Sting, an icon in the world of professional wrestling, is officially hanging up his boots in 2024. Sting announced his decision on AEW’s Dynamite Wednesday night.
At 64 years old, Sting’s run in AEW may be one of his best. Unbeaten since joining the promotion in 2021, Sting quickly teamed up with Darby Allin and hasn’t turned back since, with a slew of classics late in his career.
He’s fresh off performing in front of more than 80,000 fans in London, England, as part of AEW’s All In event, where he and Allin defeated Christian Cage and Swerve Strickland in a coffin match. Ahead of All In, AEW’s founder Tony Khan had this to say about what it’s meant to have Sting apart of the roster and to give him this type of run at this point in his career.
“Sting stepped away from pro wrestling for several years and by all indications, he was going to retire. He felt he had a great run in him alongside his tag team partner, Darby Allin. He’s had some of the most exciting and memorable matches in AEW in the last several years and Sting has accumulated an undefeated record where Sting is, in many ways, the most successful wrestler in AEW,” Khan told Uproxx Sports.
“Every time he steps in the ring we try to pay tribute to his great career and how honored we are to have Sting with us.”
As the days and weeks wind down on Sting’s career, there’s no doubt Khan has something special for the icon’s sendoff.
Drake’s chart-topping album For All The Dogs finds him name-checking several people, such as 21 Savage, and maybe several others, like Kanye West. Many are convinced that “Fear Of Heights” is about Rihanna (for good reason), while Drake directly referenced the commentary surrounding his support of Millie Bobby Brown and their large age gap in “Another Late Night” featuring Lil Yachty. But people have taken more issue with Yachty’s evocation of Billie Eilish in the same song.
“I let her go, she fine as hell, but baby wasn’t stylish (Yeah),” Yachty raps in his verse. “She had big t*ts like Billie Eilish but she couldn’t sing (Drip).” Eilish subtly acknowledged the unsolicited objectification of her body — unfortunately, she’s been dealing with unwanted over-sexualization of her body for years — and it’s especially confusing because there hadn’t been any public evidence that there’s any bad blood between Eilish and Yachty or between Eilish and Drake.
BuzzFeed Newsdid the dirty work of chronicling Eilish’s friendship with Drake. In 2019, during the third iteration of her annual “Same Interview” with Vanity Fair, Eilish complimented Drake as the “nicest dude.” She shared they’d only ever texted, but she was surprised by how nice he was because “he’s at the level where he doesn’t need to be nice, but he is.”
At the time, Eilish was closing in on her 18th birthday, and Drake had just turned 33. As with Millie Bobby Brown, people quickly pointed out how it felt “creepy” for Drake to be texting with underage girls. BuzzFeed News also resurfaced photo proof that Eilish has known Yachty since at least 2018.
can we talk about drake texting billie eilish and millie bobby brown… he’s a whole ass grown man and they’re two underage girls… that’s some creepy shit if you ask me..
“drake didn’t say this” okay i don’t fucking care? by releasing this song he’s complacent in allowing the objectification of women, particularly one he talked when she was just a minor https://t.co/7GuhnLoQl9
That makes Yachty’s “Another Late Night” bar all the more confounding. It would appear that both rappers had gone out of their way in the past to be kind to an up-and-coming Eilish, so why would Yachty go out of his way to insult her now? Nothing blatant has happened to suggest a rift. Maybe it’s a private joke between friends who all happen to lead hyper-public lives; none of us can claim to know where these three currently stand with each other. Regardless, this isn’t the first time Drake has come under fire for housing misogynistic lyrics on an album.
Long before she was one of the hosts of Jeopardy! — but not before she played young Bette Midler in Beaches — Mayim Bialik was a sitcom star. Blossom was her show, and it might be again: There’s a reboot in the works, and if it comes to fruition it won’t be a comedy (with plenty of Very Special Episodes). The show made Bialik a household name — which means it inevitably got parodied in a 1994 sketch on SNL. But Bialik felt that one major detail of it crossed a line.
“The actress portraying me was dancing and mugging for the camera and she was hilarious,” Bialik wrote in a Variety op-ed, referring to Melanie Hutsell. “But. She wore a prosthetic nose. In order to truly convey that she was ‘Blossom,’ she wore a fake, big nose.”
