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Comedian Whitney Cummings has responded to allegations of sexual misconduct against Chris D’Elia days after the comedian denied pursuing underage women. D’Elia, who worked with Cummings on the NBC show Whitney, called the accusations against the comedian from several different women “a pattern of abuse” in a post on Twitter.

“It’s taken me a couple of days to process the information I have learned about Chris. I’m devastated and enraged by what I’ve read and learned,” Cummings said in the tweet. “This is a pattern of predatory behavior. This abuse of power is enabled by silence. Now that I’m aware, I won’t be silent. Girls should be able to be a fan of a comedian they admire without becoming a sexual target. It’s the adult’s responsibility to be an adult.”

D’Elia has claimed he did not pursue underage women and apologized last week as stories from at least five women describing his behavior spread on social media and in the press.

“I know I have said and done things that might have offended people during my career, but I have never knowingly pursued any underage women at any point,” D’Elia said earlier in the week. “That being said, I really am truly sorry. I was a dumb guy who ABSOLUTELY let myself get caught up in my lifestyle. That’s MY fault. I own it. I’ve been reflecting on this for some time now and I promise I will continue to do better.”

[via The Hollywood Reporter]

On Thursday, Noname offered her response to J. Cole’s “Snow On the Bluff,” in the form of her own song, “Song 33.” The song arrived after she tweeted that she felt like rapping and, to say the least, she did just that. While she did not directly address Cole it was clear Noname was speaking directly to the rapper near the song’s conclusion when she said, “He really ’bout to write about me when the world is in smokes / There’s people in trees when George was beggin’ for his mother / Saying he couldn’t breathe, you thought to write about me?”

A few days later, Noname returned to Twitter to share her thoughts on “Song 33” after thinking about the record for a bit.

Posting a pair of tweets to Twitter, Noname explained that she was not “proud” of herself for releasing “Song 33” and explained what she intended to do with the song.

“I tried to use it as a moment to draw attention back to the issues I care about but I didn’t have to respond. my ego got the best of me,” she wrote. “I apologize for any further distraction this caused.”

Despite admitting that her “ego got the best of me,” Noname made the decision to not take the song down saying, “I see there’s a lot of people that resonate with the words so I’m leaving it up.” Instead, she promised to donate her portion of the song’s earnings to various mutual aid funds.

Following the release of J. Cole’s “Snow On Tha Bluff,” fans quickly connected the dots to discover the woman in question on the song was Noname. The song detailed his conflicting feelings on his performance as a leader for the community. In the end, he asked those who complained about his leadership to adjust their tone and direct him toward being a more effective leader which, in the end, failed to give the movement and black women what they were owed. “Song 33” was an attempt to remove the spotlight on one’s inner feelings and shifted it to the issue at hand: the victims of racial and sexist violence.

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It’s about time we put an end to that painful running jiggle. If you know, you know.

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Let’s face the ugly truth.

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“I Dreamed a Dream” that you had enough “Memory” to win this quiz.

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Taika Waititi is set to dive into directing more Star Wars properties, and if he has his way no matter what’s in the screenplay he will have a Baby Yoda puppet on set for him to cuddle with.

The JoJo Rabbit writer, director and (kind of) star got some face time with the most adorable member of the Star Wars universe when he directed the last episode of The Mandalorian’s first season, which revealed a pretty significant item that sets up the second season’s arrival this fall. But Waititi wasn’t tinkering with the Darksaber as much as he was the very expensive and lifelike Baby Yoda puppet, which according to The Hollywood Reporter he kept holding between takes.

Taika Waititi, who helmed the season finale (which shot in December at Manhattan Beach Studios) and voiced the android assassin IG-11, also needed to take occasional breaks to sit down with The Child in his hands. “He reminded me so much of my babies when they were 6 months old,” he says. “I couldn’t help it, I had to hold it in the same way.”

The Hollywood Reporter has a pretty adorable photo of it, as well as some other details about life on set for those involved. But it’s very funny to think the most important episode of the show’s brief history had some big decisions made by its director while he’s gently snuggling The Child. Some jobs have all the perks.

Fathers everywhere are celebrating their day of honor this Father’s Day and as people have done for previous parental days of honor, social media has been filled with pictures and shoutouts for the father figures in their lives. Joining in on the trend, Drake took to his Instagram to shout out his dad and the other father figures he has in his life, but not without showing love to his son Adonis first.

Sharing a picture of his son to his Instagram page, Drake captioned the picture saying, “Happy Fathers Day to all the real g’z handling business.” Moving things to his Instagram story, he one-by-one shouted a number of celebrities and close friends that he viewed as father figures in his life.

Appropriately starting with his own father, Dennis Graham, Drake would go one to wish Rap-A-Lot CEO J. Prince, Lil Wayne, Birdman, Snoop Dogg, NBA legend Charles Oakley, OVO Blizzy, LeBron James, and his uncle Stizzy a Happy Father’s Day. In his message to Lil Wayne, he called the rapper his “brother” while saying “you raised me.”

Drake would also call Snoop Dogg a “stand up G” and Charles Oakley a “real gangsta” with “big father figure energy.” Speaking to LeBron James in one of the posts, Drake said, “We came up together and you are an incredible dad and you made me a killer.”

Photos of Drake’s Father’s Day shoutouts can be found on his Instagram page or below.

Ansel Elgort denied an allegation he sexually assaulted a woman he dated in an Instagram post on Saturday, days after the graphic allegation was shared on Twitter and quickly went viral.

A woman on Twitter, identified only as “Gabby,” posted a detailed account of her relationship with Elgort, who she claimed took her virginity in a painful experience she described as a sexual assault. The details are graphic but were shared by Page Six:

Gabby, who appears to have deleted her Twitter account after posting her message, had written that “when [the sexual encounter] happened, instead of asking me if I wanted to stop having sex knowing it was my first time and I was sobbing in pain and I didn’t want to do it, the only words that came out of his mouth were ‘we need to break you in.’

“I WASN’T there in that moment mentally,” she wrote.

The woman said the two met on social media and offered other details about their relationship. Elgort did not comment on the post until Saturday, when he confirmed that the two had a relationship but said it was “legal and entirely consensual.”

Elgort said he was “disgusted and deeply ashamed of the way I acted” and apologized for how he ended the relationship, but he denied the sexual assault claim and said “her description of events is simply not what happened.”