As the saying goes, “the show must go on.” That goes for accidentally swallowing an insect on live television.
Just ask Canada’s Global News anchor Farah Nasser, who’s awkward blip became a viral sensation on Twitter.
The video clip, which has been viewed more than 100,000 times, shows the journalist trying her best to persevere through a serious report on Pakistan’s devastating monsoons after something clearly gets caught in her throat.
The amount of struggle in her voice and on her face was palpable, but the fly—not so much. Though the fly wasn’t visible on screen, Nasser shared in an interview with CNN “I could feel it fluttering in the back of my throat.”
But still, the flying insect was no match for Nasser’s resolve! Giving Entertainment Tonight the recap, she thought to herself “not today fly” and made it through her segment like a pro.
Sharing because we all need a laugh these days. Turns out it’s not just @fordnation, I swallowed a fly on air today.
Speaking of pros, the comments to this video were simply exquisite.
One person, clearly fond of puns, wrote “I knew something was BUGGING me about your coverage of that story but I didn’t have time to INSECT it further. You handled it like a pro, especially since you were LARVE on TV.”
10/10. No notes.
Though the clip has been getting a lot of laughs online, Nasser knew to remain sensitive, writing in her caption that the situation was “very much a first world problem given the story I’m introducing.”
Still, she thought the moment was an opportunity to add a bit of levity to the often dreary headlines, telling ET “news is so heavy so it’s really nice to just give people a laugh—even if it’s at my expense.”
You never really know what life is gonna throw at you. Sometimes you just gotta take a gulp and hope for the best.
In some families, getting an earring when you’re young is no big deal, but in others it’s a big no-no. Some people have feelings about body-altering choices wrapped up in beliefs about age-appropriateness, assumptions or judgments about what certain choices mean or simply old-fashioned norms and expectations.
For whatever reason, Ryan Reynolds’ dad was not a fan of him getting an earring at age 12. But that didn’t stop him from doing it.
Reynolds shared the story about how his brothers unexpectedly saved him from his dad’s wrath over his getting an earring on David Letterman’s “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.” In typical Ryan Reynolds’ fashion, it’s a funny story, but also super heartwarming.
Reynolds explained that he had a rebellious period when he was about 12 years old and decided to get an earring for reasons he can’t really recall. “I don’t know. Wham! was big,” he told Letterman.
“My brothers said, ‘You’re gonna die. You’re gonna show up at dinner tonight and there will be a messy stabbing death because Dad will take one of the utensils and stab you,'” Reynolds said.
Nonetheless, he and his friend went to “Sears or wherever the hell you go” to get the piercing, his friend’s mom signed the consent form (bold move, friend’s mom) and the deed was done.
“I remember my face being so flush with blood and heat thinking about this impending disaster that was about to happen,” he said, “and also really kind of rooting and sitting in that rebellion of the moment, too, like I’m doing something for me, I’m standing up to this.”
He got to the dinner table, anxious and sweating, and could feel his dad’s gaze. Then his dad uttered some kind of swear word (something like “you f*@ks,'” he said) and when Reynolds looked up he saw what his three brothers had done for him.
“It was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen in my life,” he said.
Cardi B has a hot and cold relationship with social media and Twitter in particular. Back in April, she left the platform for two weeks because fans were harassing her for skipping the Grammys. You have to wonder why a big name celebrity like the “I Like It” singer spends their time engaging with trolls and shifty fans. But when she does, it’s typically gold. And for the most part, Cardi is just trying to have some fun. So when she posted a series of photos from her high school days in The Bronx yesterday, some fans were having some fun with her.
“Ghetto teenager……fun fact -The emo kids in school were actually really cool and will give me free cigarettes,” she wrote along with four photos from her as a high schooler. One photo focused on her eyebrow piercing, in another she was lighting a cigarette in another, and on the last one, she was holding a vodka bottle looking, well…sorta emo.
Ghetto teenager……fun fact -The emo kids in school were actually really cool and will give me free cigarettes pic.twitter.com/K44qpr75Yh
One user definitely thought Cardi was the emo kid herself and let her know, saying, “Idky the last pic got me screaming. Emo Cardi was deep in that sh*t.”
Cardi B got defensive, but she clearly was having a good time with it. “I wasn’t EMO ….I was pierced cause Piercings was a big thing in the Bronx specially since this was the side lip piercing era,” she tweeted. “However they were a lot of emo kids in my school I will have history convos wit them while they give me free cigarettes [cry laughing emoji].”
