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Cardi B and Madonna appear to have reconciled over the phone today (October 22) after Cardi expressed dissatisfaction with a message Madge shared on her Instagram Stories. Yesterday, Madonna reflected on her album, Erotica and its accompanying coffee table book Sex, which featured provocative sexual imagery.

“Now Cardi B can sing about her WAP, Kim Kardashian can grace the cover of any magazine with her naked ass, and Miley Cyrus can come in like a wrecking ball,” said Madonna in her Instagram story. “You’re welcome b*tches……. (clown emoji)”

Cardi caught wind of the comments and later said in a now-deleted tweet, “I literally payed this woman homage so many times cause I grew up listening to her …she can make her point without putting clown emojis and getting slick out the mouth,” wrote Cardi “..These icons really become disappointments once u make it in the industry that’s why I keep to myself.”

Jason Lee, host of radio show Hollywood Unlocked, later revealed that he had listened to Cardi and Madonna talk on the phone.

“On the phone with Madonna and Cardi,” said Lee in a tweet. “Listening to both women share their perspective on the communication going on has broadened their love for each other. Love this [signed a fly on the wall].”

Shortly after, Cardi confirmed that the aforementioned conversation did, in fact, take place.

“I talked to Madonna,” said Cardi in a tweet.”…It was beautiful….Have a great day and drive safely yallll.”

Madonna responded, reaffirming her love for the “WAP” rapper.

“I love you @iamcardib,” said Madonna “Always have and always will.”

Perhaps we can expect a collab in the future?

Cardi B and Madonna are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Travis Scott is once again finding himself in the middle of cheating rumors.

Last week, a model named Rojean Kar, who was rumored to have had an affair with Scott back in 2019, shared a video on her Instagram Stories of what appeared to be a video shoot for Scott. The post raised speculation that Scott had been cheating on his longtime girlfriend, Kylie Jenner.

“It’s a lot of weird sh*t going on,” said Scott. “An uninvited person was sneaking photos on, what was supposed to be, a closed set while I was directing a video. I’m saying this for the last time. I don’t know this person. I’ve never been with this person. So please stop with the continuous cyber games and the fictional storytelling.”

Kar responded to Scott’s comments on her story, saying, “Saying you don’t know me and you’ve never once been with me when you’ve definitely been with me, when f*cking everybody’s seen you with me, when I have pictures and videos of you with me, come on.”

Kar then said she and Scott spent Valentine’s Day together.

“I saw you,” she said. “I ran out the door and you had every single girl I know blowing me up, like, ‘Trav’s asking for you, come back.’ Are we pretending that didn’t happen too? Like, come on. You cheat on that b*tch every single f*cking night. The whole f*cking city sees it.”

Scott once again refuted this claim, and shared a picture of a Valentine’s Day table set-up, captioned with “If u wasn’t at this table on V day then u wasn’t with me.”

Jenner has not publicly responded to the rumors.

Donald Trump is a little busy these days, with so many fires raging that he might have missed one of them: Last week, he was finally and formally subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 committee. Will he blow it off? Or will he actually show up and do his best to derail the proceedings? Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has a theory on what he’ll do, and it’s not a compliment.

Pelosi went on MSNBC’s The Sunday Show, where host Jonathan Capehart asked if she thinks the former president will actually do the thing that Steve Bannon wouldn’t.

“I don’t think he’s man enough to show up,” Pelosi responded. “I don’t think his lawyers will want him to show up, because he has to testify under oath. But I don’t think he’ll show up, I don’t think he’s man enough. We’ll see. Let’s see if he’s man enough to show up.”

Pelosi added, “Nobody is above the law. If we believe that, then they should make a judgment about how he responds to that request.” Should he not show up, Pelosi said the American people should intuit that he thinks he’s “above the law.” But at least he’s manly.

Capehart also asked Pelosi about Marjorie Taylor Greene, who demanded that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy give her more power should the GOP retake the House. But Pelosi brushed that off, insisting that Democrats will retain control, referring to her only as “what’s-her-name.”

You can watch Pelosi’s segment below. The business about Trump begins around the 3:35 mark.

(Via Raw Story)

Ahead of his upcoming memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, Bono of U2 has issued an apology for putting U2’s 2014 album Songs Of Innocence in every iTunes user’s library that year.

In an excerpt shared with The Guardian, Bono revealed that Apple CEO Tim Cook was initially averse to the idea of paying for several digital copies of Songs Of Innocence and giving them to iTunes users for free, but the band ultimately persuaded Cook to go through with the idea.

