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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.

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.

Donald Trump skipping Fox News’ GOP debate wasn’t the only humiliation the conservative news network suffered Wednesday. Visitors to their website were in for a bit of a surprise: ads not for one of the many Republican candidates trying to unseat Donald Trump, but for Joe Biden. They weren’t just any Joe Biden ads. They were “Dark Brandon” ads — the very internet meme that drives Fox News hosts nuts.

As per People, the Biden campaign evidently shelled out money to have the ad run all day Wednesday, from midnight through 11:59pm. It features the “Dark Brandon” character: a drawing of Biden beaming a big smile, his eyes a crimson, burning red. “Get real, Jack. I’m bringing Roe back,” the text reads — a nod to the overturning of Roe v Wade by a right-leaning Supreme Court last summer. On top of giving visitors to the Fox News site easy access to Biden’s campaign page, it also reminds them about the GOP’s wildly unpopular stance on abortion access.

The ”Dark Brandon” meme evolved out of the “Let’s Go Brandon” bit created by conservatives in 2021. The term was code for “F*ck Joe Biden.” One classy guy even used it on Biden himself during a children’s Christmas event about Santa Claus. Eventually it was co-opted by Democrats to describe how Biden, who had a rough first year in office, had started getting stuff done. Any time he passes some remarkable piece of legislation or stands up to Republicans, the “Dark Brandon” jokes fly, much to the far right’s chagrin.

Fox News isn’t the only place getting “Dark Brandon” ads. Three other versions will appear on billboards in Milwaukee, addressing other issues. One of them reads, Get on board, folks. We’re lowering prescription drug costs.” Another: “Social Security cuts? Try me.” The last one: “Tax cuts for yacht owners? Good luck with that, champ.”

Meanwhile, the Fox News GOP debate was not exactly an inspiring affair, mostly featuring in-fighting, with multiple candidates sticking it to businessman Vivek Ramaswamy. The counter-programming bit, namely Trump’s Twitter chat with Tucker Carlson, wasn’t much more exciting, with the low energy former president at one point rambling about Biden’s popular beach photos.

(Via People)

Did Donald Trump skip the first GOP debate because he thought it’d be a waste of time or because he’s chicken? Both are plausible explanations. But at least he made other plans. The former president wound up offering the Fox News event some eff-you counter-programming, sitting down for a chat with one of the network’s former staffers on Twitter, in a video that dropped five minutes before the debate was scheduled to begin. It…wasn’t very exciting. But it did contain some choice ramblings, including one extended, bizarre bit about Joe Biden’s beach pics.

During a diss session on the former president, a very low energy Trump that, at 80, his presidential successor is “worse mentally than he is physically, and physically he’s not exactly a triathlete, or any kind of an athlete.”

Trump even laid into the way Biden walks, despite that infamous ramp moment from late in his presidency. “He can’t lift his feet out of the grass, it’s only two inches at the White House, right? It’s not a lot,” he said. “But you watch him and he looks like he’s walking on toothpicks.”

He then moved onto Biden’s beach trips. “And then you see him on the beach where he can’t lift a chair,” he told Tucker. “Those chairs are meant to be light, right?”

Biden has been photographed at the beach, including this summer, which just makes Trump mad. “They love pictures of him on the beach. I think he looks terrible on the beach,” he said. He then claimed that Biden “can’t walk through the sand.” He then admitted, perhaps by accident, that “sand is not that easy to walk through,” but that when Biden “walks through it, he can’t walk through the sand.”

Trump seemed almost jealous that Biden’s beach pictures tend to be popular. “There’s somebody in there that thinks he look fabulous at the beach. I think he looks horrible at the beach,” he said. He concluded that “the beach doesn’t represent what a president’s supposed to be doing.”

So someone doesn’t like the beach, huh?

Tucker and Trump talked about a lot, though not much of it was about policy. They talked Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories. They talked about the Panama Canal at some length, for some reason. Tucker trashed his former Fox News colleague Chris Wallace.

Like Tucker’s Twitter show, it was a steep drop in excitement from his Fox News days, when he had fancy graphics and a producer and commercials. Those that tuned into the GOP debate instead at least got Chris Christie mopping the floor with Vivek Ramaswamy.