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Lake Fontana, A Brooklyn-based TikTokker, received a text message from a stranger in January of 2022, and it completely upended what she knew about her family. But it also taught her an important lesson about the relationships that matter in life.

“About a year ago now, on January 9, I got a text message telling me to get a DNA test from Ancestry, and I think it’s fake,” she shared on TikTok. “I FaceTime my friend, and I’m like, ‘Listen to this.’ And she’s like, ‘I swear my gut is telling me this is real. You need to respond.’”

The mystery person who reached out to Lane also made a burner Facebook account and reached out to her on that platform as well. “You have other family you might not be aware of,’” the mystery person texted her.

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To learn the truth, Lane reached out to her mother. She admitted that the man who raised her wasn’t her father. It was a man that she knew briefly in college when she was 35. “I almost fell off my f**king chair,” Lane explained. “She had an affair with a guy ten years younger than her when she was in college. ‘It was a one-time thing, but he even saw her on campus and said, ‘Is that mine?’ and she denied it.”

Then Lane received the results from Ancestry and learned the truth: her father was a British man who lives in California. The “mystery person” who reached out to her was his nephew.

Lane’s biological father had attempted to get in touch with Lane over the years but was threatened by her mother. “So what did he do? He followed me on social media my entire life. He watched me date my boyfriend, get married, have babies, everything. All from the outside. Not able to know me,” she said.

The biological father longed to hear her voice, so he called the salon where she works to ask the hours and then hung up. He wanted to fly out and get his haircut by her, but his wife was against it because, given their resemblance, she might figure things out pretty quickly.

Lane and her biological father finally met and spent 5 days together, but things didn’t go as she hoped.

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“Coming from a broken family, there’s like this hole inside of me. I guess like was hoping that he was gonna fix me and I really tried to go into it with like an open mind and low expectations,” she said in a TikTok video. “I felt like he was not interested in what I had to say. I felt like I was stupid. I felt like he didn’t like me,” she continued. “I mean, I’m a very warm, talkative, funny, goofy person and he is not like that. So it could just be who he is. He could even be just trying to respect me as an adult. But, um, our interactions left me feeling very confused and very invalidated.”

The confusion with meeting her biological father made her relationship with the man who raised her seem even more important.

“Between him and I not a lot changes, like, that’s still my dad,” she said. “I’m still his daughter. My kids are still his grandkids. You know, like, he Facetimes my son every day. My son’s named after him. Like, I have his signature on the back of my neck. That’s my dad.”

Lane is taking her relationship with the man she calls her “Biodad” in stride. But after all the changes in her life, she’s happy to know the truth. “I’m just taking it at my own pace,” she said. “I just feel like I have 2 dads now, which is a good thing. The more, the merrier.”

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It feels like just yesterday that music lovers were arriving at the Empire Polo Club grounds by the thousands for Coachella 2023. But in reality, it has been months since the infamous Frank Ocean onstage debacle. The organizer wasted no time as they have already announced the official dates for next year’s festivities.

Although we are a long way off until Coachella 2024’s lineup is made public, that hasn’t stopped festivalgoers from cooking up a few theories. Based on the growing online rumors, fans want to know if Justin Bieber will perform at Coachella 2024. In all fairness, anything is possible. However, there is no straightforward answer.

Frank Ocean made his long-awaited return to Coachella this year after his previously planned 2020 appearance was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to TMZ, sources revealed that Bieber was also slated to appear on the lineup. However, he eventually went to turn down the slot, reportedly stating that his focus at the time was finishing up his new album.

Following the postponement of his Justice World Tour, fans hoped that Bieber would bounce back on music’s biggest stage. Instead, he shared a statement revealing that live performances weren’t on the top of his to-do list. “After getting off stage, the exhaustion overtook me, and I realized that I needed to make my health a priority right now,” he wrote. “So I’m going to take a break from touring for the time being.”

Now that Bieber seems to have been able to manage his medical condition, fans would love to see him embark on a full tour, or at least a set during Coachella 2024.

If you’re having an off year, you can tell yourself this: You’re probably nowhere near as bad as Rudy Giuliani. The onetime “America’s Mayor” hasn’t had it good since he agreed to help Donald Trump stay in office after being voted out. Since then he’s racked up massive lawsuits, plus tons in legal bills, and Trump ain’t doing much to help. It seems like things couldn’t get worse for Rudy, and yet they have.

As per Insider, on Monday Giuliani was sued for $1.4 million by the law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron. In the filing, they allege that Giuliani had agreed to pay over $1.5 million under a retainer agreement. Alas, so far he’s only forked over $214,000 total, including a token payment of $10,000 earlier this month. That leaves a balance of $136,196.