At the time of its release, many were chagrined to find Songs Of Innocence on their iPhones. Bono recalled some social media comments saying “Woke up this morning to find Bono in my kitchen, drinking my coffee, wearing my dressing gown, reading my paper,” as well as, “The free U2 album is overpriced.”

“If just getting our music to people who like our music was the idea, that was a good idea,” said Bono in the memoir. “But if the idea was getting our music to people who might not have had a remote interest in our music, maybe there might be some pushback. At first, I thought this was just an internet squall, but quickly realized we’d bumped into a serious discussion about big tech. I take full responsibility. Not Guy O, not Edge, not Adam, not Larry, not Tim Cook, not Eddy Cue. I’d thought if we could just put our music within reach of people, they might choose to reach out toward it. Not quite.”

Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story hits shelves 11/1.

For months, two races in Philadelphia have provided plenty of entertainment fodder. John Fetterman, running for the state’s vacating Senate seat, has relentlessly and creatively dragged his opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz. Meanwhile, Doug Mastriano, an extremist MAGA candidate running for governor, has comically lagged in the polls. But recently a dark horse has been quietly elbowing his way into the scene, ready to sow chaos: Donald Trump.

A new report by Rolling Stone reveals that the former president — who lost the Keystone State in 2020 after winning it in 2016 — has been holding meetings and conference calls to plot how the GOP can challenge the midterm results…at least if they lose.

“If there’s any hint of doubt about the winners, the teams plan to wage aggressive court campaigns and launch a media blitz,” Rolling Stone writes:

If the Republican does not win by a wide enough margin to trigger a speedy concession from Fetterman — or if the vote tally is close on or after Election Night in November — Trump and other Republicans are already preparing to wage a legal and activist crusade against the “election integrity” of Democratic strongholds such as the Philly area.

Or he could always do what Trump did on Election Night: assert that he won, even if he didn’t.

Pennsylvania is just the beginning; Trump and cronies are also aiming to sow chaos nationwide. One of the targets already in play is mail-in voting. Conservative figures like Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin have already zeroed in on ballots that don’t feature handwritten dates, even though doing so isn’t legal:

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in May that tossing out undated ballots violated the Civil Rights Act by “disenfranchising otherwise qualified voters” over a “meaningless requirement” that has no bearing on a voter’s eligibility. The case led the Third Circuit to instruct Pennsylvania election boards to count undated ballots In a ruling last week, the Supreme Court threw out the Third Circuit’s decision but did not rule on the underlying legality of counting undated ballots.

Meanwhile, MAGA candidates like Blake Masters and Kari Lake have already refused to vow that they’ll accept election results if they aren’t the winner.

Since 2020, Pennsylvania has evolved into the nation’s key swing state, which could very well declare the winner in the 2024 presidential election. It’s worth noting, however, that neither Trump nor others in the GOP have given money to either Oz or Mastroiani’s campaigns. Perhaps they know that, should either or both lose, all they have to do is complain, issue frivolous lawsuits, and lie.

(Via Rolling Stone)

Anna Wintour and Vogue are the latest to sever ties with Kanye West. According to a report from Page Six, a representative from Vogue stated that “neither the magazine nor its editor-in-chief Anna Wintour intend to work with Kanye West again after his anti-Semitic rants and support for the White Lives Matter cause.”

“Anna has had enough,” said an insider to Page Six, adding, “She has made it very clear inside Vogue that Kanye is no longer part of the inner circle.”

Wintour and Ye had been friends for years. Ye had attended Wintour’s Met Gala several times since 2009, and even shouted her out on his 2012 DJ Khaled collab, “Cold.”

“Dinner with Anna Wintour / Racing with Anja Rubik / I told you motherf*ckers it was more than the music / In the projects one day, to project runway.”

In 2014, Wintour featured Ye and his then-wife Kim Kardashian on the cover of Vogue after their wedding.

Most recently, Wintour hired Baz Luhrmann to film a meeting between Ye and Vogue‘s fashion editor, Gabriela Karefa-Johnson earlier this month, after he mocked her on Instagram.

This news arrives after Balenciaga announced last week they will no longer work with Ye.

At the time of writing, it is unclear what Vogue‘s Ye ban will entail.

This weekend, Madonna celebrated the 30th anniversary of her fifth studio album, Erotica. In 1992, she accompanied the album with a coffee table book called Sex, which contained images of various sex acts considered taboo at the time. On Saturday, Madge took to her Instagram stories to reiterate the album and book’s impact.

