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Shortly after TMZ reported that Britney Spears claimed she had an abortion during her relationship with Justin Timberlake in her upcoming memoir, fans started looking at her past work differently. Specifically, the music video and lyrics to Spears’ 2003 song, “Everytime,” which is an emotional ballad.

At the time of its release, many had viewed it as a response to Timberlake‘s not-so-subtle video for “Cry Me A River,” where he seems to depict her cheating — causing a rough fallout after their breakup.

Spears’ music video finds her singing as a woman is giving birth and holding a child behind her. Fans are now speculating the song was likely about her grappling with the child she wanted.

The publication reported that “sources with direct knowledge of the book” confirmed Spears discussed the abortion and was pregnant at some point around 2000. “I loved Justin so much,” Spears allegedly writes. “I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated.”

At another point in the book, Spears is also reportedly claiming that Timberlake cheated on her with another celebrity. However, the person is unnamed as they have a family now.

Continue scrolling for a few fan reactions reflecting on Britney Spears’ “Everytime” video below.

One of the most important rules on Wheel of Fortune is: solve the puzzle exactly how it reads on the board. Simple, right? But a contestant did not follow this rule during Tuesday’s episode and still won, and viewers have thoughts.

The Wheel of Fortune crossword clue was “Butter.” When it came time to solve the puzzle, contestant Nadine was reminded by host Pat Sajak to “say everything, don’t add anything.” It sounded like she guessed “Fly, Fingers, Bean, Nuts” (as in Butterfly, Butterfingers, etc.) and won the round, but that technically was wrong: she should have said “Fly, Fingers, Bean, Nut.” It’s a singular “nut,” not “nuts” (please stop giggling). That makes all the difference on Wheel, and fans of the game show were quick to point out the mistake on X.

“Did anyone see S41 E27 ON 10/17/23 GAME SHOW, WHEEL OF FORTUNE. THE PUZZLE WAS BUTTER____. THE ANSWERS WERE FLY, FINGERS, BEAN AND NUT BUT NADINE SAID NUTS. THERE WASN’T A “S” AFTER THE “T” AND SHE STILL WON THAT ROUND,” @Naenae1two wrote, while @beer_n_deer added, “We re-round it 3 times because our whole family heard nutS. She shouldn’t have won the round.” The closed captioning agrees:

Vanna White won’t let this sh*t fly in the post-Sajak years.

(Via Yahoo! Entertainment)

As Britney Spears’ new memoir The Woman In Me inches closer to its October 24 release, excerpts from the book have started to surface. There have been some real bombshells so far, most notably the claim that Spears got pregnant with Justin Timberlake’s baby and had an abortion. Now, there’s another JT-related breakout: TMZ reports that in the book, Spears claims Timberlake once cheated on her with another celebrity.

In the book, Spears apparently doesn’t name the person because they now have a family and Spears doesn’t want to embarrass them.

As for Timberlake, he hasn’t addressed these newly surfaced claims yet. A “source” told ET, “Justin has been focusing on his own family and trying not to concern himself with Britney’s memoir. In recent years, Justin has tried to be supportive of Britney from a distance. They dated so long ago, but he still has respect for her. Justin and Jessica [Biel] just want everyone to grow and evolve instead of continuing to bring up the past.”

Elsewhere in the book, Spears reflects on her first kiss with Timberlake, writing, “[Once] at a sleepover, we played Truth Or Dare, and someone dared Justin to kiss me. A Janet Jackson song played in the background as he leaned in and kissed me.”

Donald Trump is claiming he’s “not allowed” to speak, even when he’s surrounded by microphones and cameras. On Tuesday, the frequently-arrested former president talked to reporters outside of a New York City courtroom where he complained about Judge Tanya Chutkan imposing a gag order on him. “The judge said, basically, I don’t have a right to speak. And I’m the number one candidate, leading the Republicans by 55 to 60 points. I’m being restricted My speech has been taken away from me. I’m the candidate that’s running for office, and I’m not allowed to speak,” he whined.

