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It appears that reports of Offset and Quavo fighting backstage at the Grammys may have been exaggerated. After the TMZ-reported rumor circulated online, Offset himself put in a rare appearance on Twitter to put paid to the speculation, tweeting, “What tf look like fighting my brother yal n****s is crazy.” Quavo, meanwhile, hasn’t made a comment yet.

However, he could just be doing damage control as Entertainment Tonight reports seeing camera phone footage from backstage yelling at someone off-camera, “Both of y’all wrong. This is not right.” While it’s unclear per ET who she’s talking to, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that she could have been addressing her husband and his cousin, who reportedly had to be separated after Quavo declined to allow Offset to join him onstage for his tribute to Takeoff during the ceremony.

The two have been on the outs since last year, when rumors of Migos breaking up hit social media after Offset unfollowed his bandmates on Instagram. Then, Quavo and Takeoff announced their joint album as Unc And Phew, while Offset announced what appeared to be a competing album, and reportedly took the trio’s label, Quality Control Music, to court over the rights to his solo music.

Quavo and Takeoff addressed the split in October, suggesting that the falling out was personal. “We stand on real deal loyalty, and sometimes that sh*t ain’t displayed,” Quavo said. “This ain’t got nothing to do with no label, no paperwork, no QC, nothing. This got something to do with the three brothers. And sh*t, it is what it is. Right now, we gon’ be the duo ’til time tell.”

Before the group could reconcile, though, Takeoff was shot dead in Houston at the start of November, and since then, both remaining Migos appeared to have been mourning separately. They haven’t been seen together except at Takeoff’s funeral.

LOS ANGELES – If 2022 was an all-time year for Miles Teller professionally and as a sports fan, 2023 has a chance to be even better. The 35-year-old saw critical acclaim for his role as Rooster in Top Gun: Maverick, which was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. But his favorite teams enjoyed intense success as well, between the Phillies magical run to the World Series, the Sixers making the move to acquire James Harden (and looking like a tough out in the Playoffs), and the Eagles’ regular season dominance rolling into a Super Bowl berth.

Teller is sharing that success — and his intense fandom — with his wife Keleigh, who joined Miles in shooting Bud Light’s Super Bowl ad this year. The pair have enjoyed incredibly memorable moments, whether that’s in Hawaii, at a Phillies game, or at home with their dog Bugsy, and are as appreciative as ever of the chance to spend time with each other and their loved ones. The opportunity to be in his first Super Bowl ad was a career highlight for Miles, but to do so with his partner (and Bugsy) was even more special.

The pair took some time on set of the Super Bowl spot to chat through their ideal Super Bowl spread, what it meant to be in a Super Bowl commercial, and how it feels to be a Philly fan as the city takes over the sports universe.

A Super Bowl ad is one of those things that – no matter what you do, sports, music, entertainment – you put on a bucket list if you want to be accessible, visible, all of that. I mean, I grew up wanting to be in a Super Bowl ad.

Miles Teller: It’s not too late.

No, it’s not.

It’s never too late.

Career pivot.

Yeah.

What does it mean to you guys? Especially to have that moment be together, which I know that’s got to be so special.

I think for us, that was the really exciting part, is that they said, look, well, first of all, when Bud Light comes to you and wants to put you in a Super Bowl commercial, that’s very flattering. And I think for us, just the fact that film is forever. It’s a moment in time. It’s –

Keleigh: A time capsule.

Miles: Yeah. It’s Keleigh and I, and our dog is in here, and they modeled the set after our house. I hope that the sincerity of the spot comes through, because that’s what the production has felt like for us.

Keleigh, getting that chance, I know a lot of the creative endeavors that you have, you’re always working to be that creative person, but to see the shoots, to be around it, but then to be on it, juggling everything from challenges to additional opportunities. Do you have a greater appreciation the more you see more of what Miles is doing, but also as it works with the stuff that you’re trying to do?

Yeah. It’s very different. I have a lot more respect in general, just of his technicalities, what he’s doing, and it’s really fun.

Miles: It’s a lot. It is a very technical enterprise when you’re filming.

Keleigh: It’s very technical.

Miles: But just watching her, I get more nervous for her than I do for myself.

Keleigh: I know.

Miles: But she’s doing a great job.

No mustache though, for the shoot?

No, no full mustache. No.

