s girlfriend and Siegelman Stable’s creative director, watched hours of Ali footage. There are usually missing files in the retelling of someone’s life. It’s less likely with someone as exhaustively documented as Ali, and because of how publicly he lived, an authentic campaign message was hiding in plain sight: Footage of Ali reciting a poem called “Truth.”

Spenning explains, “In the very beginning of our video, we have Muhammad Ali’s interviews where he talks about how confident he is. If you’re good with horses, you have to be confident. You have to be sure. A horse can read energy way better than humans.”

“A big piece of Siegelman Stable going forward is bringing attention to harness racing and to horses being athletes,” Siegelman adds, noting that boxing tape is in this collection because it doubles as compression tape for a horse’s legs. “Ali is talking about the truth and what that looks like and or is perceived as. Karoline’s idea was to utilize his words as showing a horse as an athlete, and the truth of that, and the truth of Muhammad Ali as an individual.”

And then, there’s the truth of Siegelman Stable.

Like “Fighter’s Heaven,” Siegelman Stable was built from scratch. Argianas drew the logo on a napkin in the 1980s so that Robbie, her husband, could found a training stable as dedicated to harness horse-racing as providing equine therapy to traumatized groups, like inner-city youth or children in hospitals.

Max moved to New York City in 2014 and was surprised to find that people unfamiliar with Siegelman Stable admired it as a fashion statement. He’d wear his grandfather’s old Siegelman Stable jacket out and about, and more and more strangers approached him to ask where they could cop one. “That’s when I started selling hats and sweatshirts,” he says. “Everybody used to say they had a family member who went to races or grew up with horses, some [tie to] horses,” he says.

The pandemic hit in 2020, and Max went in all on carrying his family’s legacy forward.

“When he told us he was going to make Siegelman Stable clothes with the logo from his dad’s stable, I was like, ‘Who is gonna wear that?’” Argianas says, laughing now because that reminds her of Max’s US history teacher in high school, Mr. Davis, telling her, “Max is going to do something where he has his finger on the pulse of American pop culture.”

“What a weird thing to say, but how true it became,” she says.

Some of today’s most influential people became loyal Siegelman Stable fans because they love that logo, starting in the NBA Bubble with Dallas Mavericks forward Tim Hardaway Jr. The brand’s A-list customer base is growing all the time, boasting the likes of Aaron Judge, Dwyane Wade, Future, Post Malone, Justin Bieber, Kendall Jenner, Kane Brown, Justin Turner, The Chainsmokers, and more. Official collaborations to this point have included the Hambletonian, San Antonio Spurs, Kygo’s Palm Tree Crew, and Johnnie Walker Blue Label.

The mounting visibility caught the eye of Barry Clarke of Authentic Brands Group, which acquired the Ali Estate in 2013, last August.

“Siegelman Stable is a luxury sportswear and streetwear brand that is capturing a young audience through purpose. Their deep connection to horses and history make them the perfect partner to bring this rarely visited aspect of Muhammad’s story to life,” says Mychal Bogee, brand director of entertainment at Authentic Brands Group.

At “Fighter’s Heaven,” the synergy was undeniable for the Siegelmans.

“You can feel how special of a place it was. There are a bunch of different cabins where his family, trainers, or other boxers lived. The boxing ring is in a cabin, and it opens to a concrete basketball court, and then 20 feet past that was a horse stable,” Max says. “He obviously surrounded himself with things that either made him happy, comfortable, or just brought him joy. It’s cool to see that horses were a part of it.”

Ken Burns’ 2021 four-part docuseries, Muhammad Ali, could have opened with any number of iconic fights scenes or evoking speeches. Instead, the first scene is of Ali tricking his toddler-aged daughter into looking out the window at “a pretty horsey” so he could playfully steal a bite of her food.

It was the same genuine, imaginative Ali that Argianas watched perform magic tricks for Jesse and other children in an ABC Sports conference room.

“Horses force you to live in the moment. You forget about your past and everything that haunts you. Horses don’t care if you are rich or poor or famous; they only judge you on who you are at that moment,” Argianas says. “Anyone who met Ali felt special because, in that moment, you felt like this amazing icon, who has done so much not only for his sport, but for all humanity through charities and his fight for social justice, is focusing on you in the most inclusive way. To him, all people were important and mattered. You appreciate this as a gift.”

There was no horse outside on that day decades ago, but the thought of one delighted Ali. If he were looking through that window now, he might see a pretty horsey on a black-and-red Siegelman Stable hat, worn by someone with a new Muhammad Ali story to tell.

Christina Applegate‘s breakout performance was as Kelly Bundy in the archetypal ’90s sitcom, Married… with Children. She could have carved out a career playing equally ditzy blondes, but she refused to let herself be typecast.

“Billions. Billions,” Applegate told Vanity Fair about the number of offers she received to play other Kelly-like characters. “I never took one of them. I would audition for stuff and people would be like, ‘Oh my god, she gave the best audition of anyone, but it’s Christina, and we can’t have that name associated with this masterpiece.’ That happened more times than you can imagine.”

Applegate also discussed the “gross” part about being famous.

“I was never on the receiving end of any kind of lasciviousness from anyone before [Married… with Children] because I was wearing bells around my ankles and moccasins and wearing patchouli. I was a gross little hippie kid. Looking back on it in hindsight, it’s pretty gross. Yeah, that part of it kind of sucked. Men had posters of this little 17-year-old, with me holding pearls. Like, who let me do that? I didn’t even know what the connotation was.”