I wasn’t EMO ….I was pierced cause Piercings was a big thing in the Bronx specially since this was the side lip piercing era …However they were a lot of emo kids in my school I will have history convos wit them while they give me free cigarettes https://t.co/RXdDjAjAFY
Donovan Mitchell is no longer a member of the Utah Jazz. After an entire offseason of wondering whether or not Mitchell would join Rudy Gobert in getting a move out of Utah, the Cleveland Cavaliers swooped in on Thursday afternoon and pulled off a deal to bring Mitchell to the Eastern Conference.
The future for the Cavs looks awfully bright — Mitchell and Darius Garland immediately become one of the best offensive backcourt duos in all of basketball, and while they have their defensive shortcomings, Evan Mobley and Jarrett Allen are both quite good at cleaning up messes at the rim. But before Mitchell starts life in northeast Ohio, the All-Star guard took a moment on Friday night to thank Utah and former head coach Quin Snyder on his Instagram account.
“Thank you for the memories and the incredible times… you guys watched me grow up on and off the floor… Coach Quin thank you for giving me the opportunity and trusting me to lead this team for the past 5 years Love,” Mitchell wrote in the caption.
The Jazz selected Mitchell with the No. 13 pick in the 2017 NBA Draft out of Louisville. Almost immediately, Mitchell established himself as the team’s most dangerous player on the offensive end of the floor, as he averaged 23.9 points per game across the entirety of his tenure with the team.
Anticipation is high for Cardi B’s sophomore album. But while she’s only put out one single this year, Cardi has been securing the bag. According to a report by research publisher Statista, Cardi pulled in an average of $9.3 million per month on OnlyFans in 2021.
If these numbers are correct, this means Cardi earned about $112 million last year solely by way of OnlyFans.
Although OnlyFans has become a platform for creators to share explicit images and videos, Cardi offers Q&A sessions and personal life updates, holding up her “Bodak Yellow” line, “I don’t dance now, I make money moves.” On OnlyFans, Cardi only charges fans a fee of $4.99 per month. When she realized that the platform was charging her subscribers $10.99 per month, she decided to lower it, citing the loyalty of her fans as the main reason.
“Ya spend too much on vinyls and my merch,” she said in a tweet.
Ummm I did not know my onlyfans was charging ten dollars …I’m bringing it down to 4.99.Ya spend too much on vinyls and my merch coming next week
Cardi launched her OnlyFans in August of 2020, following the release of her Megan Thee Stallion collaboration, “WAP.” One of the first pieces of content she shared was a behind-the-scenes clip of the making of the buzzy video.
Cardi B is a Warner Music Artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen Lonzo Ball play basketball. Ball needed surgery on his left meniscus back in January, and in the months since, every update has seemed to be increasingly pessimistic. Back in July, Bulls vice president Artūras Karnišovas gave a less-than-stellar quote about his recovery, saying that while Ball is progressing, it’s “probably not at the speed that we would like.”
Karnišovas likewise said that the team hoped Ball would be ready for training camp, but a new report by Jamal Collier and Ramona Shelburne of ESPN indicates that probably won’t be able to go by then or the start of the regular season, as the former No. 2 overall pick continues to deal with “lingering pain and discomfort.”
While a source reiterated that Ball’s knee is structurally sound after he underwent arthroscopic surgery on Jan. 28, he continued to experience pain while attempting basketball activities as he spent the summer rehabbing in Los Angeles.
Ball will arrive in Chicago next week to undergo further evaluation by the team, but he is unlikely to participate when the Bulls begin training camp at the end of this month, sources said.
While the original plan was for Ball to miss 6-8 weeks in the aftermath of his surgery, the team eventually had to shut him down for the remainder of the 2021-22 campaign.
Earlier this week, rapper T.I.‘s 18-year-old son, King, was arrested, for reasons not yet disclosed. Since King’s arrest fans have taken to T.I.’s Instagram comments to offer their two cents on how he should handle the situation.
Today, T.I. finally responded to commentors in the form of an Instagram video, saying that he’s already spoken to his son, and has tried to steer him in the right direction. He noted that he spoke to King from personal experience.
“Got a small request,” T.I. said. “Stop hitting me and getting in my comments, telling me what to tell King, okay? I know my son. Think I ain’t spoke to my son? Think I ain’t told my son, his mama, and his grandmama? His ass going to prison if he g*ddamn keeps up. His ass going to prison. Ain’t no way around it. Ain’t nothing I’m going to be able to do it about it. Can’t nobody stop it but him. I’ve already had the conversation, I’ve already made my peace with it. ‘Cause I know that energy—I was that energy. I know exactly how it’s gonna turn out.”