She continued:
“I don’t know if it was significantly larger than my real nose and I don’t care to remember. I remember that it struck me as odd. And it confused me. No one else on the show was parodied for their features. In MAD magazine, everyone is caricatured, but in this rendition of parody, it was just me that was singled out. More specifically, it was my nose.”
Bialik never publicly addressed the sketch, until now, not wanting to draw attention to it. “I hoped no one noticed,” she wrote. “All of my friends at high school watched SNL. It wasn’t subtle. They would all see it and I felt ashamed.”
One reason Bialik is bringing it up now is due to the uproar over Bradley Cooper’s fake nose in Maestro, in which he plays legendary composer Leonard Bernstein. After seeing pictures of the actor in the film, she wrote, “I started scrutinizing the photos of Bradley and Leonard and wondering if it was necessary. I don’t know how I feel. I don’t know if it matters how I feel. I assume it matters how his family feels. But maybe it doesn’t?”
Bialik writes that girls “all over the world used to tell me that they had never seen a Jewish girl like me on TV before they saw me on Blossom.” She added, “Many said they knew I was Jewish and it made them proud to be. That was so touching to me, and it still is… I wonder how those girls felt when they saw an actress playing me with a comically prosthetic nose. I wonder if that’s different from Bradley Cooper playing a famous person. Does it matter?”
She concluded, “My nose is undeniably Jewish, and I am as well. Is it because of my nose? Perhaps. But I don’t have to know because we will always be one and the same.”
Speaking of early ’90s SNL, back in August it was revealed that Hillary Clinton was none-too-pleased with a sketch that sent up then-12-year-old Chelsea.
You can watch SNL’s old Blossom sketch — which also features Mike Myers’ doing a dead-on Joey Lawrence, Sara Gilbert as Blossom’s pal Six, and Kevin Nealon as her supportive dad, played on the show by Ted Wass — in the video below.
Last Wednesday, October 11, Travis Scott opened his long-awaited Utopia — Circus Maximus Tour at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The musician is continuing his North American trek tonight, October 18, with his second of two stops at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas — the home state of his opener, Teezo Touchdown — before jetting to T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri on Friday, October 20.
During opening night, it didn’t take long for photos of the tour’s merch options to leak onto the internet. According to a Reddit thread and from photos by people in attendance, there are several graphic tees, short-sleeved and long-sleeved, hoodies, and sweatpants.
The Reddit thread shows photo proof that prices range from $25 graphic tees to the $150 hoodie, the latter of which is cream-colored. The $125 army green sweatpants have “CIRCUS” and “MAXIMUS” screen-printed on each leg.
Earlier this evening, the American Airlines Center account on X (formerly known as Twitter) posted, “RECORD BREAKING: Congrats to @trvisXX + #CircusMaximusTour on BEST single-day merch sales on record at AAC! Get here early to avoid lines before UTOPIA Night 2! [star emoji, tent emoji].” Scott posted a screenshot of the post to his Instagram Story.
The single appeared on Swift’s official website moments before Swift made the announcement across her socials.
“What a truly mind blowing thing you’ve turned The Eras Tour Concert Film into,” Swift captioned an Instagram post of the single’s cover art. “I’ve been watching videos of you guys in the theaters dancing and prancing and recreating choreography, creating inside jokes, casting spells, getting engaged, and just generally creating the exact type of joyful chaos we’re known for [angel emoji].”
The caption continued, “One of my favorite things you’ve done was when you supported ‘Cruel Summer’ SO much, I ended up starting The Eras Tour show with it. For old times sake, I’m releasing the live audio from the tour so we can all shriek it in the comfort of our homes and cars PLUS a brand new remix by @lpgiobbi. Thank you, so much, forever, wow, just thank you!!!”
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This summer, “Cruel Summer” surprisingly became Swift’s latest radio single (as first reported by Billboard in June), despite it being housed on her Lover album from 2019 — six whole albums ago, and soon to be seven once 1989 (Taylor’s Version)drops on October 27. During the second of her back-to-back The Eras Tour stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 17, Swift explained the “Cruel Summer” resurgence.
