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A second coach has been relieved of his duties on the bench after 43 games this season in the NBA. The same week the Milwaukee Bucks made a stunning move to fire Adrian Griffin in his first season with a 30-13 record and hire Doc Rivers, the Washington Wizards have made a much less eyebrow raising move after a 7-36 start to the year.

In the midst of his third season as head coach of the team, Wes Unseld Jr. will transition from head coach to a front office role, remaining with the organization but no longer coaching the team. The team announced the move on Thursday morning, hours after their latest loss to the Timberwolves — their fifth loss in a row.

Assistant coach Brian Keefe will take over, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, as he looks to build some kind of positive momentum over the back half of the season.

That will be hard to do with the roster as currently constructed — and especially so if they continue tearing down in Year 1 of their rebuild at the deadline. Being bad was the plan this season in Washington, but it’s been worse than expected as Jordan Poole has struggled in a starring role, Kyle Kuzma has had ups and downs, and there’s not much in the way of a cohesive team identity at the moment. It might have been a merciful move to not have Unseld’s coaching record (77-130) take any further beating this year (and probably next) as they look to figure out their direction, and they keep the son of a franchise legend employed in the organization, just in a different role.

Reneé Rapp has grown a lot throughout the past year. As she just performed as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, delivering takes of her wildly talented vocals on “Snow Angel” and the energetic “Not My Fault,” Rapp’s audience gained a ton of new recruits.

For those who are just discovering the star, whether it’s through her music career or her reprised appearance as Regina George in the movie adaptation of the Mean Girls musical, there still is a lot to know about how Rapp got to where she is today.

Here’s what to know.

How Did Reneé Rapp Get Famous?

Rapp started her career in North Carolina, where she participated in high school theater productions. She won the Best Actress award at Charlotte’s Blumey Awards for a role in the school’s take on Big Fish. However, it was winning the Best Performance By An Actress at NYC’s Jimmy Awards and getting a $10,000 scholarship that kickstarted her career.

From there, she performed in other local plays like Spring Awakening and appeared at BroadwayCon’s 2019 Star To Be event — where she displayed her killer vocal range. In May of that year, Rapp announced that she would be playing Regina in the Mean Girls Broadway musical. This ran until March of 2020 when the pandemic led to the show’s permanent closure.

The star kept working, eventually being cast as Leighton in HBO Max’s The Sex Lives Of College Girls in October 2020. While she has since departed the show to focus on her music career, that has proven just as strong as a career path.

Rapp began touring in 2022, dropping her debut album Snow Angel in 2023, and then doing an international tour tied to that. Basically, she is very, very busy — but it is paying off.

On top of that, Rapp has been a delight in recent interviews, which has garnered so much attention that she joked about it on Saturday Night Live.

Modern Family ran for 11 seasons and 250 episodes. There’s a lot of options, but Sofia Vergara knows which episode is her favorite.

“There’s one that always we as the co-stars, we always remember when we are together, and I think it was on the second season, we did a Halloween episode,” the Griselda star, who played Gloria on the NBC sitcom, said during this week’s episode of Watch What Happens Live (she’s referring to the cleverly-titled episode “Halloween”). “It was all in the Dunphys house and we all had costumes, and for some reason, we couldn’t get it together.”

Vergara’s on-screen husband, Ed O’Neil, was “dressed as a gargoyle. I was a witch, so the producers and the director wanted to kill us because we could not hold it together. We would laugh.”

Previously, Vergara was asked by Jimmy Fallon about whether it’s time for Modern Family — which, anecdotally, feels like it’s on the verge of a The Office-style resurgence in popularity — to get a reboot. “No, it’s only been four years,” she replied, wisely. “I don’t know, but it doesn’t seem right. I feel like we need a little bit more time.” But if the inevitable Modern Family reboot needs funding, Ed O’Neil knows a guy. Just don’t ask too many questions.

You can watch Vergara on WWHL above.

Earlier this week, as Donald Trump was blasting The Smiths and going on all-caps tirades, Team Joe Biden released a new line of merchandise ahead of the 2024 presidential election. There’s shirts, digital phone backgrounds, and stickers with the slogan, “Together, We Will Defeat Donald Trump Again.”

