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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been through a lot the last few years, including partially breaking up with the Royal Family and, recently, getting into some kind of chase with the paparazzi in Manhattan. Thursday brought another headache: The Sussexes are parting ways with Spotify, for whom Markle did a podcast. Apparently their relationship with the streamer did not end well.

As per Insider, on Friday Bill Simmons, Spotify’s podcast head, trashed the couple on his own podcast, The Ringer. After guest Joe House described the host as someone who “does a lot of business deals,” Simmons responded sarcastically.

“I do? I wish I’d been involved in the Meghan and Harry leave Spotify negotiation,” Simmons said. “The f*cking grifters. That’s the podcast that we should’ve launched with them.”

Simmons also teased some dirt that he probably won’t be making public any time soon. “I gotta get drunk one night and tell the story of the Zoom I had with Harry to try to help him with podcast ideas,” he said, adding, “The grifters.”

Before the couple’s split with Spotify, Markle hosted the podcast Archetypes, which was not renewed for a second season. Its termination was reportedly mutual, though details remain thin on the ground. It’s also unclear if Markle will take the podcast elsewhere.

And so it appears Harry and Meghan have another enemy to add to their list, alongside such folks as Piers Morgan and Harry’s brother Prince William and his spouse Kate Middleton.

(Via Insider)

Sarah Palin is partly responsible for today’s lunatic GOP. After becoming John McCain’s running mate in 2008, she helped inspire the Tea Party, which paved the way for Donald Trump. None of this has helped her career. She’s hopeless at getting elected to government gigs and she tries to defend the MAGA sect, she only makes them seem worse. Heck, she’s even been “cancelled” by Fox News, at least according to her.

As per The Daily Beast, Palin went on Newsmax, which has been peeling off Fox News viewers after they canned Tucker Carlson. She and host Eric Bolling discussed the network’s controversial chyron, which called President Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator” before being quickly taken down. Bolling claimed “the old Fox” would have stood by that label, arguing that they’re “pushing away real conservative values.” Palin agreed.

“As a matter of fact, Eric, thanks to you, I lost another gig,” Palin told Bolling. “I was on your show and you had asked something about Fox…and I was, as usual, quite candid and off the cuff. And I told you what I thought about what Fox was doing. Well, I had been booked on Fox for the next day.”

She added, “I got cancelled from Fox and haven’t been invited back.”

Palin is perhaps referring to an appearance she made on Newsmax’s The Balance, in which Palin agreed with Bolling’s assertion that Fox News has “started to move left.”

“Right, and you know it’s not just Fox News of course,” Palin said. “It’s these corporate-owned, woke disconnected elites who call the shots in lamestream media and they look at us as just the peons, just the subjects.”

(Via The Daily Beast)

Fox News has been trying to play it at least a little cool since their pricey Dominion Voting Systems settlement. They even got rid of their biggest star. But they didn’t shake him off entirely. Indeed, the new Twitter guy is claiming that one of his producers is responsible for calling Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator” in a controversial chyron that briefly popped up last week.

As per The Daily Beast, Fox News parted ways with Alexander McCaskill, a longtime producer at the network whose credits include working on Tucker Carlson Tonight. In a private Instagram post, McCaskill sounded bittersweet, calling it “the best place I’ve ever worked,” but saying “the time has come” for him to leave. He ended his message by telling “all my friends there” that he “will miss you forever.”

But as per sources — and as intimated by Carlson in one of his Twitter videos that may put him in legal jeopardy — McCaskill was the one who slipped the chyron, which accused Biden of “having his political rival arrested onto the network,” on Tuesday after Donald Trump was arraigned, again.

“First they scolded the producer who put the banner on the screen,” Carlson said on his video, not naming McCaskill. “Less than 24 hours after that, he resigned. He had been at Fox for more than a decade. He was considered one of the most capable people in the building. He offered to stay for the customary two weeks, but Fox told him to clear out his desk and leave immediately.”

Fox News honchos have been terse about the chyron, which immediately gained attention on social media. In a statement they said the message “was taken down immediately and was addressed.”