“Did all 15 microphones get that?” Jimmy Kimmel Live host Jimmy Kimmel joked during Tuesday’s episode. “Only Donald Trump would complain he’s not allowed to speak while speaking to 40 cameras at a press conference.”

Kimmel also pointed out that one frequent Trump complaint — that he’s being denied a jury trial — is “not true. His dummy lawyers forgot to request a jury trial, which means he’s definitely not paying them.” However, you should pay attention to the woman standing behind Trump, his lawyer Alina Habba.

“Junior Melania is like, I hope he doesn’t look back here,” Kimmel cracked. Now I can’t unsee it.

You can watch Kimmel’s monologue above.

Back in 2017, Post Malone told Rolling Stone that he was getting ready to move to Utah. Since then, he’s been effusive about his love for the state and his home there, but recently, it looked like he indicated he’s moving on. Amid the confusion, though, Malone cleared things up himself.

As Salt Lake City’s FOX 13 notes, during an interview on The Howard Stern Show yesterday (October 17), Malone spoke about his multi-acre property in the Salt Lake area and said he wants “a little bit more” space, adding, “We’re going to expand the Jam Zone a little bit, I guess.”

Stern asked if Malone planned to buy more property around his current spot and Malone replied, “We’re going to go to another state. We have a plan for another state, and we have a plan for a bunker with a bowling alley and a car port and a swimming pool in it. I’m so excited. I’m so excited about it.”

Understandably, this had some people thinking that Malone was packing up and leaving Utah. Last night, those concerns apparently reached Malone himself, as he hopped on X (formerly Twitter) and wrote, “I’m not moving out of Utah y’all [hearts emoji] just getting some more land [face holding back tears emoji] I love living in this beautiful place.”

Check out some clips from Malone’s Howard Stern interview below.

On Tuesday, October 17, Suga from BTS uploaded a vulnerable new episode of his Suchwita drinking show. He had Kim Jong-wan, lead singer of the Korean rock band NELL, on as a special guest, and the two discussed just how similar their careers were, according to Billboard.

While working in different genres, both shared one thing: They struggled with seeing rumors about their lives in the press.

“Of course, when I was young, I also had a lot of anger and rage — anger against the world and against the system, but as I made my mixtapes, a lot of those negative emotions got reduced,” Suga shared.

“During D-DAY, compared to D-2, people said a lot of that rage was gone, but I don’t think that can be helped,” he added. “I don’t think I need to bring back the emotions I’ve already dealt with. Back then, I was distressed and wanted to quit, but those thoughts went away through music, so now I’m thankful for those times. It was thanks to those moments that I can do all this now.”

Suga previously brought Jong-wan to perform on his earlier D-2 album, as he contributed killer vocals to “Dear My Friend.”

Check out Suga’s full discussion with Kim Jong-wan on his show above.

Martin Scorsese has a new picture out this weekend, which is a good excuse to do something fun: think about Martin Scorsese pictures. Some rank his beloved films. The big guy himself? Well, he’s busy telling stories about making them. For instance, Goodfellas is a strong candidate for his best film. But not everyone is a fan.

Per Insider, the legendary filmmaker sat down with Timothée Chalamet for a GQ chat, where talk inevitably touched on his 1990 mafia classic. The film was a modest box office hit that scored six Oscar nominations, winning one for Joe Pesci. It went on to a healthy post-theatrical life, heralded as one of the ‘90s most beloved and rewatchable (and misunderstood) films. And yet it still received backlash, at least among a certain slither of the population.

“Oh my God. I was shunned for Goodfellas. Shunned in certain Italian restaurants. They wouldn’t let me in,” Scorsese told Chalamet.

Scorsese didn’t name names, but as Insider pointed out, he discussed at least one such incident during the 25th anniversary celebration in 2015. He and his co-writer Nicholas Pileggi, who wrote the book, Wiseguy, upon which it’s based, used to go to a restaurant they loved.

“When the film came out, the owner of the restaurant said we’re not allowed in anymore because we apparently denigrated a certain ethnic group for the picture,” Scorsese recalled at the time.