Keleigh: He’s on a new film –

Miles: I’m on a new train.

In terms of Super Bowls past, what do you guys usually do for the Super Bowl? I know it’s been weird the last couple of years, but as we start to entertain again, it’s important to get people together. It’s important to be with our families, safely obviously. It’s important to crack open drinks and be able to share those in person, not on Zoom anymore.

Miles: Yeah. I mean, we usually host a get-together of sorts. I think we have a pretty good cheese board. Some good snacks.

Keleigh: Always.

Miles: I mean, we were at the Super Bowl when the Eagles won. That was the best Super Bowl party. That was the best Super Bowl party we’ve ever had. But we host and we have a good time.

Was that the best sporting event that you guys think you’ve been to? I mean, obviously there’s some bias for Philly.

Keleigh: Yeah. People had gone their whole life without seeing the Eagles win the Super Bowl. And against Tom Brady?

How do you feel about the Phillies off season so far?

Miles: It was awesome. I’m on set right now, obviously, and there’s a lot of Dodger fans, and so they’re sad to see Trea Turner go. But the Phillies, it all starts at the top and their ownership. John Middleton really cares about his fans and you see it with the payroll that he’s willing to shell out for that team. It’s a really good team on paper. And Philly fans are some of the best fans in the world.

Getting to be a part of that playoff run, you guys had fun. You’ve got family there. You’ve got friends. And did that bring you guys closer together? I mean, sports are a weird thing. If you’re not in that world all the time, it can be a little intimidating, but then when you get moments like that, it feels special.

Keleigh: When we are home, we go to a lot of baseball games. We’ll go to spring training, and then we were at the stadium for the Phillies every day at 4:00 p.m. for BP. And then we wouldn’t get out of there until like 12:30 [a.m.]. Go talk to John Middleton. And Miles was, I think, the best week of your life?

Miles: It was pretty good.

Keleigh: “It was pretty good.” [Laughs.]

Miles: It was pretty sweet. I think I was a temporary mascot for the Phillies.

Keleigh: Oh, yeah. A hundred percent.

Miles: Me and the Phanatic bunking up.

Keleigh: Yeah. It was magical, honestly. Especially the first game. Yeah, having those moments.

And your dad mistaken for Bruce Springsteen?

Miles: Yeah, they showed Bruce Springsteen, which was my dad. The boss was there, Bruce was there. And then they showed me, and then they cut back to my dad and it said, “Not Bruce Springsteen.”

Keleigh: That was good. That was funny.

Miles: They had a sense of humor on the jumbotron.

Is your dad a Bruce fan?

Miles: Oh, who’s not?

In terms of just the way that this season has been for the Eagles, what does that mean? Especially when you consider the moment Philly is in sports-wise all around? It feels like this is the run that LA was on a couple years ago.

Miles: Every couple of years, Philly reminds people that they are a major sports city, and when they all click at the same time … I mean, Philly fans don’t need much of a reason to get pretty rowdy, but it’s been pandemonium up there and they’re looking really good. Jalen Hurts, I think, has proved a lot of people wrong. The entire team has.

I know you guys love Hawaii. What is it about that place that makes it so special for you both?

Miles: I think they’ve maintained a lot of the originality of it. Obviously they have to cater to tourism a bit. But really, there’s so much respect for the land. I don’t know. There’s a certain magic about it. And also I think it’s nice places shut down at a certain time. It really allows you to kind of connect to the environment. And yeah, there’s the Mana. I think that’s a real thing.

Keleigh: I really do.

And Keleigh, you said you grew up going there too?

Yeah. I brought Miles in probably the second year we were dating, so eight or nine years ago.

Miles: But your family’s done Thanksgiving out there.

Keleigh: Yeah, it’s our main go-to.

Miles: Their dad has a timeshare.

Keleigh: I have a lot of siblings. Yeah, we all kind of go out there. But we’ve been going since I was two. I think it was my first trip. And then we brought him and he fell in love with it.

And then you start bringing friends, and then it becomes your place together.

Keleigh: Everyone loves it.

Miles: Yeah, for sure, because I grew up on the east coast. We never went to Maui.

Would you have actually gone to UNC if you were playing baseball, like Project X? Did you have a college in mind that you wanted to go to?

Miles: I don’t know. Anywhere that would’ve taken me. Yeah. But I don’t know. I say I went D1 in acting. I think there comes a point, everybody’s like, they got to give up on it.

