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Ron DeSantis is getting roasted for a “humiliating” moment during Wednesday night’s GOP debate. The Florida governor can be clearly seen looking to see how the other candidates responded before raising his hand. It was not exactly a profile in courage.

While having candidates respond to questions by raising their hands has fallen out of style in political debates, Fox News leaned heavily on the tactic particularly for questions involving Donald Trump. The former president very publicly snubbed the debate for an interview with Tucker Carlson, but he was still the topic of discussion for much of the evening. The awkward DeSantis moment came when moderator Bret Baier asked the candidates about Trump’s mounting legal troubles.

“You all signed a pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee,” Baier said. “If former President Trump is convicted in a court of law, would you still support him as your party’s choice? Please raise your hand if you would like.”

DeSantis was notably slow to react. Via Newsweek:

Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy raised his hand first, closely followed by former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum.

DeSantis, who has long been thought to be Trump’s main rival in the GOP primary and has been the subject of repeated attacks and mockery from the former president, looked to his left and right at the other candidates before also raising his hand.

Going into the debate, DeSantis was still the second place candidate, so it didn’t take long for Twitter to have a field day with his inability to take a stand without seeing how the crowd reacted to his opponents. The Florida governor was widely roasted as the clip bounced around social media.

You can see some of the reactions below:

(Via Newsweek)

Noel Gallagher has been making headlines for being a ruthless hater. Last month, the Oasis member said Adele’s music is “f*cking sh*t.” In June, he said The 1975 is “not f*cking rock.” However, in an interview for Gibson TV’s Icons series, he delved into the hardships of being a musician by discussing one of the most stressful moments of his career, before his first Oasis concert.

“We’ve got a gig on Tuesday, and it suddenly dawns on me that I’ve never played guitar standing up,” he said, according to Rolling Stone. “Not only that, I don’t own a f*cking strap. This is Sunday night. And I’m skint. Never played guitar standing up.”

“That seems [like a] preposterous f*cking notion now,” he continued. “But I can only tell you that the Monday was probably the most stressful f*cking day of my entire life.” He explained that he had to “borrow a strap” before “going home and putting a guitar on for the first time.” “I’d say [I spent] a good hour looking in the mirror […] And I think where you hold your guitar for the first time is crucial,” he said.

He added, “It kind of signifies how much of a c*nt you’re going to be, because if it’s too high, you don’t get no fit birds, mate. If it’s too low, she gettin’ a goth, alright? But if you get it right, you know, the ‘Gunslinger’… And I remember looking in the mirror thinking, ‘Doesn’t look right.’”

“I was stressing about it for 24 hours,” he said. “Thank f*cking God it was before phones and cameras, because there would be some pretty fucking awkward footage of it now. But you know, an exhilarating experience all the same.”

The Los Angeles Angels‘ hopes of making the postseason get slimmer and slimmer with each passing day, and now, the team will find itself without the services of its most important starting pitcher. During the second inning of the team’s game 9-4 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday afternoon, Shohei Ohtani was abruptly pulled from the game with an apparent injury.

It was eventually revealed that Ohtani suffered a tear in his elbow ligament, which he learned about in between the two games of the team’s doubleheader — he played in the second game of the back-to-back despite the news, although he served as the Angels’ designated hitter. As a result, Ohtani will not pitch again during the 2023 campaign.

“We did imaging between games and he does have a tear, and he won’t pitch the rest of the year,” general manager Perry Minasian told reporters, per MLB.com. “We’re going to get a second opinion and go from there. It’s basically day to day. Obviously, he hit. But that’s where we’re at.”

The news comes ahead of Ohtani, who just turned 29, hitting the open market as a free agent, where he is projected to received the largest contract in Major League Baseball history. This is due to the fact that he’s both a top-5 hitter and pitcher in the sport, and there’s no word on whether another procedure on his elbow would impact his ability to get a record-setting deal.

50 Cent is busy with his The Final Lap Tour, but he’s even busier on Instagram. Earlier this week, 50 posted a backstage video where he playfully demands that people start throwing bras at him on stage, as they do at Drake. He also believes he deserves the same respect as Sylvester Stallone, his Expend4bles co-star.

“[Eyeballs emoji] WTF did we run out of money?” 50 Cent jokingly captioned his Instagram post of his Expend4bles promotional poster. “Why my head look like it ain’t connected to my body. I bet they are gonna make @officialslystallone look great. SMH.”

The fourth installment of The Expendables film franchise will hit theaters on September 22 — the same day that 50’s The Final Lap Tour will stage the finale of the North American leg in Toronto.