To add insult to injury, among the plaintiffs is a longtime friend, Robert Costello, partner at the firm. Both worked at the US Attorney’s Office in the 1970s. Costello was even a major supporter of his maiden campaign to be mayor of New York City.

But in the last few years, things have turned sour:

Costello represented Giuliani from 2019 until this summer, the suit says. He advised Giuliani on special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, a criminal probe by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, prosecutor Fani Willis’ investigation into attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, a Congressional inquiry, attorney disciplinary proceedings that could cost Giuliani his license to practice law, and more than 10 civil lawsuits.

Last month, some of Giuliani’s current lawyers claimed he was so broke that they should show mercy upon him. Surely Rudy’s looking back fondly on those days when he was simply humiliated on national television while wearing a dumb costume.

(Via Insider)

Will Radiohead be the next group to break their lengthy hiatus? Thanks to a string of interviews featuring different members, fans are wondering that they might. At the top of the year, drummer Philip Selway shut down rumors that the group disbanded.

So, what is the verdict? Simply put, Radiohead does hope to release a new album with original music, but not as soon as supporters would like. During an interview with Uproxx’s Steven Hyden, Selway shed light on the band’s future plans. When asked about the timeline, Selway confessed that a Radiohead album won’t happen before the end of the year.

“We get together quite regularly, and we talk about what we might be able to do. But we also talk a lot about our own projects that we’re working on at the moment. Right now, it feels like all of those different projects are where our attention needs to be placed. Ed is making a solo album at the moment, and it’s going to be great. And Thom and Jonny are doing more work on The Smile, and it’s been brilliant watching that this past year. And then Colin kind of beats us all hands down, working with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis,” said Selway.

In the meantime, Radiohead has decades worth of music to hold listeners over until the faithful day comes.

The Cleveland Browns saw their worst case scenario come to life on Monday night in Pittsburgh when star running back Nick Chubb had to be carted off of the field after a severe knee injury on a run near the goal line. Chubb got hit on his knee by Minkah Fitzpatrick and immediately was writhing in pain, with the replay apparently so gruesome that ESPN opted against showing it.

Naturally, there is concern of serious damage to Chubb’s knee, and in the aftermath fans and players took to social media to offer their best to Chubb as he almost certainly gets set for a lengthy rehab process. There was also, as always, an eye on the various top NFL newsbreaker accounts, as fans were wondering just how severe Chubb’s injury is and what the feared damage may be. While we likely won’t actually learn that until Tuesday when there’s an MRI done, sometimes reports will trickle out about the initial diagnosis.

As such, when Adam Schefter opened a tweet with “Nick Chubb dislocated his left knee and tore his MCL, PCL, and LCL with cartilage damage,” many assumed he was reporting about the injury Chubb had just suffered. Instead, Schefter was clumsily recalling the injury the star back suffered in college when he had his same knee torn up against the Tennessee Volunteers back in 2015, which is information he should have led with.

The replies and quote tweets are almost all people yelling at Schefter for scaring them into believing Chubb had completely shredded his knee, when in fact we do not know the specifics. There are a lot of people who could tweet something like that — albeit, almost certainly with better phrasing — but one of the league’s top newsbreakers who regularly has injury info first is not among them.

Fans could be rocking out to a live performance from Trolls actor Justin Timberlake before they know it. Since NSYNC’s onstage reunion at the 2023 VMAs, an abundance of questions have been posed across social media. The most prominent is if Timberlake has plans to release new music. Also, is he going on tour soon?

According to a report from Billboard, the answer is leaning towards yes. As journalist Dave Brooks outlined the viability of a future NSYNC tour, they found that Timberlake has placed several dates on hold at arenas across North America. This seems to point towards a possible limited solo tour run.

So NSYNC fans might need to say bye, bye, bye to the possibility of the band getting back together next year. Multiple sources went on to tell the outlet that in addition to the supposed tour, Timberlake may drop a brand new album as well. If that does happen, the album will mark Timberlake’s first full-length album, since 2018’s Man of the Woods, outside of his soundtrack work for the Trolls film series.

Not to get die-hard supporters’ hopes up, but neither Justin Timberlake nor his team has confirmed this news to be true or not.

“Repeat It” rapper Lil Tecca is finally prepared to give fans what they want: a new full-length project.

On social media, Lil Tecca has posted a handful of clips featuring song snippets for the unreleased tracks “Rock The Boat” (where he samples the late Aaliyah’s 2001 song by the same name), “Montana,” “Road Rage,” and more. In May, he took to his official X (formerly Twitter) account to share the news that his first album since 2021’s We Love You Tecca 2 would drop in the summer months. However, plans to release Tec in June were suddenly changed without explanation. Instead of a hot summer release date, Lil Tecca’s new album Tec will drop on the eve of the fall equinox.