Her story read:

30 years ago I published a book called S.E.X. in addition to photos of me naked there were photos of Men kissing Men, Woman kissing Woman and me kissing everyone.

I also wrote about my sexual fantasies and shared my point of view about sexuality in an ironic way.

I spent the next few years being interviewed by narrow minded people who tried to shame me for empowering myself as a Woman. I was called a whore, a witch a heretic and the devil.

Now Cardi B can sing about her WAP. Kim Kardashian can grace the cover of any magazine with her naked ass and Miley Cyrus can come in like a wrecking ball.

You’re welcome b*tches……. (clown emoji)

While many of Madonna’s fans agreed with the statement, Cardi was not thrilled. The rapper took to Twitter to express her chagrin toward Madge’s comments.

“I literally payed this woman homage so many times cause I grew up listening to her …she can make her point without putting clown emojis and getting slick out the mouth,” wrote Cardi “..These icons really become disappointments once u make it in the industry that’s why I keep to myself.”

At the time of writing, Madonna had not yet responded to Cardi, nor have Cyrus and Kardashian responded to Madonna.

Madonna and Cardi B are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Last week, Herschel Walker did something strange even for him: The footballer-turned-MAGA candidate busted out an honorary police badge during a debate. Why? To show that he’s law enforcement, or something. Now another kooky Trumpworld figure has done the same thing.

As per Mediaite, Mike Lindell, the pillow salesman-turned-frothing voter fraud conspiracy theorist, was speaking ahead of the latest Trump rally, in Robstown, Texas. He gave some advice on what to do if election workers prevent people from voting, or something: Go to your local sheriff. And like Walker before him, he had a little, not-exactly-official prop.

“Encourage everyone you know to vote the day of the election, not before. Very important everybody,” Lindell advised. “The media’s all over attacking me for telling you all that. If you get a mail-in vote or whatever, mail-in ballot, just bring it with you to make sure if they tell you, ‘oh, you already voted,’ say, no I didn’t and you go to your local sheriff.”

He then pointed to a tiny badge attached to the lapel of his jacket, saying, “They just gave me a little badge.” He then joked that it made him “semi-official.”

Granted, Lindell didn’t go all-in like Walker did during his debate with opponent Raphael Warnock. Nor has he, as Walker has, had other toy badges made to hand out to his supporters. But then, if anyone’s going to burn money over total nonsense, it’s probably the MyPillow Guy.

(Via Mediaite)

Dwayne Johnson recently revealed that he recently cried during Braveheart. (Or rather, he got “misty-eyed,” which is close enough.) Now he has another reason to tear up: Black Adam, his superhero movie-verse debut, has overcome so-so reviews to give him the best leading man opening of his career.

As per Deadline, the latest DCEU entry — with Johnson as a semi-hero with godlike powers who does a lot of near-R-rated killing — is on track to open with a whopping $67 million from domestic theaters alone. That pushes it ahead of some of his other biggest openers. The record was previously held by Hobbs & Shaw ($60 million), in which he was co-lead with Jason Statham. It was also bigger than Jumanji: The Next Level ($59 million) and San Andreas ($54 million). Heck, it was nearly $15 million more than another DCEU episode, Shazam!, to which it’s closely related ($53).

Mind you, this isn’t the biggest opener ever for a movie with Dwayne Johnson. Those ones just tend to have the words “Fast” and/or “Furious” in the titles. In those films, Johnson is simply part of the ensemble — or was, partly because of his beef with Vin Diesel, which Johnson is apparently not ready to end. But it seems he’s doing just fine on his own.

(Via Deadline)

We may not have the visuals for Beyoncé‘s Renaissance album yet, however, we did get an update on a tour. Last night (October 22) at WACO Theater‘s Wearable Art Gala 2022, Beyoncé teased the tour with a very lavish package for auction.

The concert ticket package was presented in partnership with United Airlines.

The description read:

Valued at a total of $20,000, United x WACO offers you a chance to see Beyoncé on her Renaissance tour starting in the summer of 2023 at any of United’s national and international destinations around the world.

This prize is complete with 2 first-class international United Airlines Polaris tickets to select cities with 3-night hotel accommodations at a Marriott property.

And, to one of the most sought-after musical performances of all time, 2 concert tickets to Beyoncé’s Renaissance 2023 tour with a guided backstage tour with Miss Tina!

Miss Tina, refers to the nickname given to Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, by the Beyhive.

Beyoncé herself has not yet announced the tour, however, fans in attendance at the gala snapped pictures of the announcement and shared the news of the tour on social media.

She has also not yet confirmed the individual dates and cities she will be visiting.