“‘Cruel Summer’ was on the Lover album,” Swift told the crowd moments after performing “Cruel Summer” (as captured by Holly Caitlin). “That album came out four years ago, and I just need to let you know something: ‘Cruel Summer,’ that song was my pride and joy on that album. That was my favorite song.”
She continued, “You have conversations before the album comes out, and everybody around weighs in on what they think should be singles. And I was finally, finally about to have my favorite song become the single off of Lover, and, um, I’m not trying to blame the global pandemic that we had, but that is something that happened that stopped ‘Cruel Summer’ from ever being a single. So what’s happening right now, thanks to you — and honestly, no one understands how this is happening — but you guys have streamed ‘Cruel Summer’ so much right now in 2023, it’s like at the top of — it’s rising on the streaming charts so crazy, and my label have just decided to make it the next single.”
“Cruel Summer” debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 2019 but peaked at No. 3 on August 19, 2023. As of this writing, it has spent 23 total weeks on the chart. The single was the second song performed by Swift during the first North American leg of The Eras Tour behind “Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince.”
Show after show, Swifties scream-sang the bridge: “I’m drunk in the back of the car / And I cried like a baby comin’ home from the bar / Said, ‘I’m fine,’ but it wasn’t true / I don’t wanna keep secrets just to keep you / And I snuck in through the garden gate / Every night that summer just to seal my fate (Oh) / And I scream, ‘For whatever it’s worth / I love you, ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard?’ / He looks up, grinnin’ like a devil.”
Since people began speculating about them in January 2022, Halle Bailey and DDG have been open about their relationship. In August 2022, Bailey told Essenceshe was “for sure” in love with DDG, noting she’d “been a fan of his for years.” That November, DDG gushed about The Little Mermaid star in a way that incidentally foreshadowed the rumors swirling around the couple almost exactly one year later.
“Yeah, yeah, I’m married,” DDG said on The Breakfast Club. “Nah, I ain’t really married, but you know what I mean.” The rapper added that he figured he’d “eventually” marry Bailey. Well, did it happen?
On Wednesday, October 18, Glamour UKnamed Bailey its “Women Of The Year Awards 2023 Gen-Z Game-Changer honoree.” According to Pop Base, the accompanying cover story initially misattributed a pull-quote to Bailey that actually belonged to fellow cover star Leigh-Anne Pinnock. The quote reads, “Being a mum, being newly married — there’s the positive side of it, but also the negative. I want to show that, although things might look perfect from the exterior, that’s not always the case.”
Glamour Magazine seems to have incorrectly placed a quote from their interview with Leigh Anne on their interview with Halle Bailey, which implied that Halle was married to DDG and expecting their first child. pic.twitter.com/qHB2a7DcjE
Here is, broadly, what we all understand the state of play to be on a James Harden trade to the Los Angeles Clippers: Harden wants L.A., L.A. wants Harden, and because no one else seems interested in bringing him on board, so the Clippers don’t want to offer anything and everything, which most notably includes Terance Mann, who the Sixers really want.
Harden escalated things a bit on Wednesday by not showing up to practice, and it’s unclear if or when he’ll start showing up ahead of the start of the season next week. It’s a messy situation that seems to be at a bit of a stalemate, something that Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reported in the aftermath of Harden’s no-show. And in a piece by Sam Amick of The Athletic on Wednesday evening, we learned that Sixers executive Daryl Morey is questioning just how badly the Clippers want to get a Harden trade across the finish line.
Despite the Sixers indicating that they would accept an offer of a Clippers’ unprotected first-round pick, first-round pick swap, players to match the salaries and Mann, two people involved in the negotiations say Clippers president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank reiterated the team’s stance that Mann would not be part of their offer. Morey, those people say, expressed his disbelief and accused the Clippers of being “unserious” about getting a deal done.
The Clippers will begin their season on Oct. 25 against the Portland Trail Blazers, while the Sixers will begin theirs on Oct. 26 against the Milwaukee Bucks. It’s unclear if trade talks will ramp up in the days leading up to the beginning of the year.
Lil Yachty is the featured artist on “Another Late Night” from Drake’s newly No. 1For All The Dogs album. Within his verse, he crassly raps, “I let her go, she fine as hell but baby wasn’t stylish / She had big t*ts like Billie Eilish, but she couldn’t sing (Drip).”