Here is everything you need to know about Lil Tecca’s forthcoming album, Tec, including the release date, confirmed tracklisting, and more.

Release Date

Tec is out on 9/22 via Republic Records. Find more information here.

Tracklist

1. “Yves”
2. “Hvn On Earth” Feat. Kodak Black
3. “Gist”
4. “500lbs”
5. “Fell In Love” Feat. Kenny Mason
6. “Tec”
7. “Salty”
8. “Real Discussions”
9. “Dead Or Alive”
10. “Want It Bad”
11. “U Don’t Know Tec”
12. “Used2this”
13. “Trippin On U”
14. “Either Way”
15. “Need Me”
16. “Monday To Sunday”

Singles

Ahead of the Tec’s release, Lil Tecca shared a total of three singles, namely “Need Me,” “500lbs,” and “Hvn On Earth.” According to the supplied tracklist, his previous singles “Blessing,” “Treesha,” and “Faster” will not appear on the album.

Artwork

View the official artwork for the album below.

Tour

As of Monday, September 18, Lil Tecca has not yet announced a tour to support the release of his album. However, fans are hoping that he will roll out a few pop-up performances in the coming weeks for them to experience Tec live with him.

Last Sunday, Lauren Boebert just wanted to go see the Beetlejuice musical with a date, where should would vape, loudly sing along, get aggressively handsy, etc. How was she to know it would lead to over a week of news coverage? But all good things must come to an end, and it appears the MAGA lawmaker and her companion — who happened to be a Democrat who owns a drag queen-friendly bar — are already Splitsville.

TMZ caught up with Boebert, who cheerfully offered up an update about her new beau. Alas it was not to be.

“Ultimately all future date nights have been cancelled, and I learned to check party affiliations before you go on a date,” Boebert said, suggesting that a far right figure who heckles Democratic president while they’re talking about his dead son can’t last very long with someone from the other side of the aisle.

Not that Boebert has anything bad to say about her date. Acknowledging that he’s a “private citizen,” she said that he’s “a wonderful man” and that they had “mostly a lovely time.” She joked that she “would love to know how the musical ended and I encourage people to go and see it.”

As for the two of them, they, she said, “peacefully parted” ways, though she claimed that it had “nothing to do with anything anybody reported,” such as that he may have voted for the guy she’s trying to impeach. Boebert added that he’s a “great man, great friend, and I wish him all the best.”

Perhaps it’s true what they say: Love is dead.

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The growing excitement around reuniting groups continues to set social media ablaze, whether it’s No Doubt, Destiny’s Child, or NSYNC, all of whom are back together. However, Blink-182’s reunion isn’t just online chatter but a soon-to-be reality.

Earlier Monday, September 18, the trio announced their upcoming album, One More Time…, with a touching trailer video. In the clip, the band explained the meaning behind the project and discussed their career.

“What you need to understand about Blink-182 is we didn’t come out of joyous homes. So, Blink was a way for us to force the happiness in the room,” said Tom DeLonge.

“‘One More Time’ is kinda written about why does it take these catastrophes [me being in a plane crash or Mark being sick] for our band to get back together,” added Travis Barker.

Mark Hoppus chimed in to say, “This is the best album we’ve ever written. It’s all through the healing of this band and this music and this record that I literally just cry on stage every night.”

“Coming out with One More Time is [us saying that] this is the last time we are going to f*ck this up,” said DeLonge.

You can watch the full album trailer below.

One More Time… is out 10/20 via Columbia. Find more information here.

Blink-182 is back together, and they couldn’t be happier. After weeks of teasing their long-awaited reunion album, the band released its official release date. But that wasn’t the only thing the trio divulged. Their lead single, “One More Time,” will be released soon to give the world a taste of what’s to come.

“‘One More Time… the new album from Blink-182 is out October 20,” wrote the band in a post on their X (formerly known as Twitter) page. The note went on to specify that the title track for the project would be dropping soon. “‘One More Time,’ the new song, is out this Thursday, September 21, at 7 am Los Angeles time / 10 am New York time / 2 pm London time.”

The band strolls down memory lane in the album trailer as they open up about their personal life before coming together as a group. They also discussed the inspiration behind their forthcoming single. “‘One More Time’ is kinda written about why does it take these catastrophes (me being in a plane crash or Mark being sick) for our band to get back together,” said member Travis Barker.

Watch the clip below.

One More Time… is out 10/20 via Columbia. Find more information here.