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Fran Drescher might learn a valuable lesson in never going near a Kardashian. The iconic TV actress and star of The Nanny is currently the president of the SAG-AFTRA union, and its members were not thrilled to see Drescher posing for a selfie with Kim Kardashian while attending the lavish Dolce & Gabbana’s Alta Moda festivities in Italy.

SAG is in the middle of intense contract negotiations would could result in a strike as early as this week, and the optics of Drescher cavorting in Italy are not going over well.

“Some real let them eat cake vibes for the SAG-AFTRA members who were marching alongside us WGA members just this morning,” Fleishman Is in Trouble writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner tweeted with a screenshot of the selfie. “For context, Fran Drescher is the SAG president, and SAG’s contract extensions expire at midnight tomorrow. Unless the bargaining table has moved to Italy (along with the dress code), this is a terrible look for a union president. Do not get me started on her friend here.”

In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, a SAG-AFTRA representative defended Drescher’s trip and noted that it was a prior obligation for her “brand ambassador” work:

“This was a commitment fully known to the negotiating committee. She has been in negotiations every day either in person or via videoconference. President Drescher is managing a physically demanding schedule across three time zones, overseeing negotiations and working on-location daily as well as managing her parents’ needs in [Florida]. She is returning to the States and will be on the ground in L.A. tomorrow, and will continue to chair our negotiations.”

THR also notes that “presidents in top entertainment coalitions typically do not take a lead role in negotiations.” That task is handled by a chief negotiator. In this case, SAG-AFTRA national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland. However, that fact didn’t save Drescher from a wave of backlash on Twitter.

Writer Gennefer Gross wrote, “When your sweet six-figure residuals from a 90’s sitcom allow you to jetset off to Italy in the middle of a critical labor negotiation that doesn’t afford your fellow union members the same financial advantages, that’s amore.”

Carina Adly Mackenzie added, “It takes a lot to blow my mind these days but I’m actually floored. Not to mention Kim is working on one of the only scripted shows that has completely given the middle finger to the writers’ strike.”

And Nancy Lee Grahn wondered, “This is a joke right? The deadline for a union that she is President of has a deadline to strike Wed at midnight. Livelihoods are on the line. I’m hoping this is not true. It can’t be. No one could be this stupid.”

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

Rina Sawayama tends to avoid making splashy headlines unless, of course, it’s about her music. However, last month the “Eye For An Eye” singer was all the talk after calling out The 1975’s frontman Matty Healy for his behavior toward his friends’ insensitive remarks about the Asian community during her set at Glastonbury Festival 2023. Although Healy has made it clear that he’s f*cking proud of himself despite what the public thinks. Rina Sawayama’s beef with Healy is far from over, as she doubled down on her thoughts on the musician at NOS Alive Festival.

“So I was thinking a lot about apologies. It’s just funny how some people get away with not apologizing ever for saying some racist sh*t, for saying some sexist sh*t. Why don’t you apologize for once in your life without making it about your f*cking self,” said the entertainer referring to Healy’s past controversial remarks.

Rina’s first time blasting Healy for his remarks was much more direct, as she said, “I wrote this next song because I was sick and tired of microaggressions. So, tonight, this song goes out to a white man who watches [pornography series] Ghetto Gaggers and mocks Asian people on a podcast. He also owns my masters. I’ve had enough.”

Never one to back down from responding to another artist’s criticism of him, during The 1975’s performance at TRNSMT Festival began to address Rina’s Glastonbury comments. However, his bandmates stepped in to stop him.

Four years removed from the release of her critically-hailed 2019 album Legacy! Legacy!, Jamila Woods has returned to announce its follow-up, Water Made Us, with the first video from the new album, “Tiny Garden.” The song, produced with Wynne Bennet and featuring Duendita, is described by Woods in the press release as “a song about the way my heart works, the slow and steady way I love.”

She also directed the video, her first time doing so, saying of her debut, “I wanted to create a visual representation of how I often feel in relationships — like I’m having huge feelings that I end up expressing in small specific ways.” “Tiny Garden” opens with a subtle, bubbly instrumental and flourishes into a full-bodied heartbeat — just like the sort of relationship being described in the lyrics.

Woods said of the upcoming album, “Water Made Us feels like the most personal and vulnerable piece of art I’ve ever made. I love creating from source material, diving deep into a subject, and extrapolating from what I discover… I hope it feels like a playlist that carries you through the life cycle of a relationship, whatever stage of the journey your heart may be in.”

Since her last album, Woods has released a slew of singles, including a cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” and “WYD” with Peter CottonTale.

Water Made Us is out 10/13 via Jagjaguwar. You can get more info here.