On Wednesday, October 18, Eilish posted an Instagram carousel to remind everyone that nothing gets by her. The second of 10 photos is a screenshot of Yachty’s bar about her. The carousel also revealed a gigantic back tattoo, running from the nape of her neck clear down to her lower back.
Eilish’s spontaneous Instagram candids will have to satisfy her fans for now, as she recently confirmed on Westwood One’s The Cookout that “there is no documentary” in her immediate plans, though she left the door open for one “someday.”
Like many in Hollywood, Mark Hamill is no fan of the 45th president. The erstwhile Luke Skywalker has never been shy about slamming Donald Trump, not the least when the big guy lost re-election nearly three years back. But though he disagrees with just about everything he stands for, he finally found an issue about which they agree.
As per HuffPost, Trump was in Iowa earlier this week, doing his usual self-pitying business during a campaign stop (in between complaining about voluntarily showing up at his New York trial, that is). At one point during his speech, the former president reflected on the very real possibility that he could be thrown in the clink. But he had come to accept his fate, for the alleged good of the country.
“I am willing to go to jail if that’s what it takes for our country to win and become a democracy again,” Trump told the crowd — a statement that earned him an unlikely ally.
“On this issue you have my complete & unqualified support,” Hamill tweeted.
Mind you, Trump wasn’t referring to the civil fraud trial in New York. He was addressing the narrow gag order imposed upon him by the judge overseeing his 2020 election subversion case in Washington, all because he keeps threatening judges, prosecutors, witnesses, and other people he’s legally not supposed to be mentioning. It’s hard to keep track of the guy’s many criminal cases!
(Spoilers for Justified and Justified: City Primeval will be found below.)
Justified: City Primeval ended on a high note, albeit a deliciously ambiguous note. Not only did Raylan (of course) take out Clement Mansell and return to Florida, where he retired from the U.S. Marshals Service, but we also got to see Boyd Crowder. That squirrelly little Dairy Queen fanatic was smooching a lady prison guard and escaped custody (with her) while supposedly en route to medical treatment. Raylan got the phone call at the end of the limited series, and we don’t know if he picked up or not, which is part of the fun.
Goggins (who previously had discussed Dairy Queen with our own Brian Grubb) had also previously spoken with our own Jason Tabrys and skillfully made sure the cameo didn’t leak ahead of time. “[I]t was not the time” came up in conversation, but tellingly (in retrospect), Goggins also declared, “I’ll be watching it all the way to the bitter end. How about yourself? Will you be watching it to the end?”
Well, “the end” is when Boyd showed up on the scene. Fast forward to this week, and co-showrunner Michael Dinner reflected to EW about how “everybody [on the team] would like” more Justified, which would not be City Primeval if it happened but more on par with the original series’ vibe. However, “it’s up to the network. Walton’s interested, and Tim’s interested, and we think there’s another chapter in Raylan’s life, but what are the needs of FX?”
So it’s all TBA, but Dinner did remark upon how Goggins did his damndest not give his appearance away, even though he didn’t enjoy “lying”:
[L]ook, poor Walton had to lie through his teeth. We had to do a little bit here and there, but because of the strike there wasn’t as much press — we didn’t have to stand on a red carpet and tell everybody [lies] about how it didn’t feel right [to bring him back for City Primeval]. But Walton, at that point, the actors had not struck yet, and he was doing all this press for Gemstones, and he called us after two days of press and was like, ‘I just spent two days lying to every journalist on the face of the planet that “‘it just wasn’t the time.’” So a lot of credit to him for sticking to his guns.
Additionally, co-showrunner Dave Andron discussed how they cast his wife, Ahna O’Reilly, as the lady prison guard. This went well onscreen, but also this:
And then I realized after that first take that I was about to watch Walton kiss my wife. I was like, “Oh … right. I really forgot that I was going to watch my wife make out with Walton Goggins today.” But I have to say, if it were any actor in the world, I felt okay about it being Walton.
Awkward for Dave Andron, yes, but the results were worth it. And fingers crossed for more Boyd and Raylan on our screens.
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