Carlson was clearly proud of his former producer. “Of course Joe Biden’s not a wannabe dictator,” Carlson sarcastically said. “Just because he’s trying to put the other candidate in prison for the rest of his life for a crime he himself committed doesn’t mean he has a totalitarian impulse. That’s absurd! It takes a lot more than jailing your political rivals to earn the title of ‘wannabe dictator.’”

Biden, meanwhile, has said he had nothing to do with the Department of Justice prosecuting a former president who allegedly broke the law.

(Via The Daily Beast)

If there’s anything SZA can do, it’s prove that her hard work and patience always pay off. Last year, she released her sophomore album, SOS, which topped the Billboard 200 for ten non-consecutive weeks. This broke the record for he longest-running number-one female album of the decade and the first R&B album to spend its first seven weeks atop the chart — a record previously held by Whitney Houston’s 1987 album, Whitney.

Additionally, the album’s accompanying SOS tour proved very much demanding, so much so that she recently added 35 new dates to the tour. Amid all of her accomplishments, the “Kill Bill” hitmaker took to Twitter to express her gratitude and share an encouraging message to fans.

First and foremost, she encouraged fans to disabuse themselves of social media’s timeline and pressure.

“The net is not real,” she said. “[People] said my tour would never sell and we were blessed. [People] said my album wouldn’t do well it’s wack blah blah. We were blessed. [People] say a lot. That’s they job. U keep doing yours and being who God told u to be in REAL LIFE. love y’all.”

In addition to touring, SZA is set to headline Made In America festival in Philly this September, alongside her bestie, Lizzo.

It looks like soon, we’ll have even more Kardashians to keep up with. Last night, Kourtney Kardashian revealed her pregnancy during Blink-182’s concert in Los Angeles, and did so in grand way.

While in the audience, Kourt held up a poster reading “Travis I’m Pregnant,” surprising everyone in the venue — the audience, the band, and her husband, Travis Barker.

In a clip shared to social media, Barker appears to be elated over the news. “Someone’s having a baby!,” said one of Barker’s bandmates in the clip. Shortly after this reveal, Barker then headed to the audience to share a special moment with Kourtney.

Barker and Kourtney have six children between them — Kourtney being the mother to sons Reign Aston, 8, and Mason Dash, 13, plus daughter Penelope Scotland, 10, whom she shares with her ex, Scott Disick. Barker is the father to son Landon, 19, daughter Alabama, 17 and stepdaughter Atiana, 24, whom he shares with ex Shanna Moakler.

This news arrives after Kourtney and Travis revealed that they had been trying in vitro fertilization. In an episode of Hulu’s The Kardashiana (per People) which streamed this past May, Kourtney revealed that they had completed the IVF process.

“We are officially done with IVF,” Kourtney said in a confessional. “We would love a baby more than anything, but I really believe in what God has in store for us. If that’s a baby, I believe it will happen.”

You can see some of the clips from the reveal above.

Michael Cera’s recent interview with Rolling Stone revealed quite a lot, including having a marriage and divorce pact with Aubrey Plaza at one point. He also revealed his thoughts about a particular scene in the 2013 movie, This Is The End, where Rihanna slaps him.

The two had reportedly discussed the scene before it happened — as Cera’s character (playing himself) slaps Rihanna’s butt while she’s talking to Jason Segel, which causes her to hit him in the face. “Shut the f*ck up, Jason,” Cera responds in the original clip. “We’re playing a game.”

As part of the story, Rihanna also agreed to it if she apparently got to hit back.

“I thought it would look a lot better if she hit me,” Cera said. “I don’t think it took much convincing to get her to do it. I just thought it would look a lot better than a fake slap would because you can really feel it. It just looks a lot funnier!”

“The take that is in the movie, she really did hit my ear, which was disorienting,” he added. “But I have no regrets. I didn’t lose any hearing over it, fortunately!”

Check out the Rihanna and Michael Cera slap scene from the movie here.

In honor of Reneé Rapp‘s debut album, Snow Angel, arriving later this summer, she has also announced a North American fall tour. Titled the Snow Hard Feelings Tour, Rapp will bring along Alexander 23 (who helped produce the record) and Towa Bird as support.

“I honestly wasn’t gonna tour in North America at all this year but then @reneerapp asked me and how could I say no to this!!!!” Alexander 23 wrote on Instagram.