Seth Meyers isn’t impressed.

“Oh, Democrats, why are you so bad at this stuff?” Meyers said during Wednesday’s episode of Late Night after putting his head in his hands. “That is not a slogan, that’s like an affirmation you tape on your bathroom mirror.” He continued, “Slogans don’t have multiple punctuation marks in them. A slogan is like, ’Let’s go,’ or, ‘Vote or die.’ This is a sentence so awkward that you think, ‘Oh it must spell out a cool acronym,’ and then it doesn’t.”

I dunno, I think TWWDDTA has legs. Way catchier than MAGA.

Meyers wasn’t finished. “Also, you can’t end your slogan with ‘again’ when his [Trump’s] slogan ends with ‘again.’ Democrats, I’m begging you. Please suck less,” he said before offering a new motto from the Democratic party: “Democrats: We Suck… Less.”

You can watch Meyers’ Late Night monologue, where he also covered Mitch McConnell declining to say whether he’ll endorse Trump, above.

Days ago, Justin Timberlake announced Everything I Thought It Was, his upcoming sixth solo album and his first in a half-dozen years, since 2018’s Man Of The Woods (excluding his work on the Trolls World Tour soundtrack in 2020). Now he’s shared the first taste of the upcoming album, a new song called “Selfish.”

While JT kicked off the Man Of The Woods album cycle with the upbeat lead single “Filthy,” “Selfish” is more of an affectionate slow-burner. On the song’s hook, he sings about his obsession with and devotion to the object of his desire: “Your lips were made for mine / And my heart would go flatline / If it wasn’t beating for you all the time / So if I get jealous / I can’t help it / I want every bit of you / I guess I’m selfish.”

Timberlake is in the middle of a busy stretch at the moment. He recently played a free concert in his hometown of Memphis and he has another free show coming up in New York City. Speaking of NYC, he’s probably in the city right now getting ready for this weekend, when he’ll be the musical guest on Saturday Night Live.

Watch Timberlake’s “Selfish” video above.

Snoop Dogg has been an entertainment icon for decades, and given his long-running association with and love for weed, you’d think that at this point, he would have been able to have a smoke with anybody he’d ever want. It turns out there’s still one person on his to-do list, though.

Snoop was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night (January 24). At the very top of the conversation, Kimmel asked if there’s somebody Snoop has always wanted to get high with but hasn’t yet had the chance, or anybody he has smoked with that people might find surprising. Snoop insisted he didn’t want to “tell on anyone,” but as for who’s on his “bucket list,” he said, “I would love to smoke with Sade.” He added, “Hopefully get a record out of her, too.”

Speaking of new music from Sade: In 2022, it was reported that Sade was the first artist to record in the re-opened Miraval Studios, Brad Pitt’s recording studio in France. If a new Sade album is on the way, it would be the first since 2010’s Soldier Of Love. Meanwhile, Snoop and Sade had something in common in 2023, when they were both inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame.

Check out Snoop’s full Kimmel interview above.

Luka Doncic had a fan kicked out of their seat at the American Airlines Center during Wednesday night’s game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Phoenix Suns. While the game took place in his home gym, multiple reporters from inside the building tweeted that a fan in a Suns jersey said something that rubbed Doncic the wrong way.

Despite the fact that Dallas went on to lose 132-109, Doncic still spoke with the media after the game, and unsurprisingly, he was asked about the issues he had with the fan. While there was plenty of back-and-forth with one reporter in particular — ESPN’s Tim MacMahon, who Doncic essentially accused of frequently trying to paint him in a negative light — Doncic explained that he found the fan’s words inappropriate throughout the course of the game, and that the ejection was him reaching a breaking point.

While Doncic would not go into specifics of what the fan said that upset him, he claimed that “he was cursing me the whole first half, too.”

“I never would eject a fan,” Doncic went on to say. “They pay for tickets. But I had enough, a little bit of frustration.”

In addition to having a fan kicked out of the game, Doncic had 34 points, nine assists, eight rebounds, two blocks, and a steal in 39 minutes of work.

Around the December release of Think Later, Tate McRae spoke with Uproxx about the hockey aesthetics around the album. That’s most evident in her viral “Greedy” video, in which she exudes boss energy on a Zamboni and dances her ass off in an empty hockey rink.