On Thursday night, August 24, The Final Lap Tour will hit the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. Ahead of the show, 50 Cent showed love to Houston with three (and counting, probably) Instagram posts.

The first shows a custom World Series ring given to 50 by the Houston Astros. “Bro why the ASTROS gave me a official world championship ring today. I didn’t know what to say, I was bugging out what’s cooler then [sic] that [shrug emoji] H town love,” 50 wrote in the carousel’s caption.

Another Instagram carousel shows 50 wearing a custom baseball glove and Astros jersey signed by manager Dusty Baker and several players.

See 50 Cent in the official Expend4bles trailer above, and check out his Houston-centric posts below.

Earlier this week, Heidi Klum participated in an Instagram Q&A session in which she revealed how much she weighs (138 pounds) and her daily breakfast (three poached eggs in a warm chicken broth). The Daily Mail also reported that the model “doesn’t eat more than 900 calories a day,” which she resolutely denied.

“I just got home, and some friends are sending me these articles that have been written that I only take in 900 calories,” she said in an Instagram Story (the recommended daily calorie intake for a woman is between 1,600-2,000 calories). “I want to say, I don’t think I’ve ever had to count my calories in my life, and don’t believe everything that you read.” Klum added, “Someone asked me how much I weigh, and I got on the scale and showed how much I weighed. And I don’t know, people just put things together and just write a bunch of crap, and it’s really sad because there is no real journalism anymore.”

Excuse me? I think this blog about Al Pacino snorting cocaine off a dagger counts as real journalism.

Anyway, following the calorie kerfuffle, Klum’s America’s Got Talent co-judges came to her defense. “That’s not true because you come into my dressing room and eat my stuff, [like] my sandwiches and stuff,” Sofía Vergara told the model during an interview with Entertainment Tonight on Wednesday. Terry Crews added, “I believe [she eats Vergara’s food].”

Klum called the inaccurate claims “beyond bonkers… I just hate when people lie like that because, especially, you know, there’s so many people out there that follow or read this, and they say, ‘Oh, she does this, so now I’m only gonna eat 900 calories.’ When it’s about other people’s health, I feel like I have to step in and say, ‘Wait a minute.’ I don’t even care about me; I care about everyone who reads that and possibly gets way too thin. Because 900 calories, that’s, like, insane! I would be like a toothpick.”

Heidi Klum should dress up as a literal toothpick for Halloween this year.

(Via Page Six)

Ole Pudding Fingers Ron DeSantis gave his first GOP primary debate “performance” on Wednesday night on Fox News. We had previously heard about an apparent debate prep list by a DeSantis-supporting superPAC, which proposed that he should attack Vivek Ramaswamy as “Vivek the Fake.” However, that list of items did not address DeSantis’ tendency to send off Homelander vibes, nor did it do much about his all-around awkwardness. (The Daily Mail recently reported, however, that his advisors coached him to remember to smile, which may have been what happened here.)

Interestingly enough, opponent Chris Christie attacked Ramaswamy has resembling Chat GPT with the way that he talked. However, one moment in particular had Bobblehead DeSantis looking rather robotic. That was when DeSantis shouted, “I will not let you down.” This was followed by an incredibly eerie smile that (later) got the closeup treatment. Naturally, the Internet set the followup moment to “hello Darkness, my old friend.”

Soon enough, jokes about DeSantis “smiling like a human” and being an AI form attempting to “learn human emotions” surfaced. Stephen King, who obviously knows scary sh*t, agreed.

He sure did seem like an awkward machine, even more so than the Trump-deemed “chocker” Marco Rubio in 2016.

As well, The Washington Post recently published an article called, “Awkward Americans see themselves in Ron DeSantis.” Not sure that’s actually the case, judging from these responses.

While Donald Trump proudly skipped the first GOP debate of the 2024 election cycle, his fidgety son was begging to be let in.

Donald Trump Jr. threw a tantrum when he was blocked from accessing the spin room following the debate on Wednesday night, featuring a real who’s who of people we’ll hopefully have forgotten about this time next month (looking at you, Asa Hutchinson!). “Fox News is trying to censor and silence Trump supporters to protect their hand-picked establishment candidates. That’s a big reason why their ratings are dying, while my father’s interview with Tucker Carlson is already at 93 million views!!!” he wrote on X, along with a video showing him speaking to reporters after the debate, which he attended as a “surrogate” for his dad.

“Right now trying to ban people from actually having discourse about politics,” he said in the video, while his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle shouted off-screen. “Probably, probably shouldn’t surprise any of us. But that’s what it is. And I’ve been told by others that I would be able to go in. So they said we were able to go in and they said they were in now that we’re here. And the candidate that… They’re telling me right now, Fox won’t let me into the spin room.”

