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Bob Barker, the longtime daytime game show host who lorded over The Price is Right and Truth or Consequences, has died, as per Variety. He made it to 99.

“It is with profound sadness that we announce that the World’s Greatest MC who ever lived, Bob Barker has left us,” said Barker’s publicist Roger Neal in a statement.

Barker hosted multiple shows over his decades-long career, but he was most famous for the 35 years he spent on The Price is Right, the late morning game show where cash-minded contestants duked it out for prizes. For years he was cited in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most consecutive game show appearances before he was unseated by another legend of the field, Alex Trebek.

The Price is Right wasn’t Barker’s only big show. From 1950 to 1956, he had his own show, The Bob Barker Show. After that he hosted Truth or Consequences from 1956 through 1975. He took over The Price is Right in 1972.

With his euphonious baritone, Barker was an unfailingly charming and convivial host, never losing his cool. (Although there was that time he almost did.)

Given his long stint on arguably the most popular daytime game show, tributes inevitably poured in. Many people remembered watching The Price is Right as kids on sick days or during the summer.

Many noted that Barker made it to 99, which seemed apropos given that not going over 100 was a key game on The Price is Right.

Others remembered him for his delightful cameo in Happy Gilmore, in which he dukes it out with Adam Sandler.

Some honored his tireless pet advocacy.

Others simply paid tribute to a legend.

(Via Variety)

Ed Sheeran is committing to his Autumn Variations era. This fall, he will release his sixth studio album, Autumn Variations, which marks his first major label solo album without a mathematical symbol in the title. And of course, Sheeran is ringing in the fall in the most autumnal way possible — with pumpkin spice lattes, of course.

In a video shared to Sheeran’s Instagram page, the “Eyes Closed” singer is seen working as a barista in a Seattle Starbucks, slinging out pumpkin spice lattes left and right.

In addition to serving up drinks, Sheeran also gifted customers with a new nickname, in true Starbucks barista fashion.

“Thanks for having me @starbucks,” said Sheeran in the post’s caption. “[I]f you gave me your name I gave you a new one, for I am the barista of joy.”

You can see a montage featuring clips from Sheeran’s day as a barista above.

Sheeran’s upcoming album, Autumn Variations comes just four months after the release of his fifth album — (Subtract). Like —, Autumn Variations will be co-produced by Aaron Dessner.

Autumn Variations is out 9/29 via Gingerbread Man and Atlantic Records. Find more information here.

Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Bob Barker, the former host of The Price Is Right and a longtime advocate for getting your pets spayed or neutered, passed away at 99 years old on Saturday. The news came by way of his spokesperson, who accurately described Barker in a statement as “the World’s Greatest MC who ever lived.”

It’s hard to sum up a life as magnificent as Barker’s, but there is one thing that can and should be highlighted in the aftermath of the news: No one has ever had a funnier cameo in a sports movie. Back in 1996, the Adam Sandler-led film Happy Gilmore hit theaters, and in a famous scene, Gilmore teams up with Barker during a celebrity pro-am. Gilmore’s rival on the tour, Shooter McGavin, pays for a heckler to mess with him, which leads to him playing a terrible round of golf.

Barker, who was known for his affable presence in the 30-plus years that he hosted The Price Is Right, grew impatient with Gilmore having a terrible day that led to them finishing in last place because some dude kept calling him a jackass. Gilmore throws a right hand, and after Barker gets up, he famously says “I don’t want a piece of you, I want the whole thing.” The two then fight. It is hilarious, and as Sandler recently revealed, this was never supposed to happen.

“We initially wrote it for Ed McMahon,” Sandler said in an interview earlier this year. “Ed McMahon said he was busy and we were like, imagine if Bob Barker did it, he’ll never do it. Next thing you know, Bob Barker, whose neighbor was Chuck Norris at the time, and Chuck and Bob used to spar, and Bob was like, ‘Yeah, if I get to fight, if I get to throw punches, I’m doing it.’”