Tracklist:

01. “Bugs”
02. “Tiny Garden” Feat. Duendita
03. “Practice” Feat. Saba
04. “Let The Cards Fall”
05. “Send A Dove”
06. “Wreckage Room”
07. “Thermostat” Feat. Peter CottonTale
08. “Out Of The Doldrums”
09. “Wolfsheep”
10. “I Miss All My Exes”
11. “Backburner”
12. “Libra Intuition”
13. “Boomerang”
14. “Still”
15. “The Best Thing”
16. “Good News”
17. “Headfirst”

Lana Del Rey treated fans to a little bit of shade during her recent BST Hyde Park show in London. Specifically, during her song “Chemtrails Over The Country Club,” Del Rey decided to switch up the lyrics to poke at one of her exes, it seems.

While the original line was, “You’re born in December, and I’m born in June,” she spun it to dig at Sean Larkin — her ex, a former cop known for his “Live PD” appearances.

“He’s born in December, and he got married when we were still together,” Del Rey added instead. “Sometimes I wonder what his wife would think if she knew that I didn’t know anything / He’s born in December, and I’m born in June / He’s born in December, and he got married while we were in couple’s therapy together.”

Del Rey and Larkin had been linked together in 2019 and early 2020. And although it’s unclear when they officially broke up, Larkin got married in January 2022.

This is also not the first instance the pop star has thrown some shadiness his way. Not only did she announce her latest album on Larkin’s birthday, but she also put up the only billboard for it in Tulsa — his hometown. “It’s. Personal,” she wrote at the time.

Check out a clip of Lana Del Rey’s lyric change above.

Oppenheimer, a movie about a man who has an orgasm so strong that it inspires the creation of the atomic bomb (I assume), isn’t the most controversial film of the summer. That distinction belongs to Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, which has been banned in at least one country over a map in the film that includes the nine-dash line, which is used in “Chinese maps to mark its claim over as much as 90 percent of the South China Sea” — and now Republicans in the United States are mad at the literal “child-like crayon drawing,” too.

“While it may just be a Barbie map in a Barbie world, the fact that a cartoonish, crayon-scribbled map seems to go out of its way to depict the PRC’s unlawful territorial claims illustrates the pressure that Hollywood is under to please [Chinese Communist Party] censors,” said Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Is that “motherf*cker” Ted Cruz somehow involved, too? You better believe it!

Bethany Stevens, a spokesperson for Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said in a statement to USA TODAY, “China wants to control what Americans see, hear, and ultimately think, and they leverage their massive film markets to coerce American companies into pushing CCP propaganda—just like the way the Barbie film seems to have done with the map.”

Senator and Taylor Swift enemy Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) tweeted, “Hollywood & the Left are more concerned with selling films in Communist China than standing up to the regime’s human rights abuses. The Barbie movie’s depiction of a map endorsing Beijing’s claims to the South China Sea is legally & morally wrong and must be taken seriously.”

Another Tennessee politician, Rep. Mark Green, also joined in. “Since the Barbie movie is promoting a world in which China controls most of the South China Sea, perhaps this movie studio should think twice about asking for assistance from the DoD for its next action movie,” he wrote. Was it worth it for 25 likes?

You would think the GOP would love a movie about the idealized person being white and blonde. They’re full of surprises!

(Via USA Today)

Last week, Taylor Swift announced that she (along with Paramore) will be bringing The Eras Tour for 14 newly announced concerts. The trek is set to kick off with four nights at France’s Paris La Défense Arena in May 2024, and tickets were set to go on sale today (July 11). However, Ticketmaster has faced issues significant enough that today’s on-sale has been put on hold.

In a tweet shared today, Ticketmaster’s French Twitter account explained (translated to English), “The 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Eras Tour for Paris La Défense Arena has been put on hold. We will keep you posted with a new on-sale time as soon as possible. All codes not already used will remain valid.”

As Variety notes, there appears to be a technical issue with the Ticketmaster platform that’s preventing users from being able to log in. There were, at one point, over 700,000 in the queue to get their hands on tickets.

Swift faced issues with Ticketmaster last year, when Eras Tour tickets first started going on sale. She said at the time, “There are a multitude of reasons why people had such a hard time trying to get tickets and I’m trying to figure out how this situation can be improved moving forward. I’m not going to make excuses for anyone because we asked them, multiple times, if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured they could. It’s truly amazing that 2.4 million people got tickets, but it really pisses me off that a lot of them feel like they went through several bear attacks to get them.”

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

Despite previously claiming that his MyPillow empire isn’t going broke and is “doing great” after being dropped by Walmart and major retailers because of his election fraud crusade, Mike Lindell can no longer hide the truth about his financial woes.