You give it up.

Miles: Give up on that dream.

Do you have any other big time dreams? Any other big things that you had given up for acting?

I would say I started out playing a lot of music and then playing a lot of sports and acting was something that came much later. But you can act your whole life.

That’s true.

As long as somebody’s hiring you and people care to watch you, you can do it literally until you’re dead.

Who was the best football player on the set in Maverick?

Tom Cruise.

Tom?

Yeah.

He’s a monster.

Yeah, he’s the best.

This interview has been briefly edited and condensed for clarity.

You probably know at least one person who wasn’t allowed to watch The Simpsons. It was too vulgar, or too dismissive of religion, or, in the case of residents of Hong Kong, too many references to labor camps.

CNN reports that a Simpsons episode that includes a line about “forced labor camps” in China has been removed from Disney+ in Hong Kong. In the season 34 (!) episode, “One Angry Lisa,” Marge gets really into Peloton, excuse me, Pedalon, and begins to have a one-sided emotional affair with one of the instructors. He offers her a private ride “on” the Great Wall of China. “Behold the wonders of China,” the instructor says. “Bitcoin mines, forced labor camps where children make smartphones, and romance.”

CNN has confirmed that the episode — which first aired in October — is unavailable on the Hong Kong version of Disney+. The episode, however, is available to watch in the United States on Hulu, another Disney platform. The removal comes after the rollout of a controversial national security law in Hong Kong in 2020, which bans “sedition, secession, and subversion” against Beijing. It also enables Chinese national security agencies to operate in the city. Disney declined to comment, while the Hong Kong government did not respond to a request for comment.

Here’s the scene:

This is not even in the top 10 of Simpsons controversies. It’s below President George H.W. Bush’s “a lot more like The Waltons and a lot less like The Simpsons” speech and that time Bart wore a “down with homework” shirt. Thousands died in the Great Homework Revolt of 1996. Damn shame.

(Via CNN)

For the second straight year, Tom Brady has retired from the NFL. This time, he did so on his own terms with his own farewell video, and given how the Bucs season ended with a thud against the Cowboys in the Wild Card round of the playoffs, it certainly feels like this one will stick.

The second part of Brady’s career in football is already known, as he inked a 10-year, $375 million deal to become FOX’s next top NFL game analyst last year for whenever he steps away for good. When Brady announced his retirement, the expectation was he’d step into the booth this fall, but it seems Brady will take a year away from football before he jumps into the TV world, telling Colin Cowherd on Monday that he and FOX have decided he’ll make his debut in 2024.

That means one more year of Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen in the lead booth on FOX before Brady takes over, as Burkhardt and Olsen became a fan favorite this year after being thrust into the top spot after Troy Aikman and Joe Buck left for ESPN. Those two will handle Super Bowl coverage next week, and get one more year before FOX has to shuffle things around with Brady set to take center stage.

For Brady, it gives him a year away from football to get settled in life away from the field before diving into his new career at age 46.

As spinoff shows have become more of the norm and less of a cliché nostalgia trend, more networks are planning on expanding their own IP into various other shows. If a show works, why not take the same formula and either change the era or add more interesting characters? And then if that show is good, why not try it again? That’s what Showtime seems to think as well.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Showtime is planning not one, not two, not a million, but up to four spinoffs based on their hit drama Billions, which is one of the network’s strongest shows (until Yellowjackets returns, anyway). Showtime seems inspired by the multiple iterations of Yellowstone that Paramount+ has been churning out, and are experimenting with the model.

Billions, starring Paul Giamatti, was renewed for a seventh season last year, though some people seem to think that it should have ended once Damien Lewis exited the wild world of New York City high finance.

Billions: Miami will, surprise, take place in Miami, and be set in the high-flying world of private aviation. Billions: London will bring the same model across the pond. Millions will follow a young group of financial moguls making it in Manhattan, while Trillions will tell fictional stories of wealthy industry titans around the country. Naming a show “Quadrillion” might be confusing for fans of the popular puzzle game of the same name, but they can sure try!

In addition to the billions of Billions shows, Showtime is also expected to order more than one Dexter-related show, including one prequel and one spinoff. Or perhaps a Billions/Dexter crossover would be a fun way to get everyone involved.