Presale tickets for Rapp’s tour open next Wednesday at 9 a.m. local time. Then, the general tickets are available to the public starting Friday, June 23. Find more information here.

Continue scrolling for a complete list of tour dates.

09/15 — Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center
09/17 — Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
09/18 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
09/20 — Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom
09/21 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union Event Center
09/25 — San Diego, CA @ SOMA
09/28 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
09/30 — Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre
10/02 — Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
10/05 — Vancouver, BC @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
10/06 — Portland, WA @ Roseland Theater
10/07 — Seattle, WA @ The Paramount Theatre
10/10 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore
10/11 — Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
10/13 — Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room at Old National Centre
10/14 — Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit
10/16 — Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
10/17 — Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy
10/18 — Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte
10/21 — Montreal, QC @ MTELUS
10/22 — Toronto, ON @ HISTORY
10/24 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore
10/25 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
10/27 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
10/28 — Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
10/30 — New York, NY @ Terminal 5
11/02 — Brooklyn, NY @ Avant Gardner – Great Hall

Lady Gaga shared a new update with fans to her Instagram — with a photo of herself sitting in front of the eventual The Chromatica Ball movie.

“I wanted to share a more personal moment with you today, I know I haven’t been doing a lot of that lately and some of you are really longing for me to share more of my artistic process,” she wrote.

“I’ve been experiencing my creativity ever since last summer in a really special and private way,” Gaga added. “I wrote and produced music for a special project, I prepared for months developing my character for Joker, I filmed Joker for many months (a very introspective time), I have been running my start-up Haus Labs, doing philanthropic work, and additionally have been working on The Chromatica Ball film edit.”

Despite having a lot in the works, including her role as Harley Quinn in the upcoming Joker: Folie À Deux movie and now working on another, Gaga pointed out that she is really feeling happy and at peace — even if she doesn’t post as often.

“I can say for the first time in many years that my love of making art, music, fashion, and supporting community has never been more fulfilling,” Gaga wrote. “I may not be sharing as much of myself online as I have in the past, but I hope you know this time to myself has been extremely healing and recharging for my heart, mind, body, and creativity—to create within myself and to have a personal life that’s just for me.”

View Lady Gaga’s full post above.

It sure seems like LeBron James and the Denver Nuggets really don’t like one another. James and the Lakers got swept by the Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals en route to Denver winning the first championship in franchise history, and in the last day or two of the team celebrating their ring, Los Angeles was on the receiving end of a few jokes.

First, there was Nuggets coach Michael Malone making fun of James saying he was considering retiring at the end of their series by saying the exact same thing during an appearance on the Pat McAfee Show. Then, during the parade, an extremely intoxicated Malone was referred to as “the Lakers’ daddy.”

Well, apparently, word of all of this finally got back to James, who is over in Europe doing offseason stuff (for LeBron, I assume this involves drinking bottles of wine that are more expensive than my car). He decided to take a moment to respond to all of this, with James posting a picture onto his Instagram account and writing a caption that included “Wave the flag on these lames!! Please make being player cool again cause the lame machine is at an all-time high. Enjoy your light but just know I’m the SUN. I stay on forever!”

At the very least, I would like to congratulate the NBA on the Lakers-Nuggets game that will either take place on opening night or Christmas Day next season.

Kendrick Lamar fans have now discovered that the rapper apparently has a second Instagram account. Or, what the kids call a “finsta.” The public profile’s first apparent post (at least of now) was a selfie from Lamar yesterday.

Adding credibility to the fact that it’s actually him, it’s the only account that Lamar follows from his regular IG profile. However, this new account does not follow anyone back.

Some other pics on the profile are throwback photos of Tupac and Michael Jackson, a video of Lamar sprinting, him seemingly holding his child, lighting fireworks, and many more extra drops from his camera roll.

The last upload was Lamar posing in front of a mirror with a stack of shoes behind him. “How I’m coming for my bday,” he captioned, complete with a shushing emoji.

And fans are loving the wildness of the range of posts. “Kendrick having a spam is sum I’d never thought I’d see,” one user commented on his page.

“Kendrick using emojis is like seeing your teacher outside of school,” another added. Even other musicians like Steve Lacy are popping up on Lamar’s page with a simple “Hey Dot.”

Check out some more of the photos from Kendrick Lamar’s alleged second Instagram account.