Applegate, who was so good in Dead to Me, recently attended her “last awards show as an actor probably” due to her MS diagnosis.

(Via Vanity Fair)

Christina Applegate‘s breakout performance was as Kelly Bundy in the archetypal ’90s sitcom, Married… with Children. She could have carved out a career playing equally ditzy blondes, but she refused to let herself be typecast.

“Billions. Billions,” Applegate told Vanity Fair about the number of offers she received to play other Kelly-like characters. “I never took one of them. I would audition for stuff and people would be like, ‘Oh my god, she gave the best audition of anyone, but it’s Christina, and we can’t have that name associated with this masterpiece.’ That happened more times than you can imagine.”

Applegate also discussed the “gross” part about being famous.

“I was never on the receiving end of any kind of lasciviousness from anyone before [Married… with Children] because I was wearing bells around my ankles and moccasins and wearing patchouli. I was a gross little hippie kid. Looking back on it in hindsight, it’s pretty gross. Yeah, that part of it kind of sucked. Men had posters of this little 17-year-old, with me holding pearls. Like, who let me do that? I didn’t even know what the connotation was.”

Applegate, who was so good in Dead to Me, recently attended her “last awards show as an actor probably” due to her MS diagnosis.

(Via Vanity Fair)

Nelly’s Hot In Herre Festival isn’t until next month, but there’s (allegedly) plenty of heat between him and his former-girlfriend-who-might-be-his-current-girlfriend, Ashanti.

Nelly and Ashanti have been stoking reconciliation rumors since December when they performed their 2008 collaborative track “Body On Me” during a holiday festival in Atlanta. Last month, they performed it again in Las Vegas before attending the Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Ryan Garcia fight together.

And on Wednesday, May 3, Entertainment Tonight reported that their vibe isn’t performative at all.

“Nelly and Ashanti are back together, and both of them are very happy,” an unnamed source told ET.

The outlet cited a separate unnamed source as relaying, “Nelly and Ashanti are really enjoying their time together.”

Bow Wow will be pleased to hear this, as he advocated for Nelly to “stop playing and marry this woman” when footage of Ashanti and Nelly arriving to the Vegas fight together began circulating online in late April.

In December, Ashanti visited Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen and was asked to address online commentary that she and Nelly were rekindling their early-2000s romance.

“I mean, my reaction was, wow,” she said. “It was a lot of comments and a lot of people wanting that. What I will say is we’re in a better place. […] We’re cool now. We had some conversations, so it’s cool.”

Nelly also addressed the speculation in February.

“Time does wonders for a lot of different things,” he told Entertainment Tonight while attending the 2023 Grammys. “And time is one those things that allows you time to reflect on what’s what, and you get a chance to see things in a different light and see your faults. I think we both did that, and it’s cool that we just friends.”

Ashanti and Nelly initially met in 2003 and dated until splitting around 2013, as chronicled by Complex.

Nelly’s Hot In Herre Festival isn’t until next month, but there’s (allegedly) plenty of heat between him and his former-girlfriend-who-might-be-his-current-girlfriend, Ashanti.

Nelly and Ashanti have been stoking reconciliation rumors since December when they performed their 2008 collaborative track “Body On Me” during a holiday festival in Atlanta. Last month, they performed it again in Las Vegas before attending the Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Ryan Garcia fight together.

And on Wednesday, May 3, Entertainment Tonight reported that their vibe isn’t performative at all.

“Nelly and Ashanti are back together, and both of them are very happy,” an unnamed source told ET.

The outlet cited a separate unnamed source as relaying, “Nelly and Ashanti are really enjoying their time together.”

Bow Wow will be pleased to hear this, as he advocated for Nelly to “stop playing and marry this woman” when footage of Ashanti and Nelly arriving to the Vegas fight together began circulating online in late April.

In December, Ashanti visited Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen and was asked to address online commentary that she and Nelly were rekindling their early-2000s romance.

“I mean, my reaction was, wow,” she said. “It was a lot of comments and a lot of people wanting that. What I will say is we’re in a better place. […] We’re cool now. We had some conversations, so it’s cool.”

Nelly also addressed the speculation in February.

“Time does wonders for a lot of different things,” he told Entertainment Tonight while attending the 2023 Grammys. “And time is one those things that allows you time to reflect on what’s what, and you get a chance to see things in a different light and see your faults. I think we both did that, and it’s cool that we just friends.”

Ashanti and Nelly initially met in 2003 and dated until splitting around 2013, as chronicled by Complex.

Concert etiquette has been a bit off since the pandemic. Fans hold their phones up to record the whole show, some chuck cameras at the performer on the stage. However, at the show for the South Korean K-pop group NMIXX on Tuesday (May 2) in Seattle, Washington, something even more unexpected happened.

A video of a baby — yes, a human baby — crawling onto the stage in the midst of the concert went viral on Twitter. Member Kyujin looked concerned as she hurried to pick up the baby and hand it to the mother at the edge of the stage. However, the area is so crowded and everyone’s hands are reaching for the star — it’s chaos.

An attendee shared more about the situation in a Twitter thread, explaining that the mother kept the baby in its stroller by security with noise-canceling headphones for most of the performance, until the baby woke up and the NMIXX members began interacting with fans.

Fans of NMIXX call out the mother in the quote-tweets for not taking the necessary precautions to keeping the baby safe at the gig. Others complain that the baby was simply a tool for the parent to get attention from the musicians. Either way, we can all agree that babies do not belong in such riled-up, frenzied environments. Simple concert etiquette!