“My brother is a hockey player, and having grown up in Calgary, hockey has always been a part of my life,” McRae told Uproxx during this interview. “In creating the Think Later era, hockey just became a great way to pay homage to my roots and highlight the athleticism in my fashion, style, and approach to live performances.”

McRae will continue to do just that at the NHL All-Star Game on February 3 in Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena. On Wednesday, January 24, the NHL announced McRae as a headline performer. (Insert low-hanging joke about McRae making it to an NHL All-Star Game before her rumored ex, Columbus Blue Jackets center Cole Sillinger.)

As per an official NHL release, McRae “will headline the second intermission performance.”

The Canadian superstar was previously confirmed as the celebrity captain for Team MacKinnon (named after Colorado Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon). Meanwhile Justin Bieber — noted lifelong Toronto Maple Leafs fan — will be the celebrity captain for Team Matthews (named after Leafs star Auston Matthews). Bieber’s Drew House, alongside Adidas, designed the official 2024 NHL All-Star jerseys.

The NHL’s press release also confirmed that McRae’s performance “will be featured in the game broadcast airing at 3 p.m. EST on Sportsnet, CBC, and TVA Sports in Canada and ABC and ESPN+ in the United States” on Saturday, February 3. We can only hope she delivers an elongated version of her “Greedy” video.

Last February, Bad Bunny and Kendall Jenner began sparking dating rumors, which were set ablaze when TMZ caught them mid-kiss in March. By May, the rumored couple were officially memeified when Jenner whispered something in Benito’s ear while sitting courtside at a Los Angeles Lakers game. Bad Bunny didn’t explicitly confirm his relationship status with Jenner, but he danced around it with Vanity Fair last September, and the following month, they co-starred in a Gucci campaign that felt a lot like a hard launch. Regardless, in December, People reported that Bad Bunny and Jenner were “no longer a couple.”

But! We might be starting the cycle all over again.

Are Bad Bunny And Kendall Jenner Back Together?

Who’s to say? Everything about this alleged, reported, rumored couple was vague, so, of course, all we have go off of as to whether Bad Bunny and Jenner have reconciled is an exclusive Us Weekly report, which reports that the two “have started seeing one another again.”

“Kendall’s friends aren’t surprised whatsoever that she’s seeing Bad Bunny again,” an unnamed source told the publication. “They figured this would happen because she has a habit of going back to exes. It’s not the type of situation where they’re fully back together, but they have hung out a few times since breaking up last month.”

The source added, “At the end of the day, if she’s happy, then of course they support her and whoever she decides to date. They’re still not convinced he’s The One for her, but if he treats her well then they’re good with it.”

The year kicked off in fine fettle with yet another beloved Disney character entering the public domain: Mickey Mouse, or at least the early versions of him, who joins the also now free Winnie the Pooh and others. It didn’t take long for a slew of decidedly un-family-friendly Mickey movies to be announced. And just as he threatened to do at the end of last year, John Oliver is getting ready to make Mickey say and/or do some pretty nasty things.

Per Deadline, Last Week Tonight, Oliver’s longtime socio-political comedy show, bowed an ad for its forthcoming new season, which kicks off February 19. The picture finds Oliver smiling as he cowers behind a giant replica of Mickey circa Steamboat Willie, the game-changing 1928 short that proved the first major synch sound cartoon, not only popularizing Mickey and his gal pal Minnie but putting The Walt Disney Company on the map.

“What are they gonna do, sue?” reads the ad’s caption, taunting the company to do just that.

Could Disney sue Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns Last Week Tonight, as well as all those other naughty Mickey movies? They haven’t gone for Adult Swim, who’ve already dropped their own Steamboat Willie parody. Still, it could happen. In one of the show’s final episodes from last year, Oliver, while teasing more Mickey mockery to come, speculated that they could.

“We are staking our claim to Mickey Mouse right now,” Oliver joked, “And I know Disney’s lawyers might argue that this Mickey is closely associated with their brand, although they should know that he’s pretty associated with our brand now too.”

So get ready for mid-February, when Oliver could help ignite a firestorm between two of the biggest media companies, all over a cartoon rat.

(Via Deadline)