(Via Deadline)

Rather than bringing his brothers back together, Takeoff’s murder last year only seems to have set off even more disputes in hip-hop. In addition to apparently sparking a physical confrontation between remaining Migos members Quavo and Offset at last night’s Grammys ceremony, it’s also led to friction between Offset and Houston rap impresario J. Prince.

Prince, in a recent appearance on the Million Dollaz Worth Of Game podcast, offered some criticism of Offset. Downplaying Offset’s importance to Migos’ success, he said, “The truth of the matter is, one can dance and do different things in front of these different cameras and all kinds of shit. The truth of the matter is, n***, you wasn’t really right there with Takeoff when he was alive. For you to be taking these positions that you taking. I got people everywhere, so I hear all kinds of things. I’ma just say this to you. Don’t never put me in no position where I have to defend myself. That wouldn’t be healthy for you.”

Offset replied in a video on Instagram, calling out Prince for his gangster image. “First off, y’all n****s speaking on my real brother,” he shot back. “. “I don’t know what the f*ck y’all n****s got going on. Y’all n****s speaking on my real brother. How dare you n****s even speak on me and Take relationship? I don’t know you from a can of paint. Y’all n****s don’t know how me and my brother rocked. You trying to clear your face. This your fifth interview… You ain’t think about his momma? You ain’t think about the family? We ain’t said nothing. Nobody said nothing but you.”

“Who y’all n****s think y’all is, John Gotti? Ain’t nobody going for none of that… And, if you heard something from me, I’ma tell you it’s gon’ come from me. Call my phone. Y’all n****s going off some ‘he say, she say’ sh*t. And y’all airing it out on interviews, talking about ‘I said this.’ Call my phone, homie. You call my phone we’ll have a conversation.”

J. Prince’s involvement appears to stem from the fact that Takeoff was murdered in Houston, and it appeared that his son, Jas Prince, was at the scene, leading to speculation and rumors that he was somehow involved in Takeoff’s death. Since then, police have arrested two suspects, but you know how that goes: once a rumor has begun to circulate, little can stop it.

Following the surprise trade that sent Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks from the Brooklyn Nets, it’s up in the air whether Irving will be on the East or West squad in the 2023 NBA All-Star Game on February 19. But today, February 6, Uproxx can exclusively report on Chlöe and Wiz Khalifa’s whereabouts to tip off NBA All-Star Weekend.

Chlöe and Khalifa are set to headline the NBA On TNT American Express Road Show at The Complex in Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday, February 16.

Per a release, “the day-long fan experience will include a live studio broadcast,” which will be anchored by the beloved Inside The NBA ensemble of Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, and Shaquille O’Neal.

It continues, “In addition to the live telecast, the free event will offer fan competitions via the NBA on TNT Arcade, food, drinks, premium giveaways and other interactive games throughout the evening, as well as watch parties for the matchups: Milwaukee Bucks at Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Clippers at Phoenix Suns.”

Chlöe, Uproxx’s August 2022 cover star, is gearing up to release In Pieces, her debut solo album due out in March. She dropped the soulful “Pray It Away,” its lead single, in late January.

Meanwhile, Khalifa started 2023 by performing “Memory Lane” from his July 2022 album Multiverse and his breakthrough hit”Black And Yellow” during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. It’s fitting that Khalifa is involved with NBA All-Star Weekend because he recently brushed up on his game at the expense of his son.

American Express Card Members have early access to tickets to the NBA On TNT American Express Road Show here before the general sale begins tomorrow, February 7. Learn more about the event here.

The 2023 NBA All-Star Game will begin at 8 p.m. ET and broadcast live on TNT from Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. See the full schedule for NBA All-Star Weekend here.

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Best New Artist is subject to mockery because the nominees are usually established artists by the time they are nominated for Best New Artist. Olivia Rodrigo won the award in 2022 after her record-breaking 2021 entrance with “Drivers License” and Sour.

Rodrigo presented the Best New Artist category at the 2023 Grammys last night, February 5, and in a refreshing turn of events, it was likely the first time most of the audience had heard the name Samara Joy.

Joy, 23, claimed the title over more mainstream nominees Anitta, Domi & JD Beck, Latto, Måneskin, Molly Tuttle, Muni Long, Omar Apollo, Tobe Nwigwe, and Wet Leg. The New York jazz singer also won Best Jazz Vocal Album for Linger Awhile.