During his GQ chat, Chalamet asked Scorsese asked him about one of the fixtures of his films (though not all of them, of course): horrible violence.

“I grew up in a place that was, you know, violence was a form of expression… And it was serious,” Scorsese recalled about growing up in Little Italy. “There was a difference between a friendly slap and a slap. And that was up to you to determine. And you could see that in Goodfellas when he says ‘You think I’m funny?’”

Speaking of horrible violence, Scorsese’s latest, Killers of the Flower Moon, comes out on October 20.

(Via GQ and Insider)

Jada Pinkett Smith hasn’t been holding back while promoting her new memoir. The actress recently sat down for an interview with Jay Shetty for his podcast On Purpose, during which she had some thoughts about the possibility of Tupac and Will Smith’s becoming pals.

“If ‘Pac had survived Vegas, he and Will would’ve ended up being really good friends,” Pinkett Smith said. “They would’ve had a lot to offer each other. Funny enough, Will was the only person when I started dating him, ‘Pac never said anything.”

“If I dated anybody else, ‘Pac had something to say,” she added. “He didn’t think anybody was good enough, which I understand. But when I started dating Will, he didn’t say anything. Which meant to me, in his own way, he approved. He didn’t say anything. Not a word, which made me believe he approved.”

Despite this, during another recent stop where Pinkett Smith talked to Fat Joe (via HipHopDX), she made it clear that she and Tupac were never a legit couple. “People make too many assumptions because I be trying to keep stuff close to the chest,” she noted. “We were never together. And people when they read the book, they’ll see how deep our friendship was.”

Check out Jada Pinkett Smith’s interview clip of the moment below.

Comic book movies aren’t the sure thing they once were. But Spider-Man’s doing hunky dory. The most recent in the Tom Holland wing was the first blockbuster after the height of the pandemic, and is currently the seventh highest grossing film ever (not adjusted for inflation). Right now the sixth biggest money gobbler of 2023 is the latest from the animated Miles Morales section. But when does Across the Spider-Verse hit streaming?

The answer is October 31, which is when the film will join Netflix’s vast coffers.

But which version will appear on the streamer king? During its wildly successful box office run, some moviegoers noticed a slight change in a scene involving Oscar Isaac’s dead serious futuristic Miguel O’Hara/Spider-Man 2099 and his holographic helper Lyla. In fact, Sony sent out an update to the film mid-run to fix some sound problems after moviegoers complained that some of Spider-Gwen’s dialogue wasn’t clear enough during the opening.

Not all is well with the Spider-verse. With two different Spidey film wings crushing the box office, surely Sony was feeling cocky, announcing another spinoff that would star no less than Bad Bunny. Alas, over the summer, the future of that one turned out to be uncertain.

Still, at least you have Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — and its follow-up — which Netflix subscribers can watch starting Oct. 31.

Troye Sivan recently released his new album, Something To Give Each Other. In support of it, he did an interview with Billboard’s Pop Shop podcast where he talked about the record — and some of his key influences in music.

“I talk a lot about Janet Jackson because she’s so important to me, but I saw her show at the Hollywood Bowl really early on in the process,” Sivan shared. “And, to me, it took me right back to when was I was like, however old I was, I was probably like 7… hearing ‘Together Again’ for the first time.”

“And that melody and those chords and the warmth that’s in that song literally changed the trajectory of my life,” he added. “The trajectory of my life as a musician and as a songwriter, specifically. And that’s something that I was really really striving for [on the new album]. I wanted something warm.”

Sivan also spoke about the possibility of doing a tour tied to the new album, with his fears tied to it.

“I’m intimidated because… when this tour happens, I want it to be the tour of my life,” he explained. “I really do. And I want to give the big pop show that I think this album is asking for, and these visuals are asking for. And so it’s a big job… So, I’m gonna take a second and regroup and then figure it out. For some reason, I really really really feel the pressure, I really do.”

For now, fans can listen to Sivan’s new record, which is out now.