Despite the arrest, T.I. maintains that he has faith in his son and that he will learn from this experience.
“King’s a good kid,” T.I. said. “He’s chasing after the wrong sh*t and I trust in God to deal with it the way he see fit. … Now, he going have to go through it and get through it.”
We’re about to head into a long weekend, which means it’s the perfect time to kick back, relax, crack open a cold beer, smoke some fine herb, and just take it easy. It’s a rough and wild world out there, so we all deserve a little rest and relaxation this Labor Day weekend, so go ahead and give yourself permission to not do a single thing you don’t want to do. Even if that means cooking, especially if you’re a fan of The Weeknd and you live in LA. Abel Tesfaye has linked up with Postmates and LA plant-based burger staple Monty’s Good Burger for a special super goth-influenced happy meal that celebrates The Weeknd’s After Hours ’Til Dawn tour.
I guess Postmates and Monty’s couldn’t make the DAWN FM meal work.
The full After Hours Til Dawn menu was curated by The Weeknd and consists of a double Impossible Burger topped with a special black chipotle ketchup, and thick crinkle-cut pickles on a brioche bun with a side of tater tots, radioactive yellow habanero dipping sauce, and lemonade with activated charcoal that gives it an unsettling squid-ink black color. A special oat-based soft serve shake with white chocolate chunks and cherries is also available, but I didn’t get to try that as it would’ve undoubtedly melted in this crazy Los Angeles heatwave.
The meal is only available for pickup via the Postmates app from today until closing time (11:59 pm PT) on Saturday, September 3rd at Monty’s Good Burger in Los Angeles, will cost you $27.99 and comes packaged in a special Happy Meal-esque box. If you visit the Monty’s Good burger location at 8432 West Third Street in Los Angeles you’ll also have the chance to win tickets to the After Hours Til Dawn concert for the night of September 3rd.
As part of this promotion, a donation is being made to the XO Humanitarian Fund, an organization that Tesfaye is a Goodwill Ambassador for.
“For The XO Humanitarian Fund, we thought it would be amazing to be able to donate money to people suffering from hunger through our work with World Food Program USA and have an After Hours late night meal from one of our favorite places in LA,” Said Tesfaye in a press release announcing the meal.
So not only will you be celebrating the Weeknd, your money will be going towards a good cause and you just might score some free tickets to a show. But is the food any good? Here is the verdict.
After Hours Til Dawn Meal
Dane Rivera
We need to start with the burger since it’s the centerpiece of the whole meal. Monty’s makes a pretty good Impossible Burger, it has a nice mouthfeel and a subtly charred flavor, but at the end of the day it’s still a plant-based burger, so it doesn’t have the savory juiciness of the real thing. That’s not a problem if you love plant-based burgers, you’ve probably come to expect that, but if you’re a meat eater thinking this burger is going to change your life and set you on a new path, it won’t.
Most of the flavor comes courtesy of the black chipotle ketchup, which features a bright tomato-forward flavor with some subtle spice and smoke. It’s not hot enough to register on the tongue as being spicy, but it does have a sort of taste-bud exciting kick to it. Thick pickles round out the flavor adding some earthy tang to each bite, but I can’t help but feel like this burger is still missing an ingredient. Some sort of slaw or even grilled onions would do a lot to make this burger more flavorful, and considering you can keep the burger vegan and still add slaw, it’s a little weird to me that Monty’s didn’t.
The burger sits on a soft and spongey brioche bun. Overall it’s pretty solid, but is in no way essential eating.
Dane Rivera
Moving on to the tater tots and, well, I’m not a tater tot guy. These taste just fine to me, they’re buttery and potato-y, and the crispiness held up well in transit but Monty’s has delicious french fries so I feel a little burned that the meal comes with tater tots and not fries. I’ll need to have a word with Abel, I need to know who hurt him and why he likes tater tots over fries. I get that tater tot fans hold a lot of nostalgia for these things, but I’m looking for great-tasting food. Not school time memories.
This brings us to the lemonade.
Dane Rivera
The Weeknd’s meal comes with a very specific aesthetic attached that matches his music, there is the goth Happy Meal box the food comes in, the black ketchup, and now this charcoal-activated lemonade. It looks cool, but at the same time, it also looks like something I wouldn’t in a million years want to drink. Even knowing this stuff was lemonade, I still felt scared to drink it, like I was willfully consuming poison.