Adele is certainly not coy about her Beyhive status. The “Easy On Me” hitmaker has publically declared her Beyoncé fandom on various occasions and even shared her Album Of The Year Grammy Award with her at the 2016 ceremony. Taking inspiration from the Queen Bey and her current Renaissance World Tour, Adele decided to hit her audience at her Vegas Weekends With Adele residency with an “everybody on mute” challenge on mute.

For context, when Beyoncé has performed her song “Energy” during her Renaissance World Tour, she’s been challenging the audience to get quiet for a brief amount of time, after she recites the lyric, “look around, everybody on mute.”

Last night (August 25), Adele attempted to see how this challenge would pan out among her fans. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem the audience caught on.

In a clip, Adele is seen instructing the audience, “everybody on mute,” though the audience remained in talkative bouts.

“You f*cking failed miserably,” said Adele. “When I sing ‘everybody on mute,’ you have to be f*cking quiet.”

She then alluded to a fan video taken from a Beyoncé concert, where someone in the audience didn’t go mute, “and everyone was like ‘wah!’”

All-in-all, Adele and fans had a good laugh about the ordeal.

You can see a clip above.

Richard Lewis has been with Curb Your Enthusiasm from the start. He was in the 1999 TV movie that kicked it off. Over the last near-quarter century he’s swung by for 41 episodes, playing a version of himself. He and Larry David are tight. But they weren’t always that way.

In a new interview with the British magazine Spectator (as caught by Deadline), Lewis confessed that the first time they met didn’t go so hot. Granted, they were kids then.

“I disliked him intensely,” Lewis recalled. “He was cocky, he was arrogant. When we played baseball, I tried to hit him with the ball: we were arch-rivals. I couldn’t wait for the camp to be over just to get away from Larry. I’m sure he felt the same way.”

But the pair — who were born a mere three days apart, both in Brooklyn Jewish Hospital — got a mulligan about a decade late when they were working NYC’s comedy scene. They almost didn’t recognize each other.

“I looked at his face and I said, ‘There’s something about you, man, that spooks me.’” Lewis remembered. David replied, “You’re Richard Lewis!” “You’re Larry David!”

In the most recent season of Curb, Lewis was only able to appear in one episode due to health reasons. Earlier this year he revealed he’d been diagnosed with Parkinson’s. Despite that, he was able to return for the forthcoming twelfth season.

(Via Deadline)

With LaMelo Ball under contract until next summer and Brandon Miller arriving in Charlotte prior to the start of the season, the most pressing bit of business involving a player who could leave this free agency period revolved around fifth-year forward P.J. Washington. A consistent piece of the team’s starting unit for most of his tenure in the Queen City, Washington entered restricted free agency this summer, and was among the more productive players to hit RFA market.

Washington was a difficult player to gauge heading into free agency, as it stood to reason that both the Hornets would not let him go and he could attract interest from other teams. While most of the other top RFAs inked deals early on, Washington saw cap space dry up around the league without a clear path to a deal. The result was nearly a two-month wait, but on Saturday, Washington finally agreed to a long term deal to stay in Charlotte, per Adrian Wojnarowski.

The No. 12 overall pick out of the University of Kentucky in the 2019 NBA Draft, Washington has been one of the building blocks in Charlotte during the early portion of his career. His best season as a pro came in 2022-23, when he started all 73 games in which he appeared. Washington averaged a career-high 15.7 points per game with 4.9 rebounds, 2.4 assists, 1.1 blocks, and 0.9 steals in 32.6 minutes per game, while connecting on 44.4 percent of his attempts from the field and 34.8 percent of his shots from behind the three-point line.

Donald Trump’s base may find his historic mugshot weirdly erotic, but not everyone’s seeing his fourth indictment as a win. When the former president showed up for his latest arraignment, one detail jumped out to many: He reported his weight as only 215 pounds. He’s (according to him!) 6’3”, which means he’s technically overweight. But that’s still fewer pounds than many anticipated. Indeed, someone who’s reluctantly shared a bed with him is also calling bull.

“Mmmkay! And I’m 110lbs and a virgin!” tweeted Stormy Daniels, the porn star and alleged recipient of a Trump hush money payment. “I’m not a scale or a doctor but I have spent some time beneath 215lb men and Tiny was not one of them.”