Joy has been in the spotlight before now, though. She performed “Nostalgia (The Day I Knew)” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and “Warm In December” on The Kelly Clarkson Show in December. She also recently graced Spotify’s Best New Artist event.

As relayed by The Los Angeles Times, “Joy grew up the granddaughter of Elder Goldwire and Ruth McLendon, who performed with a Philadelphia gospel group, the Savettes. Yet as a kid Joy also sang in school musicals and absorbed the soul and R&B music of Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin and Chaka Khan. In 2019, while studying at the State University of New York at Purchase, she won the prestigious Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition.”

Joy paid homage to her musical influences during her endearing Best New Artist acceptance speech.

“I am so, so — oh my gosh, I can’t even believe. I’ve been watching y’all on TV for so long,” she said. “To be here with you all, born and raised in the Bronx, New York, my family is here. I’ve been singing all my life.”

She continued, “Thank you so much for this honor. Thank you to everyone who has listened to me, who has supported me. All of you are so inspiring to me, and so to be here because of who I am — all of you have inspired me because of who you are. You express yourself exactly who you are, authentically, so to be here by just being myself, by just being who I was born as, I’m so thankful.”

Watch below.

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The Walking Dead will launch three spinoffs within the next year (in addition to wrapping up Fear The Walking Dead, starting on Mother’s Day). The last of that batch will be a series that finally tells us what really happened to Rick Grimes, which means that Andrew Lincoln will return in a show that co-stars Danai Gurira as Michonne. First, we’ll see the Negan and Maggie spinoff, The Walking Dead: Dead City, which will show them as unlikely partners who try to locate Maggie and Glenn’s son in Manhattan. Then there’s the show starring crossbow fetishist Daryl Dixon, and you know that Norman Reedus is stirring that put before his show arrives.

What little we know about the show is kind-of wild. Daryl apparently wakes up in France and has no idea how he got there. According to Variety, he literally “washes ashore.” He desperately wants to go home (I hope there are some sentimental Carol flashbacks) and finds himself traveling across France, where I hope he tours the Paris catacombs. This must happen. Why else would this show pointedly head to France?

As far as the show’s title goes, that’s a mystery. Comic Book spotted a Reedus Instagram story, in which he posted an image of make-up boxes that all include “Raise The Dead” in straight-up labelling. Of course, this could be a reference to a working title, but again… catacombs.

As well, Comic Book points out that Reedus has a preferred title for his spinoff (as he told Jimmy Kimmel last fall), and I kind-of like it: “boom boom.” Yes, he went there:

“I’m hoping for a certain title. Let’s just think about it. She-Hulk is She-Hulk. Spider-Man’s Spider-Man. Batman’s Batman,” Reedus said, seemingly suggesting the simple Daryl Dixon. “So, why not this be, ‘boom boom’? You know what I mean? You see where I’m going with that, without me saying that?”

It’s worth noting that Reedus has also toyed with everyone’s emotions by asking (in reference to Melissa McBride’s Carol), “How do you know she’s not gonna come back?” A fair point.

(Via Comic Book)

The dominant story in the sports world coming out of the weekend was Kyrie Irving being traded from Brooklyn to Dallas, ending his tumultuous tenure with the Nets after issuing a trade request on Friday.

There is plenty to unpack about Irving’s time in Brooklyn, where he and Kevin Durant only played in 74 games together over three years and never made it beyond the conference semifinals, as well as what Irving will bring (good and bad) to the Mavericks. On Monday’s First Take, Stephen A. Smith, Jay Williams, and Tim Legler were planning on doing just that when things got spicy and a little bit personal between Smith and Williams, who had a very tense two-minute exchange.

Williams accuses Smith of having personal issues with Kyrie and letting that color his commentary of Irving. Smith, unsurprisingly, takes issue with that, coming from”you of all people,” referencing how Williams is rather famously close with Irving and has defended him on a number of occasions since he arrived in Brooklyn. He also calls out Jay for talking about things he finds interesting rather than simply saying what he feels.

The best part of the whole thing is when they pan to the camera behind Molly Qerim and you just see Legler chuckling to himself and sitting there wondering what the hell he’s doing there. Molly tries her best to get things back on track while Smith and Williams insist on trying to get the last word, but it didn’t seem like this segment did anything to resolve any lingering issues between Stephen A. and Jay.