On the bright side, it tastes great, it’s very fresh and lemon zesty, but it will absolutely stain anything it comes in contact with. My teeth, lips, and tongue were all stained purple by the end of the meal, so if you have places to go after the meal, maybe pack a toothbrush.
The Bottom Line:
It’s a solid plant-based meal, not good enough that it’s essential eating, but delicious enough to satisfy people who love plant-based burgers. If you’re ordering from Monty’s for the first time, I strongly suggest you go with the fries over the tots, and skip that lemonade for one of Monty’s Craft sodas. You’ll be breaking from the Weeknd’s specific curation, but your meal will be better for it.
Imagine: It’s your wedding day. Hopefully, one of the most magical, memorable days of your life (if you’re into that sort of thing, that is). You’re already on cloud nine after gazing into the eyes of your beloved and declaring everlasting commitment to each other. Nothing could possibly make this moment any better, right?
Wrong. Keanu Reeves could make it better. And for one lucky couple, he did make an already wonderful wedding even better … simply by showing up.
Bride and groom Nikki and James Roadnight had only just tied the knot and were celebrating in the bar of the Fawsley Hall Hotel in Northamptonshire, England, when they noticed John Wick himself standing nearby.
Perhaps James had already consumed enough liquid courage, because he felt confident enough to approach the movie star and invite him to the reception. As one would hope, Reeves was as pleasant and welcoming as his reputation implies.
“My husband … told him he’d just got married and invited Keanu to come over to say hello and have a drink with us if he wanted to. He was very friendly and said he would later on. We didn’t know if he would or not but it was cool that my husband had spoken to him!” Nikki told Newsweek. Oh Nikki … little did you know, it was about to get so much cooler.
Only an hour later, the bride received a message from the hotel saying a “very special guest” was waiting for the couple outside.
That guest was of course the one, the only … Keanu Reeves.
Though the 57-year-old “Matrix” actor didn’t drink at the party, he generously spoke to guests and took pictures—some were even with the official wedding photographer. You know those photos are going on the couple’s fridge, for sure.
Everyone at the event was understandably “a bit starstruck.” However, it was perhaps the mother of the bride who had the biggest reaction.
“My mum, Jo, took photos and shouted for everyone to yell ‘Speed’ as she took the photo,” Nikki joked with Newsweek. Good choice, Jo. Though mine might have been “whoa” from “Bill and Ted.”
Seeing Reeves made an already “perfect” wedding day truly “out of the world,” the bride shared, calling it “something to remember and the start of many more adventures together.”
Hilariously, Nikki chose to use a photo of her and a smiling Keanu as her new profile picture, rather than James.
“Shouldn’t your profile pic be of you and your new husband?” someone asked.
“Mr. Roadnight won’t mind just for a few days,” Nikki responded. That’s true love right there, folks.
DJ Khaled’s 13th studio album God Did has been out for a week now, and the most prominent topic of conversation has been Jay-Z’s verse on the title track where he raps for four minutes. It is major not only because of the verse’s lyrical content but also the fact that Hov does not pass out features to just anyone, especially in this part of his career where he is busy with so many other ventures. What many do not know is just how much effort Khaled had to put in to get an initial feature from Hov and the subsequent bond they formed over the years, which he explained in a recent interview with GQ.
Khaled first connected with Jay-Z in 2013 when he recorded Magna Carta Holy Grail. “I was blessed to watch him record a lot of Magna Carta. Shout to [Roc Nation SVP] Lenny S. and Jay for always letting me be in the studio with them. Not just getting a chance to see him work—we became brothers and our friendship became stronger and stronger,” he told GQ’s Sama’an Ashrawi. “It took me a long time [to get his verse]. It wasn’t like he didn’t want to do it. It’s just, Jay-Z is busy with so many different things. And at that time he was extra busy.”
DJ Khaled’s determination was so strong that he even moved to a condo in NYC around that time just to be close to the Roc Nation founder, as told to Music Choice. “I basically got a condo in NYC for a whole year to stay close by him and let him know how hungry I was for that verse.” His hard work evidently paid off, as Hov has appeared on every DJ Khaled album since 2015’s I Changed A Lot.
Check out the full DJ Khaled interview with GQ here.
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Love,” Mitchell wrote in the caption.