As it happens, Daniels is one of the people responsible for Trump’s first indictment. Back in March he was charged with 34 counts relating to falsifying business records, some involving alleged payments to people he wanted to keep quiet ahead of his 2016 presidential run.

But that was almost half a year ago. Since then Trump’s racked up three more indictments, for a total of 91 charges. Has being an alleged crook caused the alleged party of law and order to turn on him? Of course not! In fact it’s so helped his polls that he openly asked for a fourth indictment. Has getting his wish made him happy? You bet your ass it hasn’t.

It’s been almost a year since Blink-182 announced a return to music with their classic line-up—consisting of Mark Hoppus, Tom Delonge, and Travis Barker. Last October, the band dropped a new single, “Edging,” and announced they were going on tour and working on a new album.

While the tour has proven to be a hit among fans, the fans are still waiting for a new Blink album. But it looks like we won’t have to wait much longer.

Yesterday (August 25), Delonge took to Twitter to share an update, hinting that a new Blink-182 era may finally be underway.

“@blink182 music video(s) and album are only weeks (days) away,” said Delonge. “We are finally here.”

So far, “Edging” is the only single Blink has released since announcing their return to music, however, they’ve had a great year. On top of a new single and a high-grossing tour, the band performed a medley of their greatest hits at Coachella back in April. The video for “Edging” — which was directed by Cole Bennett — is currently nominated for Best Alternative at the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards, which is set to take place on September 12 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

On Thursday, Donald Trump scored yet another record: He became the first American president to get a mugshot. To some, it was a new low. To his base, it was a new high. While detractors dwelled on a former commander-in-chief being charged with trying to overturn an election, his supporters fell over each other trying to make it seem like a win. Few went as over-the-top as Fox News’ Jesse Watters.

“I am now going to book the Fulton County photographer for my Christmas card,” said Watters during Friday’s episode of The Five. “Because judge, and I say this with an unblemished record of heterosexuality, he looks good. And he looks hard.”

It’s perhaps the most emblematic moment of the Trump era: a homoerotic fit from someone also indulging in gay panic, over a guy whose best years are far, far behind him (and whose prowess gets mocked by someone who’s shared a bed with him).

Watters isn’t the only one in gross denial of Trump’s physical fitness. When arraigned, big guy himself claimed that he was 215 pounds — a line only the biggest, weirdest sycophants could ever believe.

Trump’s fourth indictment may do wonders for his polls, but it all may be for naught. Even conservative legal scholars have begun arguing that even without a guilty verdict he’s ineligible to run for president again thanks to that whole inspiring an insurrection thing.

It wasn’t always pretty, but USA Basketball was able to take care of business in its first game at the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup. Despite going down by double-digits in the first quarter to a feisty New Zealand side, the Americans were able to rally, get their feet under them, and pick up a decisive 99-72 win in Manila.

The starting lineup for the Americans really struggled to get into the flow of the game. Between some hot shooting and a feisty full-court press by the Tall Blacks, the United States saw itself fall into a 14-4 hole early. But fortunately, the American bench was able to inject some energy into things, with Paolo Banchero, Tyrese Haliburton, and Austin Reaves all flashing in the game’s first half.

This allowed some of the starters, particularly Anthony Edwards and Jaren Jackson Jr., to grow into the game, and as a result, the United States went into halftime with a 45-36 lead. The third quarter ended up being much of the same, in part because Banchero was able to score 12 points in the frame and really establish himself as a force to be reckoned with on both ends of the floor.

The fourth quarter was essentially a formality, as the Americans were able to keep New Zealand at arm’s length due to the lead they built up in the second and third.

Banchero was the star of the show for the U.S., as the Orlando Magic standout scored a team-high 21 points on 8-for-10 shooting with four rebounds and four blocks. Reaves and Haliburton were likewise excellent off the bench — the former had 12 points, six assists, three steals, and two rebounds; the latter went for 10 points, four rebounds, three assists, and three steals. Edwards had 14 points and seven boards, while Jackson had 12 points, four rebounds, and a block.

Next up for the United States is a game against Greece on Monday. The game is scheduled to tip off at 8:40 a.m. EST on ESPN2.