Trump Jr. contended that this is “why Trump was 100 percent right to not go to this debate. It’s beneath him! And when you know that you’re walking into a setup because of exactly these kinds of circumstances, you understand exactly what’s going on in mainstream media, even conservative. I like to knock the one side I like to not the one side, but I got to call balls and strikes.”

It’s going to be an exhausting year-plus until the actual election.

(Via Mediaite)

Before Selena Gomez was a solo pop superstar, she had her band, Selena Gomez & The Scene. Gomez had plenty of success with the group and one of the biggest songs from that era was “Who Says,” the lead single from When The Sun Goes Down, the third and final album by the band. The song has since been certified multi-platinum single and is the second-most streamed Selena Gomez & The Scene song on Spotify, with about 420 million plays.

It turns out, though, that initially, the song was given to another artist. In a recent interview as part of the Twilio Signal 2023 conference, Gomez explained how this crushed her and what the song still means to her, saying:

“So, it’s actually a funny story. I was working with Disney at the time, and they were actually giving the song to another artist. I cried — I remember I was with my mom — because I loved the song so much. I basically said to my label, ‘I feel like my fans are young and they need it.’ That’s all I kept saying because I was 16 at the time, and I was like, ‘I think my fans really need it, tell [them] my fans really need this song.’ And so maybe it just didn’t work out with the other artist, but that was a gift to me that I did not know I needed. I love that song, and it has carried with me through my whole career, and I fought for it. So to be honest, I, to this day, need to hear it.”

As for the other artist, it would appear Gomez is likely referring to Jordin Sparks. In a 2021 TikTok video, Sparks revealed, “Fun Fact: Back in 2010, I recorded ‘Who Says.’ I loved the message of this one. It ended up being a great fit for Selena Gomez. She killed it!!”

Check out a clip from the interview above and revisit “Who Says” below.

Zach Bryan and Maggie Rogers have a winner with “Dawns,” which Uproxx named one of the best songs of 2023’s first half. Well, Bryan brought The Burn, Burn, Burn Tour to Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles last night (August 23), and sure enough, Rogers popped up for a striking performance of the song.

Uproxx’s Philip Cosores (who filmed the video above, by the way) previously wrote of “Dawns,” “While his sound veers closer to the outlaw lane, this one-off collaboration with Maggie Rogers isn’t really a country song at all, showing the range and possibility for a young artist that doesn’t have expectations yet to defy. But while the male-female vocal tradeoffs and driving string section underscore the song’s emotional pull, it’s in Bryan’s words that he demonstrates his power, evoking his mother’s death, his relationship’s disillusion, religion, and the passing of time. Bryan is turning out great songs by the dozen these days, but ‘Dawns’ is one of his best yet.”

Meanwhile, Rogers just wrapped up her Summer Of ’23 Tour, which followed news that she has finished recording her third album.

Check out a clip of the “Dawns” performance above.

Zach Bryan is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Concertgoers have been pretty wild this summer, throwing things at performers. It’s made some musicians mad. But 50 Cent welcomes it. In fact, he would like to be showered with bras on stage during his The Final Lap Tour.

“They don’t treat Drake like this. Drake, they throw him bras. What do I get? Aye, could you please go get me some Drake fans?” 50 Cent said in a behind-the-scenes video posted to Instagram this week, referencing Drake’s concurrent It’s All A Blur Tour. “Sh*t just don’t feel right. I need to feel special around here. I need them to treat me like I’m Drake. Drake get bras every night! Bras every night! I used to get bras in the beginning of my career.”

The North American leg of The Final Lap Tour kicked off on July 21 at Maverik Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Along with openers Busta Rhymes and Jeremih, 50 Cent will next hit Houston’s Toyota Center on Thursday, August 24. See all of the remaining North American and international dates here.

According to Reddit and setlist.fm, 50 has been mostly taken the stage around 9 p.m. local time for each show so far. One person commented on Reddit, “I just attended the Cincy show last night [July 29]. 50 came out at 9pm, and the performance was 90 minutes. We had an amazing time! Jeremih started a little after 7pm with a 20 minute set, and Busta came out at 8pm with a 30-35 minute set.”

Only a few shows have been chronicled on setlist.fm, but 50 Cent took the stage around 9 p.m. local time for all of the recorded dates except for on August 11 at XFINITY Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut, where he is said to have begun his set at 10 p.m. local time. You can also check out his setlist here.

Whether 50 will start receiving bras remains to be seen.