According to the Star Tribune, Lindell is frantically auctioning off everything that isn’t bolted down to make up for a massive dip in revenue after Bed, Bath and Beyond joined Walmart in no longer carrying MyPillow items:

“It was a massive, massive cancellation,” Lindell said in a phone interview Monday. “We lost $100 million from attacks by the box stores, the shopping networks, the shopping channels, all of them did cancel culture on us.”

The auction does not appear related to the $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit targeting both Lindell and MyPillow, which is ongoing in federal court.

However, this isn’t the first time that Lindell has cited a $100 million loss. He used the same figure back in January 2023 when he painted himself as a martyr for continuing to push conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.

“Now let me tell you the facts about MyPillow. When I tried to get this out to the people, MyPillow lost $100 million in retailers,” Lindell said in an interview. “We are not up 30-40% — we are down. We are down. I had to borrow money.”

But just a few months later, Lindell changed his tune while appearing on Steve Bannon’s podcast as he often does. The CEO claimed to have invented MyPillow 2.0 and turned things around. Clearly, that story hasn’t held up because Lindell is now back to saying revenue is in the toilet as he scrambles to unload sewing machines and office chairs online.

(Via Star Tribune)

Billie Eilish recently deemed Rihanna ‘the hottest person to ever exist in the history of the world,’ and Savage X Fenty’s latest promotional campaign is all the proof you’ll need. To launch the company’s new Sheer X collection, the “Umbrella” singer stripped down to undies to serve as the ad’s model. In the sexy photos showing off her baby bump (and then some), the provocative images suggest that everything’s OK with the company since the announcement of her stepping down as CEO.

The mogul told Vogue she would turn the reins to Hillary Super in June. “It’s been beautiful to see our vision for Savage X Fenty impact the industry at such an incredible magnitude over the last five years,” Rihanna said. “This is just the beginning for us, and we’re going to continue to expand in ways that always connect with the consumer.”

However, based on the website link shared in the musician’s tweet, she might be hinting at a future name change. Since its inception, the company has been referenced to as Savage X Fenty, and its official domain reflected that. However, now once you visit the site, the link updates to savagex.com instead of its original savagexfenty.com.

Rihanna loves to bare it all in risque photo shoots, including her recent maternity images titled “Rub On Ya Titties.”

Madonna was initially set to kick off the North American leg of The Celebration Tour later this week, with her first appearance scheduled at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena. However, the tour has now been postponed, according to Live Nation.

Recently, news came out that the pop star had been hospitalized after reportedly being found unresponsive. Madonna’s manager, Guy Oseary, shared that she suffered from a “serious bacterial infection” that landed her in the ICU.

She has since left the hospital and is recovering — but the illness prompted the postponement of her first 40th anniversary tour leg. She spoke out about it on social media, giving fans an explanation and an apology.

“My first thought when I woke up in the hospital was my children,” Madonna wrote. “My second thought was that I did not want to disappoint anyone who bought tickets for my tour. I also didn’t want to let down the people who worked tirelessly with me over the last few months to create my show. I hate to disappoint anyone.”

While it’s still unclear what the new dates will be, the ticketing company notes that fans should still hold onto their tickets — as they will be valid if they can attend the changed schedule.

Later this fall, Madonna is also set to bring the tour over to Europe — so it could take place after those dates instead, or even next year.

Check out her postponement post above.

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

As the Supe-loathing world awaits The Boys Season 4 (and we’ve rounded up the available details thus far), fans of the show can also look forward to some gaming crossovers. As announced earlier this week, Black Noir will (somehow) be coming to Call Of Duty with a few other members of The Seven (including Homelander), and this news led to some speculation about Mortal Kombat I, through which the Mortal Kombat universe shall be “reborn” beginning in September.

And that led to some direct questioning. And surprise, surprise, that led to a seeming confirmation.

Witness this screencap from Vought International Studios’ TikTok page, where the evil corporation announced the Black Noir bit, and then they responded to a user question, apparently on whether Homelander could possibly appear in Mortal Kombat I: “MK confirmed.” [Insert flexed-bicep emoji.]

Heck, even non-hardcore gamers will likely be excited by this news, which (if true) shall lead to Antony Starr’s Worst Supe as a playable character. The thought of hearing “Finish Him” while Homelander is barely wavering on his feet? What a thrilling burst of nostalgia injected into preexisting excitement for The Boys‘ next season.

Ideally, Homelander will not pull out this sneak-attack move on his opponents. Then again, that could be a hit, too. Naturally, we need Billy Butcher in this game as well. No one will ever be able to stop playing these two. Success!

FYI, earlier this year, Polygon passed on the rumor of Homelander appearing in Mortal Kombat I, and so, this seems to be true. There’s no official announcement yet, but if the Vought International Studios TikTok is to be believed, and they’re not just messing with us…. get ready.